From Aggregation to Access:Building Digital Collections collectively

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?”

A history of libraries: 19th Century

The development of the concept of public libraries and public good

Panizzi, Dewey, Carnegie The Procrustean Bed

A history of libraries: early 20th Century Cooperation and the

Russian Revolution Interlending to St

Petersburg Latitude = 59º26'N      Longitude = 024º46'E

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

The failure of Librarians

1. Making the technology work too well2. Lack of underpinning philosophy3. Rise of the managerial technocrat4. Complacency5. Failure to engage with e-resources

a) Obsessed with licencesb) Digitising oddities

The Good Old Days……..

“Cabinets of curiosities”C.A.I.N.

Scottish Antarctic Expedition

Glasgow Digital Library

Red Clydeside

Europeana 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 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

Digital Overlap Strategy

Digital footprint

Forms of e-content 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

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

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Trusted repositories: the five Maori tests

Receive the information with accuracyStore the information with integrity beyond doubtRetrieve the information without amendmentApply appropriate judgement in the use of the informationPass the information on appropriately

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