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The Afterlives of Courses on the Network: Information Management Issues for Learning Management Systems

December 3, 2002

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

The large-scale deployment of learning management systems (LMS) throughout higher education in recent years raises far-reaching questions that have yet to be defined or addressed in a systematic way. Key questions include: 1) How long does a class site remain a living document? 2) What is included in the “record” of a class? 3) How long is this record kept? and 4) Who has access to this record, and under what circumstances? This session, based on a recent paper for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), will explore these questions and their complex implications for institutional policies–from intellectual property rights to records management to documentation of scholarship.

The full text of the ECAR paper is available in

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Intellectual Property, Teaching & Learning
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Building a Large Digital Collection for Remote Use

December 3, 2002

Barbara Taranto
Director, Digital Library Program
The New York Public Library, Research Libraries

As libraries and cultural institutions consolidate and continue to increase their digital activities and build new digital collections, the issues of scale and sustainability come to the fore. The “Image Gate” Project at the New York Public Library provides an excellent test bed for evaluating and shaping collection development and public service policy in the near future. This session will provide a brief overview of the project to date and will present the thinking that provides the background for the public interface.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Repositories
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Digital Collection Cross-Server Sharing: A New Integrated Model and Technology for Building and Accessing Digital Libraries at Multiple Locations in Utah

December 3, 2002

Kenning Arlitsch
Head of Digital Technologies
University of Utah

Greg Zick
President
DiMeMa, Inc.

The Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) comprises the 15 college and university libraries in the state of Utah. Earlier this year the UALC funded a plan to create the Mountain West Digital Library. The goal of the Library is to put unique materials online in an integrated seamless manner that will provide a single point of access to these geographically distributed collections. Four centers established at the largest universities have a mandate to create digital collections and support the efforts of smaller libraries, museums, and historical societies in their geographical areas. The centers provide fee-based scanning, then return digital files to the client institutions, which add metadata and upload the files to one of the four centers’ CONTENTdm servers.

The challenge was to develop a system that allowed three layers of participation: 1) collection builders, 2) server providers, and 3) users searching multiple sites. To accomplish this UALC worked with the CONTENTdm software suite made by DiMeMa, Inc. With cooperation from the state library in the administration of LSTA funds toward this effort, a sustainable model of statewide digital library development is well underway.

Web Links:
Mountain West Digital Library
Utah Academic Library Consortium

Handout:
The Mountain West Digital Library
(MS Word document)

PowerPoint Presentation:
The Mountain West Digital Library

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Metadata
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The Digital Library Federation: An Update

December 3, 2002

David Seaman
Director
Digital Library Federation

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a pioneer in the use of electronic information technologies to extend library collections and services. Operating under the administration of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), DLF brings together libraries, government agencies, and other interested organizations to identify standrds and “best practices,” to coordinate research and development of electronic information technology, and to assist libraries in creating and implementing new projects. In this session, incoming Director David Seaman will introduce his plans for the Federation and provide an overview of current and new initiatives.

Web Links:
Digital Library Federation

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries
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Digital Rights Management in Research and Education

December 3, 2002

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

Mairead Martin
Director, Advanced Internet Technologies
University of Tennessee

In September 2002 several organizations, including CNI, sponsored an NSF Middleware Initiative and Digital Rights Management (DRM) Workshop at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The goals of the workshop were to explore Research and Education requirements in the DRM space, consider how those requirements might be unique, and suggest how they might be met. This session will not only report on the discussion and outcomes of the workshop, but also will present an overview of the key issues in the DRM landscape today.

Web Links:
The NSF Middleware Initiative and Digital Rights Management Workshop

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Intellectual Property
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EAD Harvesting for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word

December 3, 2002

Nancy Fleck
Head of Technical Services
Michigan State University

Michael Seadle
Head of Digital and Multimedia Center
Michigan State University

The library portion ofthe Digital Library Initiative (Phase 2) National Gallery of the Spoken Word project has used XML-based Encoded Archival Description (EAD) to organize spoken word recordings ranging from 30-second Edison cylinders to multi-hour oral histories. While EAD is well suited to the organizational task, it is too complex to serve as the primary discovery tool. To facilitate discovery, portions of the EAD record are harvested into MARC (for loading into the online catalog) or into Dublin Core (for Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting). The challenge is not to find a single correct mapping, but to define dynamic relationships that meet evolving needs.

Web Links:
Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University

Handout:
EAD Harvesting for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word (MS Word document)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata
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E-Learning and the Digital Library: A Report on Collaboration between IMS and OKI

December 3, 2002

Steve Griffin
Chief Operating Officer
IMLS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

Jeff Merriman
Project Leader, OKI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) and MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) are both working to define Internet architectures and standards for teaching and learning, bringing together a diverse group of thinkers from universities, government, and commercial enterprises. This presentation will address the current and planned efforts to support digital repository (DR) functionality within the IMS and OKI efforts and will describe the collaborative activities underway between IMS and OKI. Participants will gain a better understanding of the IMS and OKI DR efforts as well as identify opportunities to participate in specification, best practice, and implementation development.

Web Links:
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)

PowerPoint Presentation:
E-Learning and the Digital Library

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Repositories, Standards
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Image Retrieval Benchmark Database: A Report on a CLIR/CNI Exploration

December 3, 2002

Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

The rapid increase in the quantity of visual materials in digital libraries–supported by significant advances in digital imaging technologies–has not been accompanied by a corresponding advance in image retrieval technologies and techniques. Digital Librarians are currently without tools for evaluating either content-based or metadata-based image retrieval systems. They have difficulty assessing existing systems of image access, evaluating proposed changes, or comparing metadata-based to content-based image retrieval. Benchmarking has been proposed as a possible solution to this problem of comparison. CLIR and CNI have supported the exploration of these issues.

This session will report on the activities of the CLIR/CNI project to date. We’ll review the components of a possible Image Retrieval Benchmarking Service and explore the strategies that might serve to develop the service and a community of researchers whose work would ultimately improve digital library service.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata
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Implementing FRBR on Large Databases

December 3, 2002

Thomas Hickey
Chief Scientist
OCLC Research

Diane Vizine-Goetz
Consulting Research Scientist
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

OCLC is investigating how best to implement IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). We have now clustered at the ‘work’ level the entire 48 million record WorldCat database and a number of subsets, including the records representing works of fiction. “Fiction Finder” is a prototype system to explore ways of searching and browsing bibliographic records representing fiction. FRBR is an integral part of the system, helping to organize lists into more comprehensible displays than typical retrieval systems. Our experience has led us to some suggestions as to how FRBR should be evaluated and implemented in large databases.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata
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Implications of Improved Security for Networked Information

December 3, 2002

Dan Updegrove
Security Task Force Co-Chair and Vice President for Information Technology
University of Texas at Austin

Steve Worona
Director of Policy and Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE

The security of computers and networks is critical to ensure the availability and integrity of networked information. What are the implications of improved security for networked information? How will efforts to improve security influence the values of higher education and libraries? How should the values of higher education and libraries influence efforts to improve security? What principles should guide strategies to improve IT security on campus and in libraries? The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force will report on its examination of these important issues and will describe its efforts to coordinate improvements in IT security for the higher education community.

Web Links:
EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force

Handout:
Principles to Guide Efforts to Improve Computer and Network Security for Higher Education
(MS Word document)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2002 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval
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