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September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 1
A digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities
September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 2
Overview of Talk
• Challenges• Partners• Goal• Location• Services• TDL Management• 5 Year Plan• TDL Membership Opportunities• Impacts• Discussion/Questions
September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 3
Challenges
• Increasing demands on research and education infrastructure– THECB Regional Plan for Higher Education
• 500,000 new students, 7500 new faculty by 2015• Scarce resources
• Underutilized intellectual capital on campuses– If not used, actual value is zero
• Global movement to transform scholarly communication– Open access journals– Federated institutional repositories– New forms of communication - Blogs, WIKIs, etc…
• Cornyn-Lieberman bill
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Addressing the Challenges
• A unified Texas Digital Library• Collaboration of higher education institutions in Texas• Sharing of resources• Shared services model
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Partners
• Initially– 4 Texas ARL libraries: UT, A&M, TTU, and UH– 8 prospective libraries:
• University of North Texas• University of Texas at Dallas• University of Texas at Arlington• Texas State University• Baylor• MD Anderson• A&M Galveston• Angelo State University
• Currently– Preparing a “slow growth” plan
• Later– All of higher education in Texas
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TDL Goal
Become a center of excellence in the curation and preservation of digital scholarly information of the state of Texas.
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Location
• Initially– Central facility in Austin at UT
• Currently– Building redundancy by mirroring core TDL systems at TAMU
and TTU• Later
– Universities will have repositories of their own and choose to federate certain collections with TDL or just use TDL as their repository
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Storage NetworkStorage Network
Technical ReportSeries
Electronic Theses
andDissertations
Repository Content
From the user’s perspective:
Learning Object
Repositories
Current faculty
research: preprints, postprints,
datasets
Access
Services
Faculty archives
www.tdl.org, Google, etc.
Scholarly Publishing (TDL Press), Collection Management, etc.Scholarly Publishing (TDL Press), Collection Management, etc.
Preservation
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LEARN
• Lonestar Education and Research Network
• 1 Gigabit Dedicated Link for TDL
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Network and Computing Internet/Internet 2
Tigre/LearnStorage/Server Systems
MiddlewareShibboleth OAI-PMH
Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Preservation Software (eg LOCKSS)
Workflow Directory Services
EnablersDSpace Fedora ADORE SAKAI
Open Journal SystemEprints Dpubs
ServicesInstitutional Repositories
Learning Object Repositories Scholarly publishing
Collection management Preservation
TDL Architectural Layers
Contributed staff
Base budget
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Website
• Went live February 1, 2006• TAMU, UT, and TTU ETDs in Manakin/DSpace• TAMU’s Journal of Digital Information [JoDI] in Open Journal System
[OJS]
Executive Committee
Co-Directors John Leggett
Mark McFarland
Official Staff Working Groups
Administrative AssistantHillary Spiller
Systems AdministratorPhillip Mattingly
Systems ProgrammerJay Paz
Computing InfrastructureETDRepositoriesCataloging/Metadata Web OversightComing Soon: Collection
Management
UT Repositories Bridge Group
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Participation in TDL Working Groups
• The success of the Texas Digital Library depends on the collaboration of working group members from participating institutions. Through this new model of work we will gain an unparalleled level of interoperability among ourselves and within the global scholarly community.
• Working groups serve many purposes: pooling of staff skills and resources, distribution of work, sharing of information and ideas, and most importantly, the advancement of TDL’s major projects.
• Working group members drawn from the participating TDL institutions are selected from volunteers or are appointed by the co-directors/chairs based on expertise and/or position.
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Guidelines for Working Group Participation
• Responsibilities of Chairs– Working in concert with the co-directors, chair will contact and discuss
the working group charge and work requirements with prospective members.
