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HTTP://WWW.QU.EDU.QA/ HTTP://WWW.VT.EDU/ Qatar Digital Library Project HTTP://WWW.PSU.EDU/ HTTP://WWW.TAMU.EDU/ Monday, 20 May 2013 1 Qatar Digital Library (QDL) Initiative Workshop #1 Monday, 20 May 2013 08:45 to 14:00 Auditorium Room 117, New Library Qatar University — Doha, Qatar Monday, 20 May 2013 2 Introductions 08:55 – 09:05 Dr. Mohammed Samaka College of Engineering Qatar University — Doha, Qatar Project Co-Lead Principal Investigator Monday, 20 May 2013 3 Qatar Digital Library Project • Global Explosion of information: o More than 30,000 peer-reviewed research journals exist worldwide o 2.5 million articles published per year • Knowledge society requires: o Deep awareness and access to the best content o Real-time research results to assist and improve strategic decision-making Monday, 20 May 2013 4 Qatar Digital Library Project Team Qatar University, Qatar: Virginia Tech, USA: Mohammed Samaka (Ph.D., Co-Lead PI) Edward Fox (Ph.D., Lead-PI) Myrna Tabet Tarek Kanan Khalid AbualSaud Asad Nafees Sumaya Ali S A Al-Maadeed Penn. State University, USA: (Ph.D., Key Investigator) C. Lee Giles (Ph.D., PI) Consultants: Texas A&M, USA: John Impagliazzo (Ph.D., Key Investigator) Richard Furuta (Ph.D., PI) Susan Lukesh (Ph.D.) Hamed Alhoori Carole Thompson Robert Laws This project was made possible by NPRP Grant # 4 - 029 - 1 – 007 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). Monday, 20 May 2013 5 Qatar Digital Library Project Project Mission Transform the use of information in Qatar, moving toward a knowledge society, in accord with the Qatar National Vision 2030. Monday, 20 May 2013 6 Qatar Digital Library Project Project Objectives/Aims A. Research and prototype digital library systems and infrastructure for Qatar, focusing initially on Qatari information related to government and scholarly activities. Leverage the crawling engine fromPenn State‘s SeerSuite software infrastructure, and extend it beyond its current focus on English to support Arabic-English collections, and to cover a broad range of scholarly disciplines, and all types of government information. B. Research and build the digital library community in Qatar, supporting digital library use, services, collection development, tailored systems, and advancing toward a Knowledge Society. Study scholarly activities, and engage in community building in Qatar, so DLs can be tailored to specific domains and to the unique needs of Qatar. Through workshops, a consulting center at the proposed Institute, and collaborative efforts with libraries and museums in Qatar, we will identify particular needs and uses, and tailor collections, systems, and services, to lead toward the Qatari Knowledge Society. Monday, 20 May 2013 7 Welcoming Comments 09:05 – 09:15 Dr. Rashid Alammari Dean, College of Engineering Qatar University — Doha, Qatar Monday, 20 May 2013 8 Acknowledgment 09:15 – 09:15 This workshop and presentation is due to partial support from a grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) through its National Priority Research Program (NPRP) Number 4-029-1-007 Monday, 20 May 2013 9 Participants Submit Completed QDL Surveys Monday, 20 May 2013 10 Overview of Digital Libraries 09:15 – 09:40 Dr. Edward Fox Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech — Blacksburg, Virginia USA Project Lead Principal Investigator Monday, 20 May 2013 11 Philosophy & Message Collaboration Empowerment Local Uploading National Sharing Regional, Global Open Access Research Education Computing, DL curriculum Digital libraries, Graduate: ETDs Info. retrieval, … Ugrad: Ensemble Monday, 20 May 2013 12 Outline • Acknowledgements • Digital Libraries • NDLTD (electronic theses / dissertations) • Digital Library Curriculum Project • Ensemble (Pathway in US NSDL) • Crisis, Tragedy & Recovery Network (CTRnet) • Saudi Digital Library - SDL Monday, 20 May 2013 13 Acknowledgements • Mentors (Licklider & Kessler 1967-71 MIT, Salton 1978-1983 Cornell) • QNRF, Qatar University, NSF and other sponsors • Students, colleagues, co-investigators • Virginia Tech: Computer Science, Digital Library Research Lab, Information Technology • Collaborators on local, national, and international projects Monday, 20 May 2013 14 DLs — Objectives in 1991 • World Lit.: 24hr / 7day / from desktop • Integrated “super” information systems: 5S: Table of related areas and their coverage • Ubiquitous, Higher Quality, Lower Cost • Education, Knowledge Sharing, Discovery • Disintermediation -> Collaboration • Universities Reclaim Property • Interactive Courseware, Student Works • Scalable, Sustainable, Usable, Useful Monday, 20 May 2013 15 DL Overview: Why of Global Interest? • National projects can preserve antiquities and heritage: