So, good morning. I'm emily morten events,
from the University of Pensulinia, we colorselves pen, usually.
In 2017, we began an every to darkeman and rationalize
platforms for a digital library.
We call the group doing this are platforms group.
And it was compositive asociated and assistant university, librarians,
and carried are suited then very involved in an initiierting,
digital library projects.
And I'm the can vena of the script.
Ray to way, it raise the lot of questions
about what is and is in
a digital library
Purposes of this work, we considered to be.
And you think accessible for the web, that we own are curry.
So that includes oliver digital project, but not electronic ressources that relace sense.
I will can first that we had a bit of a
history of adding platforms without regard to sustainability and terms of post long to slaft time,
comparteability with other systems or exits strategies.
Many of the systems look to like good choices in
terms of like the exact context where they rechosing,
but then when you kind of zoom
down and scope or time, they seems elittle out and
there are some service strange over all labs.
So more this was frankly born of time crunchise and a
like of communication
So, someone has a project where they need the point material online this semester.
Night in some mythical future where IT or all their working
groups have come up with the perfect workflow for all the stuff.
So, interestingably, they were just reach for that tool
that they know if that allows them to a complish that merce directly.
So, this hask for us of it ministrators was the
first group and a long time to sit down and brainstorm out the systems.
And their purposes, go back, we feel that a
lot of spreadsheets, it was kind of exastive and exasting.
And we energy people around the library,
to find that what they were usingly systems for today
Trade to remember why these ecisions where made,
of see what was still in yours are not.
And it least the few cases we under the things,
that were already effectively depricated,
or we found people who were doing similar work without being
aware of the other person doing it.
And we also talk to people who had really novel collections
that we didn't have supported for you.
So just sort of one example, if we are this
played out. We will lot of collections if what one
of our colleagues caused pictures of books.
And we also have a lot of foto collections that we
were these like single
image objects
So, some of the places, we could display these,
includes that DLA, this is a homegrown product,
called the digital library architecture.
It's provide support for things, like faciting and paged turning.
But the technologies it's based on a very outdated. And so,
it's been targeted for a deplocation, but it is still life.
We also used J-Star form, which was formerly now the
shared shelf. We have a significant amount of material,
displayed on stand and alone excited or collection websites,
some our collection websites our rar hTML and others are confusion.
The cult fusion wents are definitely targeted for captaprication.
Are websayed is done intereble, we could aviusly use that
to display things
We also use DPLA, that digital public library of America and how did trusts.
We please images, there are depending on the collection and purpose.
So if you were library and our careator at our institution
with a thatcher things that you wanted to display.
There was an a lot of guidance,
are even a very transparent rational, for what you put where,
who would do the work of posting are injusting and and what
the future card for content on these platforms with the?
Meanwhile, the IT-Department, that are as how do it you
been making ever it story tire some of those other technologies.
And the platforms good, by sort of listing out,
what was are alable did increase by an for that ever
But it also underlands in legendimit reasons for deplication.
For example, we do need jay start form,
because it provides and application for stuff to working,
as they create netted data for image assets.
It also puts those images in the context of art store,
which is where are are users from the art and design departments are often working.
So it was an all about, you know,
trying to find things to shot down. The team,
also charged everyope to pilot a GEF Special Pordell,
because in the course of our research,
we discovered there were some emerging collections,
that we're not supported by any of our platforms.
So that's in example,
it have new platforms are arrandscope,
if they're eprepariert
The resultive of this governance effort has been increased clarity about
why we're using these platforms. So that we can make
more duditional systems about let to adapt or what hirre a tire.
And gives stuff less and biggie with advice about what to do with the reflections.
While the governance scary was caring on these this discussions are a
some viral fittoure, rerepository, which we can colender.
Reach to the point of material, where we were really
putting a significant of that amount of material and it.
And this edit of bit of a confusing twest for governance efforts.
When we did been talking about digital libraries,
my colleagues, more mostling interested and access and context
Access first in the sense of, it's on the web
and you can point people to it, send the electorate.
And context in the sense of having available in places that
users would find in the course of the research.
So this is like the literal discovery part of discovery.
You're searching in our cardology, find something of interest
and there's a link to the digit heißt object.
But what we did not talk about very much with preservation.
And we do think about our digital library business in the view our users.
It really does have primarily to do with Access in context.
Lot of the preservation features are non-functional over clients.
There's very important non-functional our equirements
Now, Calindo, was envision, to do about this.
