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Latvian Digital Library as a Latvian Digital Library as a Resource for Life-long LearningResource for Life-long Learning
Uldis StraujumsLecturer, University of Latvia,
Information System Designer, National Library of Latvia
Baltic IT&T 2007, April 20, 2007
Digital library
• digital library and virtual library have begun to be used to refer to the vast collections of information to which people gain access over the Internet, cable television, or some other type of remote electronic connection. www.eb.com
• A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. www.wikipedia.org
Library 2.0 - an interactive library
Library 2.0 (L2) is a transformation in the way library services are delivered to library users. It provides new tools to make the library space (both virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative and driven by community needs. It encourages collaborative two-way social interactions between library staff and library customers. L2 requires user participation and feedback in the development and maintenance of library services. http://liswiki.org
Digital library – one of Library 2.0 manifestations
Goals and volume of the Latvian Digital Library “Letonica”
• Ensuring the preservation of digital heritage (both digitized and digitally born resources)
• Arrangement and description of reliable information for quick and effective search
• Long-term accessibility of national digital resources within the framework of legal rights of every individual
• Creation of information space in cooperation by archives, libraries and museums for life-long learning for different target groups
• Encouraging information consumers to become information creators
• Reducing the digital divide in regions due to the content formed on the base of national resources - Lightnet
• Realizing international innovative research in the field of digitization
Target groups
• The society’s interests will dictate the content of the digital library
• The most significant target groups will be pupils, students, teachers, researchers needing in their everyday’s life new information
• In the future these users will be able to participate in content creation
• The digital library will improve the learning content and process both in formal and informal education
Strategy of Latvian Digital Library
Pillars of the stategy:• Previous achievements• Experience • Project of the LNB new building
Strategy
• Digitization of the most valuable part of collections and bibliographical descriptions• Creation of new metadata and conversion of manual catalogs• Creation of uniform information space in Internet, joining parts of collections from archives, libraries and museums• Creation of Latvian Internet resource repository – harvesting and archiving
Previous achievements
Free access on LNB site www.lnb.lv:
• 35 000 newspapers - 80 titles, about 200 000 pages;• 3000 portraits; • 737 posters;• 552 exlibris;• 357 postcards;• 130 historical maps;• 116 prints;• 7 full scores;• 2 e-books;
Digital Object Management System
• Technological platform:
– Servers
– Computers
– Software
– Networks
DOM tasks [1]
• Preservation and access
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• Transfer
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DOM tasks [3]
• Access management
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Latvian DOM [1]
• Architecture developed:– British Library’s experience taken into
account– Specifics of Latvia
Latvian DOM [2]
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DOM Implementation
• DOM platform till end of 2007:– Specifications (Sept. – Nov. 2006)– Tender procedure (Nov. – Dec. 2006)– Hardware purchase (Mar. – Apr. 2007)– System development (Okt. 2007)
Metadata requirements
• Metadata allows the user to find the digital object independent of it’s type
• Metadata element set can be used by all participating institutions for resource description
Metadata solution
Two level structure:• Requirements of Unified Latvian Information
System IVIS• Requirements of international organizations
and projects (DLF, NISO, TEL)
Metadata structure
Object
Dublin Core metadata
Object type specific descriptive metadata
Administrative metadata
Structural metadata
Metadata content
Minimal level:
• The European Library TEL Object Application profile v.1.5.
• Identifiers of Unified Latvian Information System IVIS
User view (score)
Metadata creator view (score)
Digitization handbook
Handbook developed by Digital libraries competency center in 2007
Digital collection “Jāzeps Vītols”
Digital collection “Jāzeps Vītols”
Composition in handwriting and digital format
Score“Pie tava augstā baltā loga”
DjVu file
Turnable digital pages
Interactive digital collections
• LNB has started to coordinate the development of interactive collections:
– “ My photos”• Individual’s view on important events in Latvia
– “Lost Latvia”• Memories about vanished natural memorials
and other objects in Latvia• Resources from libraries, archives, museums
and private collections
Management structure of project “Lost Latvia”
LNB
Rajonabibliotēka
Rajonabibliotēka
Latvijas Akadēmiskā
bibliotēka
Pagasta bibliotēka
Skolasbibliotēka
Pagasta bibliotēka
Rajonamuzejs
Privāt-persona
Skolas bibliotēka
Muzejs Arhīvs
Research
Latvian Digital Library is the only one in Baltic region working on:
• Interactivity, personalization• Semantical ontology of digitization• Innovative approach to OCR and indexing• Semantical filters• Natural language processing and analysis • User knowledge base integration
