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Digital Library Services we need/would like to offer

JISC/BL Workshop Digital Libraries and their services March 6, 2006 Richard Boulderstone Director eStrategy, The British Library. Digital Library Services we need/would like to offer. Need Comprehensive, seamless discovery and viewing of all digital items a customer is permitted to access.

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Digital Library Services we need/would like to offer

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  1. JISC/BL WorkshopDigital Libraries and their servicesMarch 6, 2006Richard BoulderstoneDirector eStrategy, The British Library

  2. Digital Library Services we need/would like to offer Need • Comprehensive, seamless discovery and viewing of all digital items a customer is permitted to access. • Across BL and other collections • In BL reading rooms and over the Internet • Sharing digital legal deposit content with other legal deposit libraries. • Long-term preservation of all items deposited. • Submission/deposit system with content validation. • Content harvesting Would Like • Host and preserve content for others. • Provide ‘value-added’ tools to help customers explore BL and other collections.

  3. Digital Library Content Streams • E-journals (Document Delivery & Legal Deposit Pilot) • Digitisation products (~20M Images) • Web archives (Initial Collection of 1,000 Sites) • ‘Hand-held’ (CD-ROM, DVD, &etc) • Sound • Digital Maps, eNewspapers, eBooks, &etc….

  4. Digital Library Mission and Vision • Our mission is to enable the United Kingdom to preserve and use its digital output forever • Our vision is to create a management system for digital objects that will: • store and preserve any type of digital material in perpetuity • provide access to this material to users with appropriate permissions • ensure that the material is easy to find • ensure that users can view the material with contemporary applications • ensure that users can, where possible, experience material with the original look-and-feel We are building a system • to handle Legal Deposit and non-Legal Deposit materials • to share Legal Deposit content with other Legal Deposit Libraries

  5. Standards & Collaboration • Digital Libraries Must Interact To Meet Customer Needs • Need Common Adopted Standards • Metadata • Persistent Identifiers • Digital Rights Management • Protocols • Some Aspects Of Digital Library Technology So Large They Require Collaboration To Share Cost & Risk • Digital Preservation • Resource Discovery • Value-added Tools

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