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The Indonesian Digital Library Network is Born to Struggle with

the Digital Divide

Ismail Fahmi < ismail@itb.ac.id >Knowledge Management Research

Group ITB

ASIST Annual Conference3-7 November 2001, Washington DC

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Acknowledgement

Funding: IDRC, International Development Research

Centre (Canada) YLTI, Yayasan Litbang Telekomunikasi dan

Informatika (Indonesia)Support in-kind: Central Library ITB AI3/ITB, Asian Internet Interconnection

Initiatives CNRG, Computer Network Research Group

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Agenda

Where is Indonesia? Motivation Strategies Activities Results Future direction You can help developing countries !

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About Indonesia

O ACPTUNSYIAH

O JBPTITBPP

O IJPTUNCEN

O JBPTIPBMMA O JIPTUMMO JKPKBPPKO JKPKELNUSAO JKPKFORLINKO JKPNPNRIO JKPTBINUSO JKUNUAJ

O SAPTUNSRAT

O SGPTUNHALU

O YOPTIAIN

> 3000 islands !

BALI

BandungJakarta

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Current Condition

Few new books at libraries. Few journals subscription. So that, libraries unable to provide

good information resources. Internet access ? Java island is information rich

(enough) compared to other islands.

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Motivation

By bridging people (from digital & space divide) and utilizing the LOCAL KNOWLEDGE,

Indonesian people will able to improve their literacy.

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Problems

Their knowledge is locked Digital and space divide Telecommunication infrastructure is

very limited and expensive Computer literacy is low

Inhabitants: 210 million

O ACPTUNSYIAH

O JBPTITBPP

O IJPTUNCEN

O JBPTIPBMMA O JIPTUMMO JKPKBPPKO JKPKELNUSAO JKPKFORLINKO JKPNPNRIO JKPTBINUSO JKUNUAJ

O SAPTUNSRAT

O SGPTUNHALU

O YOPTIAIN

Mission

Unlock !

Unlock ACCESS to the Indonesian knowledge

What we need?

We need SOLUTION. Not state of the art of technology, but a Regional Technology.

Able to run on narrow bandwidth and unreliable connections.

Familiar User Interface. Attract individual and institution

(knowledge producers) to share knowledge.

Ease and cheap of implementation and integration.

Strategies (Society)

Establish a community (IndonesiaDLN) of knowledge sharing

Type of partner: Institution, Individual, and Internet Café.

Promote sub-networks: I.e. health, agriculture, human rights, etc.

Bottom-up approach License: GPL it !

Strategies (Technical)

Networked: through a national networked digital library

Distributed: every institutions can manage their own digital library system

Unified: all knowledge will be unified Disseminated: all knowledge will be

disseminated (mirrored), bring information near to the users.

Standardized: using international acknowledged metadata standard (Dublin Core)

What we share?

Information: abstract and full content of the LOCAL CONTENT.

Including: Research report Final Project, Theses, Dissertation Article, paper, proceeding, journal E-book, e-learning material, course material Clipping, Heritage, Multimedia, expertise

directory, etc. In the form of: document, audio, image,

and video files.

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Activities

Develop Software (technical): Ganesha Digital Library (GDL)

Establish Community (society): The Indonesian Digital Library Network

(IndonesiaDLN)

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Ganesha Digital Library

Web-based application Client-server (GDL Network) Open-source/free software Edition:

Personal Internet café Institution

Architecture of the Network

Key:-Standard Metadata-Protocol

There are a hub and many digital library servers.

IndonesiaDLN Interoperability Metadata Std. Objective: to manage electronic

resources (documents, audio, video files) on the Internet among the digital library networks.

Dublin Core Metadata Element Sets Simple, multipurpose Widely used

IndonesiaDLN Interoperability Metadata Std was derived from NDLTD Metadata Std (also based on Dublin Core).

Example: Metadata in XMLMetadata is formatted into XML before exchanged among the digital library servers.

All digital library servers in IndonesiaDLN should use the IndonesiaDLN Interoperability Metadata Standard. Currently is version 1.1.

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Metadata storage

Metadata is stored in database. XML is used only for

synchronization.

Identifier

Every metadata will be recognized from its IDENTIFIER.

Identifier is unique within IndonesiaDLN. It contains the following information:

Publisher ID Digital Library Network ID Type of the electronic resources Year of creation Creator Record number, and Content theme

Example of Identifier

jbpeismail-gdl-res-2001-ismail-11-idrc

Publisher IDDigital Library Network IDType of the electronic resourcesYear of creationCreatorRecord number, andContent theme

Benefit: Entering URL containing the identifier to any digital library servers will show the same metadata content.Example:

http://digilib.xxx.xxx/go.php?id= jbpeismail-gdl-res-2001-ismail-11-idrc

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The Synchronization Protocol

Items to be synchronized: Metadata Files (optional) Publisher information Membership information

The Synchronization Services (1/2) Using the services of:

HTTP (operational) Real time transaction Good for reliable connection

Post office :-) Burned into CD-ROM Takes days or weeks Good for no internet connection at all

Protocol: Currently using IndonesiaDLN specific protocol, which is similar with the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) Protocol.

