CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

The Shibboleth Approach to Web Access for Digital Content Becomes a Reality

David Millman
Director, Research & Development, Academic Information Systems
Columbia University

Shibboleth, a project of Internet2/MACE, is a set of architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to support inter-institutional sharing of Web resources subject to access controls. Production code was released in the fall of 2002 as a component of the NSF Middleware Initiative, and the first deployments included higher education content providers. This session will feature the experiences of an early adopter and Shibboleth demonstrations.

Web Links:
Shibboleth Project

Specialized OAI Service Providers: Sheet Music Harvester–A Work in Progress

Kristine Brancolini
Director, Digital Library Program
Indiana University

Stephen Davison
Music Librarian, Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles

Curtis Fornadley
Digital Library Lead Programmer
University of California, Los Angeles

Cynthia Requardt
Kurrelmeyer Curator of Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University

Stpehen H. Schwartz
Head, Library Information Systems/Development
University of California, Los Angeles

To move beyond basic OAI services requires community agreement on potential user needs, data standards, special software capabilities, and data conversion and mapping strategies to support a useful Service Provider. This project tests collaboration in designing a specialized OAI Service for Sheet Music. It will also test the value of such a service as a research tool for music and other communities.

Sheet music is a rich resource for scholars in a number of disciplines, but unlocking its potential has proved a daunting task for the custodians of these collections. Resources have been expended to provide access to sheet music on a local level, and it is the interoperability with this existing metadata, as well as new data with digital images linked, that this project addresses. Other questions addressed include:

Today’s Web for Tomorrow’s Generation: Web Preservation at the Library of Congress

Gina Jones
Digital Conversion Specialist
Library of Congress

An ever-increasing amount of the world’s cultural and intellectual output is presently created in digital formats and does not exist in any physical form. Such materials are colloquially described as “born digital.” This born digital realm includes open access materials on the World Wide Web. The MINERVA Web Preservation Project was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve digital primary source materials. A multi-disciplinary team of Library staff representing cataloging, legal, public services, and technology services is studying methods to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve these materials for future generations of researchers. This session will report on the Library of Congress Web harvesting activities, describing experiences to date selecting, capturing, and providing access to topic-based collections, including: the U.S. Presidential Election 2000; September 11, 2001; the 2002 Olympics; and the 2002 Election.

Web Links:
MINERVA

Handout:
Today’s Web for Tomorrow’s Generation: Web Preservation at the Library of Congress
(MS Word document)

Transformative Assessment in the Educational Process

Colleen Carmean
Director of Consulting Services for Information Technology
Arizona State University West and EDUCAUSE NLII Fellow

Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

Robin Zuniga
Associate Director, The Flashlight Program
The TLT Group

Many institutions seek to collect data on the impact that their large investments in information technology have made on their campuses. The Transformative Assessment Project (TAP) provides a framework for institutions to develop assessment strategies tailored to their institutional missions and programs. The project encourages institutional teams who are assessing the impact of technology on teaching and learning to align their assessment activities with institutional goals. Through an in-person focus session and online course/community, institutions participated in the first offering of TAP in the spring of 2002.

The project was developed as a collaborative initiative of EDUCAUSE’s National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), CNI, and the Flashlight Program of the TLT Group. This session will include a discussion of the concept of transformative assesment, a description of the project, and a report on one campus’s implementation of TAP.

Web Links:
Transformative Assessment Project

PowerPoint Presentations:
Transformative Assessment at ASU West

Colleen Carmean
Transformative Assessment
Joan Lippincott

The UT Digital Knowledge Gateway

Mark McFarland
Assistant Director, University Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin

Daniel A. Updegrove
Vice President for Information Technology
The University of Texas at Austin

In March 2002, University of Texas President Larry Faulkner announced that “the University is setting the goal of providing a digital Knowledge Gateway to all Texans. We will provide access for every citizen, via a personalized Internet window, into the resources of our libraries, collections, museums, and much more. Our target is to establish an online service that exceeds anything else of its kind, permitting Texans everywhere to access, use, and benefit from the core materials at the heart of our University. The great treasures of this institution belong to all citizens of the state.”

This session provides a progress report on this ambitious, multi-year effort.

Web Links:
University of Texas Digital Knowledge Gateway

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