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A presentation (November 2007) on the plans of the National Library of Australia to build a new integrated national discovery service.
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Building the Mother of all Collections: the future of the National Library’s discovery
services
Warwick Cathro
Assistant Director-General, InnovationNational Library of Australia
National Library role
• Collecting, access, coordination roles• Strong focus on national discovery services• Support for research• Strong interest in participating in research
infrastructure development
Our medium term direction
• Build digital collections– web archives– newspaper and other “industrial scale” digitisation
• Restructure national discovery services• Be involved in ANDS
– such as support for a National Persistent Identifier Service (if selected)
Restructuring the national discovery services
• Implement a Service Oriented Architecture– move to discrete, loosely coupled, shareable, functional service
components– use a “service framework” based on the JISC/DEST e-Framework
• Establish a virtually integrated “national metadata store”– “collection views” of that store– manage the national discovery service in an integrated way
Our goals
• For users:– provide access to a wider and more coherent set
of data which exposes Australian collections
– improve the search experience
• For the National Library:– maintain discovery services more effectively
– IT Architecture Group report:• http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/documents/itag.pdf
The problem: silos
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High level model
DiscoveryService
AuthenticationService
SearchService
AnnotationService
RequestService
Newspapers View
Journals ViewPictures
ViewMusic View
National metadata store
Content of the national metadata store
• Full text indexes:– national digital newspaper collection
– other digitised full text content (books, journals ...)
– oral history transcripts
– national web archives (PANDORA, whole domain harvest)
– biographical information
• Metadata:– Australian National Bibliographic Database
– journal indexing data
– finding aids
– pictures metadata
What it might look like
In Australian libraries Online Australian
All Newspapers Journals Pictures Maps more >>
Advanced search Preferences
TM
In my libraries
What makes it unique
• A place for Australians to start a search that:– enables Australians to understand ourselves
and our place in the world– gives prominence to information in Australia’s
collecting institutions– is seen as authoritative, impartial, non-
commercial
Types of collection view
• Format views:– Books, Journals, Newspapers, Theses, Pictures,
Film & video, Music scores, Audio, Maps, Archives & manuscripts, Data sets, Web archives
• Topic views– People, Places, Concepts , Events
• “Specialisations”– Disciplines (history, music, ...)– Contexts (eg “research outputs”)
Displaying the views
You searched on “alfred deakin”
Summary of hits:
Books View (351) Journals View (1121) Newspapers View (13,799) Theses View (19) Pictures View (390) Film & Video View (78) Archives & Manuscripts View (410) More
Topics: 1. Deakin, Alfred, 1856-1919 – Australian Dictionary of Biography Online 2. Alfred Deakin – Wikipedia entry 3. Alfred Deakin – Australia’s Prime Ministers Portal More
Hits from Books View: 1. Alfred Deakin / J A La Nauze. 1962. 2. The federal story / by Alfred Deakin. 1944. 3. Alfred Deakin: a sketch / Walter Murdoch. 1923. More Hits from Google Books: 1. The crisis in Victorian politics, 1879-1881. 2. Australian liberals and the moral middle class: from Alfred Deakin to John Howard. More
Refine your search:
Published 1860-1879 (100) Published 1880-1899 (66) Published 1900-1919 (114) Other facets
Newspaper view
Collection view: Journals
• Information about all Australian journals– including library holdings
• External targets– Google Scholar– Informit indexes and full text– ERA (Electronic Resources Australia) targets
• APAIS and AMI indexing data– business model transition
• Potential for incorporating digitised text from out-of-copyright journals
Defining a “Research View”
• Would encompass several formats:– scholarly books, journal articles, pre-prints, theses,
data sets ...
• Data harvested from university repositories• Downstream harvesting by Google Scholar
and other aggregators
• External targets:– Google Scholar itself– Future ANDS Discovery Service– Data sets in the ABS National Data Network
The NLA and ANDS
• ANDS service providers not known for several months
• NLA might provide some Utilities Program services
• In any case data sets, theses etc. could be external targets for our discovery service
• Relationship of ARROW Discovery Service to ANDS Utilities Program
Collection Services Registry
• Included in vision of ANDS Utilities Program
• Will support discovery:– facilitate selection of targets for federated
search
– describe services
– machine/machine capabilities
• Prototype ORCA Registry
Example 1
Example 2
Where are we up to?
• Formed an internal “Business Integration Taskforce”
• Is developing a prototype of new discovery service
• Have started to develop some service framework components (eg Harvest)
• We envisage a staged transition to the new model:– Stage 1 may involve the NBD (Libraries
Australia free search service), newspaper data, people data