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1. Slide 1: The Digital Library from Information Superhighway to the Semiotic Web Suzanne C. Pilsk and Martin Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
2. Slide 3: The Scarecrow Dedicated Terminals vs. the Personal Computer
3. Slide 4: Dedicated Terminal • Proprietary • Single function • Expensive • The vendor’s dream machine
4. Slide 5: Dedicated Terminal
5. Slide 6: The Personal Computer • Client/server paradigm • Multi-use • Open (as defined by Microsoft) • Can be expensive • Bill Gates and Andy Groves’ dream machine
6. Slide 7: The Personal Computer
7. Slide 8: The Personal Computer
8. Slide 10: Munchkinland Early Internet Experiments
9. Slide 11: Finger “Finger” is a simple protocol used to retrieve information about users and return the information in a simple string • Weather Conditions • Checking the status of the Coke machine down the hall
10. Slide 12: Anonymous FTP • Transfer of large file sets that the user could reassemble • Mastering the art of spelling “A-N-O-N-Y- M-U-S” Though still useful for various technical operations, as an “end-user” Internet experience, Anonymous FTP’s life is at an end
11. Slide 13: Telnet • Fast, even with a “slow” Internet connection (the remember 2400 baud modem?) • Efficient (the telnet client was usually quite “lite”) • Blinking white letters on a black screen!
12. Slide 14: Gopher • The first widely accepted Internet “publishing” tool • Librarian friendly (who doesn’t love a strict hierarchy of information?) • Acronym friendly
13. Slide 15: LC MARVEL • Library of Congress • Machine • Assisted • Realization (of the) • Virtual • Electronic • Library
14. Slide 16: SI Library Gopher: SILENUS ? • Smithsonian • Institution • Libraries • Electronic • Node (of) • Useful • Stuff
15. Slide 18: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
16. Slide 19: Rescue of the Tin Woodman
17. Slide 20: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
18. Slide 21: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
19. Slide 22: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
20. Slide 23: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
21. Slide 24: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
22. Slide 25: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
23. Slide 26: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
24. Slide 27: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
25. Slide 28: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
26. Slide 29: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
27. Slide 30: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
28. Slide 31: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
29. Slide 32: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
30. Slide 33: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online • Dewey to LC classification (ca. 1965) • Input of data into OCLC (1974) • GEAC (1984) • NOTIS – TELNET (1994) • Web access to the catalog (1996) • Horizon (1998-1999)
31. Slide 34: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
32. Slide 35: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
33. Slide 36: Rescue of the Tin Woodman: Libraries Go Online
34. Slide 38: The Cowardly Lion Communication is King of the Jungle!
35. Slide 39: Communication is King • Bulletin Boards: in the early days of the personal computer, one of the wonders of having a computer in your home was the ability to plug an acoustic coupler into the machine and snug your telephone handset into the device and connect to a bulletin board. Bulletin boards allowed communities to form around topics, buy and sell things
36. Slide 40: Communication is King • Email: the next step was direct communication with others in a nearly asynchronous manner. Soon the ubiquitous “@” became a regular part of our language.
37. Slide 41: Communication is King • GEAC Mail: Many of our fist experiences with email were not the global email we’re used to today, but instead, in-house or system dependant “electronic messaging systems”.
38. Slide 42: Communication is King • BITNet: BITNet hit the Smithsonian around 1988 and suddenly email went beyond the walls of the library (SI used that now primitive IBM system, PROFS, I still remember my BITNet email: libem071@sivm.
39. Slide 43: Communication is King • Webmail: Now, with web accessible email, email systems are available on any web enabled PC, and of course, cell phones and PDAs
40. Slide 44: Communication is King • Listservs: with “beyond the walls” email, the world of listserv where, again, communities could form simply by typing “sub me listserv x”. Communication became a “Push Technology” where people’s opinions, thoughts, questions, and even rants (remember “flame wars”?) came into our in box.
41. Slide 45: Communication is King • BLOGS: and now, here we are again. How many of you have participated in some sort of BLOG? Once again we see the concept of the bulletin boards rising in the form of the BLOG.
