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The Hybrid Library and the DNER: a Discussion
Stephen Pinfield
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DNER: overview
Distributed National Electronic Resource• Umbrella for the informational activity of JISC
(Joint Information Systems Committee)• Two main components:
– managed collection of information resources
– coherent information environment
• Supported by – advisory services
– preservation services, etc.
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DNER: definition
“… a managed environment for accessing quality information resources on the Internet which are available from many sources.”
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DNER: aspirations
• To provide the world’s high quality information to staff and students in higher and further education at any time and anywhere.
• To be the leading innovator in UK education in the field of digital information provision of information and take an influential role in developing the UK’s learning and research agenda.
• To take a leading role in stimulating development both here and overseas.
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Context
• Incremental development– content– structures
• Under-developed consultation & market research
• ‘Information brandscape’ - incoherence• Need for systemic coherence• Need to engage with learning and teaching
c.f. Hybrid Library projects
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Global
Personal
Community
Strategic
Institutional
General information environment
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Resource spaces
“The DNER challenge is to weave rich information and learning resources in the fabric of the web.” (Lorcan Dempsey)
• A managed strategic resource• A ‘leveraged’ institutional and community
resource • A discovered resource
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Collections
• scholarly journals• monographs• textbooks • abstracts• manuscripts• maps • music scores
• still images• geospatial images • vector and numeric
data• moving picture
collections• sound collections
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Architecture
Middleware
Content/service delivery
Fusion services
Presentation
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Hybrid Library projects
Have investigated:
• Authentication (‘middleware’)
• Presentation layer
• ‘Fusion’ technologies
• Content creation
• Personalisation
DNER technical review: need to contribute
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Technical review
• Technologies– Z39.50– LDAP– OpenURLs– Other protocols / APIs– etc.
• In-house v. commercial– VDX (Fretwell-Downing)– MetaLib/SFX (Ex Libris)– WebExpress (OCLC)– etc.
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Digital Library of North Rhine Westphalia
http://www.hbz-nrw.de/DigiBib/
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National and local
• Is the DNER a national hybrid library?– Similarities of approach– Similar technologies
• Institutional and national services– National services - economy of effort, market power– Institutional ‘portal’ still required– Institutional users and national services
• Working together– DNER as service provider– DNER as service enabler...
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e.g. RDN-i
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DNER strategy
• Collection development and management
• Service delivery
• Development
• Preservation
• Communications
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Investigations
• Content mapping study – procedures, practices, actors - completed
• Collections subject mapping exercise – collections against subject benchmarks to identify gaps - being
commissioned
• Service delivery framework– pattern, governance and coherence of service - commissioned from
CHEMS
• Technical architecture– identify broad architecture and technologies - commissioned from UKOLN
• Presentation requirements– being specified
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DNER Office
DirectorLorcan Dempsey
Assistant Director Collections and communication
Alicia Wise
Assistant Director Development
(Vacant)
Assistant Director PreservationNeil Beagrie
Collections Groups
Communications Group
Programme Management / Development
Group
RDNC Resources and Admin
Group
Preservation
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Names
eLib Hybrid Library DNER
DNER: Suggestions for a new name please!