When Is A Digital Library Not A Digital
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The document discusses the definition and purpose of digital libraries and digital asset management systems, emphasizing the importance of metadata and structured access to resources. It contrasts digital libraries with content management systems, outlines a year-long project focused on digital asset management in further education, and discusses strategies for implementing such systems. Key issues include aligning the management and access of digital assets with institutional goals and the necessity of preserving the integrity and usability of collections over time.
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When Is A Digital Library Not A Digital
- 1. When is a digital library not a digital library? R. John Robertson, Digital Libraries 4 th May 2006
- 2. Overview Digital Libraries Digital Asset Management The MANDATE project Designing an asset management system
- 3. Digital Libraries What is a digital library? "Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities“ (Digital Library Federation, 1999).
- 4. Digital Libraries What is the purpose of a digital library? to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of
- 5. Digital Libraries What can you tell about the purpose of the following digital libraries? What type of materials do they hold? What points of access do they offer to these materials?
- 6. Digital Libraries  Purpose Type Access Alexandria Digital Library    NSDL    ACM    Perseus Digital Library   Â
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- 15. Digital Libraries: Implications What information do you need to store to support each of these sorts of access? Geospatial co-ordinates Educational levels Author/ publisher Title
- 16. Digital Libraries: Metadata “ Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.” Variety of schemas design to meet local needs but be able to interoperate on some level with other digital libraries Examples: MARC 21; DC; IEEE LOM
- 17. Digital Libraries: metadata schemas Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Source Language Relation Coverage Rights METS header descriptive metadata administrative metadata file section structural map structural links behaviour
- 18. Digital Asset Management Digital Libraries are one type of digital asset store; what are the others? Loosely speaking two archetypes digital library and content management Guideline differences between digital library and content management – structured intellectual access, priority of distribute, Largely same skill set and issues
- 19. Digital Asset Management: Mandate Introduction Year–long project examining digital asset management in Further Education (Nov 04 –Nov 05) Purpose To inform the FE sector about good practice and preservation issues Funding JISC Outcomes a toolkit for digital asset management in FE and case study of its application at John Wheatley College
- 20. Digital Asset Management : Toolkit Strategy Purpose of an asset management strategy Development of an asset management strategy Managing the development of a strategy Asset Types Metadata Metadata requirements Metadata standards Metadata quality Workflow Interoperability Preservation Legislation Software Training
- 21. Digital Asset Management : Strategy Purpose of an asset management strategy Who is it for? Staff Students Public What is it for? Management Access Preservation What is it going to manage? College documents [y] College learning materials [y] External assets [y] Research materials Finance documents Personnel documents
- 22. Digital Asset Management : Strategy Development of an digital asset management strategy What has to happen to achieve this strategy? What issues are implicit in these purposes? What issues are implicit in the selection of asset types? What are the existing people, practices, and structures? How are these assets managed currently? How can existing structures be incorporated /used? What data already exists electronically? Why is being aware of this important? The system supports the strategy not the other way around (if you build it without them, they will not come).
- 23. Digital Asset Management : Metadata Metadata requirements What points of access are required? What other information is required? Bibliographic (e.g. "a picture of the Eiffel tower taken by Bob") Administrative (e.g. "taken on 19/04/2005") Legal (e.g. "all rights reserved") Preservation (e.g. "requirement to view as jpeg") Technical (e.g. "jpeg format" ; "85.8kb file") Educational (e.g. "an illustration of construction using cast iron"; "UK Education Level 11") Structural (e.g. "single file") What of the above metadata is essential? What of the above metadata is secondary (optional or removed)?
- 24. Digital Asset Management : Implementation Who is the best agent to create each of these metadata elements? What resources are available? Do the available resource require compromises in the strategy or the metadata?
- 25. Digital Asset Management : Exercise Within FE what do you think could be generalised about: the purpose of a digital asset management strategies? the asset types involved? the key points of access? the general context?
- 26. Digital Asset Management : context Issues for digital asset management in FE (sample answers) Purpose of institution Teaching – strategy and system must support and not hinder teachers Resources available Limited - integration with existing practices vital; human overhead of using system must be minimal Use of materials Key points of access – tie into course, educational as well as bibliographic description Shelf-life of materials Course life; external determined typically < 3 years Curation beyond this is in conflict with the purpose of the institution Ownership of materials Blanket policy – college’s property
- 27. Conclusions Skills and issues in construction and operation of systems for digital asset management are generally similar to library and information science skills needed for digital libraries Digital asset management / digital library design – revolves around key questions of context, resources, and needs
- 28. Further Reading/ Questions Digital Library Definitions LIS 462 – Definitions http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/462-defs.html Toolkit http://mandate.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Questions John Robertson Rm 12:12 [email_address]