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Distributed digital libraries infrastructure in Poland. Adam Dudczak, Cezary Mazurek , Marcin Werla. EDLocal Kick-off meeting, London, UK, 26.06.2008. PSNC Activities. Operator of Poznań Metropolitan Area Network POZMAN Operator of Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER
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Distributed digital libraries infrastructure in Poland Adam Dudczak, Cezary Mazurek, Marcin Werla EDLocal Kick-off meeting, London, UK, 26.06.2008
PSNC Activities • Operator of Poznań Metropolitan Area Network POZMAN • Operator of Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER • HPC Centerwith Systems and Network Security Center • Research and Development Center
GÉANT 10+10 Gb/s GÉANT/TELIA 2x2,5 Gb/s TELIA 5 Gb/s
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT • New Generation Networks • Distributed Computing • Portals and Content Management • Security
PSNC Activities related to digital libraries • First works started in 1996 • dLibra Digital Library Framework (since 1999) • Digital Library of Wielkopolska (since 2002) • Annual workshop „Digital Libraries” (since 2004) • National research project „Mechanisms of atomic services for distributed digital libraries” (2006 - 2008) • Digital Libraries Federation (since 2007) • eContentPlus project ENRICH (2007-2009) • eContentPlus project EDLocal (2008-2011)
dLibra Digital Library Framework • First Polish software for building digital libraries • Developed since 1999, ver. 4.0 since January 2008 • Currently the most popular digital library software in Poland • About 30 deployments, used by over 200 of institutions • Built in Java with service-oriented architecture • Compatible with OAI-PMH, RSS, RDF etc. • Supports coordination of digitization • ……… http://dlibra.psnc.pl/
Digital Library of Wielkopolska • Regional digital library with resources related to history and culture of the Wielkopolska region, valuable cultural heritage materials and scientific publications • Available since Oct 2002 • The largest digital library in Poland with more than 60 000 digital objects grouped in thematic collections • 200 000 visitors and 2.5 mln hits each month • Maintained by PSNC and Poznań Foundation of Scientific Libraries http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/
Annual workshop „Digital Libraries” • Annual national meetings of librarians, computer scientists and other people interested in digital libraries • Over 50 participants each year • 2 or 3 days of presentations, tutorials and discussions about digital libraries in national and international context • Also a meeting of dLibra software users – great opportunity for feedback and discussion on the directions of dLibra development
National research project „Mechanisms of atomic services…” • Research project funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education • Main goals: • Functional analysis of digital libraries systems and models • Division of digital library functionality into several atomic services • Design of data model and REST communication protocols for defined services • Design of discovery, composition, monitoring and management mechanism for defined services • Sample applications
Digital Libraries Federation • Next level of distributed digital libraries infrastructure in Poland • Central service maintained by PSNC, available since June 2007 • Harvests Dublin Core metadata from all OAI-PMH compatible Polish digital libraries • Currently holds metadata of over 145 000 digital objects from 20 digital libraries http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/
Digital Libraries Federation • Harvested metadata is the basis for advanced services available in the federation: • Search in the metadata of digitized objects and objects planned for digitization • Resolution of unique OAI identifiers of digital objects • Automated coordination of digitization • Report with objects planned for digitization • Automated duplicates detection mechanism • Mechanism for avoiding duplicated digitization efforts • Statistics on the harvested metadata
Digital Libraries Federation • Ease of use and promotion of Polish digital resources • Mini search-box embeddable in any web site or blog • Mini search-box as iGoogle gadget • OpenSearch plugin for web browsers • Built-in in the official Polish release of Firefox 3
eContentPlus project ENRICH • European Networking Resources and Information concerning Cultural Heritage • Main aim: to create seamless access to distributed information about manuscripts and rare old printed books in Europe on the Manuscriptorium platform • 18 partners, 24 months, coordinated by the National Library of Czech Republic http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/
Thank you Cezary: mazurek@man.poznan.pl Adam: maneo@man.poznan.pl Marcin: mwerla@man.poznan.pl http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/ http://dlibra.psnc.pl/