From Aggregation to Access:

1. From Aggregation to Access: Building Digital Collections collectively

2. Post-Gutenberg • “What are the pressures, from your point of view driving the retention or otherwise of print collections.  Do you think that there will be an availability or should there be, of print collections across this section of the world.  This should be especially in the context of Google Books.  Europe has such a rich tradition emerging from Gutenberg.  What is post-Gutenberg for the print collections?”

3. A history of libraries: 19th Century • The development of the concept of public libraries and public good • Panizzi, Dewey, Carnegie • The Procrustean Bed

4. A history of libraries: early 20th Century • Cooperation and the Russian Revolution • Interlending to St Petersburg • Latitude = 59º26'N      Longitude = 024º46'E

5. A history of libraries: late 20th century • MARC • AACR2 • OCLC • Dublin Core • UAP/UBC

6. The failure of Librarians • Making the technology work too well • Lack of underpinning philosophy • Rise of the managerial technocrat • Complacency • Failure to engage with e-resources • Obsessed with licences • Digitising oddities

7. The Good Old Days……..

8. “Cabinets of curiosities” Scottish Antarctic Expedition C.A.I.N. Glasgow Digital Library

9. Red Clydeside

11. The European Commission’s goal for Europeana is to make European information resources easier to use in an online environment. It will build on Europe’s rich heritage, combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models. This is a project managed mainly by librarians and historians, unlike the crowdsourced phenomena such as Wikipedia Europeana

13. Europeana and Gallica • collections are distributed and libraries are using technology to aggregate links rather than objects. • These are hugely popular • Europeana crashed on launch • Added value digitisation • Increases electronic use • Increases footprint • Meets needs of changing user expectation • Disruptive technology not a priori a bad thing

15. Digital Overlap Strategy

18. Digital footprint

19. Research papers Conference presentations Theses Wikis Blogs Websites Podcasts Reusable Learning Objects Research data E-Lab books Streamed lectures Images Audio files Digitised collections E-Archives E-mail HR Records Student/Staff records Corporate publications National heritage artefacts Forms of e-content

20. COAR – Launched 21st October 2009 • “The networking of online publications and research data sets will open new opportunities for research and the teaching of all disciplines in the 21st century”, said the founding Chairperson, Dr Norbert Lossau, Director of the State and University Library of Goettingen, emphasising the significance of COAR.  “As proven managers of information, libraries are working hand in hand with information specialists, computer scientists and researchers to lend reality to a world-wide network of scientific repositories.”Norbert Lossau, Confederation of Open Access Repositories

21. Bulk Web Harvests • Congo • El Salvador • Gaza • Guatemala • Myanmar • Rwanda • Tibet

23. Custom, Thematic Harvests

24. Testimony from Kigali Memorial Center

25. Waiting for some stuff from Aaron

26. Navigation • Main Page • About this Project • FAQ • Log in Search Suggested topics • Gacaca Court Proceedings • Interahamwe • Habyarimana Juvenal • UNAMIR Browse • All videos • Places • Testimony Types • Topics • All Photographs • Maps Testimony of Karegeya Isae Testimony of Uwanyirigira Mathilde Testimony of Sakindi Jean Baptiste

29. Where Google is weak • Bibliographic authenticity • Version control • Validation – trust metrics • Customisation • Metadata • Added value through aggregation • Single authentication and log on • Trusted repositories

30. Trusted repositories: the five Maori tests • Receive the information with accuracy • Store the information with integrity beyond doubt • Retrieve the information without amendment • Apply appropriate judgement in the use of the information • Pass the information on appropriately

31. Steel Shelves Queen I want it all and I want it now Spotify AbeBooks The Universal Repository From Steel Shelves to Clouds

32. A history of libraries: 21st century • Bibliographic authenticity • FRBR • Metadata tagging • Virtual collections • Simplified authentication and log-on • Repository standards and policy • The Amazon of the low use world • But part of a spectrum of resources

33. A Spectrum of Services Shared standards Virtual Collections Single Entry Point Bibliographic Authenticity Data Repositories Digital Repositories Print Repositories