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Subject gateways zu den Bereichen: Business economics - The virtual music library - clinical information - food science and food technology - energy technology

Date

22. 6.2002 19:41:31

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Abstract

Charts the history and development of the UK's Resource Discovery Network, which brings together under a common business, technical and service framework a range of subject gateways and other services for the academic and research community. Considers its future relationship to other services, and position within the information ecology

Date

22. 6.2002 19:36:13

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Purpose - To describe the process and results of the business-planning workpackage of The European Library (TEL) project, in which eight national libraries collaborated on a joint approach to access to their digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology was in three parts: first, a literature review and the mapping of the partners' existing and planned digital products and services, then a structured interview or survey to determine the partners' business requirements from TEL, then a harmonization process, and finally the results were then combined with normal business planning elements to produce a mission and final business plan. Findings - Business planning for digital libraries has hitherto not been widely reported. The methodology proved to be an effective method of achieving mutual agreement among partners with widely different aims and characteristics. Eleven harmonized service aspirations were agreed and five categories of business aims. Research limitations/implications - Focused on the business aims of national libraries, but the methodology can be relevant to other collaborative projects. Together with the few existing other reports, this can form the basis for a new field of work. Practical implications - The work described led directly to the creation of an operational service, which will be open to all European national libraries. Originality/value - As far as is known, the first reporting of a collaborative international planning process for a digital library, and maybe the first multi-partner business plan between national libraries.

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Abstract

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) program seeks to create, develop, and sustain a national digital library supporting science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education at all levels -- preK-12, undergraduate, graduate, and life-long learning. The resulting virtual institution is expected to catalyze and support continual improvements in the quality of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education in both formal and informal settings. The vision for this program has been explored through a series of workshops over the past several years and documented in accompanying reports and monographs. (See [1-7, 10, 12, and 13].) These efforts have led to a characterization of the digital library as a learning environments and resources network for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education, that is: * designed to meet the needs of learners, in both individual and collaborative settings; * constructed to enable dynamic use of a broad array of materials for learning primarily in digital format; and * managed actively to promote reliable anytime, anywhere access to quality collections and services, available both within and without the network. Underlying the NSDL program are several working assumptions. First, while there is currently no lack of "great piles of content" on the Web, there is an urgent need for "piles of great content". The difficulties in discovering and verifying the authority of appropriate Web-based material are certainly well known, yet there are many examples of learning resources of great promise available (particularly those exploiting the power of multiple media), with more added every day. The breadth and interconnectedness of the Web are simultaneously a great strength and shortcoming. Second, the "unit" or granularity of educational content can and will shrink, affording the opportunity for users to become creators and vice versa, as learning objects are reused, repackaged, and repurposed. To be sure, this scenario cannot take place without serious attention to intellectual property and digital rights management concerns. But new models and technologies are being explored (see a number of recent articles in the January issue of D-Lib Magazine). Third, there is a need for an "organizational infrastructure" that facilitates connections between distributed users and distributed content, as alluded to in the third bullet above. Finally, while much of the ongoing use of the library is envisioned to be "free" in the sense of the public good, there is an opportunity and a need to consider multiple alternative models of sustainability, particularly in the area of services offered by the digital library. More details about the NSDL program including information about proposal deadlines and current awards may be found at <http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl>.

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Abstract

Welcome to the very first issue of EuropeanaTech Insight, a multimedia publication about research and development within the EuropeanaTech community. EuropeanaTech is a very active community. It spans all of Europe and is made up of technical experts from the various disciplines within digital cultural heritage. At any given moment, members can be found presenting their work in project meetings, seminars and conferences around the world. Now, through EuropeanaTech Insight, we can share that inspiring work with the whole community. In our first three issues, we're showcasing topics discussed at the EuropeanaTech 2015 Conference, an exciting event that gave rise to lots of innovative ideas and fruitful conversations on the themes of data quality, data modelling, open data, data re-use, multilingualism and discovery. Welcome, bienvenue, bienvenido, Välkommen, Tervetuloa to the first Issue of EuropeanaTech Insight. Are we talking your language? No? Well I can guarantee you Europeana is. One of the European Union's great beauties and strengths is its diversity. That diversity is perhaps most evident in the 24 different languages spoken in the EU. Making it possible for all European citizens to easily and seamlessly communicate in their native language with others who do not speak that language is a huge technical undertaking. Translating documents, news, speeches and historical texts was once exclusively done manually. Clearly, that takes a huge amount of time and resources and means that not everything can be translated... However, with the advances in machine and automatic translation, it's becoming more possible to provide instant and pretty accurate translations. Europeana provides access to over 40 million digitised cultural heritage offering content in over 33 languages. But what value does Europeana provide if people can only find results in their native language? None. That's why the EuropeanaTech community is collectively working towards making it more possible for everyone to discover our collections in their native language. In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight, we hear from community members who are making great strides in machine translation and enrichment tools to help improve not only access to data, but also how we retrieve, browse and understand it.