42. Slide 47: Deadly Poppy Fields of Jargon From Smithsonian Libraries On Display: Seed Catalogs
43. Slide 48: Deadly Poppy Fields of Jargon • Online • Firewall • Java • Surfing • Googling • Link • Metadata • Link rot • 24/7 • Burn • HTML • Web Master • XML • Rip • Taxomony • Zip and Unzip
44. Slide 49: Taxomony • Merriam Webster Online 1) The study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics 2) Classification; especially : orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships • Webopedia Taxonomy is the way it organizes its data into categories and subcategories, sometimes displayed in a site map • InformationWeek Taxonomy-creation tools that scan documents and suggest logical categories based on common themes that occur across an organization's data
45. Slide 50: Taxonomy
46. Slide 51: Taxonomy
47. Slide 52: Taxonomy
48. Slide 53: Deadly Poppy Fields of Jargon • Cataloging • Classification • Thesauri • Metadata • Schemas • Ontologies
49. Slide 54: Dublin Core Metadata
50. Slide 55: Open Archives Initiative
51. Slide 56: Open Archives Initiative Open = Not Supported Archives = Means “Repository” Initiative = Yet Not Ready
52. Slide 58: MARC and METS and MODS
53. Slide 59: MARC
54. Slide 60: MARC XML
55. Slide 61: MODS
56. Slide 62: Oh My! http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/indexacroeng.html
57. Slide 64: The Emerald City of Oz Building and Maintaining the Library Website
58. Slide 65: The Library Website • Mosaic marries graphics, text, and the hyper text transfer protocol • Information becomes less linear and more relational • Librarians become graphic designers (ack!)
59. Slide 66: The Library Website
60. Slide 67: The Library Website
61. Slide 68: The Library Website
62. Slide 69: The Library Website
63. Slide 70: The Library Website
64. Slide 71: The Library Website
65. Slide 72: The Library Website
66. Slide 73: The Library Website
67. Slide 74: The Library Website • The “public site” • The “library staff site” • The “scholars’ portal” • The “Intranet site” • The “fully customizable with features that only I can find and find useful site”
68. Slide 76: The Search for the Wicked Witch Internet on Your Desk: A Long Hard Battle
69. Slide 77: Internet on Your Desk: A Long Hard Battle • “I don’t see why any one needs access to the internet at their offices or in the library because they can come to the central Smithsonian computer office and use it there. What would they be doing on this “internet”?”
70. Slide 78: Internet on Your Desk: A Long Hard Battle
71. Slide 80: The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible Taking Content Online
72. Slide 81: Taking Content Online • The Library Catalog • Citation Databases • Full-text Databases • Electronic Journals • Digital Collections • Digital Books • Online Exhibitions
73. Slide 82: Taking Content Online
74. Slide 83: Taking Content Online • ASCII text • HTML • SGML • EAD • XHTML • XML
75. Slide 84: The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible You see Scarecrow, you always had content, you just need acronyms!
76. Slide 85: Library Science vs. Rocket Science • Case Study: “Sewing Machines: Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Collections” - inches and centimeter mix up leads to confusion
77. Slide 86: Library Science vs. Rocket Science • Case Study: NASA Mars Climate Orbiter (1999) - The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation.
78. Slide 88: The Magic Art of the Great Humbug The Changing Position Title
79. Slide 89: The Changing Position Title • Deck Attendant • Collections Improvement Assistant • ILL Technician • Reference Librarian • Information Access Coordinator • Digital Projects Librarian • Head, New Media Office
80. Slide 90: The Changing Position Title • Librarian • Cataloger • Information Specialist • Metadata Specialist
81. Slide 91: The Changing Position Title • Cybrarian • Webmaster • Knowledge Manager • Metadata Mistress
82. Slide 93: Where’s Toto? Building the Digital Yellow Brick Road
83. Slide 95: The Digital Library from Information Superhighway to the Semiotic Web Suzanne C. Pilsk and Martin Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries