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2003 LITA NATIONAL FORUM SCHEDULEPosted November 3, 2003. FRIDAY, October 3, 20038:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon PRECONFERENCE 1 (continued) The Library as a Place in the Digital Age (See description at Thursday, October 2, 2003, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m.) - Carol Ross Barney, Principal, Ross Barney + Jankowski, Inc. PRECONFERENCE 3 Creating, Maintaining, and Using Open Source Software in Libraries Eric Lease Morgan, Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture, University of Notre Dame 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. OPENING GENERAL SESSION Digital Reference: The First Mature Digital Library Service R. David Lankes, Executive Director, Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) and Assistant Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies 2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. REFRESHMENT BREAK 2:50 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSION #1 Library Web Site Content Management Options Using PHP Lewis & Clark College Watzek Library is implementing a new website in 2003. Beyond the design and architecture of the site, a major challenge has been developing a framework that allows several different staff members to update content on the site with minimal knowledge of HTML or web editing tools. In this presentation, I will explain the two different strategies that we are using to manage the content on the site: For our informational pages we use the PHP web scripting language to wrap a banner and sidebar around static HTML pages developed in Macromedia Dreamweaver. For pages that organize browse-able resources by subject such as article databases, websites, books and journals, we use a home-grown PHP/PostgreSQL-based content management system. This system features a web-based staff interface that allows staff to build "subject pathfinders” which are then transformed into public web pages. Mark Dahl has been Library Technology Coordinator at Lewis & Clark College Watzek Library since August 2001. Previously, he was Systems & Technical Services Coordinator at Central Oregon Community College. He has over five years experience in web development and web site administration. He has presented on several library technology topics including PHP and Expect scripting, data exporting from Integrated Library systems (at the 2001 LITA Forum in Milwaukee), and customizing the Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. Building Union Catalogs Using OCLC WorldCat Based on research conducted by the presenters, learn about the successes and failures of designing a union catalog for groups. OCLC initially attempted to develop a group catalog based on the Z39.50 distributed model. After working with Z39.50, OCLC determined that it would not provide sufficient performance or functionality to meet the needs of users. It was decided that WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog, would be the cornerstone of OCLC group services. OCLC conducted pilot testing in 2002-2003 to see if this model was a viable option for creating complete groups services as needed by libraries. Doug Loynes is a Product Manager at OCLC, Inc, currently overseeing the OCLC group services project. He received his MLS from Indiana University in 1995 and joined OCLC in 1999. Matt Hartfield is a Consulting Software Engineer at OCLC, Inc., where he is currently the project manager for OCLC's Group Union Catalog Service. Matt has been developing N-tier client-server software and managing software development for 7 years, 4 of those years at OCLC. He received his BS in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University in 1995. Mark Flynn, State Library
of Rendering Syndicated Library Content in an Institutional Portal: Integrating MyLibrary into uPortal This presentation will describe an institutional portal called uPortal and demonstrate an example of integrating syndicated library content from a system called MyLibrary. uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. MyLibrary is an extensible implementation of a user-centered, customizable interface to a library's collection of information resources. The system integrates principles of librarianship with globally networked computing resources creating a dynamic, customer-driven front-end to any library's set of materials. This collaborative presentation will demonstrate the customization capabilities of uPortal and the community aspect of the portal technology with an example of syndicated content from a library collection. John Fereira is a programmer/analyst specialist with over 15 years experience as a systems administrator and programmer Before entering the academic world at Cornell University’s Mann Library five years ago, he worked in numerous corporate settings including 13 years at Hewlett Packard. Over the past year and a half he has been an active developer in the JA-SIG uPortal project and is currently the unofficial uPortal documentation coordinator. John also developed one of the applications which is part of the MyLibrary@Cornell suite of services and currently has sole technical responsibility for all of the MyLibrary@Cornell components. Eric Lease Morgan: Eric is the Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. He considers himself a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to improve library and knowledge services. Applied research and development has included investigations in traditional library science, digital libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. In 1994 he began the Mr. Serials Process, a systematic method for collecting, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. The matured into Index Morganagus. One of his more recognized accomplishments is the development of a portal application called MyLibrary. Recently he was awarded the 2002 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award for his serials work as well as MyLibrary. Harnessing the Potential of Database-Driven Websites In 2001 the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries invested in the creation of a new 4-person Digital Initiatives Unit and a Cold Fusion web server infrastructure. This investment has paid-off significantly with the creation of several new, home-grown web services, such as a library course resources system, and the automation of numerous existing services. By incorporating the results of usability studies and the talents of an in-house graphic designer, the previously static pages of the