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International Digital Libraries Initiative – JISC , NSF Six projects

International Digital Libraries Initiative – JISC , NSF Six projects Call 1998 – projects completed 2002 some 2003. Aims. Enabling easier access to digital resources regardless of format or place – use in education, research and industry

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International Digital Libraries Initiative – JISC , NSF Six projects

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  1. International Digital Libraries Initiative – JISC , NSF Six projects Call 1998 – projects completed 2002 some 2003.

  2. Aims • Enabling easier access to digital resources regardless of format or place – use in education, research and industry • Methods and standards for long term interoperability between distributed db • Preserving and organising domain specific content • Technology driven but with softer human issues still being relevant

  3. Projects • CAMiLEON – digital preservation ( Leeds / Michigan) • Cross Domain Resource Discovery – Cheshire information retrieval ( Liverpool / Berkeley) • Harmony- metadata multi-media resource discovery (Bristol, ILRT /Cornell ) • IMesh – toolkit for subject gateways ( Bath, UKOLN / Wisconsin) • OMRAS – music audio retrieval (King’s College London, City / Massachusetts) • OpCit – navigation of scientific papers, citation linking ( Southampton/Cornell)

  4. Lessons • The course of research based work can significantly change – probably knew that already • Responsiveness is needed to keep up with technology- keeping up has positive results • Selecting high profile exemplars can help change perception • Collaboration has pros and cons – the pros outweigh the cons?

  5. Lessons • Research CAN lead to practical solutions for the community, but developing a model to support this can be hard • Supporting project outputs can also be difficult • Technical innovation does have cultural impact

  6. Outputs • Awareness of digital preservation • New methods of digital preservation • Feeding into a national service – Digital Curation Centre • Contributed to the emergence of a new multi-disciplinary research domain • Development of polyphonic search and retrieval techniques and software to support this • An open source standards compliant information retrieval software and tools • A component solution for distributed information architectures (currently supporting other JISC projects and services) • A solution to multimedia ‘metadata wars’ – DC and educational metadata? • Tools to help with complex metadata modelling in digital libraries

  7. Outputs • A toolkit to help implement portals and subject gateways for personalisation, and annotation of records, web services solutions for creation and management of user profiles. • Research and solutions covering RDF,SOAP,SQL,OAI • A search service based on citation linking – implemented at Los Alamos but is more widely applicable, Citebase • E prints open source software for creating OAI compliant institutional archives • A lot!

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