4. Age of information
By 2010 60% already working in the field of information
http://www.tdan.com/print/5406
Acks to R Todd Stephens
5. Digitally speaking …
Ability to store increasing amounts of data – storage units
are smaller, storage is cheaper, and more data is able to be
stored
Millions of web sites (difficult to measure)
30 million+ document pages communicated each day
So we can store huge amounts of data, we can transmit huge
amounts of data so now we have huge amounts of data
data managing information creating knowledge
6. Traditionally …
Libraries house collections of text based resources
books, journals, newspapers
Archives have personal and institutional records
Museums have physical artefacts
Art galleries house physical visual resources
paintings, art works
7. Digital technology blurring the lines
types of resources
types of institutions
data and datastreams in a digital environment
content across physical boundaries
User focus is on finding relevant INFORMATION
regardless of format or location
10. Changing user expectations
On-line access and searching
Open access
Resource and data access
One-stop searching
Links to related information
Full-text articles
Value added services
Social networking
Provide USERS with what they need
11. Integration of physical and digital libraries
Library ILS systems
OPAC
Institutional Repository
Digital Projects
ONE STOP SEARCHING
13. Human resources
Human resources = most valuable asset
New skills, specialised skills
New career opportunities
Change management
Active vs passive role
Overcome resistance
Motivation
Leadership development
14. New roles and functions
strategic planning
staff management
report writing
project management
digital rights management
production management
metadata production
proposal writing
21. Financial resources
Budgets
Financial planning
Fund raising
Funding proposals
Financial management
Revenue generation
business planning, marketing, sales and other
outreach activities, advertising
Sound business principles
22. Research output
Research output
Resources created in the process
of academic research
23. Research output from University staff
Academic research papers
Research data sets
Journal articles
Conference papers
Research project reports
Policy briefs
24. Research output from University students
Theses and dissertations
Research data sets
30. Web 2.0 research sharing
Sharing resources
Re-using resources
Social tagging
Collaboration and annotation
Social enrichment (eg Wikipedia)
Blogging
Slideshare/Twitter/YouTube
32. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
Research output from an individual institutions
• UB, UKZN, Rhodes, Wits, SU, Pretoria
National repository
Research output from several individual institutions
• NRF NETD project (SA)
• ETHOS (UK)
International repository
Research output from several national repositories
• OpenDOAR
33. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
Research output from an individual institutions
• UB, UKZN, Rhodes, Wits, SU, Pretoria
National repository
Research output from several individual institutions
• NRF NETD project (SA)
• ETHOS (UK)
International repository
Research output from several national repositories
• OpenDOAR
35. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
Research output from an individual institutions
• UB, UKZN, Rhodes, Wits, SU, Pretoria
National /regional /consortium repository
Research output from several individual institutions
• NRF NETD project (SA)
• ETHOS (UK)
International repository
Research output from several national repositories
• OpenDOAR
36. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
Research output from an individual institutions
• UB, UKZN, Rhodes, Wits, SU, Pretoria
National repository
Research output from several individual institutions
• NRF NETD project (SA)
• ETHOS (UK)
International repository
Research output from several national repositories
• OpenDOAR
41. OAI-PMH – http protocol
• Open Archives Initiative : Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• Standard for exchange of metadata
• Data providers employ the OAI-PMH to expose structured data,
metadata, in various forms.
• Service providers use the OAI-PMH to harvest the metadata from data
providers
Requires metadata
43. What is Metadata?
Standardised description of a resource that aids in the
discovery, retrieval and preservation of that resource
‘Data about data’
44. Elements Values
dc:title Marxism and history: twenty years of South African Marxist studies
dc:identifier the19880000.042.000
dc:creator Roger Alan Deacon
dc:contributor
dc:publisher
dc:description A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban. This thesis
attempts to contextualize the emergence and development of South African Marxist
studies in terms of political and economic changes in South Africa, the influence of
overseas Marxist and related theories and internal and external historiographical
developments.
dc:language eng
dc:subject POLITICS
dc:subject MARXISM
dc:subject SOCIAL CLASSES
dc:subject TRADE UNIONS
dc:subject THEORY
dc:coverage SOUTH AFRICA
dc:date 1988-00-00
dc:type thesis
dc:source
dc:relation
dc:format text/xml
dc:f ormat Corel PhotoPaint version 12
dc:f ormat Epson Expression 10000XL
dc:f ormat 147 pages
dc:rights University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
51. References:
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age by
Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. February
2003.
http://dspace.uniroma2.it/dspace/bitstream/2108/261/1/ir.html
The future of repositories? Patterns for (Cross-)Repository Architectures.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november08/aschenbrenner/11aschenbrenner.html
This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development
Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
52. This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