River Campus Libraries’ website have been transformed into a database-driven, dynamic website that is not only visually pleasing, but extremely patron-friendly. The presenters will describe their journey on this reiterative process and several of the web-based products and services thus far created. (This session will be repeated during Concurrent Session #3, Saturday at 10:50 a.m.) David Lindahl has an BS and MS in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo and the Rochester Institute of Technology, respectively. He has worked as a software developer at Xerox for 4 years and then was accepted into a research group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. For the next 5 years, Mr. Lindahl participated in several Ethnographic Studies that led to technology development projects. His principal role at PARC was that of software project manager. Starting in February, 2001, Mr. Lindahl has been the Web Initiatives Manager for the University of Rochester Libraries. In this role, he has been responsible for the development of a new database driven website, and content management system. He has spent seven years working in multidisciplinary, multicultural, collaborative working groups. This has enabled him to experience the benefits of a diversity of ideas having been brought to bear on a given project. Some of the major themes of his expertise include web development, community based systems development, software project management, and Work Practice study. David has extensive experience in applying work practice study findings to technology development projects. This includes everything from participation in fieldwork and CoDesign of prototypes to software development and project management. David has made numerous presentations on topics such as community based web site development and on past work practice engagements. CrossRef: Connecting the Dots This session will provide an introduction to the CrossRef DOI-based system for reference linking, an update on adoption and usage, and a discussion of implementation issues. Speakers will include a representative from CrossRef and a librarian with experience using CrossRef and DOIs in conjunction with localized linking. It will address some of the remaining confusion about how the DOI relates to the OpenURL, and what can go wrong for users and libraries when publishers do not adhere to standards on how to display the DOI. From a library perspective, the session will address why CrossRef is important to libraries, and how DOIs are implemented in the systems used to access full-text and other kinds of linked information. The theme is “connecting the dots” because the presentation will explain what has to happen going forward in order for the CrossRef system to work seamlessly. Amy Brand joined CrossRef as Director of Business Development in April 2001. Her career spans electronic publishing, book publishing, and academia. She has previously held positions at ingenta, LEA Inc., the University of Pennsylvania, and The MIT Press, where she was an executive editor from 1994-2000. She received her doctorate in cognitive science from MIT in 1989. She has spoken widely at library, publishing, and academic meetings.Amy Brand joined CrossRef as Director of Business Development in April 2001. Her career spans electronic publishing, book publishing, and academia. She has previously held positions at ingenta, LEA Inc., the University of Pennsylvania, and The MIT Press, where she was an executive editor from 1994-2000. She received her doctorate in cognitive science from MIT in 1989. She has spoken widely at library, publishing, and academic meetings. Miriam Blake is a member of the LANL Library Without Walls team and Technical Project Leader for the XML project. She has worked in library automation and systems for 15 years, the last 5 at Los Alamos. Recent papers and presentations include “Implementation of the OpenURL and the SFX Architecture in the production environment of a digital library” at the Victorian Association for Library Automation Conference in Melbourne, Australia (February, 2002) and “Metadata and Reference Linking”, Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services 26, no. 3 (Autumn 2002). Open Communication for Open Source Software Development: The Koha Experience What is involved in managing and participating in a distributed open source software development project? What options are available for organisations that choose to implement open source software? Koha, the world's first open source library management software package, was originally developed for the Horowhenua Library Trust, based in Levin, New Zealand, by Katipo Communications Limited, in Wellington, New Zealand. It was released as open source software under the GPL in 2000, and there are now 27 registered developers (and 84 subscribers to the development discussion list) working on new releases, in New Zealand, Canada, the United States and France, Poland, Germany, Spain, and New Caledonia. The Koha kaitiaki (project manager) is in the state of Washington, USA. Koha is currently being used by libraries in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, and the United States, and people from India, and South America have also expressed interest in it. This session will cover the various Koha participant roles (such as project manager, developer, documenter, user), as well as the range of tools and techniques used by Koha participants to communicate with each other, using a case study approach. These include email discussion lists, IRC, and a wikiwikiweb (or wiki for short), as well as a bug tracking utility. (This session will be repeated during Concurrent Session #6, Sunday at 9:00 a.m.) Brenda Chawner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches courses in Information Technology and Business Information Sources in the Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) programme. She has been there since 1997, and previously spent 5 years lecturing in the New Zealand Certificate of Library Studies programme at the Wellington College of Education. Before that, Brenda held various roles at the National Library of New Zealand (including systems analyst and applications manager), and she also worked at UTLAS in Canada in the mid-1980s. She is particularly interested in open source software development, and has recently begun a PhD looking at what makes an open source application software package succeed, particularly in a library/information management context. She has a B.Sc. and an M.L.S.from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. 