DLF Aquifer: Bringing Collections to Light - Digital Library ...
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Panel <strong>to</strong>pics• <strong>DLF</strong> <strong>Aquifer</strong> and– ORE– Service Framework• American Social His<strong>to</strong>ry Online– Project goals and status– Determining high-level functional requirements forAmerican Social His<strong>to</strong>ry Online– Metadata levels of adoption and adding collections05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 2
<strong>Aquifer</strong> and other initiatives• ORE– Tim Cole (UIUC/<strong>Aquifer</strong> TWG) <strong>DLF</strong> <strong>Aquifer</strong>liaison <strong>to</strong> ORE– <strong>Aquifer</strong> as an ORE testbed• Service Framework– Geneva Henry working with SWG– <strong>Aquifer</strong> implements service expressions05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 3
American Social His<strong>to</strong>ry Online• Funding for <strong>DLF</strong> <strong>Aquifer</strong> Development forInteroperability Across Scholarly Reposi<strong>to</strong>ries: AmericanSocial His<strong>to</strong>ry Online approved by Mellon board inMarch 2007– Interoperability/Middleware layer development– Integration of collections in<strong>to</strong> local environments• Course management system• Portal with link <strong>to</strong> citation management• Commercial search service• Federated search– User studies/end user engagement05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 4
Research possibilities• Migration S<strong>to</strong>ries: Aggregating RegionalS<strong>to</strong>ries <strong>to</strong> Tell National S<strong>to</strong>ries• New Research: Reconsidering MajorQuestions through Broad Access <strong>to</strong>Resources• Interdisciplinary Study: A Wider View05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 5
The collections• Early pro<strong>to</strong>type showed last year includessix collections from three librarieshttp://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aquifer/• Additional collections added recently withmore <strong>to</strong> come• Collection desiderata list includes ~90additional collections from ~10 additionallibraries05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 6
Designing for scholars• Business analyst/assessment expert key positionfor grant work• Core team lead and liaison <strong>to</strong> local implementers• Functional requirements come from servicedefinitions• Assessment a critical activity– Does the software work?– Is the collection concept valid?05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 7
Measuring value <strong>to</strong> scholars• Does the <strong>DLF</strong> <strong>Aquifer</strong> concept move usalong the path <strong>to</strong> interoperability?• Are themed collections useful?• Do the local scenarios represent wherescholars work?• Does other content (e.g. commercialcollections, Google books) need <strong>to</strong> beintegrated for maximum value?05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 8
Distributed core team with closeties <strong>to</strong> working groups• Tom Habing (UIUC) Developer• Kat Hagedorn (Michigan) Data analyst• Susan Harum (UIUC) Businessanalyst/assessment expert• Chick Markley (Berkeley) Systemsarchitect/analyst05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 9
MODS Levels of Adoption• Allows users <strong>to</strong> cite the resource. Minimum forparticipation; <strong>Aquifer</strong> will not harvest otherwise• Allows users <strong>to</strong> perform basic searches andfiltering. Minimum for doing anything useful withharvested records• Allows users <strong>to</strong> browse and group search results.Facilitates more advanced functionality• Allows users <strong>to</strong> perform more precise searches.Adopt all required guidelines (and somerecommended)• Allows users <strong>to</strong> effectively evaluate resources.Completely adopt all recommendations05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 10
Organizational challenges <strong>to</strong> <strong>Aquifer</strong>participation• Many collections outside of <strong>Aquifer</strong> scope• Lack of time/money/staff <strong>to</strong> perform neededwork• Buy-in from collection managers notinvolved with the initiative• Competing for precious time fromdevelopers and systems staff05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 11
Other <strong>to</strong>ols needed for metadatapreparation• FAQ page• Crosswalks (conceptual and XSLT)• On-site training and consultation• “Report card” on guidelines compliance• OAI Static Reposi<strong>to</strong>ry Gateway• Tools for creation of native MODS records• Metadata remediation <strong>to</strong>ols05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 12
Questions? comments?Katherine Kott kkott@diglib.orgJennifer Vinopal vinopal@nyu.eduJenn Riley jenlrile@indiana.eduhttp://www.diglib.org/aquifer/05/31/07<strong>DLF</strong> Spring Forum 2007 13