Distributed digital libraries infrastructure in Poland Adam Dudczak, Cezary Mazurek, Marcin Werla

EDLocal Kick-off meeting, London, UK, 26.06.2008

PSNC Activities

• Operator of Poznań Metropolitan Area Network POZMAN • Operator of Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER • HPC Center with Systems and Network Security Center • Research and Development Center

GÉANT 10+10 Gb/s

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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New Generation Networks

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Distributed Computing

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Portals and Content Management

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Security

PSNC Activities related to digital libraries

• First works started in 1996 • dLibra Digital Library Framework (since 1999) • Digital Library of Wielkopolska (since 2002) • Annual workshop „Digital Libraries” (since 2004) • National research project „Mechanisms of atomic services for distributed digital libraries” (2006 - 2008) • Digital Libraries Federation (since 2007) • eContent

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project ENRICH (2007-2009) • eContent

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project EDLocal (2008-2011)

dLibra Digital Library Framework

• First Polish software for building digital libraries • Developed since 1999, ver. 4.0 since January 2008 • Currently the most popular digital library software in Poland • About 30 deployments, used by over 200 of institutions • Built in Java with service-oriented architecture • Compatible with OAI-PMH, RSS, RDF etc. • Supports coordination of digitization • ………

http://dlibra.psnc.pl/

Digital Library of Wielkopolska

• Regional digital library with resources related to history and culture of the Wielkopolska region, valuable cultural heritage materials and scientific publications • Available since Oct 2002 • The largest digital library in Poland with more than 60 000 digital objects grouped in thematic collections • 200 000 visitors and 2.5 mln hits each month • Maintained by PSNC and Poznań Foundation of Scientific Libraries

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/

Annual workshop „Digital Libraries”

• Annual national meetings of librarians, computer scientists and other people interested in digital libraries • Over 50 participants each year • 2 or 3 days of presentations, tutorials and discussions about digital libraries in national and international context • Also a meeting of dLibra software users – great opportunity for feedback and discussion on the directions of dLibra development

National research project „Mechanisms of atomic services…”

• Research project funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education • Main goals: – Functional analysis of digital libraries systems and models – Division of digital library functionality into several atomic services – Design of data model and REST communication protocols for defined services – Design of discovery, composition, monitoring and management mechanism for defined services – Sample applications

Digital Libraries Federation

• Next level of distributed digital libraries infrastructure in Poland • Central service maintained by PSNC, available since June 2007 • Harvests Dublin Core metadata from all OAI-PMH compatible Polish digital libraries • Currently holds metadata of over 145 000 digital objects from 20 digital libraries

http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/

Digital Libraries Federation

• Harvested metadata is the basis for advanced services available in the federation: – Search in the metadata of digitized objects and objects planned for digitization – Resolution of unique OAI identifiers of digital objects – Automated coordination of digitization • Report with objects planned for digitization • Automated duplicates detection mechanism • Mechanism for avoiding duplicated digitization efforts – Statistics on the harvested metadata

Digital Libraries Federation

• Ease of use and promotion of Polish digital resources – Mini search-box embeddable in any web site or blog – Mini search-box as iGoogle gadget – OpenSearch plugin for web browsers • Built-in in the official Polish release of Firefox 3

eContent

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project ENRICH

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European Networking Resources and Information concerning Cultural Heritage

• Main aim: to create seamless access to distributed information about manuscripts and rare old printed books in Europe on the Manuscriptorium platform • 18 partners, 24 months, coordinated by the National Library of Czech Republic

http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/

Thank you

 Cezary: [email protected]

Adam: [email protected]

Marcin: [email protected]

http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/ http://dlibra.psnc.pl/