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Slide 1: Digital Libraries as a Tool Uniting Communities Professor Derek Law University of Strathclyde
Slide 2: The University of Strathclyde, founded in 1796 as “a place of useful learning”
Slide 3: University of Strathclyde    18th Century James Watt Steam Engine > Industrial Revolution > Environmental Pollution and Global Warming
Slide 4: University of Strathclyde   James Watt 19th Century >David Livingstone > Exploration of Africa > British Empire > Political chaos from Iraq to the Malvinas
Slide 5: University of Strathclyde    James Watt David Livingstone 20th Century > John Logie Baird > television > Baywatch and Big Brother
Slide 6: University of Strathclyde     James Watt David Livingstone John Logie Baird 21st Century > Arthur Van Hoff > Javascript > Pop up windows
Slide 7: eIFL activities     Content Consortia Infrastructure Co-operation  www.eifl.net
Slide 8: Activities 2003: Content       Model licenses E-books report (Jan Nikisch) Russian content established CUP, Proquest, Bioone Elsevier for six countries APS, Highwire, IoP Survey of content required - inconclusive
Slide 9: Report on activities 2003: New Consortia       Macedonia Sudan Laos Cambodia China under negotiation 28 Training events/workshops
Slide 10: Report on activities 2003: Cooperation      Meetings with INASP, TIB, Biomed Central Stand at IFLA Link set up to ICOLC Proposals with Goethe Institute Bid with partners to develop Greenstone
Slide 11: Why bother getting involved?    Leave it to technology  But we are user focussed But we want to change society But one size doesn’t fit all Not everyone wants to share Small is beautiful from Finland to Singapore But they have no grandmothers Leave it to the market?  Leave it to big countries?     Leave it to publishers? 
Slide 13: Trust Me I’m a Librarian  “People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and allseeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.” (Olson, 2000)
Slide 14: Underpinning philosophy      The Vesalius Conundrum This is rocket science not a plug in the wall Ease of use = “the satisfied inept” Public sector bodies are producers not just consumers of information The Internet is AT PRESENT very flawed as a teaching and learning tool
Slide 15: A history of libraries: 19th Century – towards the global community   The development of the concept of public libraries and public good Panizzi, Dewey, Carnegie  The Procrustean Bed
Slide 16: A history of libraries: early 20th Century – international co-operation  Cooperation and the Russian Revolution  Interlending to St Petersburg Latitude = 59º26'N Longitude = 024º46'E 
Slide 17: A history of libraries: late 20th century - interoperability      MARC AACR2 OCLC UAP and UBC Dublin Core
Slide 18: User not technology driven  The Library as place   Second most used public service University space has not grown      Staff and students are library conservatives Communities share a history Librarians can collect and interpret that Returning their history to communities Collection focussed
Slide 19: DLF Collection typology local digitization projects that produce surrogates for analogue information objects;  data creation projects that produce information resources that have no analogue equivalent and are in this respect "born digital";  the selection of existing third-party data resources for inclusion in a collection either through their outright acquisition or by acquiring access under some licensing arrangement; and  the development of Internet gateways comprising locally maintained pages or databases of web-links to thirdparty networked information (Greenstein) 
Slide 20: Third Party Data and gateways   The Virtual Human, mirroring and caching strategies Gateways: The Indian diaspora and the Welsh in Patagonia
Slide 21: Collection types      Surrogates of rare items: the British Library Surrogates for whole or part collections: The Springburn Virtual Library Digitised surrogate collections assembled from multiple repositories: the Valley of the Shadow, Red Clydeside Collections assembled specifically to be digitised ASPECT; CAIN Born Digital Resources
Slide 22: Display of treasures: the British Library
Slide 23: GLASGOW DIGITAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS PEOPLE PLACES SUBJECTS DOCUMENTS Organised digital collections to support teaching, learning and research Aspect Access to Scottish Parliamentary Election Candidate Materials 1999 Red Clydeside Political History of the Scottish Left 19101922 Springburn Virtual Museum Photographs from Springburn Community Museum 1880-1987 Voyage of the Scotia Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902-04 GlasgowInfo Directory information for and about Glasgow 2002 100 Glasgow Men Memoirs and Portraits of 100 Glasgow Men 1855-1885 Virtual Mitchell Images of Glasgow by area, street or subject 1860-1980 Victorian Times Social, political, and economic conditions 1837-1901 The Glasgow Digital Library is based at the Centre for Digital Library Research in the University of Strathclyde. It was set up as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme, supplemented by funding from SCRAN for specific digitisation projects. GLASGOW DIGITAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS PEOPLE PLACES SUBJECTS DOCUMENTS Overview | Contacts | Reports | Policies
Slide 24: Glasgow Digital Library     Identifying Resources for Digitisation Encouraging Electronic Content Creation Cost-cutting by City-wide Licences Mirroring heavily used content  The Virtual Human   Setting and Implementing Standards A distributed regional resource - ScoDiDiLi
Slide 25: Springburn
Slide 27: CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet
Slide 28: Red Clydeside: Restoring a collection
Slide 30: Information arbitrage     Identifying products Identifying value for money Is the Pareto Principle relevant? Independent, authoritative and right
Slide 31: Law’s Laws 1. Good Information systems will drive out bad
Slide 32: Law’s Laws 1. Good Information systems will drive out bad 2. User Friendly systems aren’t
Slide 33: Training    The satisfied inept – staff as well as students 13% get information from the Library But it’s also a:      cybersandpit dating agency learning space 7x24 chatroom Training ground
Slide 34: Data preservation and trusted repositories   Clearing the study Building research collections for the future  EVERYBODY has something to contribute   Digital Asset Management and Curation Repository standards
Slide 35: Trusted Repositories: the five Maori tests      Receive the information with accuracy Store the information with integrity beyond doubt Retrieve the information without amendment Apply appropriate judgement in the use of the information Pass the information on appropriately
Slide 36: Where we are now       Hybrid libraries Google and the satisfied inept Struggling with redefinition of scholarly communication Big deals (ending?) E-books are toys Images the next frontier?
Slide 37: The global village in 2003      $30 annual income 90% unemployment 18hr a day power cuts Life expectancy declining Unlimited access to ejournals
Slide 38: The future…..?
Slide 39: The Options 1. 2. 3. 4. Stunned amazement – the Homer Simpson approach Cynicism – the Rhett Butler approach Aggression – the Monty Python approach Be ahead of the game – the Road Runner approach
Slide 40: Road Runners Rool, OK      Grown up thinking Joined up networks Seamless Martini education Capitalism and communism according to Keynes A people at ease with a knowledge society having survived the information revolution
Slide 41: Conclusion      Digital libraries are a social phenomenon as much as a technical one Communities cut across geography as well as class and function There is a lot of money available for creating collections Every library has – or should have – a collection to contribute He who pays the piper may call the tune – but may not get an audience
Slide 42: The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902