Next-Generation Technical Services (NGTS) is an initiative developed by the University of California Libraries as an outgrowth of the UC Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force Report and a strategic partnership with OCLC to develop a “Next-Generation Melvyl” to re-architect the systemwide OPAC in order to transform the user experience of search and retrieval.
Being a small country of four million people at the end of the world has its advantages and disadvantages, where the six degrees of separation is often reduced to two. One positive is that “all of country” initiatives are much more manageable than in some larger countries, although budgets are considerably smaller. This presentation showcases some of those national digital and digitisation projects such as Matapihi, KRIS, Digital New Zealand and the National Digital Forum, discusses issues around heritage and indigenous content, and asks questions generally about the nature of collaboration both within the library community and across other sectors.
Catherine Quinlan – Dean of the USC Libraries Hugh McHarg – Executive Director of Communications and Public Programming, USC Libraries The new University of Southern
This paper explores the principles that underpin the the digital library program at UCLA, examples of collections being digitized, and the partnerships being developed to enhance the digital library collections, including discussion of the collaborative nature of creating metadata, joint projects, and collaborative agreements.
Brian Flaherty, Assistant University Librarian-Library IT, University of Auckland Martha Chantiny, Division Head for Library Information Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa Robin Chandler, Director,
The Repository of Special Collections (RSC) is a sub-project of China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS) during China’s tenth Five-years Plan. It is headed by Wuhan University Library and follows unified Digital Library standards and protocols such as Metadata Standards, OAI Protocol, OpenURL and METS. Fifty-two academic libraries have joined the project. Within three years of development, 58 of 63 sub-projects passed the peer review of Project Expert Board in 2007 and began to serve the public.
Ardys Kozbial, University of California, San Diego Libraries View Presentation (PDF)
Chinese culture has a long history of written records in paper form. There are at least 3 million Chinese rare books (published from 960 to 1911 A.D.) located in Mainland China and Taiwan, over 300,000 volumes in Europe and 900,000 volumes in the United States. Recently, libraries and commercial entities have initiated a massive digitization of Chinese publications. This calls for a ‘Digital Registry’ to record what has already been digitized, and what is going to be digitized, so that the technology and experience can be shared and the duplication of effort avoided.
An overview of the UCSD/NCAR/University of Maryland ChronopolisTM preservation environment,
including ingestion, curation, preservation, distributed storage, data replication and storage management
tools and services.
Jun-Hyun Jin, Seoul National University View Presentation (PDF)
An institutional repository (IR), a concept of open access, is to capture, preserve and make available as much of the research output of an institution as possible. In the Data Service of the National Digital Archives Program (NDAP-DS) setting, an IR can serve a place for project member technical reports and publications. The NDAP-DS, a hybrid of the library and archives, aims to offer information resources and preserve archival materials for the NDAP members and the public. This study discusses the development and implementation of the IR for the NDAP-DS, which is based on the combination of institutionally defined and subject-oriented models for content acquisition.
Zhang Hongyang, Peking University Tony Ferguson, Hong Kong University View Presentation (PDF)
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