– Submit monthly progress updates to the co-directors• Responsibilities of Members
– Will discuss working group invitation with supervisor– Attend meetings and actively participate in discussions and creation of
working group documents and processes• Responsibilities of co-directors
– Will notify prospective member’s supervisor of invitation to join the working group
– Make every attempt to be flexible in allowing staff from participating institutions to serve on working groups in support of TDL goals
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TDL Bridge Groups
• Bridge Group Co-Chairs: Aaron Choate and Lexie Thompson-Young
• Sponsor: Mark McFarland• Purpose:
– The TDL Bridge Group will contribute to Aaron’s and Lexie’s work on the TDL Repositories Working Group (WG), supporting the developing infrastructure of UT Austin’s and TDL’s Repository.
• The Bridge Group will help develop a LOR implementation plan, define General TDL Repository Policies, and constructively comment on the FAR and Manakin Projects, all of which will help the WG meet their FY07 deliverables.
UT Repository Bridge Group
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5 Year Plan
• Year 1: Start-Up• Year 2: Plan• Year 3: Demonstrate• Year 4: Deploy• Year 5: Assess
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Year 1: Start-up 2005-2006 Establish presence, core technology, and a basic set of services
• Business case• Establish computing infrastructure
– Core infrastructure at UT, mirrored at TAMU• Website• Open Journal System• Journal of Digital Information [JoDI] conversion• Manakin/DSpace• Hiring
– Administrative Assistant– IT Manager– Systems Analyst
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Year 1: Start-up, continued
• ETD Project– A&M, UT, TTU
• Presentations– 8 presentations in 2005 - 2006
• Computing Infrastructure implementation testing– Storage Resource Broker [SRB] – Vendor Specific Replication [SnapVault]
• Connections– Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)– Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)– Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN)
September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 25
Year 2: Plan2006-2007Plan infrastructure and develop policies for content submission and management
• Common Submission System for ETDs• Computing Infrastructure• Preservation Network• Access Control
– Shibboleth• Repositories
– Learning Object Repositories– Faculty Object Repositories
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Year 3: Demonstrate2007-2008Demonstrate infrastructure and policies for content submission and management
Year 4: Deploy2008-2009Deploy infrastructure and policies for content submission throughout Texas
Year 5: Assess2009-2010Assess impact of TDL services on higher education in Texas
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Next 12 months:
Major Projects:• Preservation Network• ETD Common Submission System• Shibboleth• Manakin/DSpace• Faculty Archives Repository• Learning Objects Repository
Open Repositories 2007 Conference
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http://www.openrepositories.org
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TDL Membership Opportunities
• Tier 2: Associate Members • Tier 3: Affiliate Members • Contributors
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Membership Assumptions
• Participating ARLs each have a voting member on the Governing Board
• T2 representation on the governing board• T3’s and Contributors not represented on governing board• Contributed staff managed by co-Directors• Monetary contributions are central; staff contribution is local
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Tier 2: Associate
• Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas• $50,000 annual commitment• 1 local FTE (40 hrs/wk) commitment
– Managed by TDL Directors– Participate in TDL Working Groups
• Representation on the governing board • Content contributor
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Tier 3: Affiliate
• Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas• $25,000 annual commitment• Content contributor
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Contributors
• Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas• Solicited content contributors
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TDL Members and Prospective Members
• Tier 1: – University of Texas at Austin– Texas A&M University– Texas Tech University– University of Houston
• Tier 2 (prospective): – University of North Texas– University of Texas at Dallas– University of Texas at Arlington– Texas State University– Baylor University
• Tier 3 (prospective):– MD Anderson– Texas A&M at Galveston– Angelo State University
September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 36
The TDL Budget
• Funds the TDL infrastructure - core technology, core team• Does not fund the actual work of putting up the Institutional
Repository, website, and ETDs • Tiers 1-3 must provide cash
– For personnel costs– For shared computing infrastructure
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7 Major Impacts
1. Increases the institution’s visibility and impact
2. Increases accessibility to scholarship and research
3. Increases competitiveness for research funding
4. Maximizes the research capabilities of faculties by increasing the pace of scholarly dissemination and discovery
5. Increases stature as a leader in developing new working models for publication and dissemination of scholarly, research, and educational information
6. Advances core teaching and research missions by fostering innovation in education and research
7. Preserves intellectual assets for future generations of researchers, teachers, students, and scholars