The document discusses innovation and research in digital libraries, emphasizing the transformative impact of ICT on libraries and publishing. It outlines several areas of research including information discovery, collection management, preservation, interoperability, and economic, social, and legal issues. The document also highlights various international research studies and indicates the need for continued innovation and adaptation within the field.

1. INNOVATION AND RESEARCH
(Digital Library Information Access)
Huma Malik
LIS Professional
May 2015

2. Contents
 Innovation in libraries and publishing
 What is innovation?
 Areas of research
– An Overview
– Information discovery
– Collection management and preservation
– Interoperability
– Economic, Social and Legal Issues
 Core topics in Digital Libraries
 Research around the world
 Conclusion
 References

3. INNOVATION IN LIBRARIES
AND PUBLISHING

4. – The process of making changes in
something already established, especially
by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
(oxforddictionaries.com)
– The introduction into the organization of a new
product, a new service, a new technology, or a new
administrative practice; or a significant
improvement to an existing product, service,
technology, or administrative practice.
(Jantz, 2012)
What is Innovation?

5. Contd…
 Development of ICT has brought tremendous changes
in libraries and publishing areas.
 Traditional resources and services are transformed
into digital resources and services.
 Libraries in developed countries now mostly rely on
online resources and services.
 There have been a lot of researches on digital
libraries covering areas of usage, development and
evaluation by LIS and Computer science researchers.
Innovation in Libraries
and Publishing

6. Contd…
 Publishers are well-organized to bring new ideas to
the market but they carry out little research. Some
major publishers providing online resources &
services are …
‒ Emerald
‒ Springer
‒ Taylor & Francis
‒ McGraw-Hill’s Access Engineering / Medicine
‒ Wiley-Blackwell
‒ IEEE … etc
Innovation in Libraries
and Publishing

7. Contd…
• Libraries tend to be more innovative than
publishers.
• Computer scientists can be seen as the hares of
digital libraries, leaping ahead, trying out new fields,
then jumping somewhere else.
• The large libraries are the tortoises. They move
more slowly, but at each step they lay a foundation
that can be built on for the next.
Innovation in Libraries
and Publishing

8. Contd…
• Internationally University Libraries are
significant in developing Digital Libraries.
– Some are converting library materials to digital
formats;
– Others are working with publishers to make materials
accessible online
– Some convert historic back-runs of important journals
to electronic
• Innovation comes from…
• the marketplace's demand for information,
• Systematic research in universities or corporations.
Innovation in Libraries
and Publishing

9. AREAS OF RESEARCH

10. Areas of Research- An Overview
System-Centered:
– Engineering: How well do hardware, networks, and
related configuration perform?
– Processing: How well do procedures, techniques,
algorithms, operations … perform?
– Content: How well is the collection or information
resource selected, represented, organized, structured
…. Related question may be how well, for whom and/or for
what purpose.

11. Areas of Research
User-Centered
‒ Social level: How well does a digital library support the
needs and demands, roles, and practices of a society or
community?
‒ Institutional: How well does a digital library support
institutional or organizational mission and objectives? How
well does it integrate with other institutional resources?
‒ Individual: How well does a digital library (or given
services) support information needs, tasks, activities of
people as individual users?
‒ Interface: How well does a given interface provide and
support access, searching, navigation, browsing, and
interaction with a digital library? Questions can be asked in either the user
or system direction or in both directions.

12. Information Discovery
• Finding and retrieving information is a central
aspects of libraries.
• Searching for specific information in large
collections of text (i.e. information retrieval) has long
been area of interest to computer scientists.
• Digital libraries bring these two areas together
in the general problem of information
discovery & how to find information.
Areas of Research

13. Contd...
How information is discovered? Information is
discovered through . . .
a) Descriptive metadata- describes a resource for
discovery and identification (title, abstract, author, and keywords)
b) Automatic indexing- uses computer programs to scan
digital objects, extract indexing information and build searchable
indexes- Web search programs, such as Altavista, Google, and
Infoseek are the products of such research.
c) Natural language processing- automatic pharsing to
identify grammatical constructs, lexicons, and thesauruses.
a) Non-textual material- Speech recognition & Image
recognition
Information Discovery

14. Collection Management
and Preservation
• Collection management and preservation are
also research areas in Digital Libraries. These
include…
a) Organization of collections.
b) Archiving and preservation
c) Conversion
Areas of Research

15. a) Organization of collections
• The organization of large collections of online
materials is complex.
• They include …
– How to load information in varying formats,
– How to organize it for storage and retrieval.
– Techniques of replication.
• The problems always emerge by the fact that
‘digital information changes’.
Areas of Research

16. b) Archiving and preservation
• The long-term preservation of digital materials is a
key research topic in collection management.
• The media on which data is stored have quite short
life.
• The formats in which information is stored are
frequently replaced by new versions.
– E.g. Formats for word processor and image storage that
were in common use ten years ago are already obsolete and
hard to use.
• To interpret archived information, users will need to
recognize the formats and display them successfully.
Areas of Research