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With the development of the World Wide Web, the "information search" has grown to be a significant business sector of a global, competitive and commercial market. Powerful players have entered this market, such as commercial internet search engines, information portals, multinational publishers and online content integrators. Will Google, Yahoo or Microsoft be the only portals to global knowledge in 2010? If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalisation of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet

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PhysNet offers online services that enable a physicist to keep in touch with the worldwide physics community and to receive all information he or she may need. In addition to being of great value to physicists, these services are practical examples of the use of modern methods of digital libraries, in particular the use of metadata harvesting. One service is PhysDoc. This consists of a Harvest-based online information broker- and gatherer-network, which harvests information from the local web-servers of professional physics institutions worldwide (mostly in Europe and USA so far). PhysDoc focuses on scientific information posted by the individual scientist at his local server, such as documents, publications, reports, publication lists, and lists of links to documents. All rights are reserved for the authors who are responsible for the content and quality of their documents. PhysDis is an analogous service but specifically for university theses, with their dual requirements of examination work and publication. The strategy is to select high quality sites containing metadata. We report here on the present status of PhysNet, our experience in operating it, and the development of its usage. To continuously involve authors, research groups, and national societies is considered crucial for a future stable service.

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For those building digital library services, the organisational barriers are sometimes far more intractable than technological issues. This was firmly flagged in one of the first workshops focusing specifically on the digital library research agenda: Digital libraries are not simply technological constructs; they exist within a rich legal, social, and economic context, and will succeed only to the extent that they meet these broader needs. The innovatory drive within the development of digital library services thrives on the tension between meeting both technical and social imperatives. The Renardus project partners have previously taken parts in projects establishing the technical basis for subject gateways (e.g., ROADS, DESIRE], EELS) and are aware that technical barriers to interoperability are outweighed by challenges relating to the organisational and business models used. Within the Renardus project there has been a determination to address these organisational and business issues from the beginning. Renardus intends initially to create a pilot service, targeting the European scholar with a single point of access to quality selected Web resources. Looking ahead beyond current project funding, it aims to create the organisational and technological infrastructure for a sustainable service. This means the project is concerned with the range of processes required to establish a viable service, and is explicitly addressing business issues as well as providing a technical infrastructure. The overall aim of Renardus is to establish a collaborative framework for European subject gateways that will benefit both users in terms of enhanced services, and the gateways themselves in terms of shared solutions. In order to achieve this aim, Renardus will provide firstly a pilot service for the European academic and research communities brokering access to those European-based information gateways that currently participate in the project; in other words, brokering to gateways that are already in existence. Secondly the project will explore ways to establish the organisational basis for co-operative efforts such as metadata sharing, joint technical solutions and agreement on standardisation. It is intended that this exploration will feed back valuable experience to the individual participating gateways to suggest ways their services can be enhanced.
The Renardus project has brought together gateways that are 'large-scale national initiatives'. Within the European context this immediately introduces a diversity of organisations, as responsibility for national gateway initiatives is located differently, for example, in national libraries, national agencies with responsibility for educational technology infrastructure, and within universities or consortia of universities. Within the project, gateways are in some cases represented directly by their own personnel, in some cases by other departments or research centres, but not always by the people responsible for providing the gateway service. For example, the UK Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is represented in the project by UKOLN (formerly part of the Resource Discovery Network Centre) and the Institute of Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol -- an RDN 'hub' service provider -- who are primarily responsible for dissemination. Since the start of the project there have been changes within the organisational structures providing gateways and within the service ambitions of gateways themselves. Such lack of stability is inherent within the Internet service environment, and this presents challenges to Renardus activity that has to be planned for a three-year period. For example, within the gateway's funding environment there is now an exploration of 'subject portals' offering more extended services than gateways. There is also potential commercial interest for including gateways as a value-added component to existing commercial services, and new offerings from possible competitors such as Google's Web Directory and country based services. This short update on the Renardus project intends to inform the reader of progress within the project and to give some wider context to its main themes by locating the project within the broader arena of digital library activity. There are twelve partners in the project from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as the UK. In particular we will focus on the specific activity in which UKOLN is involved: the architectural design, the specification of functional requirements, reaching consensus on a collaborative business model, etc. We will also consider issues of metadata management where all partners have interests. We will highlight implementation issues that connect to areas of debate elsewhere. In particular we see connections with activity related to establishing architectural models for digital library services, connections to the services that may emerge from metadata sharing using the Open Archives Initiative metadata sharing protocol, and links with work elsewhere on navigation of digital information spaces by means of controlled vocabularies.

