Transcript Texas Digital Library

A digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities
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Overview of Talk
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Challenges
Partners
Goal
Location
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TDL Management
5 Year Plan
TDL Membership Opportunities
Impacts
Discussion/Questions
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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
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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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From the user’s perspective:
Access
www.tdl.org, Google, etc.
Services
Scholarly Publishing (TDL Press), Collection Management, etc.
Repository
Content
Faculty
archives
Preservation
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Current
faculty
research:
preprints,
postprints,
datasets
Electronic
Theses
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Dissertations
Technical
Report
Series
Learning
Object
Repositories
Storage Network
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LEARN
• Lonestar Education and Research Network
• 1 Gigabit Dedicated Link for TDL
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TDL Architectural Layers
Services
Institutional Repositories
Learning Object Repositories
Scholarly publishing
Collection management
Preservation
Enablers
DSpace
Fedora
ADORE
SAKAI
Open Journal System
Eprints
Dpubs
Contributed staff
Middleware
Shibboleth
OAI-PMH
Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
Preservation Software (eg LOCKSS)
Workflow
Directory Services
Network and Computing
Internet/Internet 2
Tigre/Learn
Storage/Server Systems
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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]
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TDL Management
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Executive Committee
Co-Directors
John Leggett
Mark McFarland
Official Staff
Administrative Assistant
Hillary Spiller
Systems Administrator
Phillip Mattingly
Working Groups
Computing Infrastructure
ETD
Repositories
Cataloging/Metadata
Web Oversight
Coming Soon: Collection
Management
UT Repositories Bridge Group
Systems Programmer
Jay Paz
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
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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
UT Repository Bridge Group
• Bridge Group Co-Chairs: Aaron Choate and Lexie ThompsonYoung
• 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.
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https://sharepoint.lib.utexas.edu/texasdigitallibrary
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5 Year Plan
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Start-Up
Plan
Demonstrate
Deploy
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)
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Year 2: Plan
2006-2007
Plan infrastructure and develop policies for content submission and
management
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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: Demonstrate
2007-2008
Demonstrate infrastructure and policies for content submission and
management
Year 4: Deploy
2008-2009
Deploy infrastructure and policies for content submission
throughout Texas
Year 5: Assess
2009-2010
Assess impact of TDL services on higher education in Texas
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Next 12 months:
Major
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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
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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
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Increases the institution’s visibility and impact
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Increases accessibility to scholarship and research
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Increases competitiveness for research funding
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Maximizes the research capabilities of faculties by increasing the pace of
scholarly dissemination and discovery
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Increases stature as a leader in developing new working models for
publication and dissemination of scholarly, research, and educational
information
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Advances core teaching and research missions by fostering innovation in
education and research
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Preserves intellectual assets for future generations of researchers, teachers,
students, and scholars
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Discussion/Questions
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