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A Service For the Nation

A Service For the Nation. Ari Rouvari 16. - 17.8.2004 Pedase, Vihterpalu. Information retrieval portals Services Nelli, National Electronic Library Interface The Finnish consortia model A little demo Usability Interoperability Development projects. TOPICS.

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A Service For the Nation

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  1. A Service For the Nation Ari Rouvari 16. - 17.8.2004 Pedase, Vihterpalu

  2. Information retrieval portals Services Nelli, National Electronic Library Interface The Finnish consortia model A little demo Usability Interoperability Development projects TOPICS

  3. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PORTALSWHY? • a lot of heterogenius resources • For example in Finland (FinELib) • 14 500 ejournals • Over 175 databases • A lot of library catalogues • Library systems - we need something more • How to organize • How to use

  4. DEFINITION by Marc Carden A common interface that allows users to access library-owned resources and library-accessible resources.

  5. DEFINITION BY ELAG A LIBRARY portal is an application which allows one-stop-shop access/searching and discovery via a unified single-point interface to organized heterogeneous resources and enabling services to a pre-defined community (users)

  6. DEFINITION BY JISC • Technically, a portal is a network service that brings together content from diverse distributed resources using technologies such as cross searching, harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an aggregated form for presentation to the user, usually via a website

  7. Services and characters • organizing • metasearching • display • authentication • authorization • tailoring • personalization • OpenURL linking • Standard interfaces

  8. Visions and aims • one-stop-shop • single-sign-on • One search, all services • easy to use • Centralized maintaining & management • One server for the entire nation • Local user interfaces • tailoring • Local services • Collaborative development of services Keep it simple stupid!

  9. FinELib • acquires resources. • negotiates user-rights agreements • University Libraries (20) • Libraries of polytechnics (31) • Research Libraries (35) • Municipal Libraries (21)

  10. CUSTOMERS OF NELLI Entire Finland • 20 university libraries (2004) • 30 polytechnics (2005) • (450) public libraries (2005) 20 regional libraries • research lib. (later)

  11. The Value Chain of Digital Library Services Acquiring of digital resources FinELib Digitisation of cultural heritage Mikkeli Archiving of digital resources User interface

  12. ”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF Portal 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX) • user interface / Authentication • metasearch • linking resolver & access restriction 2. Library system (Voyager) • description metadata 3. Document archive(Encompass) • technical metadata • repository Standard-base, standard interfaces • openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc ZING Z39.50 Document archive library system OpenURL

  13. NELLI • Metalib portal software, by ExLibris • SFX OpenURL resolver • by Exlibris • One server (SF 4800) • local user interfaces • local services

  14. USABILITY CASE STUDIES • Amsterdam university • Two test groups • Loughborough University,(Stubbings and Hamblin,2004). • promising trend in the use of libraries’ information • the use of databases rose by 609% over the previous year. • Zetoc rose by 1,385% & SportDiscus by 1,207%. • not cross-searchable saw an increase in usage, for example, • ICEA went up by 225% and ANES by 36%.

  15. QUICKSEARCH

  16. FIND RESOURCES

  17. Centralized tasks: co-ordinating the project implementing / maintaining updating SFX/Metalib SFX activiting instructions configuration files (Metalib) descriptions of resources user interfaces (multi-languages) Development of services Local tasks: Authentication Activating SFX-targets Copying of conf. Files Copying of descriptions Local tailoring Local services training Nelli-portal in consortia environment

  18. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) 2. Remote authentication hook CGI-program Shibboleth esay-to-use Secure Standard base Authentication & authorization • IP address ranges • Shibboleth ?

  19. Shibboleth authentication Home campus Nelli-portal 2. Auth. starts 1. select home campus Shibboleth origin site Shibboleth target site = proxy 3. Auth. OK login & password 4. Attribute request remote authenticationCGI-hook 5. Response attr: email address LDAP directory

  20. Shibboleth authorization (vision) target dbs cross-search Nelli-portal Home campus Attribute Authority Attribute query SFX-target: ejournal database SFX Resolver Handle service Attribute resonse / pass on attributes Authentication

  21. ”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF Portal 1. The portal (Metalib/SFX) • user interface / Authentication • metasearch • linking resolver & access restriction 2. Library system (Voyager) • description metadata 3. Document archive(Encompass) • technical metadata • repository Standard-base, standard interfaces • openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc ZING Z39.50 Document archive library system OpenURL

  22. one scenario: digital music collection (legal deposit copies) Nelli-portal Search interface OpenUrl Z39.50 SFX-resolver digital archive access control digital objects special metadata restrict access by collections records Linnea-library system Target database OpenUrl

  23. THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Australian Libraries Gateway Scottish Collections Network, SCONE Describe DCCD application Evaluate Conspectus method

  24. USER INTERFACE FETISHISM Nelli-portal: • Local interfaces • Regional interfaces • National interfaces Library system • OPACs Document archive More is better? Customer oriented way

  25. INTEROPERABILITY WITH • Institutional portals /university portals Integration with elearning systems Instructors • Define reading list • Define searches • Define resources End users • Use reading list • Use pre-defined searches Goal: Anywhere, any time

  26. CONCLUSION

  27. FOCUS ON… The Needs of the customers Information literacy Open Access Librarians should support free Information Creative & innovative staff

  28. …professionals? Tänan Tähelepanu eest!

  29. Technical environment • Sun Fire 4800 and Solaris-OS • Software: Apache, MySQL, Oracle • Technical maintenance (patches in OS, all the backups) by CSC, the Finnish IT center for science • Connecting to the Funet Backbone Network

  30. + Applications/softwares + ExLibris help desk + Management tools + SFX, it’s magic + SFX KDB + Exlibris attidute - multi-language - Consortia model - Usability/ Quick search - Ejournal tool - Metalib statistics Strenghts & Weaknesses

  31. Nelli staff Ari, co-ordinating Tiina, technical issues mr/mrs X, services The Portal team (9) local project managers (20) local trainers (10) Nelli organization The Triangle team document archive Portal team LS-team

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