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Moving Image Collections Project

April 3, 2004

Grace Agnew
Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems
Rutgers University

Moving Image Collections (MIC) is an NSF-funded portal to moving image materials. MIC combines a searchable directory database and union catalog to merge title information with service and location information for the archives owning each title. MIC features portals specific to different audiences, including the general public, archivists, and science educators. MIC is being developed as part of the National Science Digital Library by Rutgers University Libraries, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington. It is co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). After development, MIC will be hosted permanently by the Library of Congress.

Web Links:
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu
http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC

Handout:
Moving Image Collections Overview

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries
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National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Update

April 3, 2004

William G. LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is leading an effort to advance preservation of cultural heritage material in digital form. Under legislation for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the Library is collaborating with government agencies, educational institutions, technology companies, and other stakeholders to build a distributed network of preservation partners. The Library is also supporting research to develop the tools, methods, and models needed to effectively manage digital content throughout its life cycle. This session will provide details about NDIIPP current progress and future plans.

Web Link: 
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

Handout:
Update on the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation
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Pattern Recognition: Some Observations Based on the 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan

April 3, 2004

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President of Research
OCLC, Inc.

In 2003 OCLC carried out an environmental scan. It reviewed the literature and interviewed over 90 opinion formers from the library and related communities. Findings were summarized in a report to the membership, which is available on the web at http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/default.htm.

This presentation will discuss some of the findings of the scan, focusing on implications for libraries as they develop network information services in support of research and learning.

Web Link:
http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/default.htm

Presentation:
Internet Governance (PDF)

 

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings
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Preservation-Worthy Digital Video: Hope You Brought Your Checkbook

April 3, 2004

Jerome McDonough
Digital Library Development Team Leader
New York University

Digital libraries are beginning to move beyond a focus on text and still image materials and are increasingly creating, storing, managing and delivering audio and video resources. As a community we have developed general principles and some best practices regarding the creation of “preservable” digital text and still images, but we have only recently begun to test some of those decisions with audio and video resources.

This briefing will provide basic background on digital video and then discuss NYU’s experience in attempting to create “preservation-worthy” digital video resources, including an examination of some of the potential costs.

Web Link:
http://library.nyu.edu/diglib/

Presentation:
Preservation-Worthy Digital Video (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation
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Publishing Digital History: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions

April 3, 2004

Eileen Gardiner
Co-Director, History E-Book Project
American Council of Learned Societies

Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia
Columbia University

Robert Townsend
Assistant Director for Research and Publications
American Historical Association

Ron Musto
Co-Director, History E-Book Project
American Council of Learned Societies

The ACLS History E-Book Project and the Gutenberg-e Project will report on their progress and experiences in publishing history online, and will highlight critical issues that have arisen during the two projects’ development. The Director of Gutenberg-e will discuss the editorial, technical, and organizational aspects of the project, with a particular focus on the changing roles of the players involved in the publication and the implications of these changes for future models of scholarly communication.

The ACLS History E-Book Directors will discuss the second stage of online scholarly publishing and discuss the project’s new monographs in XML as well as its retrospective collection selected by historians, focusing on the editorial, technical, and publishing challenges and the solutions developed.

Web Links:
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/
http://www.historyebook.org/

Presentation:
The Gutenberg-e Online History Project (PPT)
Text (DOC)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, E-Books, Publishing
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PubMed Central and the NLM Journal Archiving Vocabulary

April 3, 2004

Jeffrey Beck
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine

PubMed Central (PMC) is the National Library of Medicine’s digital archive of life sciences journal literature. PMC is an XML-based system. We accept content in SGML or XML and convert it to a common XML format that is loaded into the archive.

As the early mission for PMC grew from simple online access to access and preservation, our requirements for a common XML format also changed. Last year, NCBI released two XML DTDs based on the NLM Archiving and Interchange Vocabulary. The DTDs were created after collaboration between the Harvard University E-Journal Archiving Project and NCBI. They may be used as is, or the vocabulary can be used to construct other models. These DTDs and the vocabulary are in the public domain and have already been accepted widely. We have started to digitize back issues of PMC journals that are not already available in electronic form to create a complete digital archive of the journals that are in PubMed Central.

