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  1. Opening Plenary
    1. What lies beyond digital libraries?
    2. The open access question
    3. Institutional repositories
    4. New Genres work
    5. Relationships between libraries and learning environment
    6. Digital preservation
    7. Other opportunities
    8. Security, stewardship, and related matters
  2. Libraries and Faculty Scholarship
    1. General Drivers
    2. Current Constraints
    3. Needs and Concerns
    4. Other observations
    5. Outcomes
    6. Success
    7. Q &A
  3. OCLC white paper session
  4. Digital Library Architecture: Based on MPEG-21 DIDL, the OAI-PMH and the OpenURL
  5. Closing Plenary
    1. Don Waters
    2. Mark Kornbluh
    3. John Unsworth
  6. Other bloggers

Opening Plenary

2003-12-08 16:19:00

CliffordLynch is giving his opening plenary right now.

CniOrg has prided itself on its agility. Cliff just mentioned the Program Plan, which is not meant to be written in stone, a trajectory from which there can be no divergence.

What lies beyond digital libraries?

Key points from the Post-digital library conference, which was looking at what should follow DLII. Digital libraries are too constraining a notion. We want to build services that are more pervasive and interwine with the activities of human beings in many different settings and roles. We need to move beyond collections. Personal information environments are key.

Examples: big collections of personal music collections,

(Personal note: The ScholarsBox is up this alley -- so I'm thrilled that Cliff is talking about this theme.)

DELOS?

The open access question

Should we be opening up the scholarly literature for open public access (OpenAccessMovement) at the core of our architecture. Lots have been dragged in -- economics driving this. SPARC and ARL looking at the economic issues (which is not what Cliff wants to look at here.)

What lies beyond the immediate economic issues? This seems like an opportunity to "revisit the broken promises of the network".

Resource sharing; scholarship could be really shared -- this is not what has happened.

It's important to note that major readers of the scholarly literature are going to be computer programs -- to facilitate data mining/computer hypothesis generation. (Hmmm...I've not thought about this happening on the big scale, but you never know....)

Interesting parallels to OpenSource

Big questions

Institutional repositories

The was an executive roundtable on the issue of institutional repositories. There are a lot of tightly related policy, social issues -- not just the technical issues of how to do so.

Early experiments:

We can learn from public broadcasters in this area.

(We used to think that making a documentary about something is the act of documenting. A lot more options are available now.)

We need a new term for "new media" -- anyone up for the task of generating vocabularies for this area.

CliffordLynch just mentioned [WWW]Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity

New Genres work

Don't know where the NsfCyberInfrastructure will go.

After Oct 2003 (?), grants over $500,000 from the NIH need to account for the archiving of data coming from the grant.

Tomorrow's closing plenary will be about "cyberinfrastucture for the humanities".

Humanities have taken a lead in this area. For example, American Historical Association doing some session on this in January (on electronic humanities monographs? However, there is a lot of stumbling going on too. [WWW]CIMI is closing down(?)

Cultural Content Forum -- what's that? Is it [WWW]this?

Relationships between libraries and learning environment

Key issue -- lots of breakouts on this topic. The "Learning object" term is a weasel word!

Cultural gaps -- some people believe in the power of massive granularity. Others are looking at large scale course aggregations. How to connect?

Digital preservation

This topic remains key.

Not just preserving content but stewardship.

Other opportunities

ChandlerProject provides new opportunities of integration of services -- personal information management and institutional data providers.

If the OpenAccessMovment takes off, then google can crawl the literature -- how will that change the game?

Security, stewardship, and related matters

Increasing ties in these areas. Security pervades a lot of topics. For example, SEC filings, I believe, must include reports on business continuity plans in the case of cyberattacks.

Libraries and Faculty Scholarship

[WWW]Libraries and Digital Scholarship: From Vision to Transformation

[WWW]Digital Scholarship at UW

Speakers: Ann Lally, Anne Graham, UW Libraries

Mellon funded weekend faculty and librarian retreat at UW

a definition of digital scholarship that came from the retreat: "any elementof knowledge or art that is created, produced, analyzed, distributed, published, and/or displayed ina digital medium, for the purpose of research or teaching" (Kirsten Foote, Assoc. Prof of communications)

General Drivers

Current Constraints

Needs and Concerns

Other observations

Outcomes

Success

Q &A

There was mention of [WWW]Shawn Brixey's work -- Q: how does a library preserve his work. He has something at BAMPFA right now. ([WWW]Another page on Brixey)

I was wondering about the disciplinary and seniority of the participants. A few CS profs -- mostly humanities and social sciences folks. Not so many from engineering. Also from all academic levels.

A number of people who are more skeptical, including David Levy, author of [WWW]Scrolling Forward.

OCLC white paper session

[WWW]Libraries and the Enhancement of E-learning

Areas of Joint Interest

Way Forward

"OCLC asked to advocate for user-centered e-learning services"

Extended OCLC services

The "Collections Grid" by Lorcan Dempsey was shown (see [WWW]Place and Space (PPT)

Digital Library Architecture: Based on MPEG-21 DIDL, the OAI-PMH and the OpenURL

[WWW]Digital Library Architecture Based on MPEG-21 DIDL, the OAI-PMH and the OpenURL

See [WWW]Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library (Dlib.org article)

[WWW]Herbert Van de Sompel is the speaker.

using RDF to express hierarchical relationships -- no attempt to do so in the MPEG-21 Part 2 DIDL (a "DID") (isPartOf)

"All LANL data is created equal" -- metadata records are 1st class objects too. RDF used to map metadata and data records. (hasDescriptiveMetata)

DID-identifier and Content-Identifier

making dynamic associations between stored DID and behaviors -- file formats are noted in the DIDS.

One thing that is important to note is that LANL is dealing with thousands and millions of records (100 million?)

Using the OAI protocol to monitor changes in the content of the repositories.

There is such a thing as a MPEG-21 DIP engine -- in the MPEG-21 spec?

List o' links

The new [WWW]OpenURL spec should be interesting

context object service type requestor

Closing Plenary

Any parallels to the NsfCyberInfrastructure report in the humanities?

Don Waters

Mark Kornbluh

[WWW]http://www.history.msu.edu/faculty/kornbluh.html: one of his project is [WWW]Matrix. He mentions [WWW]H-NET.

Kornbluth thinks that there is a real need to link the humanities in the development of NsfCyberInfrastructure.

What humanists want:

John Unsworth

statistics from [WWW]TAPoR

Think that texts are available -- but 1/2 want no markup; 1/2 want XML markup

not happy with the tools. TACT useful. Wordsmith tools

look for December 2003 issue of American Historical Review

emerging appreciation for ontologies in disciplines.

demand for better tools: annotating, markup, etc

extremely high provenance markup.

tools for excerpting stuff from web and grabbing metadata.

multiscale representations

need expert human expertise

standards development and maintanence

ACLS commission -- try to mimic the process used for the NsfCyberInfrastructure

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