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National Library of New Zealand : strategies for interoperability: metadata projects and activities Karen Rollitt Dougl

National Library of New Zealand : strategies for interoperability: metadata projects and activities Karen Rollitt Douglas Campbell. DCMI Localisation and Internationalisation Working Group Meeting, September 13, 2005, Madrid Spain. Overview National Library of NZ Frameworks and principles

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National Library of New Zealand : strategies for interoperability: metadata projects and activities Karen Rollitt Dougl

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  1. National Library of New Zealand :strategies for interoperability: metadata projects and activitiesKaren Rollitt Douglas Campbell DCMI Localisation and Internationalisation Working Group Meeting, September 13, 2005, Madrid Spain.

  2. Overview • National Library of NZ • Frameworks and principles • Projects • Activities • Future

  3. National Library of New ZealandTe Puna Mātauranga o Aoteaora • Collect, maintain, and make accessible literature and information resources that relate to New Zealand and the Pacific • Alexander Turnbull LibraryPreserve New Zealand's documentary heritage for generations to come • Develop and deliver services for schools to support teaching and learning • National Library Act 2003 mandates legal • deposit of electronic materials

  4. Frameworks and principles • Metadata Framework at National Library of New Zealand (2000) • Focus on resource discovery • Focus on interoperability • Crucial adherence to standards • Dublin Core as significant • 2004 Principles for NLNZ metadata in a collaborative environment • DC implementations must comply with DCMI • recommendations • DC terms (ISO15836) must be the common layer • Application Profiles for sector specific and local • requirements include the DC layer

  5. Projects : Discover • A database of over 2,500 multimedia items selected • for use in the Visual Arts and Music disciplines in New • Zealand schools • Pilot project for the Digital Library Programme • MARC and ISAD exported and mapped to DC and • qualified DC and also contains EAD elements and local • extensions • Expressed in XML and uses the recommended RDF • framework for DC metadata

  6. Projects : Matapihi • Contains 50,000 objects, including images, some 3-d • virtual museum objects and sound and textual items. • All are about, made created by New Zealanders, or • held in New Zealand collections • First cross sector collaborative project using DC • based metadata • 3 libraries, 1 art gallery and 1 museum • Centralised metadata repository • Skim of the DC layer of partners metadata • Expressed in XML and uses the recommended RDF • framework for DC metadata • Bilingual

  7. Aggregation of Dublin Core metadata Matapihi DC MetadataDC MetadataURL DC MetadataDC MetadataURL DC MetadataDC MetadataURL Websites DC MetadataDC MetadataURLOther MetadataOther MetadataOther MetadataOther Metadata DC MetadataDC MetadataURLOther MetadataOther MetadataOther MetadataOther Metadata DC MetadataDC MetadataURLOther MetadataOther MetadataOther MetadataOther Metadata

  8. DC RDF/XML NZGLS DRD RDF AP AdditionalData METS DC RDF/XML Metadata Conversion Engine Metadata Conversion Engine Picture Australia DC XML CROSSWALK MARC Matapihi ISAD(G) DescriptiveRecords Govt Portal Discover Digital Archive

  9. National Library Metadata Developments • DCMI Registry • @ http://dcregistry.natlib.govt.nz/dcregistry/ • dcterms in Te Reo Māori – official language of New Zealand /Aotearoa • Authorised by the New Zealand Maori Language Commission / Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo • Plans : translate element refinements, encoding schemes and vocabularies and Pacific languages

  10. National Library Metadata Developments • DCMI Affiliation • June 2005 – National Library of New Zealand, • State Services Commission and Archives New • Zealand signed DCMI affiliate agreement • Dublin Core Australia/New Zealand (DCANZ) • Promotes the use of standards based metadata in the • region • Biennial Conferences • Metamatters: • http://metabrowser.dtdns.net/dcanz2/mb.aspx

  11. National Library collaboration and interoperability in other sectors • E-Government • 2representatives on the New Zealand Government • Locator Service (NZGLS) Working Group • maintain the New Zealand standard for the creation • of discovery-level metadata in the government sector • Application profile – dcterms & AGLS (Australian • Government Locator Service) • Education • National Library delivers services to schools • Contributing to the New Zealand Education Sector Architecture Framework (ESAF) • Working on a project to develop a Core Education Sector Metadata Schema • Monitor DC-Education Working Group

  12. New Zealand’s National Digital Strategy

  13. New Zealand’s National Digital Strategy Enablers Information on Contentand where it can be accessed to enrich the quality of lives. Give Confidenceto use ICT and in a secure environment Connectingto and using ICT Agents of change information for and about Communities – tools available to access content Government – easy to use Businesses – create value and connect Creating a digital future

  14. New Zealand’s National Digital Strategy • National Library of New Zealand contribution: • Communities - deliver content to public libraries and • citizens advice bureaux through “The People’s • Network” • Continuity - Electronic legal deposit - Preserving New • Zealand’s digital heritage for future generations of • learners • Content - National Content Strategy - Includes mapping • the content landscape. E-content will be from a variety of • sources and repositories.

  15. Federated search Metadata schema Interoperability standards Infrastructure New Zealand’s National Digital StrategyNational standards-driven ICT infrastructure with high levels of interoperability and a seamless across-sector framework Continuity $24 million for digital preservation Electronic legal deposit ContentMatapihi, EPIC, Te Ara. Asset mapping, elearning, egovernment, ehealth, elaw, eresearch, etc Connection Libraries of NZ “The People’s Network” Skilling New Zealand

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