Web Link:

http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/

Presentation:
PubMed Central and the NLM Journal Archiving Vocabulary (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, E-Journals
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Realizing the Scholarly Knowledge Cycle: The Experience of eBank UK

April 2, 2004

Liz Lyon
Director
UKOLN, University of Bath

This briefing includes an overview of the changing landscape of scholarly communication and describes outcomes from the innovative eBank UK project, which seeks to build links from e-research through to e-learning. As introduction, some observed trends in e-research will be demonstrated and their implications for institutional resources, systems and services will be highlighted. The discussion will include an assessment of the scholarly knowledge cycle and the role of digital repositories and aggregator services in linking data-sets from Grid-enabled projects to e-prints through to peer-reviewed articles as resources in portals and Learning Management Systems. The briefing will also highlight technical developments from the eBank UK project, including the distributed information architecture, requirements for common ontologies, data models, metadata schema, open linking technologies, provenance and workflows. Some emerging challenges for the future will be presented in the conclusion.

Web Link:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/

Handout:
Realising the Scholarly Knowledge Cycle: The experience of eBank UK

Presentation:
Realising the Scholarly Knowledge Cycle: The experience of eBank UK (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, E-Science, Scholarly Communication
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RedLightGreen Update

April 2, 2004

 

Merrilee Proffitt
Program Officer, Member Initiatives
RLG, Inc.

One year ago, RLG was preparing to launch RedLightGreen, a free online service based on the records in the RLG Union Catalog aimed at college undergraduates and optimized to provide access to a wealth of high quality, trusted, print resources through a simple, easy-to-use interface. At the Spring 2003 CNI Task Force Meeting, we gave a presentation that highlighted use of FRBR, MARC in XML, data mining, user studies, and future directions. Now, with a full semester and more of academic trial use, further user studies, and with continued funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RLG will report on:

 

  • Who’s using the system, and how?
  • Further findings from extended user studies, and how user studies have specifically influenced interface design and helped dictate future directions for the service
  • How institutions can join an expanded partnership for RedLightGreen – for free
  • Planned future directions for the service

 

Web Link:
http://www.redlightgreen.com/

Handout:
RedLightGreen

Presentation:
Update: RedLightGreen Pilot (PPT)

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings
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Sakai Project Update: Connecting Libraries and CMS/LMS

April 2, 2004

Brad Wheeler
Associate Vice President, Research and Academic Computing
Indiana University

Suzanne Thorin
Dean of University Libraries
Indiana University

The Sakai Project is a six-million-dollar collaboration among the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University to develop open source Course Management Systems (CMS/LMS), a portal (uPortal), assessment tools, and other academic software. Sakai’s Tool Portability Profile and use of OKI OSIDs is providing a focused opportunity for library connectivity with CMS.

This briefing will provide an update on Sakai’s planned July 2004 release and a strategic roadmap for Sakai-Libarary connectivity.

Web Link:

http://sakaiproject.org

Presentation:
Sakai (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Teaching & Learning
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The Scholar’s Box: A Tool for Gathering, Creating, and Sharing Reusable Digital Learning and Research Content

April 2, 2004

Raymond Yee
Technology Architect, Interactive University Project
University of California, Berkeley

David Greenbaum
Director, Interactive University Project
University of California, Berkeley

Peter Brantley
Director of Technology
California Digital Library

The Scholar’s Box is a tool that enables users to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. As such, it sits at the interstices of digital libraries, educational technology, personal information spaces, and social software.

Even at an early stage of development, the Scholar’s Box showcases the many fruitful possibilities and deep challenges emerging from practical interoperability among these still thinly connected domains. This briefing will include a demonstration of the Scholar’s Box, and a discussion of the strategic, functional, and technical design challenges behind the tool, including the perspective of a major digital library.

Web Links:
http://iu.berkeley.edu/iu
http://www.cdlib.org/

Presentation:
The Scholar’s Box (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Repositories
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