The Digital Academic Library of the NorthChris Awre

Northern Collaboration Conference, 13th Sep 2013

Introduction DPLA and DALN Libraries of the future Trends Repository development Repositories and collaboration DALN vision From here to there

Background Jisc Programme Manager for FAIR

Programme, 2002-4 Working with Fedora since 2005

Jisc projects – RepoMMan, REMAP, CLIF Fedora UK&I User Group formed 2006

Hull’s IR implemented in 2008 Helped found the Hydra project the same

year – software implemented in 2011

DPLA Digital Public Library of America

http://dp.la Why? Lots of knowledge in discrete packages

across libraries and other collections DPLA acts as a means of linking these

packages and linking knowledge Create new connections, and new

knowledge

DPLA

DPLA A collaboration Those involved recognise the value of

working together to achieve more than they could manage individually

Level of collaboration Metadata feeds from multiple sources Focused search engine Facilitating interaction

DALN Digital Academic Library of the North Similar scenario

We each hold multiple packages of knowledge

There is value in accessing knowledge across these packages

We recognise the value of collaboration How might we be inspired by the DPLA?

Academic Libraries of the Future

Accessing knowledge, managing knowledge arekey parts of all three scenarios

Other observations… Ithaka S+R UK survey of academics (2012)

Access to openly accessible materials outside the library is closely complementary to resources within the library

Derek Law environment scan (2009) Managing institutional assets Contributing to national and international

virtual research environment Importance of quality assurance

Trends All these observations are trying to

identify the trends in how libraries are developing or need to develop

Predicting the future is never easy DPLA is one reaction to this

Extending the reach of individual collections

Adding additional value in its own right

Personal libraries

Books/e-books

Web resources

Music/film

Journals/e-journals

Grey literature

Print to digitalPrint Digital

Books E-Books

Journals E-Journals

Reference works Online reference works / The Internet

Videos/DVDs YouTube, NetFlix, etc.

CDs iTunes, Spotify, etc.

Slides Flickr, Google Images, etc.

Theses E-Theses, EThOS

Owning to rentingElsevier

Wiley

Sage

Netflix

Jisc Collections

Shift to the network level

Resources

Discovery

Library management systems

Subject guidesReading lists

ERM

The good the bad and the ugly Greater breadth of resources Greater width of access Greater depth of functionality Freedom to switch (?) Enables focus on what libraries do best (?)

Licences! Although maybe just extending library paradigm?

Finance!! Ongoing, if regular, costs

IT input A possible paradox The level of effort working with digital

resources and systems is increasing Is the level of local IT input developing

in parallel with this increased work with the digital landscape?

How much IT effort is being outsourced? To resource suppliers To library technology companies

Repository development OpenDOAR now lists 218 UK repositories Drivers?

Focus on institutional repositories (170/218) Focus on institutional assets Focus on local

Open access

Open educational resourcesResearch data

Images

Building a local digital library Repository as home to a variety of local

digital assets Repository as infrastructure, not application How much resource is needed to build a

library? Where does this come from? What skills are required? What can be learned from those who have

built digital libraries?

Repository development Getting to the Repository of the Future

workshop, Repository Fringe 2013 The role and need for a repository for managing

digital ‘stuff’ is here to stay

There is a need to re-state and define what our repositories are for

We know what we want to do with repositories

We need to clarify the barriers to achieving this

but

but

Scaling up

124,77810,83

5

2012 academicpublications in the UK

Repositories (CORE)

Journals (Scopus)

Working with academics Where does the focus in our efforts with

repositories lie? With the system and library processes? With the academic scholarship it serves?

Stuart Basefsky (2009) Exploit the technology to better serve

research http://www.llrx.com/node/2177

How institutional does an IR need to be? Brand / design Advocacy Strategy / policy Cataloguing /

description Impact / statistics QA

Tin Access / interface Software

functionality Storage Preservation Scalability of

operation

Local Network level

Parallels – e-books Brand / design Advocacy Strategy / policy Cataloguing /

description Impact / statistics QA

Tin Access / interface Software

functionality Storage Preservation Scalability of

operation

Parallels – e-books Brand / design Advocacy Strategy / policy Cataloguing /

description Impact / statistics QA

Tin Access / interface Software

functionality Storage Preservation Scalability of

operation

Red - local Orange – mixed? Blue - network

Similar trends, different context Repository content as part of personal

library Managing a digital rather than a

physical library

Exception – focus on ownership, not rental

Could move to the network level

Collaboration at the network level Models currently exist

SDLC hosting of IRs for Scottish Universities

White Rose EPrints Services / BMC Open / Digital

Commons Shared infrastructure, individual

services Shared service?

Digital Academic Library of the North – a vision

DALN

DALN Digital Academic Library of the North Similar scenario to DPLA

We each hold multiple packages of knowledge

There is value in accessing knowledge across these packages

We recognise the value of collaboration How might we collaborate to enrich the

assets/knowledge we hold?

A shared service Recognise the value and benefits of

taking services to the network level Take action on institutional limits

Scaling operation IT resource requirement

Take ownership of the means by which we can jointly develop our digital libraries

Maximise the potential for getting local assets into personal libraries

DALN model

Digital Academic Library of the

North

Institution A

Institution B

Institution C

ArchiveA

Museum B

Other …

DALN model Individual repository services served from a

central, combined digital library Local management requirements Network access / preservation benefits from

collaboration Focused definition of roles and

responsibilities at different levels Showcase of institutional output from

window onto combined collections Facilitating linkages across content

Content vs. metadata DPLA is focused on metadata

Discovery and linking are core drivers Are there network benefits to managing

content through a shared service?

How do we scale the management of local assets?

Local management Central management

DALN

DALN benefits Facilitate the management of different

types of content Enable repository provision to become a

part of IT infrastructure Provide common solutions to repository

feeds to other services e.g., Google, Research Outcomes System

Allow local focus to be on working with academic community

Getting there from here We have considerable expertise and

knowledge of what it takes to run repositories and digital libraries Can we bring this together in some way to

identify a collaborative way forward? Can we identify how to exploit the best of

moving service to the network level to aid repository development?

To conclude Repositories have become integral parts

of how we operate as libraries They have the potential to evolve into

true digital libraries Responding to library trends

We can add value to these through working collaboratively

DALN vision is one way – are there others?

Image attributions Paul Stainthorp, “IMAG2719”, 13 Aug

2005, Online image, Flickr, 10 Sep 2013, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pstainthorp/4192270743/

Mark Stevens, “The Road Ahead”, 14 Oct 2012, Online image, Flickr, 10 Sep 2013, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9013482834/

Thank youChris AwreHead of Information ManagementUniversity of Hull

http://www.hull.ac.uk/libhttp://hydra.hull.ac.ukhttp://projecthydra.org