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Xgrain in Context: the JOIN-UP Programme

Programme Directors: Anne Bell (Kings College, London) for Docusend Peter Burnhill (EDINA) for X-grain & ZBLSA Malcolm Smith (British Library) for ZETOC. Xgrain in Context: the JOIN-UP Programme. Why Link?. Distributed National Electronic Resource (A concept being re-named) envisaged as:

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Xgrain in Context: the JOIN-UP Programme

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  1. Programme Directors: Anne Bell (Kings College, London) for Docusend Peter Burnhill (EDINA) for X-grain & ZBLSA Malcolm Smith (British Library) for ZETOC Xgrain in Context: the JOIN-UP Programme

  2. Why Link? Distributed National Electronic Resource (A concept being re-named) envisaged as: “A managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on the Internet which are available from many sources.” • navigation aid • adds value to content • increases use of content: • good for publishers and subscribing institutions

  3. Four User Verbs • discover information object of interest e.g. an article found in an Abstract & Index databases (eg BIOSIS, INSPEC etc) or cited at the foot of an article • locate a service offering the article e.g. a service giving electronic access to the full text of the article, or one’s own library having the volume on a shelf nearby • request use of service via payment of money or privilege of membership: involves authorisation and authentication • access (service on) object of interest i.e. consult article via online access (and print-out), personal visit or document delivery verbs based on MODELS workshops (UKOLN/JISC eLib)

  4. JOIN-UP: a JISC 5/99 Cluster four projects:Docusend, Xgrain, ZBLSA & ZETOC • focus on the infrastructure to link the discovery and location of journal articles and the like • lead partners: King’s College London, EDINA, British Library • initially conceived as four separate projects • three as proposals to the JISC 5/99 Call to create infrastructure for JISC DNER • now ‘closely-clustered’ as JOIN-UP Programme • working together to create the DNER infrastructure for journal articles & the like

  5. From the JOIN-UP Vision ... • empower users to use e-info more effectively through ‘flat-seamed’ progression from discovery to access • allow a variety of entry points while maintaining ‘flat-seamed’ service • guarantee equity of provision through coverage of wide range of info domains and disciplines ……….. • be a truly collaborative venture • adopt common standards to assist technical and strategic interoperability of the component projects • contribute towards the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the DNER by reducing wasteful duplication and sharing expertise

  6. subject portal etc. A&I ToC union lists OPAC e-ToC ILL, pay-per-view, other commercial transaction authorisation/authentication Other holdings (libraries, aggregators, publishers) Free (archive) services local holdings e-subscriptions local/remote physical/online print/ e-text direct/document delivery Tools for the User Verbs discover locate request access

  7. Four JOIN-UP Projects • two initially conceived as ‘end-to-end’ services for document delivery • Docusend: integrating document delivery services • ZETOC: use of electronic table of contents, to alert & then to link to article delivery service • two ‘functional brokers’: discover & locate • Xgrain: cross-searching A&I plus ToC databases with needs/habits of students in mind • ZBLSA: Z39.50 lightweight broker locating services on articles

  8. Docusend • provide locate, request and deliver functionality • link document delivery to a number of JISC initiatives • develop capability as national gateway for document delivery requests • via broker • via other locate and request services • deliver journal articles in electronic format wherever possible • user community: • initially library staff involved in document delivery • end users (subject to feasibility test) anne.bell@kcl.ac.uk

  9. ZBLSA - a ‘locate’ project Z39.50 (lightweight) Broker Locating Services on Articles • aim: to investigate what is required of a locate broker for services on articles • objective: to deliver a pilot facility during 2001 that meets needs of portals in the DNER • input: reference to article + information on requester • activity: locate services on article • output: list of services ‘appropriate’ to requester

  10. ZBLSA - a ‘Lightweight Locate Broker’ ZBLSA will not • hold holdings information • hold subscription information • get involved in authorisation or authentication ZBLSA will • aim to query services on articles • on what they hold • who subscribes to establish whether service is appropriate • get the requester (user) in touch with the appropriate service(s) based on result of query

  11. ZETOC • enhance Z39.50 interface to BL’s ETOC data • provide set of enriched alerting services based on BL’s ETOC • provide document ordering from the interface • provide variety of document delivery options • integrate BL within the DNER • user community: intermediates & end users in UK HE • development plans based on consultation with groups such as SCURL, specific focus groups and market research bob.aspey@bl.ac.uk

  12. Docusend, Xgrain, ZBLSA in the DNER

  13. Distributed National Electronic Resource

  14. more at http://edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/

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