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Abstract

Purpose - One of the unresolved problems of the global information society is ensuring the long-term accessibility of digital documents. The project kopal tackles this problem head-on: in a three-year project kopal's objective is the practical testing and implementation of a cooperatively created and operated long-term archival system for digital resources. Design/methodology/approach - The system will be implemented in accordance with international standards for long-term archiving and metadata within the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) framework. The project partners, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen), IBM Deutschland GmbH and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), will establish a cooperatively transferable solution for cultural heritage institutions, as well as for business and industry. Findings - Within the project, the project partners DDB and SUB Göttingen are developing software for the input and access of data, which will be released under an open-source license. Research limitations/implications - Long-term preservation methods and strategies will be discussed in general in the paper. Practical implications - The project will present a stable and reusable platform for additional partners and users, especially for cultural heritage organisations. Originality/value - The solution is based on Digital Information and Archiving System (DIAS), jointly devised by IBM and the National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague, and it will be adapted to the needs of the project with several extensions. Establishing a collaborative solution for long-term preservation is a milestone in the development of systems for the long-term availability of digital objects.

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The paper will explore the issues surrounding the development of an evaluation framework for a supranational digital library system, as seen through the TEL (The European Library) project. It will describe work an the project to date, and seek to establish what are the key drivers, priorities and barriers encountered, in developing such a framework. TEL is being funded by the EU as an Accompanying Measure in the IST program. Its main focus of is an consensus building, and also includes preparatory technical work to develop testbeds, which will gauge to what extent interoperability is achievable. In order for TEL to take its place as a major Information Society initiative of the EU, it needs to be closely attuned to the needs, expectations and realities of its user communities, which comprise the citizens of the project's national partners. To this end the evaluation framework described in this paper, is being developed by establishing the users' viewpoints and priorities in relation to the key project themes. A summary of the issues to be used in the baseline, and to be expanded upon in the paper, follows: - Establishing the differing contexts of the national library partners, and the differing national priorities which will impact an TEL - Exploring the differing expectations relating to building and using the hybrid library - Exploring the differing expectations relating to TEL. TEL needs to add value - what does this mean in each partner state, and for the individuals within them? 1. Introduction to TEL TEL (The European Library) is a thirty month project, funded by the European Commission as part of its Fifth Framework Programme for research. It aims to set up a co-operative framework for access to the major national, mainly digital, collections in European national libraries. TEL is funded as an Accompanying Measure, designed to support the work of the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme an the development of access to cultural and scientific knowledge. TEL will stop short of becoming a live service during the lifetime of the project, and is focused an ensuring co-operative and concerted approaches to technical and business issues associated with large-scale content development. It will lay the policy and technical groundwork towards a pan European digital library based an distributed digital collections, and providing seamless access to the digital resources of major European national libraries. It began in February, 2001, and has eight national library partners: Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It is also seeking to encourage the participation of all European national libraries in due course.

