Cultural Heritage Projects Bundesamtsgebäude Wien, June 30, 2000 Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus Dr. Heike Neuroth Lower Saxony State and University

Cultural Heritage ProjectsBundesamtsgebäude Wien, June 30, 2000

Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus

Dr. Heike NeurothLower Saxony State and University Library

Göttingen, Germany (SUB)

[email protected]

www.renardus.orgwww.renardus.org

Cultural Heritage Projects, 30.06.00

General• Renardus is funded through the Information

Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a User-friendly Information Society'. This is a major theme of the European Union's 5th Framework Programme.

• European project with 12 partners from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France and Germany

• Project started in January 2000• Duration: 30 months (until June 2002)


Project Partners• Coordinator:

– Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)

• Participants:– Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France)

– Center for Scientific Computing, Finland (CSC)

– Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany (DDB)

– Finnish Virtual Library Project, Jyväskylä University Library, Finland (JyU)

– Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Univ. of Bristol, UK (ILRT)

– NetLab, Lund University, Sweden (NetLab)


Project Partners cont.• Participants:

– Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany (SUB)

– Technical Knowledge Centre and Library of Denmark (DTV)

– UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK (UKOLN)

– Viikki Science Library, University of Helsinki, Finland (ALUH)

– Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information, Germany (ZADI)


Subject Gateways• DEF fagportal (project status)• DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service• FVL: The Finnish Virtual Library• Les Signets: Collection of Internet Resources• RDN: Resource Discovery Network (EEVL, SOSIG, OMNI etc.)• SSG-FI: MathGuide, Geo-Guide, History Guide, Anglistik Guide• NOVAGate: Libraries of Nordic Agricultural & Veterinary Univ.• DAINet: German Agricultural Information System• EELS: Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden• Document Server DEPOSIT: Deposit of German Online Dissertations


Subject Gateways: Definition• Quality controlled Subject Gateways and Resource Discovery

Broker Systems, target audience is predominantly higher education and academic research communities across Europe:– Selection and collection developmentSelection and collection development (human intellectual effort, certain

policy with regard to collection development, documented selection criteria)– Collection managementCollection management (maintaining or improving the level of quality of

the collection, certain policy with regard to maintenance)

– Resource descriptionResource description (all selected resources are described according to a fixed and documented metadata set, metadata are structured in well-defined semantic fields to enable structured searching)

– Subject classificationSubject classification (all resources are indexed according to a subject classification scheme in order to enable subject browsing)


Goals• to improve access to existing academic subject gateway

services in Europe• to develop a 'broker' service that will allow integrated

searching and browsing of distributed resource collections

• to develop models for sharing metadata, agreement on technical solutions and other standards

developing a pilot system for a fully-functional service


Work Packages (WP1)

The project is structured into a number of 'areas' of work or 'work packages‘:

• WP1: Functional model - UKOLNWP1: Functional model - UKOLN– will develop the architecture that will underpin the

Renardus system– will provide the functional and data model specifi-cations

of the broker system (together with WP 6) and produce a scoping document for the pilot service


Work Packages (WP2, WP3)• WP2: Design and implementationWP2: Design and implementation - DTV

– will build the Renardus pilot system (will be based on the architectural model specified in WP1 and on the data model and data flow specified in WP6)

• WP3: Organisational infrastructureWP3: Organisational infrastructure - KB– will develop organisational structures (e.g. roles and

responsibiltities of the participants, tasks and procedures relating the service etc.)

• for the management of the Renardus service • and for collaboration between the participants (will include the

requirements and rules for participation)


Work Packages (WP4)

• WP4: Service provisionWP4: Service provision - KB– will set up a test-bed environment, based on the pilot

system, in order to permit • beta-testing by partners (WP2),

• evaluation by end users (WP5),

• verification by extension with other gateways (WP5),

• and experiments for data sharing and multi-linguality (WP7)

– will provide a full documentation of the service


Work Packages (WP5)

• WP5: Verification and evaluationWP5: Verification and evaluation - JyU– will evaluate the pilot broker system by user group– verification of the generic model and the pilot system

by extending it to at least one other gateway service – further verification of procedures for the management,

maintenance and the availability of the service


Work Packages (WP6)• WP6: Data model and data flowWP6: Data model and data flow - SUB

– will facilitate data exchange and the cross-searching of metadata

– will develop a strategy for building consistent views on scientific and cultural resource collections across Europe

– will then develop a data model and data flow for the broker system that is coherent with the functional/ architectural model of WP1 and the technical standards specifications from WP2


Work Packages (WP7)• WP7: Data interoperabilityWP7: Data interoperability - SUB

– the extent of data-interoperability achieved during the project duration is necessarily restricted, but the data model developed by WP6 furnishes the basic framework within which further work on data-interoperability can be carried out. WP7 is taking this work one step further. It will focus on two main issues:

• metadata sharing

• and multi-linguality


Work Packages (WP8)

• WP8: Business issuesWP8: Business issues - UKOLN– will review the business issues which may impact

architectural and design issues– will review business models of subject gateway

activity amongst Renardus partners– and will survey the sustainability of a central broker

service approach, results will feed into the Technical Implementation Plan


Work Packages (WP9)

• WP9: Dissemination and supportWP9: Dissemination and support - ILRT– to disseminate information about the project, its

objectives, the collaborative approach and the results– to promote the use of the broker service by end users– and to enrol new participant services for the Renardus

broker at the end of the project– will support project partners as participants in

Renardus by disseminating clear guidelines and requirements documents


Work Packages (WP10)

• WP10: Project managementWP10: Project management - KB– will ensure that the project meets its objectives within

budget and scheduled time limits– to this end it will monitor progress made, track

deliverables and report back to the consortium– will also report to the EU (is responsibe for

management and progress reports, costs statements and the final project report to the EU)

Documents

Cultural Heritage Projects Bundesamtsgebäude Wien, June 30, 2000 Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus Dr. Heike Neuroth Lower Saxony State and University