I recently participated in the Access 2006 Conference in Ottawa
| “ Common touchstones at the conference include:* customized web applications and search interfaces * open source software * national and provincial consortiae initiatives * information policy * digital media * library catalogue innovations * end user searching behaviours * metadata source: what is Access? |
Some notes from the CARL Preconference on Institutional Repositories
Benefits of institutional repositories include: impact, visibility, and reputation.
Standards:
> CARL Harvester, CARLCore is unqualified Dublin Core.
> OAI-PMH metadata protocol = Deposit -> metadata generation -> aggregations -> end user
> URI, OpenURL vs. DOI, Crossref (proprietary)
> International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) – search for institutional repositories
University of Toronto:
> University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute – virtual institute
> Project Open Source | Open Access (open-utoronto.ca)
> tspace.library.utoronto.ca
Open Access Examples:
> Public Knowledge Project
> Data Liberation Initiative
> Anthrosource
| “An online portal to full text anthropological resources, AnthroSource offers AAA members access to 40,661 articles in AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs; a linked, searchable database containing past, present, and future AAA periodicals; centralized access to a wealth of other key anthropological resources, including text, sound, and video; and interactive services to foster communities of interest and practice throughout the discipline. ” |
> Bioline International – a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries
> Journal of Medical Internet Research
> National e-Science Centre (UK)
Examples from Europe:
> University of Glasgow ePrints Service
> Queensland University of Technology
> CERN Document Server
Institutional Repository Software:
> Eprints
> DSpace
> Fedora – Fez (web interface to Fedora) and other tools
> CONTENTdm
notes from Access 2006
Canada and Ontario:
> Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
> Ontario Scholars Portal
> OurOntario
Library Enterprise System vs. ILS
– refinement and knowledge discovery
> Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
Increase in cost, paying for publishing and access > Biomed Central
Europe:
>PrestoSpace – AV Materials
>Building resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services (BRICKS)
>Calimera
>TEL (European Library)
Software:
> Lucene – indexing search engine, archives, multiple metadata (EAD, DC, Fulltext), good at merging indexes. Solr – open source search server based on Lucene. Example: National Adult Literacy Database.
> Endeca – NCSU catalog (Endeca for faceted browse, relevance ranking).
Search comforts: spell (did you mean?), stemming, sort options
Search + browse: layered facets, filter across multiple dimensions, facet deselection, relevance, speed, locally managed, persistent parameters
> Cocoon – XML publishing framework
> Ruby on Rails – agile web development
> LizardTech – for MrSID and JPEG 2000 images
> Collex –
| “a set of tools designed to aid students and scholars working in networked archives and federated repositories of humanities materials: a sophisticated COLLections and EXhibits mechanism for the semantic web” |
University of Victoria -> backup catalog using PHP – Yaz
| “a tiny HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application” |
XML Databases – alternative: SQL + Lucene
>TextML
>IPEDO
XML Catalogues / Library 2.0 – “an architecture of participation”
>eXtensible Catalog (XC) – an open-source online system that will unify access to traditional and digital library resources
>Talis, Keystone, resources, talk.talis.com, directory.talis.com, development network, Project Cenote
>Library Thing (beta)
>Library 2.0 Wiki
Mozilla:
>Greasemonkey
>LibX Firefox
>Zotero
Web services
> xISBN service
> Amazon API, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Limited Beta
> Google API
> findarticles.com
> Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – more enduring and flexible, reusable (sustainable?)
– BPEL (OASIS standard) for expression of complex processes. Active BPEL (Open Source), Active BPEL Designer (visual designer).
– services invoked with SOAP
– orchestration exposed with WSDL
Standards:
> UK -> Structured Vocabularies for IR (thesauri, ontologies, etc.) > British Standard – BS8723
Controlled Vocabularies: LCSH, Rameau (Fr), SWD (de)
> SRU – SRW
> e-Framework for Education and Research – an initiative by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)
> Digital Library Federation – DLF Service Framework for Digital Libraries
> NISO MetaSearch Initiative
> NISO RP-2006 – Best Practices for Designing Web Services in the Library Context (PDF)
> SOA in higher education
> DELOS – Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
Discussion lists:
>Web4Lib
>Code4Lib
>NGC4Lib
Reference-bot:
>Bibliothek Hamburg
Book reference:
“Putting Content Online: a practical guide for libraries” by Mark Jordan
[Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from Oct 18, 2006]