Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus

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Cultural Heritage Projects Renardus
www.renardus.org

• Hans J. Becker
• Lower Saxony State and University Library
  Göttingen, Germany (SUB)
• becker_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de

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General

• Renardus is funded through the Information
  Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a
  User-friendly Information Society'. This is a
  major theme of the European Union's 5th Framework
  Programme.
• European project with 12 partners from Finland,
  Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands,
  France and Germany
• Project started in January 2000
• Duration 30 months (until June 2002)

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Goals

• to improve access to existing academic subject
  gateway services in Europe
• to develop a 'broker' service that will allow
  integrated searching and browsing of distributed
  resource collections
• to develop models for sharing metadata, agreement
  on technical solutions and other standards
• developing a pilot system for a fully-functional
  service

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Welcome to Renardus
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Project Partners

• Coordinator
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the
  Netherlands)
• Participants
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National
  Library of France)
• Center for Scientific Computing, Finland (CSC)
• Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany (DDB)
• Finnish Virtual Library Project, Jyväskylä
  University Library, Finland (JyU)
• Institute for Learning and Research Technology,
  Univ. of Bristol, UK (ILRT)
• NetLab, Lund University, Sweden (NetLab)

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Project Partners cont.

• Participants
• Lower Saxony State and University Library,
  Göttingen, Germany (SUB)
• Technical Knowledge Centre and Library of Denmark
  (DTV)
• UK Office for Library and Information Networking,
  University of Bath, UK (UKOLN)
• Viikki Science Library, University of Helsinki,
  Finland (ALUH)
• Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und
  -information, Germany (ZADI)

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Subject Gateways

• DEF fagportal (project status)
• DutchESS Dutch Electronic Subject Service
• FVL The Finnish Virtual Library
• Les Signets Collection of Internet Resources
• RDN Resource Discovery Network (EEVL, SOSIG,
  OMNI etc.)
• SSG-FI MathGuide, Geo-Guide, History Guide,
  Anglistik Guide
• NOVAGate Libraries of Nordic Agricultural
  Veterinary Univ.
• DAINet German Agricultural Information System
• EELS Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden
• Document Server DEPOSIT Deposit of German Online
  Dissertations

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Subject Gateways Definition

• Quality controlled Subject Gateways and Resource
  Discovery Broker Systems, target audience is
  predominantly higher education and academic
  research communities across Europe
• Selection and collection development (human
  intellectual effort, certain policy with regard
  to collection development, documented selection
  criteria)
• Collection management (maintaining or improving
  the level of quality of the collection, certain
  policy with regard to maintenance)
• Resource description (all selected resources are
  described according to a fixed and documented
  metadata set, metadata are structured in
  well-defined semantic fields to enable structured
  searching)
• Subject classification (all resources are indexed
  according to a subject classification scheme in
  order to enable subject browsing)

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Work Packages (WP1)

• The project is structured into a number of
  'areas' of work or 'work packages
• WP1 Functional model - UKOLN
• will develop the architecture that will underpin
  the Renardus system
• will provide the functional and data model
  specifi-cations of the broker system (together
  with WP 6) and produce a scoping document for the
  pilot service

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Work Packages (WP2, WP3)

• WP2 Design and implementation - DTV
• will build the Renardus pilot system (will be
  based on the architectural model specified in WP1
  and on the data model and data flow specified in
  WP6)
• WP3 Organisational infrastructure - KB
• will develop organisational structures (e.g.
  roles and responsibiltities of the participants,
  tasks and procedures relating the service etc.)
• for the management of the Renardus service
• and for collaboration between the participants
  (will include the requirements and rules for
  participation)

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Work Packages (WP4)

• WP4 Service provision - KB
• will set up a test-bed environment, based on the
  pilot system, in order to permit
• beta-testing by partners (WP2),
• evaluation by end users (WP5),
• verification by extension with other gateways
  (WP5),
• and experiments for data sharing and
  multi-linguality (WP7)
• will provide a full documentation of the service

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Work Packages (WP5)

• WP5 Verification and evaluation - JyU
• will evaluate the pilot broker system by user
  group
• verification of the generic model and the pilot
  system by extending it to at least one other
  gateway service
• further verification of procedures for the
  management, maintenance and the availability of
  the service

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Work Packages (WP6)

• WP6 Data model and data flow - SUB
• will facilitate data exchange and the
  cross-searching of metadata
• will develop a strategy for building consistent
  views on scientific and cultural resource
  collections across Europe
• will then develop a data model and data flow for
  the broker system that is coherent with the
  functional/ architectural model of WP1 and the
  technical standards specifications from WP2

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Work Packages (WP7)

• WP7 Data interoperability - SUB
• the extent of data-interoperability achieved
  during the project duration is necessarily
  restricted, but the data model developed by WP6
  furnishes the basic framework within which
  further work on data-interoperability can be
  carried out. WP7 is taking this work one step
  further. It will focus on three main issues
• metadata sharing
• and multi-linguality
• and ddc-application

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Work Packages (WP8)

• WP8 Business issues - UKOLN
• will review the business issues which may impact
  architectural and design issues
• will review business models of subject gateway
  activity amongst Renardus partners
• and will survey the sustainability of a central
  broker service approach, results will feed into
  the Technical Implementation Plan

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• Hans J. Becker
• Lower Saxony State and University Library
  Göttingen, Germany (SUB)
• becker_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de