The Hybrid Library and the DNER: a Discussion

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The Hybrid Library and the DNER a Discussion

• Stephen Pinfield

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DNER overview

• Distributed National Electronic Resource
• Umbrella for the informational activity of JISC
  (Joint Information Systems Committee)
• Two main components
• managed collection of information resources
• coherent information environment
• Supported by
• advisory services
• preservation services, etc.

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DNER definition

• a managed environment for accessing quality
  information resources on the Internet which are
  available from many sources.

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DNER aspirations

• To provide the worlds high quality information
  to staff and students in higher and further
  education at any time and anywhere.
• To be the leading innovator in UK education in
  the field of digital information provision of
  information and take an influential role in
  developing the UKs learning and research agenda.
• To take a leading role in stimulating development
  both here and overseas.

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Context

• Incremental development
• content
• structures
• Under-developed consultation market research
• Information brandscape - incoherence
• Need for systemic coherence
• Need to engage with learning and teaching
• c.f. Hybrid Library projects

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General information environment
Global
Community
Strategic
Institutional
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Resource spaces

• The DNER challenge is to weave rich information
  and learning resources in the fabric of the web.
  (Lorcan Dempsey)
• A managed strategic resource
• A leveraged institutional and community
  resource
• A discovered resource

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Collections

• scholarly journals
• monographs
• textbooks
• abstracts
• manuscripts
• maps
• music scores

• still images
• geospatial images
• vector and numeric data
• moving picture collections
• sound collections

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Architecture
Content/service delivery
Fusion services
Middleware
Presentation
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Hybrid Library projects

• Have investigated
• Authentication (middleware)
• Presentation layer
• Fusion technologies
• Content creation
• Personalisation
• DNER technical review need to contribute

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Technical review

• Technologies
• Z39.50
• LDAP
• OpenURLs
• Other protocols / APIs
• etc.
• In-house v. commercial
• VDX (Fretwell-Downing)
• MetaLib/SFX (Ex Libris)
• WebExpress (OCLC)
• etc.

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Digital Library of North Rhine Westphalia http//w
ww.hbz-nrw.de/DigiBib/
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National and local

• Is the DNER a national hybrid library?
• Similarities of approach
• Similar technologies
• Institutional and national services
• National services - economy of effort, market
  power
• Institutional portal still required
• Institutional users and national services
• Working together
• DNER as service provider
• DNER as service enabler...

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DNER strategy

• Collection development and management
• Service delivery
• Development
• Preservation
• Communications

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Investigations

• Content mapping study
• procedures, practices, actors - completed
• Collections subject mapping exercise
• collections against subject benchmarks to
  identify gaps - being commissioned
• Service delivery framework
• pattern, governance and coherence of service -
  commissioned from CHEMS
• Technical architecture
• identify broad architecture and technologies -
  commissioned from UKOLN
• Presentation requirements
• being specified

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DNER Office
DirectorLorcan Dempsey
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Names

• eLib
• Hybrid Library
• DNER

DNER Suggestions for a new name please!
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Stephen.Pinfield_at_Nottingham.ac.uk