digital repository support for consortium

CBSOR,Indian Statistical Institute 30th March 07, ISI,Kokata

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Digital Repository support for Consortium

Dr. Devika P. MadalliDocumentation Research & Training CentreIndian Statistical Institute, Bangalore


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Digital Repository

an ideal way to capture, preserve, and disseminate the intellectual output of a university, consortium, or discipline-specific organization


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Prerequisites for forming a consortium for successful resource sharing

Common domain interests Financial resources – consortium is

not about cost shaving only! Technology Manpower Policy and Governance support


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Challenges in accessing Consortia Resources

The end user is forced to learn and interactwith as many interfaces as products availableand this leads to stress and confusion. It results in very low usage of the subscribed resources.


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Some Solutions

Linking and Serial Management Service by other publishers

Examples: PubMed's LinkOut, Silverplatter Silverlinker, ISI Web of Science, OCLC Electronic Collections Online,

Cambridge Scientific, EBSCO


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Limitations

Offer links only to content from publishers with which these companies have agreements, or that a library accesses within a specific service


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Others

Cross-Ref -- A publishing industry initiative to enable article linkages across participating publishers

Federated searching -- Multiple vendor implementations, e.g., Ex Libris SFX and Endeavor Encompass Metadata harvesting -- being developed through the Open Archives Initiative

Serials Management -- TDNet and SerialsSolutions: fulltext list generation, URL generation to load MARC-like

catalog records into local catalog


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OpenURL for accessing Consortia

Resources

OpenURL is a Mechanism for transporting metadata and

identifiers Describes a publication (Reference

Resources) for context sensitive linking Designed to support mediated linking from

information resources to library services Works with ‘Link Resolver System’ Facilitate seamless access to the referenced

resource


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Terminology

OpenURL – A NISO standard (Z39.88), by which web links (URLs) are created containing metadata, allowing the linking directly to reference resources

Source – A citation database where an image or link appears; this link is an openURL that points to a link resolver.

Targets – The items listed in the results window: the full text dbs, Catalog, Ask-a-Librarian, Google.


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Terminology

Link Resolver – Software that interprets an OpenURL and creates links to targets.

Base URL – The URL of a link resolver server.

Knowledgebase – The database containing all the library’s holdings.


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Benefits of OpenURL linking

For the librarian: Central administration of links Local control over what types of links

are offered and to where they resolve Optimizes use of licensed resources


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Benefits of OpenURL linking

For the user Desktop delivery of full text when

available electronically Expands the research horizons Consistency and accuracy of links


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OSS tools for OpenURL

CUFTS (knowledge base) GODOT (Link Resolver) and dbWiz (Federated Search Engine)


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CUFTS: open source serial Management

CUFTS is online knowledgebase of full-text journal collections.

Provides libraries to develop their sites of searchable serials databases

MARC records for library catalogue

Directs to article OpenURL link resolving, and ERM tools.


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Function

CUFTS serves as knowledge base and contains a variety of resource types including Journal collections and databases called as “Global Resource”

From the Global Resources libraries can select and activate their “Local Resources”


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GODOT (Link Resolver)

It is a Link Resolver Software Provides direct Full-text Links from

CUFTS knowledge base Holdings in the Catalogue or in other

location Interlibrary Holdings Locator and

Requesting


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dbWiz – Federated Search Engine

dbWiz is an Open source federated search engine

Allows to search multiple databases, websites, catalogues, and other online resources from a single interface

Presents the result in an integrated list


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CITATION

RESULT PAGE

GODOTLINK RESOLVER

DATA ABOUT LIBRARY’S COLLECTION

CUFTS knowledge base

FULL TEXT

OpenURL

Fig. How OpenURL works?

CONT…

SOURCE

dbWiz Search

OpenURL linking


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Need for DL support to Consortium

Digital assets requires tools to organize the content according to library’s own preferences

Integration of digital collections with institutional portals and e-learning systems

Preservation of Digital Object


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DL support features

Gives permanence to digital assets of libraries

Full-text searching Personalized email notification of newly

published content Browsing by date or author or keywords Authorized Access to documents/collection Usage statistics


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DL support features

OAI compliant Data exporting as XML for Federated

Searching


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Closer view to DL

Organize the digital collection into type of resources, enabling:

Categorization of documents according to

Papers & publication Educational resources Special collection


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Administrative Supports to Consortium

Ingesting Metadata editing Collection management


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Administrative Support

Ingesting: handles the loading of objects into the Repository.

Metadata Editing: Editing of descriptive or other object metadata (for example, technical or preservation metadata)

Collection Management: organizing objects into structured collections that facilitate end-user navigation.


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Resource Discovery

search for object metadata or the full text of documents,

navigate through an institution's predefined collections


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Authorized Access

Regulating end users' viewing privileges according to parameters like user status, etc


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Service Layers

Integrated services (Single sign-on) Common Centralised Search

Interfaces (similar to SFX) Alerts Discussion forums Document Delivery


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Thank You

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