Common challenges, common issues Lorcan Dempsey School for scanning The Hague, 16 October 2002.
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Common challenges, common issues
Common challenges, common issues
Lorcan DempseySchool for scanning
The Hague, 16 October 2002
Lorcan DempseySchool for scanning
The Hague, 16 October 2002
OverviewOverview
• Part 1• Part 2• Part 3
I do not know an awful lot about archival institutions ….
I do not know an awful lot about archival institutions ….
… or museums … … or museums …
Part onePart one
“The words of things entangle and confuse …”“The words of things entangle and confuse …”
Goals which encourage shared activityGoals which encourage shared activity
• To release the value of Europe's scientific, industrial and cultural heritage in creative use by its citizens.
• To engage with the cultural identities and aspirations of Europe and its peoples.
• To develop practices appropriate to upholding the values and purposes of the library, archival and museum traditions in a digital environment.
• To explore what it means to develop virtual civic presence.
• To explore sustainable economic models which support both development and continued equitable access to the cultural heritage.
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It challenges libraries to assert their public service role, to make the links with education, with cultural institutions, with public service broadcasting, and to demonstrate their real value as physical and virtual assembly places. A life-long learning agenda cannot be realised without public institutions that support equitable access to the ‘stuff’ of learning. This case needs to be made and supported by visible services, print and digital. Library values make them such institutions; they need to ensure that their practices do also.
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Finally, and critically, people spend large parts of their lives in the converging network spaces of broadcasting and the Internet. Are we really saying that such spaces should lack the civilising presence of libraries, archives, museums? That libraries should not try to enrich such spaces with learning opportunity, should not disclose the history of communities there, should not support reading and access to cultural resources?
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Part 2Part 2
“… the scene was set; it repeated what Was in the script. Then the theatre was changedTo something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
“… the scene was set; it repeated what Was in the script. Then the theatre was changedTo something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
GridGrid
high low
low
high
stewardship
uniq
uene
ssBooksJournalsNewspapersAlbumsMapsScores
Special collectionsRare booksLocal/Historical newspapersLocal history materialsArchives & manuscriptsTheses & dissertations
Institutional repositories •ePrints•Learning objects/materials•Research data
Freely-accessible web resourcesOpen source softwareNewsgroup archives
high low
low
high
stewardship
uniq
ueLibraries becoming like ….Libraries becoming like ….
• Selective exposure– Exhibition– Narrative– Pedagogy
• Unique– Processing model– Routine for discovery and
request
• Content management
• Woods and trees– Provenance and context– Evidential and informational– Descriptive practices
• Preservation and archiving
• Repurposing content• High acronymic density
The recombinant library
user environments
lab books
exhibitions
PDAs
learning management systems
campus portal
course materialtext book
new scholarly resources
resource environment librarylibrary
shared cataloging, ILL
licensed collections
archivingvirtualreference Content
aggregation
Resolution
Harvest
The ‘recombinant’ libraryThe ‘recombinant’ library
– Distributed– Heterogeneous– Recombinant– Interoperability becomes
very real– New organizational
patterns
• Resource environment– Distributed– Heterogeneous– Recombinant– Interoperability becomes
very real– New organizational
patterns
User environmentUser environment Resource environmentResource environment
Interoperability as recombinant potentialInteroperability as recombinant potential
• Disaggregating scholarly publishing– Linking, Identifiers
• ‘Play’ learning objects– Packaged
• Federated searching– Fusing metadata
• Processing content• Ingesting content• ‘Plugging in’ services• Collectible?
• Examples– Can I add a document to
a repository?– Can I add a repository to
a distributed query?– Can I fuse metadata from
one repository with another?
– Can I aggregate these resources into a learning package?
Libraries, archives and museums ….Libraries, archives and museums ….
• User environment– A distributed approach
• Z, OAI
– An aggregated approach
• SCRAN, ArtStor, Amico, Cultural Materials Initiative, OCLC, …
• Proquest, Gale, …
• Resource environment– No economies of scale– The expense of learning– E.g. object
management; preservation services; disclosure; …
• Cannot achieve the big picture on a one by one basis
And …And …
• Need to move from single initiative– Nsdl– JISC Information
environment– NOF– IMLS– COLIS– Memory of the
Netherlands
• Recombinant organization
• Fragmented by– Initiative– Domain– Country– Funding regime
• E.g UK higher education
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