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Common challenges, common issues

Explore common issues in archival institutions and museums, highlighting goals to engage with cultural heritage and develop virtual civic presence. Learn about resource management, scholarly communication, and the role of libraries in enriching digital spaces. Discover the shift towards a recombinant library model for enhanced accessibility and interoperability.

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Common challenges, common issues

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  1. Common challenges, common issues Lorcan DempseySchool for scanningThe Hague, 16 October 2002

  2. Overview • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 I do not know an awful lot about archival institutions …. … or museums …

  3. Part one “The words of things entangle and confuse …”

  4. Goals which encourage shared activity “ • To release the value of Europe's scientific, industrial and cultural heritage in creative use by its citizens. • To engage with the cultural identities and aspirations of Europe and its peoples. • To develop practices appropriate to upholding the values and purposes of the library, archival and museum traditions in a digital environment. • To explore what it means to develop virtual civic presence. • To explore sustainable economic models which support both development and continued equitable access to the cultural heritage. ..”

  5. “ It challenges libraries to assert their public service role, to make the links with education, with cultural institutions, with public service broadcasting, and to demonstrate their real value as physical and virtual assembly places. A life-long learning agenda cannot be realised without public institutions that support equitable access to the ‘stuff’ of learning. This case needs to be made and supported by visible services, print and digital. Library values make them such institutions; they need to ensure that their practices do also. ..”

  6. “ Finally, and critically, people spend large parts of their lives in the converging network spaces of broadcasting and the Internet. Are we really saying that such spaces should lack the civilising presence of libraries, archives, museums? That libraries should not try to enrich such spaces with learning opportunity, should not disclose the history of communities there, should not support reading and access to cultural resources? ..”

  7. Part 2 “… the scene was set; it repeated what Was in the script. Then the theatre was changedTo something else. Its past was a souvenir.”

  8. Grid Books Journals Newspapers Albums Maps Scores Freely-accessible web resources Open source software Newsgroup archives • Institutional repositories • ePrints • Learning objects/materials • Research data Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & manuscripts Theses & dissertations stewardship high low low uniqueness high

  9. stewardship Scholarly communication high low low unique high Disclosure, Licensing “Special collections”

  10. Libraries becoming like …. Selective exposure Exhibition Narrative Pedagogy Unique Processing model Routine for discovery and request Content management Woods and trees Provenance and context Evidential and informational Descriptive practices Preservation and archiving Repurposing content High acronymic density stewardship high low low unique high

  11. Part 3 “It must give pleasure”

  12. The recombinant library lab books PDAs campus portal learning management systems exhibitions course materialtext book new scholarly resources shared cataloging, ILL Harvest licensed collections virtual reference Resolution Contentaggregation archiving user environments library resource environment

  13. The ‘recombinant’ library Distributed Heterogeneous Recombinant Interoperability becomes very real New organizational patterns Resource environment Distributed Heterogeneous Recombinant Interoperability becomes very real New organizational patterns User environment Resource environment

  14. Interoperability as recombinant potential Disaggregating scholarly publishing Linking, Identifiers ‘Play’ learning objects Packaged Federated searching Fusing metadata Processing content Ingesting content ‘Plugging in’ services Collectible? Examples Can I add a document to a repository? Can I add a repository to a distributed query? Can I fuse metadata from one repository with another? Can I aggregate these resources into a learning package?

  15. Libraries, archives and museums …. User environment A distributed approach Z, OAI An aggregated approach SCRAN, ArtStor, Amico, Cultural Materials Initiative, OCLC, … Proquest, Gale, … Resource environment No economies of scale The expense of learning E.g. object management; preservation services; disclosure; … • Cannot achieve the big picture on a one by one basis

  16. And … Need to move from single initiative Nsdl JISC Information environment NOF IMLS COLIS Memory of the Netherlands Recombinant organization Fragmented by Initiative Domain Country Funding regime E.g UK higher education

  17. So …

  18. Thank you …

  19. Interoperability Auth&Auth Collection description Query Resolution Harvester Terminology Archiving Discovery

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