NELLI, The Finnish National Electronic Library Interface

Ari Rouvari

9. - 11.6.2004

ELAG 2004

Trondheim

TOPICS

• Visions and aims• Implementing situation in Finland • Consortia model• Authentication / Authorization• User interface fetishism • The service core, The Triangle• An example of the use of Triangle

The Value Chain of Digital Library Services

Acquiring of digital resources

FinELib

Digitisation of cultural heritage

Mikkeli

Archiving of digital resources User

interface

”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF

1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)• user interface / Authentication

• metasearch

• linking resolver & access restriction

2. Library system (Voyager)• description metadata

3. Document archive(Encompass)• technical metadata

• repository

Standard-base, standard interfaces• openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc

Portal

library

system

Document

archive

Z39.50ZING

OpenURL

CUSTOMERS & VISIONS

CUSTOMERS: Entire Finland• 20 university libraries (2004)• 30 polytechnics (2005)• (450) public libraries (2005)

20 regional libraries• research lib. (later)

VISIONS & AIMS• Easy-to-use• One-stop-shop• Single sign on • One search, all services• Centralized maintaining &

management• One server for the entire nation• Local user interfaces • tailoring• Local services• Collaborative development of services

Keep it simple stupid!

USER INTERFACE FETISHISM

Nelli-portal:• Local interfaces• Regional interfaces• National interfaces

Library system• OPACs

Document archive

Customer oriented way

More is better?

Nelli organization

• 14 000 ejournals• 175 databases• OPACs

• Nelli staff (Ari & Henri)• The Portal team (9)• local project managers (20)• local trainers (10)

document archive LS-

team

Portal team

The Triangle team

Nelli-portal in consortia environment

Centralized tasks:• co-ordinating the project• implementing / maintaining• updating SFX/Metalib• SFX activiting instructions• configuration (Metalib)• descriptions of resources• user interfaces (multi-

languages)• Development of services

Local tasks:• Authentication• Activating SFX-targets• Copying of conf. Files• Copying of descriptions• Local tailoring• Local services• training

Authentication & authorization

1. LDAP2. Remote

authentication hook• CGI-program• Shibboleth

– esay-to-use– Secure– Standard base

• IP address ranges• Shibboleth ?

Shibboleth authentication

Nelli-portal

Shibbolethtarget site= proxy

Home campus

3. Auth. OK

1. select home campus

2. Auth. starts

Shibbolethorigin site

login &password

LDAPdirectory

4. Attribute request

5. Response attr: email address

remote authenticationCGI-hook

Shibboleth authorization (vision)

Nelli-portalHome campus

SFX-target:ejournal database

Attribute Authority

Authentication

Handle service

SFX Resolver

Attribute query

Attribute resonse / pass on attributes

Metaserachtarget dbs

”THE TRIANGLE” CONSIST OF

1. The portal (Metalib/SFX)• user interface / Authentication

• metasearch

• linking resolver & access restriction

2. Library system (Voyager)• description metadata

3. Document archive(Encompass)• technical metadata

• repository

Standard-base, standard interfaces• openURL, Z39.50, Zing, Marc

Portal

library

system

Document

archive

Z39.50ZING

OpenURL

one scenario: digital music collection (legal deposit copies)

Search interface

Nelli-portal

Targetdatabase

Linnea-library system

Z39.50

recordsaccess control

SFX-resolverdigital archive

digital objects

special metadata

restrict access by collections

OpenUrl

OpenUrl

THE RESOURCE MAP OF FINNISH ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Australian Libraries Gateway

Scottish Collections Network, SCONE

Describe

DCCD application

Evaluate

Conspectus method

CONCLUSION

Creative & innovative staff

Open Access

Librarians should

support free Information

Keep it simple stupid!

Technical environment

• Sun Fire 4800 and Solaris-OS• Software: Apache, MySQL, Oracle• Technical maintenance (patches in OS, all the

backups) by CSC, the Finnish IT center for science

• Connecting to the Funet Backbone Network

Strenghts & Weaknesses

+ Applications/softwares

+ ExLibris help desk

+ Management tools

+ SFX, it’s magic

+ SFX KDB

+ Exlibris attidute

- multi-language

- Consortia model

- Usability/ Quick search

- Ejournal tool

- Metalib statistics