The interplay between local and national solutions

Birte Christensen-DalsgaardState and University Library

Outline of the talk

• Local - National - International• Danish Electronic Library - Local library

– Journals

– Subject Gateway

– Catalogue

• Development approach of SB• Summary

Interplay between local and national..

• SB Danish Electronic Library International

• SB Aarhus university Danish Virtual University

• SB ALM institutions

Centralised

Decentralised

Competitionor

Synergy

Electronic Journals

Maintenance of data

• A data object should be created once

• Don’t overlap work on maintenance

• Optimise maintenance

• User data should be maintained locally (LDAP)

• Bibliographical data created centrally

• Administrative data should be maintained locally

• On-line subscription data maintained centrally

Budget

• National• University• Library

Subject gateways

• Service tailored to user communitybut

• Do we all need to select and classify resources?

Alternative methodologies- technical (e.g. OAi)- organisational (how do we split the work - if we need to do it)

Local-national-international

Index

Subject, region,….

Quality

Catalogue

Responsetime

Today DaysNow

Library A

Catalogue

Own development

DEF

JournalsLinksDigital

resources

Navigation

DEF Catalogue

Library A

Library B

Library C

Navigation

data

data

data

Common data

Link Etc.

Catalogue

Links

On-line Journal

data

Search Engine

Own Developed software

DEF developed/purchased software

Local data

SB development - Web

• User- and library involvement– Focus on different needs of different target groups

– Shared components - if possible

• Technical platform– J2EE

– Open Source (JBOSS and TOMCAT)

– Portlets (Jetspeed)

Common Services

• Links - subjectgateways • (Electronic) journals• Education• Search engines• Webvise- and similar• DEF-key (LDAP)• etc.

Summary

• Optimise relative to object and its description (-> central)

• Optimise maintenance of data(-> local)

• Customise relative to target group, user involvement

• Delivery time is a parameter• Money flow has to be taken into account• Quality has to be guaranteed