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The European Commission's goal for Europeana is to make European information resources easier to use in an online environment. It will build on Europe's rich heritage, combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models. The Europeana prototype is the result of a 2-year project that began in July 2007. Europeana.eu went live on 20 November 2008, launched by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links the user to 2 million digital items: images, text, sounds and videos. Europeana is a Thematic Network funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme, as part of the i2010 policy. Originally known as the European digital library network - EDLnet - it is a partnership of 100 representatives of heritage and knowledge organisations and IT experts from throughout Europe. They contribute to the work packages that are solving the technical and usability issues. The project is run by a core team based in the national library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. It builds on the project management and technical expertise developed by The European Library, which is a service of the Conference of European National Librarians. Content is added via so called aggregators, national or domain specific portals aggegrating digital content and channelling it to Europeana. Most of these portals are being developed in the framework of EU funded projects, e.g. European Film Gateway, Athena and EuropeanaLocal. Overseeing the project is the EDL Foundation, which includes key European cultural heritage associations from the four domains. The Foundation's statutes commit members to: * providing access to Europe's cultural and scientific heritage through a cross-domain portal; * co-operating in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal; * stimulating initiatives to bring together existing digital content; * supporting digitisation of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Europeana.eu is a prototype. Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will be launched in 2010 with links to over 6 million digital objects.

