The Canadian Scene: National and Provincial Initiatives

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The Canadian SceneNational and Provincial
Initiatives

• DLI All Projects Meeting
• 24 June 2002
• Peter Binkley
• peter.binkley_at_ualberta.ca

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Overview

• Connectivity
• Digitization
• Access
• Provincial and Regional Projects

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Geography 5, History nil
Map Natural Resources Canada
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Connectivity

• LibraryNet
• SchoolNet
• Canadas Digital Collections digitization
  component
• National Broadband Initiative
• Smart Communities community portals

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CCOP

• Canadian Culture On-Line Program
• Federal funding program for cultural heritage
  digitization
• Cultural Portal project (2002-2003)

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CCOP Guidelines

• Stress on interoperability and integration
• Requirements for projects
• use of Dublin Core for item description
• use of RSLP for collection description
• use of validated HTML, CSS, XML
• use of open standards for file formats etc.

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Digital Library of Canada

• Project of National Library of Canada (NLC)
• Projects
• AMICUS Union catalogue
• Images Canada gateway to image collections

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CIDL

• Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
• Established 1997
• 60 partner institutions

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Our Roots/Nos Racines

• Canadas Local Histories
• Led by U. of Calgary and U. Laval
• Emphases
• Peer review
• Comprehensiveness
• Use of pre-existing metadata (MARC)

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Educational Metadata

• CanCore Canadian application profile for IMS
  Learning Object Metadata
• BELLE Broadband Enabled Lifelong Learning
  Environment
• Alexandria national repository of learning
  objects
• ALOHA Advanced Learning Object Hub Application

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Z39.50 Bath Profile

• NLC is Maintenance Agency
• Major research libraries migrating from DRA to
  SIRSI
• ASIN work on indexing

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National Site Licenses

• Canadian National Site Licensing Project
• Consortium of 64 university libraries
• Initial three-year project has produced
• Model licensing agreement
• Several important licenses

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Provincial Regional Projects

• The Alberta Library (TAL)
• TAL Online RPA RSS Licensing
• The Ontario Digital Library
• Licensing integration

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Open Source Projects

• Godot link server
• Pytheas ILS
• openILL an ILL management system

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Conclusions

• Top-down approach has been slow to develop, but
  is now coming
• Bottom-up enthusiasm is there, but unchannelled
• The mass of legacy projects will have to be
  tackled