The Synchronization Services (2/2)

Data ProviderLOCAL

Service ProviderHUB

metadata, file

metadata

PUT protocolrequests:- PutMetadata- ListMyIdentifiers- DeleteMetadata- PutFileFragment- MergeFileFragment- PutMembers

GET protocolrequests:- ListIdentifiers- GetMetadata- GetPublishers

AUTHENTICATIONprotocol requests:- Connect- Disconnect- GetMemberInfo

authentication

Metadata are:- sent from LOCAL to HUB server and,- downloaded from HUB to LOCAL server,

through the synchronization services.

Optionally, the files also can be sent from LOCAL to HUB.

There are 3 groups of requests: Authentication, PUT, and GET.

GDL-NetworkGDL-Network

IndonesiaDLNHUB

institusiwarnet

personal

Other DLNetwork

OtherGDL-HUB

IndonesiaDLN

GDL-Network

GDL-NetworkGDL-Network

institusiwarnet

personal

GDL-HUB

ITB

RSHS

Unsyiah

UMM

Binus

UAJ

IPB

Salman

Depkes

Scenario of Sharing & Replication

GDL-NetworkGDL-Network

institusiwarnet

personal

GDL-HUB

ITB

RSHS

Unsyiah

UMM

Binus

UAJ

IPB

Salman

Depkes

Share

Replication

Replication

Replication

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How it looks like?

Demo of Personal Digital Library Navigate the IndonesiaDLN

collections locally! Click here

The Technology

GDL 3.1, open-sources/free software Operating system:

Unix/Linux Windows 98/NT/2000 Windows 95 – needs winsock32

Web server: Apache Scripting Language: PHP 4 Database Server: MySQL Infrastructure: Dedicated or Dial-Up

Implementation Status

1999 = Software development started

Oct 2000 = Community development started

June 2001 (it just 4 months ago) = IndonesiaDLN was launched

IndonesiaDLN Partners

By Nov 2001

O JKLPNDPDIIO JKPNPNRIO JKPTPERBANASO JKPTYARSI

O JTPTIAIN

O KBPTUNTAN

O KSPTIAIN

O LAPTIAIN

O RIPTIAIN

O SBPTIAIN

O SSPTIAIN

O SUPTIAIN

The Distribution Map of IndonesiaDLN PartnersBy Nov 2001

Aceh Irian Jaya

Members of IndonesiaDLN

Member = users that have registered at GDL servers.

Currently the total members registered at GDL Hub is about 3467 users.

Members of IndonesiaDLN (by partners)By November 2001

Members’ Country

By Nov 2001

Members’ JobBy August 2001

The ContentsBy Nov 2001

Future of IndonesiaDLN:The Network of Networks

IndonesiaDLN

GDL-Engine

GDL-Network

GDL-Engine

Human Rights-Network

GDL-Engine

AgricultureNetwork

GDL-Engine

Heritage-Network

GDL-EngineBiblio-

Network

GDL-Engine

NewSpektra

Distance Learning-Network

GDL-Engine

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OAI: The Networking Protocol

IndonesiaDLN will adopt the OAI (Open Archives Initiatives) protocol / concept.

Further integration with other international digital library network.

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Current activities:

Develop the sub-networks: Indonesian Human Rights Information

System Indonesian Agriculture Information

Network (this will reach the farmers needs, not only the researchers)

Indonesian Heritage Network Indonesian Bibliographic Network

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International Collaboration

GDL has been successfully installed at an NGO in Pakistan (contact peace786pk@yahoo.com)

Digital Library Network among Indonesia-Malaysia (Penang Library Network, USM) is being discussed.

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Example: The Agriculture Network

Group of Farmers B

Group of Farmers A

Group of Researchers

AgriHub Server

IndonesiaDLNHub Server

Other Subnetworksin IndonesiaDLN

Agriculture InformationNetwork (subnetwork)

ETD, Heritage,Health, HumanRights, etc

OAI

OAIAccess: Internet Café & Dial-up

Important URLs

IndonesiaDLN web site; Mailing list; technical, scenario, society, announcement; standard, http://idln.itb.ac.id

About GDL-Network, registration, join, software, patch, download, etc, http://gdlhub.indonesiaDLN.org/faqgdl.php

Download GDL source code for free, http://gdl.itb.ac.id/download/

GDL-HUB, http://gdlhub.indonesiaDLN.org Digital Library ITB, http://digilib.itb.ac.id Contact KMRG: kmrg@kmrg.lib.itb.ac.id

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You can help developing countries!

Open access to your digital libraries for the 3rd world.

Use the OAI protocol and standard metadata (Dublin Core-based)

Knowledge will be: Shared And exchanged

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Summaries

GDL has proved its abilities to integrate digital library network in Indonesia.

Able to run on dedicated, dial-up, and behind proxy internet connection.

IndonesiaDLN is a bottom-up approach community that grows very fast.

IndonesiaDLN will become a network of networks.

Possible integration with other international digital library network (using Dublin Core metadata standard).

Thank youThank you