Title: The Digital Library or, the library in the age of technology
1The Digital Libraryor, the library in the age
of technology
- Lois Brooks Tom Cramer
- June 15, 2005
Stanford University Libraries Academic
Information Resources
2The Org Chart (abridged)
3CourseWork and the Sakai Project
4Classes in the physical world
- some standard models that work well
- different configurations for different needs
- technology rich displays, communication tools
- flexible, configurable for collaboration
5Homework in the physical world
Shared display for group work by public laptop
users Cross-platform screen-sharing
file-sharing application AComp Computer
Science Dept research project
Meyer TeamSpace
teamspace.stanford.edu
6Why CourseWork?
- interesting uses for teaching
- security
- interoperability
- consistency
- less faculty time spent on mundane tech tasks
- risk management
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8Innovative Teaching
9CourseWork Courses
10CW spring qtr. stats
11CourseWork Next Gen Buy, Build or Adopt?
- We need control
- We want to innovate
- But development is expensive
- And technology changes quickly
12 November 2003 The University of Michigan,
Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal
Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative
(OKI) are joining forces to integrate and
synchronize their considerable educational
software into a pre-integrated collection of open
source tools.
Jan. 2004 The Sakai Project receives a 2.4M
grant from the Mellon Foundation
13Why Sakai?all the simple reasons
- Course management is core infrastructure
- Economic advantages
- Higher ed values open, sharing, building the
commons core support for collaboration
technology - Ability to rapidly innovate move our tools
within/among HE institutions rapidly - Interoperability
- Maintain institutional capacity, independence
14Where are we now?
15Pilot begins
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17The Digital Library
18The Stanford Libraries
- Support for the enterprise of research and
teaching, from entering frosh through undergrad
career, grad school, researchers, faculty - always rich resources increasingly digital in
addition to traditional
19A library the quality of Stanford
8 Million number of works in the Stanford
Libraries
50,000 number of journals to which we subscribe
280,000 cartographic resources (maps, images,
etc.)
59 million manuscript pages
120 number of countries from which we acquire
400 number of languages represented
110,000 new volumes acquired each year
20Going digital
- Raw material of scholarship
- Output of scholarship
- More and more content is born digital
- More and more tools for using digital content
Text (books, papers), images, audio, video,
electronic journal articles, web pages, data
sets, software, course objects Sakai content
21Born digital
- Databases
- Computer files
- Applications
22Publishing
highwire.stanford.edu
23Why digitize? Enhanced access!
- Access to rare materials
- Access to things that arent at Stanford
- Simultaneous access
- Searchability, federation
- New kinds of scholarship
- Preservation
http//library.stanford.edu/depts/dlp/bookscanning
/
24In-house digitization
- Books, photos, manuscripts, audio
- Enhancement to make files searchable, playable on
computers
25A few samples
- www.ebrary.com/stanford/browse2/indexbh.html
- site.ebrary.com/lib/stanfordimmigrationdillingham/
- gatt.stanford.edu/page/home
- library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/image.html
26The Google project
- A good match we have books, they have resources
- We keep the books and get all the digital files
- print.google.com
- http//print.google.com
27Now that we have this stuff, we need to keep
it. Stanford Digital Repository
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29Digital preservation why?
- Mission of the Libraries
- Todays challenge build the digital stacks
- 500 years of analog preservation experience,
5 years of digital preservation experience - Systems and content are ephemeral
- The Internet as a case study
- http//web.archive.org/web/
30Preservation the challenge
- Entropy (bit rot)
- Obsolescence (think wax cylinders, betamax,
wordstar) - System life cycles
- 3-7 years for hardware
- 5-10 years for operating systems, software
- Goal preservation for centuries
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33Digital access finding all this stuff
- islands of content
- Federated search
- Grokker.stanford.edu
- Qualified search
- Scholar.google.com
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