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Collaborative Collecting in Scotland

Collaborative Collecting in Scotland. Current state of play: Conspectus, CATRIONA, RCO, CAIRNS, SCONE, SEED, CC-Interop, HaIRST - but mainly SPEIR IFLA 2003, Berlin Dennis Nicholson, Director, Centre for Digital Library Research, Glasgow, Scotland. Additional Comment. Scope of talk:

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Collaborative Collecting in Scotland

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  1. Collaborative Collecting in Scotland Current state of play: Conspectus, CATRIONA, RCO, CAIRNS, SCONE, SEED, CC-Interop, HaIRST - but mainly SPEIR IFLA 2003, Berlin Dennis Nicholson, Director, Centre for Digital Library Research, Glasgow, Scotland

  2. Additional Comment • Scope of talk: • Collaborative collecting • Mechanisms to support and facilitate • Collection, Collection Strength metadata • Use of this in collaborative collecting and user navigation and landscaping • Acronyms: • A necessary evil • Just labels for projects, groups • Brief descriptions as we go • URL at end for more information

  3. Scottish CC Timeline… • 1980s Conspectus exercise • 1991 - : BUBL, BUBL Subject Tree • 1994 CATRIONA Model: • “It is likely that internet opacs will be categorised according to their subject strengths and that users will be able to search … for records of other opacs strong on a particular subject category” • 1995 – RCO – Conspectus-based web service – guiding users to distributed subject collections – individual web and telnet catalogues if available

  4. Scottish CC Timeline… • 1999 – CAIRNS – Z39.50 – RCO and dynamic landscaping –- cross-searching distributed subject collection landscapes • 2000/02 – SCONE and SEED – SCONE collections service - Public Libraries - Conspectus alternatives – embryonic SCAMP staff collections portal • 2002/2004 CC-Interop (Riding Clone, Landscaping beyond Scotland, SCAMP development)

  5. Scottish CC Timeline… • 2002/05 – HaIRST (OAI, SCAMP, collaborative collecting) • 2003/04 – SPEIR – Draws the threads together within a pilot co-operative infrastructure; Incorporates a collaborative Scottish Distributed Digital Library; Recognises the key role of collection level description in collaborative collection management, resource discovery, portal management

  6. What is SPEIR? • Some answers: • Scottish Portals for Education, Information, and Research • Scots for ‘to ask’ or ‘to enquire’ • Funded by the Scottish Library and Information Council as an adjunct to the Scottish Cultural Portal Pilot; co-operative infrastructure to support this and other portals • Backed by key players in Scotland through the Confederation of Scottish Mini-Cooperatives (COSMIC)

  7. SPEIR ‘bits’ • Build on CAIRNS, SCONE, SCAMP, dynamic landscaping; HaIRST integration with CAIRNS • Bring in Public Libraries, FE, Cultural ‘Players’ • Central support services for distributed portals – particularly Scottish Cultural Portal but aim is generic support (GDL, NLS also one key here) • Scottish Distributed Digital Library: • Collaborative cataloguing through Connexion • Collaborative collecting through SCAMP • CAIRNS, SCONE navigation

  8. SPEIR ‘bits’ • Dynamic landscaping of various kinds – e.g. for different users, different badging • Terminologies pilot requirements • CoSMiC dimensions (groups) • Interoperability Focus for Scotland • Identification of digital and non-digital collections relevant to the Cultural Portal and SCONE • Pilot for a more developed form of the current Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure

  9. Co-operative Infrastructure Various user nodes CAIRNS cross searchable catalogue with landscaping mechanism driven by collections database SCONE collections database with staff CCM tools/ landscape control --- Future SCAN integration? COSMIC co-ordinates: Our Portal various activities including: Other Portals Metadata Issues: Items, Collections Joint R&D Plan So we can all join in CORC CCCG

  10. Projected Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure: Feb. ‘03 Various user nodes Portal Support ‘Global’ links: Cross domain Scone; SCAN; Museums Resource + JISC IE LOOK CERL Support Services COSMIC co-ordination: CAIRNS Interoperability & Standards CoSMiC Task Group Cultural Portal SCONE HaIRST Connexion Regional, Sectoral, SI Groups GDL-like Portals SDDL SCAMP(2) Pub-Lib Portals Online LIS Support via SLAINTE/BUBL Mini-clump Joint R&D Plan SCAMP(1) etc: Sapiens Authentication Terminologies Scotslink; WIDWISAWN Other Portals NLS SLIC

  11. Why? • Users increasingly use and need distributed resources and finding tools, so co-operation is now essential as well as desirable • Distributed networked collections need collaborative management • Coherent distributed virtual ‘libraries’ won’t just happen – we must co-operate to manage retrieval and user environments • Institutional and other boundaries are becoming a barrier to providing what users need

  12. Further Information • CDLR Website; Click on projects • http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ or • http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects.html • My email address: • d.m.nicholson@strath.ac.uk

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