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The Urgency of Systems Integration. Ana Azevedo, ana@fe.up.pt Carlos Oliveira, colive@fe.up.pt Luís Costa, lmcosta@fe.up.pt Tito Vieira, tito@fe.up.pt. Determine boundaries and managing cooperation. IT centers and libraries The needed technological support and knowledge by libraries
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The Urgency of Systems Integration Ana Azevedo, ana@fe.up.pt Carlos Oliveira, colive@fe.up.pt Luís Costa, lmcosta@fe.up.pt Tito Vieira, tito@fe.up.pt
Determine boundaries and managing cooperation • IT centers and libraries • The needed technological support and knowledge by libraries • Different scenarios and schedules: • Integration or cooperation • Libraries: surviving • IT centers: efficency • Literature • USA, 1985, R. K Neff • UK, 1996, J. MacColl • France, 2000, G. Vitielo The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
God bless all googles in the world ! • Pressure from users: • to access to the information they need, in the format they want and mainly from friendly and intuitive interfaces; • to access the information in context of their work, integrated in its workflow; • to manipulate and reuse dynamic contents; • to publish and share their documents. The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Engineering Faculty • Several Systems • Faculty Information System • Pedagogical • Administrative • Archiving • Management • Library Information System • ALEPH, • GISA, • InArte, • Digitool, • Metalib • Learning Management System • Luvit • Moodle The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Engineering Faculty • Several services: • Computer Center • Information Services • Library • Archive • Museum • Publishing • Information Technology and Multimedia Communications • eLearning • Videostreaming and videoconference The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Originality of the process cooperation • There is: • no formal strategy, YET • no formal plan • a strong commitment from services involved • It ought to be: • a formal information strategy • a plan involving all services • an integrated managing process • a CLEAR understanding of user needs The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Course Readings in the eLearning Platform The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
SCORM Metadata and Content Packaging Editor CopyRight System SCORM Content Repositories Digital Library System Learning Management System 1 2 3 4 courses Metadata Adaptive Learning Annotate (LOM/OWL) Reuse and sequence (IMS SS e LD) Package (SCORM) Search (OAI-PMH) OAI - Harvesting Protocol Reusable Learning Object Authoring Guidelines Instructional Designer The eLearning Workflow @ FEUP Ontology Annotation Course Administrator The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Digital Library DigiTool http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/digitool.htm The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
LDAP Authentication and the eLearning System The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Automatic enroll the students in the course The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Update people information in Aleph • People Information in SiFEUP The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Update people information in Aleph • People: staff and students • Information exported to Aleph • Personal Info (name, address, email, etc) • Login/password (encrypted) • Reader Type (Teacher, Undergraduate Student, PhD Student, Staff, etc) The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Exporting Courses Bibliography to ALEPH • Courses Bibliography in SiFEUP • Select bibliography browsing Aleph catalogue • Links in SiFEUP directly to Aleph catalogue • Automatic insertion of acquisition requests in Aleph (EUP20) via SiFEUP • When bibliography is not found in aleph catalogue a acquisition request is issued The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004
Bibliography • MacColl, J. (1996) - Information strategies get down to business. Ariadne. • Neff, R. K. (1985) - Merging libraries and computer centers : manifest destiny or manifestly deranged? An academic services perspective. EDUCOM Bulletin. 20, 8-12, 16. • Vitiello, G. (2000) - Library policy and legislation: a European perspective (1st part). Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France, 45, 18-33. • McLean, N.; Lynch, C. (2004) - Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps. IMS/CNI Joint White Paper. The Urgency of Systems Integration IATUL Iberic Seminar 2004