So definitely the preservation, but also to have a friend end,
where you saw is could search a mongling objects and inspect the material structely.
We invision that some materials will cole existent different contacts.
But some would be only in collender, because not everything
is a part of a larger or more part in collection.
And supporting this kind of edge cases and one us,
so it's one of our major, this line considerations that
we discussed in our paper it or our last year.
And now they think we discussed last year,
was training to Nicolanda extremely agnostic about for nots.
So that in the three any for not of file
or objects could be put there.
But just because it the way to put any all thing
on the way, didn't mean that we founded our use
or use
See that way interest, but anything that.
So this was some new thinking for us, because some stuff
did have this tendency of a follow that path
of least resistance to putting things on the web.
And we're saying, okay, but slow down,
like, we wanted talk to you about your collection.
So Kalinder and to this discussion, as a platform that
partially or tagonal to the other platforms and personally night.
So for some materials the solution, like be,
we're going put it and JFOS,
Case store for am and Kalinder, or our mega and Kalinder.
And other things all may for Kalinder. So now kid
is going to sort of get deeper and and talk
about some of the work,
she did to analyse and prioritize and support these specific inner sections,
between Kalinder and the other platforms
Thanks emily. So in my work developing colender as emily said,
we want it something generalizable enough, that we could up
policy driven strategy, rather than one of technological limitations.
How ever that means careful consideration for work us into the repository.
And what relationships with other platforms looks like.
For can look that was easy,
when it big record exists for an object within our IRLS,
then that discripting record becomes the ecanological source of discriptive
medidate for the object in the repository
If in Objekt is resurred included, with mediate a crosswalk from Arcadelot,
a link to the keller look repert from the object in
the repository, is a sufficient relationship tween the two?
You also have these one going geo special data,
experiments as emily was mentioning. It's interesting with the repository comes,
where we have rich mediated in the repository,
that can be transformed into geospecial data.
And let it to launched cournets and put through that a
visualization Plattform. And so here this,
were using geal black late in this that's project to stone,
it's necessant faces,
but we clicked to the subsection of Objects from the repository,
that have a lot of address level and place
name level mediated associated with them
That were able to help researchers, answer questions about how
these businesses in the United States migrated overtime as they advanced.
And we have here, you can see,
we're linking back, it's kind of hard to see,
but we're using the representation in Column, to represent the stable,
unique, identify that's reparted for GEO-Data,
because we're already getting that there.
And so then they people can link back to this and
get more information of out each individual intry industry special data said.
We was a recently role that in hans access for AV-Materials im Colender.
These sees in disrotations and our usual file types,
such as webber cuts or
Opens up a lot of doors for what content stuff.
They wante put into colenda is it now become they private matic,
part of ly is resistance, if that next sense. Now,
with all these features and possibility in red platforms to be,
we ask perselves, where is replication of assets acceptable,
when economical carby, exists somewhere else with commitment that it people served long term.
So on like the fracing of that question in general,
we strive for simplicity, and not have to new phouse
around to wolf and once to save and sound in their pository.
We analyse a purpose of every platform,
we bring and in the German, is this a femeral lightweight enough,
that it is not need a complex three way to dynamic,
we query
our pository in real time. And this is a real
thing to taking to consideration
But a tough a question is, for the more,
if we enboard on that complex path,
what are the channels for harvesting, into that of the Plattform,
how far of the beaten plath,
we want to go to implement them.
Or finding that if a platforms really required on carbis of something,
there we I don't need those Plattforms,
or you're need to concern ourselves with the low costs of republication between them.
And example, we're republication is not ideal is open. This application at Penn-Mibraries,
serves full resolution digital assets and netted data and provides programmatic assets,
to the communed line, but researchers to that data,
but it is a cyle low.
And the high percentage of the content,
is other already in or slated to go into colendor
for long
term preservation
Providings and programmatic access functionality overpent in Kolender, is doable.
Particularly with the new streaming file down that feature road out.
So then coming with the sheer value of the deplocation cross
is to platforms, makes it an easy decision.
Integrate, don't do placate. And we also have a mega,
with for using as a new home for our online exit,
it's some of this cold fusion sites, amily mentioned and of you others.
Since many of the assets for these exhibits,
living Kolender, initially with how to try to use
or build a platform that would directly queery colender and surf-outdocs
correct from our pository
It's sonst poly coal, like. But in practice,
this is a saltra complicated. As most platform strategical,
70s or design to exist as static cylos. And that makes sense
given the purpose who was we want to use them.
