CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Creating a Comprehensive Technology Model for a Converged Library, Archive, Art and Publishing Facility at the University of Calgary

Thomas Hickerson
Vice Provost and University Librarian
University of Calgary

Shawna Sadler
Technology Officer, Taylor Family Digital Library
University of Calgary

After three years of construction, the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) is nearing completion. The 265,000 sq. ft building at the heart of the University of Calgary central campus is the centerpiece in a $203 million project and will serve as the hub of Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR), a principal division including the university libraries, art museum and University of Calgary Press. The move into the TFDL represents both a physical and programmatic convergence for these units. This briefing will describe the development process for a $13 million technology plan, an effort to conceptualize and implement a comprehensive model for the 21st century, focused on knowledge creation, touch-enabled visual display, collaborative work, new media support and immediate and long-term flexibility. Particular technologies being employed include a visualization lab, with a high-resolution touch-wall, high-resolution microtiles, LCD walls with touch lecterns, viewing theatres, media editing suites, small and large touch tables, real-time data visualization displays, gaming areas with retrospective and contemporary consoles, video conference capabilities in student spaces, Tidebreak software, and touch-interactive instruction rooms. Consulting and technology selection processes will be detailed providing background for others facing similar challenges.

http://tfdl.ucalgary.ca

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Presentation Slides available in Keynote & PowerPoint

E-Book Wars: Ten Years Later

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

In 2001 I wrote an essay titled “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World” (First Monday, 6:6, June 2001). It’s taken much longer than I would have thought, but developments in the e-book world seem to be reaching critical points in several areas. In this session, I’ll look back at what I got right and what I got wrong ten years ago, and, more importantly, unexpected developments and the current state of play in both scholarly and mass-market publishing.

Kuali OLE: From Startup to Software

Robert H. McDonald
Executive Director, Kuali OLE
Indiana University

Michael Winkler
Kuali OLE Functional Council Chair
University of Pennsylvania

Bradley Skiles
Project manager, Kuali OLE
Indiana University

Richard Slabach
Quality Assurance Manager, Kuali OLE
Indiana University

In July 2010, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $2.38 million dollar grant to a national partnership of nine university libraries to carry out the build and implementation phase of the Kuali OLE (pronounced Oh-LAY) Project. The partners in the project have pledged an equivalent amount of cost-share to the project, creating one of the largest library-funded community-source software projects in modern history. Kuali OLE builds from the Mellon-funded OLE Planning Grant led by Duke University Libraries, a process that engaged hundreds of libraries and librarians at international scale in the feasibility of a community sourced software solution for academic library management work flow.

In phase one of the build project, July 2010-July 2011, Kuali OLE has several deliverables that will be demonstrated to the library and enterprise academic software community. This phase will:
• demonstrate ingest of library vendor records from a major library approval plan vendor
• demonstrate the feasibility of using Kuali RICE middleware for creating and routing this as a library requisition workflow
• demonstrate the functionality of the embedded Kuali Finance System Software components for generating purchase orders and managing library funds

This project briefing, a follow-on to briefings at CNI in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009, will include a demonstration of code and re-use of Kuali software components from the build phase as of mid-March 2011. The Kuali OLE Reference Model Implementation, that is expected to be available as a target for use by both Kuali OLE Partners as well as for those interested in Kuali OLE implementation, will also be discussed. This will include both the OLE core software as well as a demonstration public discovery layer. Upcoming previews of the first Kuali OLE Conference Track that will be held at Kuali Days 2011 in November in Indianapolis will also be presented.

 

http://ole.kuali.org

Presentation Slides

Video: Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, from CNI Fall Meeting

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). In Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage, MITH Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum and University of Maryland doctoral candidate Rachel Donahue present a summary of findings from the recently published CLIR report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, as well as a report from an associated symposium conducted at the University of Maryland in May 2010.

More information about this session, as well as a link to the CLIR report, are accessible from the project briefing page at https://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/Abstracts/PB-linked-negulescu.html.

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