Discover : a database of school resources

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Discover a database of school resources

• Karen Rollitt
• Australasian Voyager Users Group (AVUG)
• 6 February 2004

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1. Discover database as pilot project using
Encompass 2.0
http//www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/poster15.pdf
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• Content of the Discover database
• Context for its development
• Standards and best practice
• The process
• The metadata
• New projects using Encompass
• Timeframes 2
• Matapihi
• Generic Search Interface

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1. Content of the Discover database

• 2,500 multimedia objects mainly from the
  Alexander Turnbull Library
• paintings, music paintings, photographs,
  posters, video clips, music, essays and
  bibliographies, created by New Zealanders and
  many reflect our Mäori heritage
• arranged into a hierarchy of 50 topics that
  support the school curriculum for the Visual Arts
  and Music disciplines

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2. Context for its development

• As pilot set criteria and standards for
•    sustainability over time
•    access for those with disabilities
•   the ability to retain rights holdings and
  permissions
•    create data that would be exchangeable across
  platforms
•    create authenticated reproductions of original
•    and create standards based metadata that would
  support administration, resource discovery and
  presentation activities.

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3. Standards and best practice

• The Discover Project used many well-known
  standards as well as some new and emerging
  standards.
• The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) is
  used at the resource discovery level.
• Best practice and recommendations are used
  especially for mapping and syntax.
• Metadata Standards Framework for National Library
  of New Zealand. National Library of New Zealand
  Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa. (2000).
  Wellington, NLNZ, 29p.

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How Encompass for Digital Collections is used at
NLNZ
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4. The process
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5. The Metadata

• Discover required that the metadata support
•      resource discovery - DCMES
•      resource description - qualified DCMES
  EAD local elements
•      and preservation, technical and
  administrative needs

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5. The Metadatacontd
The schema uses DCMES and DCQ plus local
extensions defined in the DTD National Library
of New Zealand Digital Library Dublin Core
Enhancements RDF Schema Namespace
http//www.natlib.govt.nz/dlPublisher National
Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Matauranga o
AotearoaLanguage EnglishRequires
http//purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/Requires
http//purl.org/dc/terms/Issued
2002-07Modified 2002-07-19 Description
Extensions to the Dublin Core Element Set and
Dublin Core Qualifiers used by the National
Library of New Zealand in its Digital Library.
Also incorporates the daoloc element from Encoded
Archival Description (EAD).
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5. The metadatacontd
Extensions to DCMES element

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5. The metadatacontd
Extensions to DCMES element refinements

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5. The metadatacontd
Extensions to DCMES encoding schemes
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• 6. New projects

• New initiatives in development using Encompass
  products
• Encompass for Digital Collections 3.5
• Timeframes 2
• Matapihi
• Encompass for Resource Access
• Generic Search Interface (GSI)
• will deploy the Discover model with some changes
  - streamline new functionality Xlink not EAD
  Daoloc tag use of complex metadata eg EAD

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• 6. New projects
• Timeframes ? Timeframes2

Timeframes is an online database of 20,000
heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull
Librarys collections and the descriptive
metadata record resides in the TAPUHI database
metadata TAPUHI MARC EAD
Timeframes2 Encompass for Digital Collections
3.5
Discover model
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• 5. New projects
• Matapihi

• Matapihi to be launched this year collaboration
  of archives, galleries, libraries and museums to
  provide access to 60,000 selected images, sounds
  and objects
• Initiative of National Digital Forum and NLNZ is
  facilitating its development
• Metadata DC records in RDF/XML Discover DTD
  new challenge is metadata differences across
  organisation types.
• Encompass for Digital Collections 3.5

Discover model

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• 6. New projects
• Generic Search Interface

Encompass for Resource Access
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References
Adrienne Kebbell, Sarah Wigley and Fiona Rigby.
Whats brewing at the National Library?
http//www.lianza.org.nz/conference/conference03/p
apers/kebbell_wigley_rigby.pdf Jenny McDonald.
Access an issue facing libraries as we respond
to an increasingly digital world http//www.lianza
.org.nz/conference/conference03/papers/mcdonald.pd
f Karen Rollitt, Adrienne Kebbell and Douglas
Campbell. Using Dublin Core for DISCOVER a New
Zealand visual art and music resource for
schools. http//www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/po
ster15.pdf National Digital Forum meeting
(http//ndf.natlib.govt.nz/) 29 September 2003,
http//ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/matapihi.htm
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Discover Homepage
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Interoperability
METS Administrative, Structural, Behaviour
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NLNZ Digital Architecture Information Flows
Digital Repositories
Specialist Views ENCompass Web Clients
ENCompass
Digital Archive (for Preservation)
Primary Sources Collection Management
VIRTUAL COLLECTION MANAGER
Rep01 Unpublished (EAD)
User
EAD

MARC



TAPUHI
Schools
Discover
Rep02 Published (DC)
DUBLIN CORE

Researchers
Timeframes
Rep03 Unpublished (DC)

Generic Interface
User

ILS
DUBLIN CORE
Published Collections
Researchers
Rep04 External Resources (DC)


Libraries
TPWD
Rep05 E-journals TEI?

etc
Not for permanent Archive
Big Server in Basement Digital Object Store
Digital Object Staging Space
Digital Acquisition Digitised Object
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