4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSION #2 Design and Implementation of an Open-Source Cross-Database Search Engine Early in 2003 NC LIVE deployed a cross-database search utility as part of a redesigned interface. The engine, initially called "EZ Search", uses the Z39.50 protocol to scan target vendor databases for the occurrence of search terms. The search engine itself was constructed using open-source software libraries and databases (Perl and MySQL), and will be made available as a packaged resource for libraries to use within their own environments. This presentation will describe the design decisions made during development, the requisite infrastructure needed to deploy the search engine, and the current and future directions being taken with respect to enhancing and improving the utility of the engine. Scott Ross, Systems Development and Operations Manager, NC LIVE. Working in current position since October, 1998. Presentations made informally to many constituent groups within the NC LIVE consortium, and a poster session at the National EDUCAUSE conference in October 1999. Pete MacLaren, Applications Manager, NC LIVE. Working in current position since March, 2001 and is the author and creator of the EZ Search engine software. News from the Wild Frontier: Digital Video in the Library The University of Virginia Library's Robertson Media Center is actively engaged in digital video collection development as part of the building of our Digital Library. This activity is fueled by the strong interest expressed by our academic faculty in using digital video in their research and teaching. In responding to these curricular needs, we have embarked on several projects involving the digitization and delivery of video: these projects run the gamut from selection through classroom implementation. The primary purpose of our digitization efforts is to provide or improve access to our motion media resources. This presentation will touch briefly on preservation, metadata and copyright issues, but will focus mainly on our technological solutions to the problems of creation, storage and distribution of digital video. The presentation will pay particular attention to the benefits and drawbacks of our implementation of streaming technologies, as defined by both Real and Quicktime services. Codecs vs. Chaos: Developing Standards for Multimedia Electronic Theses & Dissertations Text-oriented Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) have been well-established for a number of years around Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF), with XML standards emerging for encoding and description as well. What has been less established are standards for multimedia ETDs. Preservation of high-resolution image, audio and visual performances in digital formats is more complex and less well-understood. The ETD project at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a collaborative project involving VCU Libraries, VCU School of Graduate Studies, and the academic departments throughout the University. This presentation will present the work at VCU in establishing standards for multimedia ETDs. A background discussion of the technical and organizational issues with digital preservation of ETDs will be presented, as well as factors that need to be considering in establishing format standards for digital preservation of electronic multimedia. Finally, an overview of some of the ETD projects will be presented. Pascal Calarco has presented at Medical Library Association (MLA) meetings at the state, regional and national levels, at the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), and other educational technology meetings in the United States since 1995. His areas of presentation and writing include digital libraries, electronic reserves, health informatics, and web development. Mr. Calarco is the current chair, Special Interest Group on Digital Libraries, ASIST, is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (Senior), and is a current member of ALA, LITA, MLA, ASIST, and the Project Management Institute (PMI). Mr. Calarco received his Master of Library & Information Studies from McGill University in Montreal Canada, and an Honours B.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Beyond Email: Enhancing Delivery of Asynchronous Virtual Reference Current interest in the library community is focused on the process of virtual reference. Many libraries perceive virtual reference as a means of providing research guidance to remote users and distance learners, many of whom are not reached by traditional means of providing reference service. The most heavily publicized initiatives tend to focus on synchronous virtual reference, in which the end user and the librarian engage in real-time computer-mediated communication. While synchronous virtual reference works well in a number of environments, there may be occasions for institutions to focus their efforts instead on enhancing asynchronous virtual reference processes. A case study at University of Phoenix shows how asynchronous virtual reference can be extended beyond email, incorporating database-driven, Web-based management and assessment features. David Bickford is University Librarian at University of Phoenix. Previously, he has held positions at the Phoenix Campus of University of Phoenix, Phoenix Public Library, and Duke University. He is also a member of the University’s faculty and teaches a variety of courses in communications and critical thinking. David holds a Master of Science in Library Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics from Brown University. He has made several presentations at library conferences, including an appearance as a featured speaker at the Demystifying Investment Information Preconference at the ALA Annual Conference in 1994 in Miami, and routinely presents to faculty, distinguished visitors, and senior management at University of Phoenix. OAIster: A "No Dead Ends" Service Provider Project OAIster, at the University of Michigan, University Libraries, Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), was a one-year Mellon grant-funded project designed to test the feasibility of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to harvest metadata from multiple and varied academic digital repositories and develop an end-user search service. Uniquely, the OAIster search interface allows end-users to find harvested records that point to actual digital resources. Behind the scenes, we filter the records so only those that contain links to digital resources