Exhibits, exist, as his sort of snapshot in time of
a heavy curited said, but objects and researched information.
In the narrcase are of in digital digital circuits for temporary
physical exhibits in the library. So you do side it
on a merkel. And we decided that curate or should upload
content to eviduce from a merkel from a merkel
from client into a merkel. And that the complex period
of dynamically point content with a level of complication,
that was actually not suitable for road we're tring to do
it with on merkel
And finally we have this new potential use case.
The fisher fine outs materials collection is very much a physical
collection of art materials that we have started on cycle.
I mean, simples are currently of one
J-Store Dreck. I have a few examples are peer,
we have see you can see there some physical planes
or its paint there's paper made out of radies is.
And this is a personal favorite of mine. And I
would our personally love to see the platforms group say,
what's put this in the repository.
But we have to consider how users in a ract to these materials.
If the online presence is peerally allayer for people to discover that we have these materials,
so that they can come in and physically engaged with them.
And that's the true way,
the you understand your art that,
then what is the benefit of just putting use image is
into our pository
Is there one. We don't yet now. So it all
this livers content, we have to said priorities and realized
that not everything needs the level preservation collin to provides.
We have some content to we consider viable enough to curity make a villable,
but understand that we whatever changed one day,
we made not more longer have that exact copy and that exact content and that's okay.
The guidant that we've said up our,
if you can't be to scribe, I didn't really break
it our own medidate is femer, then we can't put
it in their pository. If it's not unique,
or there were somebody all this already preserving it as where,
then we deep riour tizen in favor of more at rescobjects
Und finally with a our komplexen Bargos oder Privacy,
issues, were we putting with data at risk,
then were different on lother and until you get a better
sense of how people want to state to be access.
In edition to those equirements, we priored dise open access.
So anything unique to us that has know access restriction
can into theory go to the top of the list.
And the spot our concerns about thorian Bargos,
if there's material in that complex conditions of which would the primary stuarts,
then into colend, we wanted to go.
We've all this information, where discolend to fit into the platform,
ecosystem that Emily discribed. The repository is not one size,
it's all,
but we use it as a base line for preservation and
attempt to active we managed technical that in terms of the
number of access platforms,
we have or doubth its use
Colinda Rooms Larginal overall Plattform Strategy, but it's general builty
the injust any object. Next it ecomply preservation tool,
but not necessarily the ideal user experience,
accessolution for any given type of Object.
So now going to try to back over the Emily to
let you know a we and up.
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yes all tippy. Okay. I'm just going to hold
on turn. Okay. So are current startups is this,
we're do not have what I would call and overarching system
of IT-Governance that covers oliver approaching,
purchasing,
client support website and everything us
I wish when that. But we do have über
voice this committed group that managers how we support digital library
content through the software platforms access and stereotype.
It takes into account the audience and format.
And this body is able to act on concessorations of preservation
and technical that in concert with these pressive user needs.
In the universe of platforms that are are group super intents.
Colinda is like a foundation or a substreet, or frame
this very firm reliable that basic level of service to everything else.
And for some material that basics organably as pharisic goes.
For others, additional access points or pretty
Kalender maint he remains, the canonical cappy for the object
and it's metadater. And it's the only preservation person cappy.
And this way, we can start to manager or technical
that by rereducing platform over a lot or be can,
promote clarity and safety for the objects and our digital library.
Well, still a limbing library ins and caritors a certain
leader tood and how they want to present things.
So when we retalking over this people, I said this
cate and aerotalking about it, is kind of like, I'm messi
much messire form of the or to know highter reversion.
So and we had many of these platforms long before the repository.
We have like heads that are in tached to the body
Heads that existed, before we built the body.
So it's not really very much like a hydra.
But it's working for us. So this messing the success,
but the mercine is excess of the level of non-channonical access cabis.
And websites that we may expect to be relatively short left.
So we keeping that sort of churn and risk at arms
link from my preservation system. And as are final point,
well, we recognize that access might require,
a certain man of letting all the flowers bloom.
For preservation, we do want to a serve that colender
is visolution for the Pen librars.
This is because the design with so general in Basic,
that it was It's so far in composites,
everything we know about that we want to perserve.
If in the future, we somehow came up with something,
may couldn't be a commidate it in Colender.
Are intention and are commitment would be to add supported in
Colender and not create additional repository systems.
And so far, we've been über the hold the line on that.
Thanks we coming to this talk and were hoping to continue
to the discussion with other libraries and institutions that are dealing
with having this big array of system start for the
users things