CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

DSpace/SRB Integration

Luc Declerck
Associate University Librarian
Technology and Technical Services
University of California, San Diego

Chris Frymann
Digital Library Architect
University of California, San Diego

DSpace is a digital repository software system designed to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats.

The Storage Resource Broker (SRB) is a distributed data management system with features to support the organization, sharing, publication, and preservation of distributed data collections. The SRB is a data grid that manages data stored in heterogeneous storage layer environments.

This briefing will outline a NARA-funded project aimed at integrating the two systems to allow DSpace to use the data grid as a storage layer. It will also permit the exchange of authentic documents between the two systems in a federated environment with a view to improving support for the full range of curation and management processes institutions need to preserve digital content, including the migration of collections across various underlying storage service providers.

http://libnet.ucsd.edu/nara/

Enhancing DPubS: Open Source Software for Electronic Publishing

Nancy Eaton
Dean of Libraries
Pennsylvania State University

H. Thomas Hickerson
Associate University Librarian
Cornell University

Cornell University Library and Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Press have embarked on a project to generalize and enhance DPubS (Digital Publishing System) and to make it available for broad use under an open source license. DPubS 1.0 was developed at Cornell to provide a robust publishing platform for support of Project Euclid, a partnership with publishers worldwide to support affordable distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. This SPARC-endorsed initiative has generated interest and support worldwide. As a result, several institutions have expressed interest in acquiring the underlying software, but further development is necessary to meet the diverse range of needs currently evolving among libraries, publishers, and scholars. Additionally, distribution as an easily applicable open source system requires further work, and there is strong interest in enabling easy interoperability with open source institutional repositories, offering a versatile publishing capability for IR initiatives.

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this effort is now underway, and a beta version of DPubS 2.0 is scheduled for testing in late 2005.

In order to insure broad applicability in addressing academic publishing requirements, representatives from a diverse range of libraries and publishers were invited to a meeting held at Cornell in late October. The goals of the meeting were to conduct a thorough review of proposed enhancements and to encourage ongoing participation in the development process. Attendees included participants from a dozen U.S. universities, and also representatives from institutions in Australia, China, Germany, and Japan. While this briefing will provide an overview of this software development initiative, particular attention will be devoted to reporting on the October meeting and resulting conclusions.

DPubS System and Development Agenda
(Word document)

http://dpubs.org/

Exposing Art: Accomplishments and Challenges Associated with Metasearching Into and Out of ARTstor

James Shulman
Executive Director
ARTstor

William W. Ying
Chief Technology Officer
ARTstor

ARTstor, a non-profit initiative created by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was launched as a live service on July 1, 2004. ARTstor’s Digital Library provides digital images, associated metadata, and software tools to colleges, universities, and museums for non-commercial educational use. Since ARTstor’s position on intellectual property rights does not enable us to export large format licensed images for incorporation in locally hosted library and instructional systems, a major goal of the organization is to facilitate external discovery of content in ARTstor and to provide the means for our users to mix local and licensed content. In this discussion, we plan to update the community on ARTstor’s development and to encourage conversation about:

• Plans to enable broad access to metasearching of image content in the absence of agreed-upon protocols;
• Methods of importing content into ARTstor (in batches or one-by-one);
• Types of stresses that metasearching could cause for ARTstor’s infrastructure;
• Successes and remaining challenges of searching out from ARTstor into local repositories; and
• Possibilities of OKI as protocols for interoperating.

http://www.artstor.org

Going ‘On-Web’: Google, Yahoo, Open WorldCat and Library Services

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President of Research
OCLC, Inc.

Chip Nilges
Executive Director, WorldCat Content & Global Access
OCLC, Inc.

For many, Google and other search engines have become the first and last resort of research. If something is not found in Google it is ‘off-web’. This session will look at some of the issues involved in making library services more visible and ‘on-web’.

It will describe the OpenWorldCat initiative which aims to connect library users to library services on the open web. OCLC has run a pilot in which two million WorldCat records were exposed to Google and Yahoo. This pilot has been successful and we are now proceeding to expose the full database of 56 million records. The service allows users to find and request library materials. It also routes users to library services.

The presentation will also consider some broader issues about how to expose more rich library data and services through Google, Yahoo and other emerging services.

Going ‘On-Web’: Google, Yahoo, Open WorldCat and Library Services
(PowerPoint Presentation)

http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htm

How Faculty Members Work: Exploring Faculty Needs for an Institutional Repository

David Lindahl
Web Initiatives Manager
University of Rochester

Nancy Foster
Information Analyst, Digital Initiatives
University of Rochester

This session is based on a recent IMLS-funded study of faculty members at the University of Rochester, and on our experience implementing an institutional repository (IR) using DSpace. Many academic institutions are implementing IRs but few faculty members are embracing them with enthusiasm. We studied how faculty members do their work in order to understand how IRs can support that scholarship and attract faculty support and participation. In this session, we will share our findings and demonstrate the DSpace enhancement we built to meet important but unaddressed user needs. The hour will begin with a brief overview of our work-practice study and participatory design methodologies. We will show videotaped interview segments, compare faculty, librarian, IT, and other key stakeholder perspectives, and list key faculty needs in connection with web-based research support services. The session will also show how we mapped faculty needs to IR features and how we plan to meet faculty needs with short- and long-term solutions. There will be a demonstration of the DSpace enhancement.

PowerPoint Presentation

http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-331/

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