cultural, historical, linguistic, scholarly • Knowledge and information are essential to economic and technological growth, education • DL - a domain for international collaboration o wherein all can contribute and benefit o which leverages investment in networking o which provides useful content on Internet & WWW o which will tie nations and peoples together more strongly and through deeper understanding Monday, 20 May 2013 16 Monday, 20 May 2013 17 Libraries of the Future JCR Licklider, 1965, MIT Press World Nation State City Community Monday, 20 May 2013 18 Information Life Cycle Authoring Modifying Using Organizing Creating Indexing Retention / Mining Storing Accessing Retrieving Filtering Distributing Networking Monday, 20 May 2013 19 Digital Library Content Content Types Text Video Geographic Software, Bio Images and Documents Audio Information Programs Information Graphics Articles, Speech, (Aerial) Models Genome 2D, 3D, Reports, Music Photos Simulations Human, VR, Books animal, CAT plant Monday, 20 May 2013 20 Content- Based Information Retrieval Monday, 20 May 2013 21 Digital Objects (DOs) • “Born digital” o Created digitally • Digitized version of “real” object o Is the DO version the same, better, or worse? o Suggestion for documents : structured + rendered • Surrogate for “real” object o Scanned versions o 3D models Monday, 20 May 2013 22 Institutional Repositories • “Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single university or a multiple institution community of colleges and universities.” • Crow, R. “Institutional repository checklist and resource guide”, SPARC, Washington, D.C., USA • www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf Monday, 20 May 2013 23 Goals of Institutional Repositories (by Steven Harnad, University of Southampton) • Self Archiving of Institutional Research o Theses and Dissertations (VTLS NDLTD Project) o Article preprints and post prints o Internal documents and map • Management of digital collections • Preservation of materials – decentralized approach • Housing of teaching materials • Electronic publishing of journals, books, posters, maps, audio, video and other multimedia objects Adapted from Slide by V. Chachra, VTLS Monday, 20 May 2013 24 NDLTD: www.ndltd.org • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) • N D Ltd or “Noodle TD” • Vision: Every thesis and dissertation in the world is: o Devised to take advantage of the most helpful electronic publishing methods o Shared globally and easily found o Supported by a suite of digital library services to aid authors, researchers, learners, universities o Preserved and migrated permanently Monday, 20 May 2013 25 What are we doing? • Aiding universities and nations to enhance graduate education, publishing, preservation (data sets next!), and Intellectual Property Rights efforts • Helping improve the availability and content of (electronic) theses and dissertations (ETDs) • Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish electronically and effectively use digital libraries (i.e., are Information Literate and can be more expressive) http:// curric.dlib.vt.edu/wiki/index.php/ETD_Guide Monday, 20 May 2013 26 Why ETD? Short Answer • For Students: o Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age o Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, …) • For Universities: o Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby • For the World: o Global digital library – large, useful, many services • General: o Save time and money o Increased visibility for all associated with research results Monday, 20 May 2013 27 Monday, 20 May 2013 28 Curriculum Module Template 1. Module name 8. Introductory remedial instruction (the body of knowledge to be taught 2. Scope for the prerequisite knowledge/skills 3. Learning objectives required; completion optional) 4. 5S characteristics of the module 9. Body of knowledge (theory + (streams, structures, spaces, scenarios, practice; an outline that could be used society) as the basis for class lectures) 5. Level of effort required (in-class and 10. Resources (required readings for out-of-class time required for students) students; additional suggested readings for instructor and students) 6. Relationships with other modules (flow between modules) 11. Exercises / Learning activities 7. Prerequisite knowledge/skills 12. Evaluation of learning objective required (what the students need to achievement (graded exercises or know prior to beginning the module; assignments) completion optional; complete only if 13. Glossary prerequisite knowledge/skills are not included in other modules) 14. Additional useful links 15. Contributors (authors of module, reviewers of module) Monday, 20 May 2013 29 DL Curriculum Framework E R E Semester 1: Semester 2: U S T R DL collections: DL services