moving discovery and management systems to the cloud, frits van latum
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Frits van Latum, Manager Library Innovation, Delft University of Technology gives presentation on moving discovery and management systems to the cloud. The General Assembly (GA) is EIFL’s annual knowledge sharing and networking event for library professionals in developing and transition countries. Each year EIFL brings together national coordinators from over 40 countries to debate the latest developments in electronic content delivery, to discover emerging issues of significance to libraries, and to share achievements from library consortia over the last year.TRANSCRIPT
MOVING DISCOVERY AND
LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
APPLICATIONS TO THE CLOUD
Frits van Latum
Project, Delft University of Technology
The Netherlanmanagerds
EIFL General Assembly
10 .11.2014
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The Cloud
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The Cloud
SAAS
storage
applications
applications
SAAS
iAAS & PAAS
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infrastructure:
servers, storage,
network
Multi tenancy
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Cloud means …
• outsourcing of:• hardware
• flexible computing power, storage and network capacity (bandwidth)
• applications
• ICT staff
• and together with multi-tenancy outsourcing of:• application development and maintenance
• ICT staff
• lower Total Cost of Ownership• possibility to invest in improvement of services to end-users
• issue: security and privacy of data
• benefit from the community
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• Discovery (and delivery)
• search and find for end-users
• central index
• combined with index on local
available publications
• more products
• Library Management
• managing publications and
collections of publications
• more vendors
Library applications in the cloud
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Library Management
• New library management systems are based on
Unified Resource Management
• integration of managing print, e-resources, licences and collections
of e-books and e-journals
• knowledge base and openURL resolver
• support of patron (or demand) driven acquisition
• New library management systems expose web services
• in ICT terminology: API
• used for integration with local systems and integration with other
end-user tools
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UKB consortium
• UKB Consortium…(Dutch university libraries + royal library)
• … libraries are implementing OCLC’s WorldShare Platform as their shared environment for record and collection management
• (and replacing their national infrastructure by an international infrastructure)
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UKB consortium
• all libraries will use two
browser based tools
• Record Manager
• Collection Manager
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And TU Delft Library?
• Started a European Tender procedure for Discovery and
Library Management Cloud Services
• replacement of 5 local systems by 2 cloud applications
• Discover, Aleph, VSources, SFX and Docutrans
• tender document: 30% price & 70% quality
• implementation project and cost included
• public announcement of the winner: October 28
• And the winner …
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New situation
UKB tools
are part of
WMS
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go live
planned on
July 1, 2015
Issues
• European tender procedure takes a lot of time• mainly preparing the tender document
• requirements and requests for information
• ICT department• is contract manager and takes care of all university wide applications
• had no experience in multi-tenant cloud applications
• Security and privacy• SURF developed a document with rules and regulations
• and a contract template on these issues
• which was of great support
• New system• always means change of workflows, training of employees, and …
• a lot of communication to keep up the good spirit
• Vendor lock-in• not very worried about, good exit strategy in contract
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Benefits
• Total cost of ownership• considerably lower (~ 40%)
• End user advantages in Discovery• significantly more content (central index)
• more functionality
• Library Management• use of shared metadata and collection data
• supply chain: publishers OCLC libraries
• efficient licence and collection management
• Innovation• foundation for integrating library services in
working environments of students and researchers
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used a locally
developed system, no
central index, all data
uploaded by library
used four
systems now
one
References• Cloud computing in general
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJncFirhjPg
• Infrastructure providers: http://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/30/amazon-ec2-alternatives/
• Multi-tenancy• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy
• Multi-tenancy: http://multitenancy-in-saas-paas.wikispaces.asu.edu/
• Cloud computing in libraries• Marshal Breeding (http://librarytechnology.org): Advancing Libraries through a new Generation of Library
Services Platforms and Resource Discovery Services, http://librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=19346
• Judith Mavodza (Library, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates): The impact of cloud computing on the future of academic library practices and services, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/03074801311304041
• Companies and products• Ex Libris: Alma and Primo: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/
• OCLC: WorldShare Management and WorldCat Discovery: http://oclc.org/en-US/home.html
• Innovative: Sierra and Encore: http://www.iii.com/
• Proquest: Intota and Summon: http://www.proquest.com/
• Open Source• Kuali: http://www.kuali.org/ole
• Koha: http://www.koha.org/
• Evergreen: http://evergreen-ils.org/
• Blacklight: http://projectblacklight.org
• VuFind: http://vufind-org.github.io/vufind
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