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Neue Herausforderungen angehen Die Publikation erhält ihre Bedeutung aus der mehrperspektivischen Betrachtung von Digitalen Bibliotheken und ihren Services. Der Untertitel »where the new information players meet« macht bereits deutlich, worin der Autor eine der größten Herausforderungen der Zukunft für Bibliotheken sieht: sie befinden sich im Wettbewerb mit anderen Playern im Informationsmarkt. Ausführlich beschreibt Pace auch die zukünftige Rolle von Anbietern im Bereich der Bibliothekssoftware, für sich und im Zusammenspiel mit Bibliotheken. Beide Parteien sollten auf geeigneten Feldern gemeinsam die Herausforderungen angehen, die durch das Erscheinen neuer Informationsanbieter für Bibliotheken und ihre traditionellen Softwarelieferanten entstanden sind. Pace bevorzugt zur Charakterisierung der Beziehung die Begriffe »codependence« und »codevelopment« (S.16), die ihm prägnanter erscheinen als nur »partnership«. Insbesondere die Kapitel 2 »Sizing up the dot-com competition« und 3 »Business challenges to library practices« beschreiben anhand von prägnanten Beispielen, wie solche Mitbewerber mit dem Aufkommen des Internets in den traditionellen Tätigkeitsbereich von Bibliotheken eingetreten sind. Google, Yahoo und Amazon sind heutzutage wohl die bekanntesten kommerziellen Service-Anbieter im Internet, die in kurzer Zeit eine unglaubliche Popularität und internationale Verbreitung erreicht haben. Pace geht aber auch auf Services wie das Open Directory Project ein (www.dmoz.org), in dem registrierte Fachleute nach einem kooperativen Klassifikationssystem ausgewählte Links auf Internetquellen zusammenstellen. Kommerzielle Dienstleister wie Ouestia, Ebrary oder XanEdu, die der Autor beschreibt, haben sich auf das Angebot digitaler Bücher im Internet spezialisiert und treten mit unterschiedlichen Geschäftsmodellen an Bibliotheken und Endnutzer direkt heran. Wenn auch die Oualität laut Pace nicht immer überzeugend ist, so sind Marketing, Geschäftsideen und Verkaufsmodelle doch durchaus einer näheren Betrachtung durch Bibliotheken wert. Pace rät den Bibliotheken, diese neuen Herausforderungen aktiv anzugehen und dabei einerseits von den Erfolgskonzepten eines Google-Dienstes, andererseits aber auch von den Geschäftsmodellen und Planungskonzepten der Privatwirtschaft zu lernen und geeignete Instrumentarien zu übernehmen. Besonders aufschlussreich ist für den Leser Kapitel 4 »Business models for digital library services«. Basierend auf einem Strategiepapier aus dem Jahre 2000, das durch zwei Vertreter der »Fakultät für Geschäftsmanagement« an der Heimatuniversität des Autors erstellt wurde, stellt Pace einige konkrete Prozessschritte aus dem privatwirtschaftlichen Bereich vor, die er in verschiedene Phasen untergliedert. Die Beschreibung ist durch klare Botschaften durchaus anschaulich gestaltet und auch der nicht ganz unbeschlagene Leser fühlt sich zur Reflektion eigener Vorgehensweisen angeregt, wenn er aufgefordert wird: »solve only known problems« (S.75).
Digitale Auskunftsdienste Pace verfällt als Insider der Bibliotheks- und Firmenszene glücklicherweise nicht in das Stereotyp einer einfachen Schwarz-Weiß-Gegenüberstellung von »erfolgreichen Firmenkonzepten« einerseits und »unflexiblen, traditionsbelasteten Bibliotheken« andererseits, wie man sie nicht selten von Bibliothekskritikern hört. In den bereits genannten Kapiteln 2 und 3 sieht und benennt er durchaus nachahmenswerte Beispiele für digitale Servicesvon Bibliotheken, die auch Adaptionen von kommerziellen Diensten darstellen können. Digitale Auskunftsdienste (»Virtual or online reference services«) per E-Mail oder Chat erfreuen sich offenbar zumindest in den USA steigender Beliebtheit, die Pace unter anderem mit dem Wegfall der Hemmschwelle einer persönlichen Ansprache erklärt. OnlineKataloge erfahren zunehmend eine Anreicherung mit Informationen wie Inhaltsverzeichnissen oder Abstracts, wie sie von Amazon bekannt sind. Pace erwähnt auch lobend die Rolle einiger Öffentlicher Bibliotheken, die Yahoos Verbalerschließungssystem als Grundlage für eigene Internetservices genommen haben - und dafür von anderen Kollegen heftig gescholten werden. In dem Kontext der Gegenüberstellung von privatwirtschaftlich organisierten Diensten und öffentlich-rechtlichen Bibliotheken empfehlen sich die Kapitel 6 »Libraries are not ALL (sic!) business« und 7 »First principles« als lesenswert, weil sie sich explizit gegen eine unreflektierte Übernahme privatwirtschaftlicher Geschäftsregeln und -vorgehensweisen durch Bibliotheken aussprechen, auch wenn sich gänzlich neue Aspekte bei den gewählten Beispielen wie »fair use«, »privacy of end-users« aus bibliothekarischer Sicht nicht entdecken lassen. Entwicklung von Services Auch wenn Pace als amerikanischerAutor mit seinen Beispielen ein geographisch begrenztes Spektrum analysiert, so lassen sich viele Schlussfolgerungen doch ohne weiteres auch auf europäische Bibliotheken übertragen. Die vorliegende Publikation kann allen Bibliothekaren in leitenden Positionen sehr zur Lektüre empfohlen werden, da die Fokussierung auf die Entwicklung von Services sowie die Erörterung möglicher strategischer Partnerschaften auf der Agenda eines jeden Bibliotheksmanagements stehen sollte. Die Lektüre sollte allerdings in dem Bewusstsein erfolgen, dass Pace durch die Schwerpunktsetzung auf das Verhältnis »Bibliotheken - Anbieter von Informationstechnologie und -diensten« einige weitere wesentliche Aspekte weitgehend außer Acht lässt. Diese betreffen im Falle von Universitätsbibliotheken beispielsweise das Verhältnis von Bibliotheken als Dienstleistern zu weiteren lokalen Dienstleistern (insbesondere Rechenzentren, Medienzentren) sowie die zunehmende Modularität von Service- und Informationsarchitekturen, die ein nahtloses Zusammenspiel lokaler und externer Services sinnvoll erscheinen lassen. Die Orientierung an den tatsächlichen Bedürfnissen von EndNutzern steht zwar nicht direkt im Mittelpunkt der Service-Beschreibungen des Autors, einige wesentliche Aspekte werden aber behandelt (z.B. S.57). Weitere Zielgruppen der Publikation sind aufgrund der gewählten Thematik zu Digitalen Bibliotheken und Services sicherlich Bibliothekare in verantwortlichen Positionen in den Bereichen Informationstechnologie und Benutzung. Alle Bibliothekare, und insbesondere Berufsanfänger, mögen darüber hinaus mit Interesse die Ausführungen von Pace zu seinem beruflichen Werdegang sowie speziell das Kapitel 5 »Sheep in wolves' clothing/Working inside and outside the library« verfolgen, in dem er berufliche Chancen und Szenarien für Bibliothekare im IT-Firmenbereich beschreibt."

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