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Digital Libraries and the Intellectual and Economic UniverseEileen Dolan, Wiley InterScience Michael Lesk, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services Moderator Dave McArthur, NSDL Sustainability Committee PresentationsDave McArthur -- IntroductionEileen Dolan -- Sustaining Digital Libraries, A Publishers Perspective Michael Lesk -- Paying for Digital Libraries Joyce Ray -- Cultural Heritage Online Notes - Digital Libraries and the Intellectual and Economic UniverseEileen Dolan - Sustaining Digital Libraries, A Publishers PerspectivePerspective of NSDL - broad, covering everything in the information cycle Do you have what you need? You can't be all things to all people Research Cycle - it's good to look at everything, but a sustainable model needs to be scaled down Information Cycle is pretty broad from authoring to storage
What I saw in NSDL poster session are the things I worry about too
People start in many areas to find information - your portal or Google Licensing Deals - robust, scalable - but publishers can't build everything themselves Consultancy - workgroups at university or commercial level help them think through issues - back end, interoperability, discoverability, search engines - giving advice to help them move forward - long or short term Partnering - tighter integration - certain objective and they work together to get there - share costs Good partnering is a learned skill - difficult to sustain - need to understand objectives of all parties Hot Topics - where focus is centered
Things that Greg Crane mentioned are items that publishers are just now getting into
collaborations that have worked Microsoft, Google, Amazon are successes
they look to "us"? for standards noise around usage stats and analysis few places to get good, validated research opportunity to provide info on usage to commercial entities it's about access to information who you think you're reaching is not always who you are reaching Question from Dave - When you saw NSDL posters, did any connections come to mind?
people go for pdf's metadata, interface, and interoperability of structured content are big topics with Eileen Question from Audience - Do you have anything to share with NSDL for free?
Michael Lesk - Paying for Digital LibrariesI don't see a quick, easy way to afford what is the grand plan, so we need to think about what we can do that we CAN afford. it is hard because of the costs of transitions - libraries are typically funded by a typical community - when very few users of your DL are in that community, univ president says, why exactly are we paying for this - so they do minimum possible and say that students will find info somewhere else In a world of chains, why do we have independently owned libraries? Digitization is taking over - LoC sent out far more from website than reading room We can now afford to store vast amounts of stuff online ?? also grows on log scale There is lots of stuff out there - is it what we want? how do we pay for it?
The cost of a library is not about shelf space (if it was, microfilm would have won). large savings in storage area - for disk rather than book front-end work represents most of money - we need a way to do that better typical user is not in community paying online subscriptions are increasing but Lesk doesn't think that WSJ can sustain at their current rate can't compete with free - but some industries have PLOS - public library of science
look not at how ???, but look at how can we do it online for free
pressure in direction of ??people sitting at desks doing more work
2 things that seem to work - library subscriptions, author-page charges (paid by institutions)
?? doesn't want to cede control of who runs univ lib information budget what of underlying technology and metadata is actually doing students some good? Question - What about a hybrid business model - meter end user access to lesser used resources & bulk pay for more used resources?
Question - Why not univ who have good resources try to share them?
Comment - We have technologies that make it so that almost anyone can access anything but we have pricing schemes that make it so that almost no one can. We have to reconcile these. Joyce Ray - Cultural Heritage OnlineIMLS
Colorado Digitization Project
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but we still have problem of individual collections and bridging content
knowledge integration - particularly across museums and libraries' content integrate
??? is an event-centric model - authors and artists at the same time metadata extraction is an important area as well what are the principles of a good digital library?
transform LIS - support schools of Library Science IMLS web site Panel QuestionsQuestion - Is it possible to have hybrid model to provide access .. Lesk - ?? haven't seen it work - seen a lot of libraries do gateways but haven't seen - would like to believe possible, but can't point to working instance McArthur - we tend to gravitate to value-added services - believe that it is critical to making content valuable Dolan - need to address that value-added services are expected Question - What do we need to do in content direction to move toward more rational model of copyright? We probably don't need to fully protect ??? institution repository? What does community like this do to try to move to find compromises with publishers so that they have viable business models but over time can make content available? Dolan - discussions are happening, but happending one on one, recording industry for example
Question - You said publishers are risk averse but you can't tell us what you view as publishers IP and what is others' IP? Is it loss of ??? or loss of IP for future? Dolan - both risky - long-term, IP plays key component - cornerstone of business models and distriubtion models, not a single-faceted concept for publisherspublisher community feels strongly about IP and protecting IP - it's about tweaking and thinking through publishers don't do everything for revenue today - people have more access to information - that's b/c we went digital our expectations have changed - we want it (information) now, no waiting - it's not so much is information available anymore but how long do i have to wait to get it McArthur - barriers Question - Most discussions are in the context of university - but share how things are different if talking about K-12? Ray - teachers & students will use content, but they say you cannot underestimate the lack of knowledge teachers have about lack of technology, lack of access to quality equipment, and lack of access to funding to get it CommentsPlease enter any comments in the following format.
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