are available to end-users. We currently point to over 1 million digital resources from over 120 repositories. This poster session describes our methods for harvesting and storing metadata; transforming, filtering and tweaking these records into our native format; and making the records available through our search interface to users. Integration with the University of Michigan Library Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) software will be discussed. Demonstrations of the service, including issues we encountered and solutions we provided, will be made available off- and on-line. The session will also provide analysis of the results of three in-depth user testing sessions we created and ran with users in-house and remotely. Our future directions regarding the OAI-PMH and the OAIster service will also be communicated. Kat Hagedorn received her BS from Cornell University and her MS from the University of Michigan School of Information. She has worked as a cataloger (Cornell University), corporate librarian (Kelsey-Hayes), reference librarian (University of Michigan), and information consultant (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Argus Associates). Currently, she is working for the University of Michigan in the Digital Library Production Service on their Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) software, and she manages and maintains the OAIster service. She has published through the Argus Center for Information Architecture, CMSWatch and SLA. An upcoming paper on OAIster will be included in the late spring issue of Library Hi-Tech. She has spoken in a number of venues, including the American Society of Indexers, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Digital Library Federation Forums. More biographical information can be found at http://www.kathagedorn.com/resume.html Taming Metadata in the Wild West: The Western States Digital Standards Group Session will discuss the development of a new set of Dublin-Core based metadata standards for digital collections. In a multi-state collaborative effort, a new digital standards group called the Western States Digital Standards Group is developing Dublin-Core based metadata standards and a Best Practices document for digitizing primary resources and then sharing the resultant digital resources among cultural heritage institutions in the Western U.S. Liz Bishoff is currently the Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program. The Program, a collaborative among Colorado’s libraries, museums, archives and historical societies, is building a virtual collection of Colorado’s unique resources and special collections. Liz has spoken extensively on collaborative digitization projects including presentations at the IMLS Webwise conferences (2001, 2002) Missouri Digitization Conference (2000, 2001) Minerva Conference 2001 (Minnesota), Nebraska Library Association Conference 2002, California Library Association Conference 2001, LITA Conference 2001, Museum Computer Network Conference 2002, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002 and many other digital library related conferences. Additionally Liz has worked with the state libraries of North Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, and California on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives. Liz has been a member of the ALA Board, ALA Council and was most recently the ALA Treasurer. Liz holds an MLS from Rosary College, and has post-graduate work in public administration at Roosevelt University. Elizabeth (Betty) Meagher is currently Head of Original Cataloging/Special Materials at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. She has been a member of the Colorado Digitization Program’s (CDP) Metadata Task Force since 1998 and has conducted CDP Metadata Workshops for archivists, catalogers and museum registrars since 1999. She was a member of the Western States Digital Standards Group. She has presented at annual conferences sponsored by the Colorado Library Association (2000, 2001) and the Colorado Association of Libraries (2002) on such topics as using Dublin Core to describe digital objects, the mystery of metadata, and a model for serials management of aggregator databases. She has also spoken at CDP regional meetings on preparing three- dimensional objects for digitizing, and integrating library/museum collections at the University of Denver. Chuck Thomas currently is head of the Digital Projects and Services unit of the University of Minnesota Libraries. He is responsible for the University Libraries' IMAGES (Institutional Metadata Aggregation for Enhanced Searching) campus-wide metadata sharing initiative, and coordinates with digital content providers across the campus to promote interoperability. Thomas also serves as Chair of the Standards and Training Group of the statewide Coalition for Minnesota Digital Collections, and led the Technical Metadata Elements Task Force of the Western States Digital Standards Group in 2002. He is an archivist certified by the Academy of Certified Archivists, and serves on the editorial board of the JOURNAL OF ARCHIVAL ORGANIZATION. He regularly speaks and teaches workshops on metadata, digitization workflow management, and XML. He has presented at national conferences such as the Special Libraries Association, the Organization of Library Audio-Visual Catalogers, the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology, the Digital Library Federation, EDUCAUSE, and the Visual Resources Association. Cheryl Walters is currently Head of Cataloging at Utah State University (1999-). Previously she worked as a cataloger at Utah State University (1995-1999) and as Interlibrary Loan Coordinator at University of Central Florida (1987-1995). She chaired the Descriptive Elements Task Force for the Western States Digital Standards Group in 2002. She has presented at annual conferences sponsored by Utah Library Association (2000, 2001, 2002) and Horizon User Group (1999, 2001, 2002) on topics such as use of metadata for digital collections; innovations in Technical Services; outsourcing authority work; creation of an alternative online catalog for non-library departmental collections at Utah State University; cataloging rule changes in AACR2-2002 revision; and development of a thermal transfer spine label printing system in partnership with Computype, a label printing company. 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. RECEPTION Sponsored by Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. |
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