17. c) Conversion
− What is the best way to convert huge physical
collections to digital format?
− What is the trade off between cost and quality?
− How can today's efforts be useful in the long term?
• This area illustrates the differences between small-
scale and large-scale efforts, which is an important
research topic in its own right.
Areas of Research

18. Interoperability
• Definition
“The capability of a computer hardware
or software system to communicate and work
effectively with another system in the
exchange of data, usually a system of a
different type, designed and produced by a
different vendor.” (ODLIS)
i.e. Inter-operate
Areas of Research

19. The following list gives an idea of the many aspects of
interoperability:
a) User interfaces
• Digital library collections include different formats. A
collection of maps is not the same as a music collection, but
the user should be able to move smoothly between them or
search across them.
b) Naming and identification
• The Internet provides a numeric identifier for every computer,
an IP address, and the domain name system that identifies
every computer on the Internet.
• Library materials need identifiers that identify the material, not
the location. e.g. DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Areas of Research

20. c) Formats
• The web has created standards for formats, e.g. HTML for
simple text, and GIF and JPEG for images.
• Text provides a particular challenge for interoperability.
• Unicode emerged as an extended character set that supports a
very wide range of scripts, but is not yet supported by many
computer systems.
d) Metadata
• Metadata is often divided into three categories:
– descriptive metadata is used for bibliographic purposes and for
searching and retrieval;
– structural metadata relates different objects and parts of objects to
each other;
– administrative metadata is used to manage collections, including
access controls.
• For interoperability, some of this metadata must be exchanged
between computers.
Areas of Research

21. e) Distributed Searching
• In Digital Libraries information is organized in a logical way,
but the descriptive metadata will vary, also the features
provided for searching varies.
• The distributed search problem is how to find information by
searching across variety of collections.
– Example: ‘Summon’s by ProQuest provided by HEC NDL that
searches all databases with a single search box.
http://hecpk.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/
f) Network Protocols
• At the network level interoperability is also required to move
information from one computer to another.
• The almost universal adoption of the Internet family of
protocols has largely solved this problem, but there are still
gaps.
– For example, the Internet protocols are not good at delivering
continuous streams of data, such audio or video materials, which must
arrive in a steady stream at predictable time intervals.
Areas of Research

22. g) Retrieval Protocols
• Ideally, the protocol would support …
‒ secure authentication of computers communicating,
‒ high-level queries to discover what resources each
provides;
‒ a variety of search and retrieval capabilities,
‒ methods to store and modify intermediate results, and
‒ interfaces to many formats and procedures.
• The most ambitious attempt to achieve these goals is the
Z39.50 protocol.
Areas of Research

23. h) Authentication and Security
• Various categories of authentication are needed.
– authentication of users. Who is the person using the library?
Digital libraries are often provide every user with an ID and
password to their users.
– authentication of computers. Systems that handle valuable
information, especially financial transactions or confidential
information, need to know which computer they are connecting
to.
– authentication of library materials. People need to be
confident that they have received the authentic version of an
item, not one that has been modified, either accidentally or
deliberately.
i) Semantic* Interoperability
• Semantic interoperability refers to the ability of computer
systems to transmit data with unambiguous, shared meaning.
(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Semantic+interoperability)
*Semantic is study of meaning.
Areas of Research

24. Economic, Social and Legal
Issues
Digital libraries exist within a complex social, economic, and
legal framework.
a) Legal Issues
• The legal issues are both national and international. They
range across several branches of law: copyright,
communications, privacy, national security, taxation etc.
b) Social Context
• The social context includes authorship, ownership, the act of
publication, authenticity, and integrity.
Areas of Research

25. c) Economic issues are most difficult problems.
• Skilled professionals are required to manage the collections of
information.
• Who pays these people?
– users of the collections
– their institutions
• What will be the payment methods?
• Meanwhile, the high quality of many open-access web sites
has their own financial models.
• Access management is also a related topic. Libraries and
publishers sometimes wish to control access to their
materials. This may be to ensure payment, requirements
from the copyright owners, conditions laid down by donors,
or a response to concerns of privacy.
Areas of Research

26. CORE TOPICS IN DIGITAL
LIBRARIES

27. Core Topics in Digital Libraries
Following topics are mentioned in ‘Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries’
by Yang et al., (2009) as core topics. Some topics are user-centered and some
system-centered.

28. Contd…

29. RESEARCH AROUND THE
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35. CONCLUSION
• There has been many research studied on Digital
Libraries by Computer scientists and LIS researchers.
• Computer scientists do research on systems of DLs,
while LIS research is mostly user-centered.
• As technology is not static; innovation in
technologies bring innovation in system and services
of libraries. Digital Libraries also has to be upgraded
with state-of-art technologies.
• These innovations creates new areas for researchers
to explore.

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