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Proceedings of the 7th Annual
Federal Depository Library Conference
April 20 - 23, 1998
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FDLP/ERIC Digital Library Pilot
John Hearty
OCLC
Dublin, OH
Goals of the FDLP/ERIC Pilot
Offering broad access to Federal information
- Integration with secondary and ternary information
- Reduction of costs for libraries, GPO, and Federal agencies
Obstacles to Implementation of Digital Libraries
- Libraries concern over stability of electronic versions
- Property rights in electronic media are ill defined
- Costs for initial scanning required for creation of documents
- Large document delivery issues
Dimensions of Digital Libraries
- Security
- Access
- Economy
- Openness
- Library needs
- Publisher needs
- Information user needs
OCLC Strategies
- Leverage OCLC online system
- Leverage existing OCLC services
- Leverage scanning activities
- Leverage OCLC membership and cooperative tradition
- Focus on what is practicable in the near term
- Maintain flexibility for future
Pilot Project Business Model
- OCLC assumes costs of loading, storing, and offering access to the data
- NLE signs a non-exclusive license allowing OCLC to use their data through 1998 without compensation
- Collaboration on all aspects of pilot
Pilot System Functionality
- Comprehensive search capability
- Displays of citation, abstract and header, and full text (image, PDF)
- Hyperlinks to GPO's and NLE's home pages, similar documents, etc.
- Comprehensive statistics, and reports
- 7 day by 24 hour availability
Rollout Plan and Schedule
- Research Design
- Selected and Open Pilot Demonstrations
- Schedule
Research Design Objectives
- Test technology with several formats
- additional pilot tests digitized manuscripts, photographs, drawings
- image quality; navigation of large documents; delivery options
- Validate concept of preservation and access
Research Design Questions
- Is it cost effective to digitize documents & add access?
- How usable are the reports in an online environment?
- Do we need other delivery options/formats?
Research Design Methodology
Selected and Open Pilot Demonstrations
- Technology and software corporate reviews
Pilot Rollout Schedule
- Prototype with 80 documents – Complete
- FDLP/ERIC Pilot Implementation – June
- EA Special Collections Pilot implementation - Early Summer
- ALA Demonstrations – June
- Research Design Implementation – Ongoing
- Pilot Conclusions – December
- Final Report - Early 1999
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