MOVIES, MAPS AND MEMORIES: extending our collections,

refining our services

PRDLA 2010 Brian Flaherty

Associate University Librarian (Digital Services)

New Zealand’s largest university

Universitas 21/APRU Partner

The University of Auckland

1. Movies

Television Vault

Digital Asset Management

• Digitool• Final Cut Server• EPG metadata• MP4

2.5 Mbps h.264 video128kbps, 48Khz audio

• Flash Streaming Server

• 40 TB SAN storage

VIDEO ANNOTATION PLAYER

Collection Development

The Chapman Archive

...more than 55,000 hours of radio and television broadcasting, dating back to the 1960s. Since mid-1984 the recording of news and current affairs programmes has been continuous.

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/research/index.cfm?P=9993

2. Map projects

NZ Govt Map series

Map Project

3. Memories

Institutional Memory

A History of the University

4. Mobile

The Library on your mobile phone

search the Catalogue, renew books & more…

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/mobile

• Mobile Application or Mobile-friendly web site?• Outsourced development – Boopsie• Cross platform development• Catalogue re-indexed• Predictive searching• RSS feeds – new books, • Library Locator (GPS)• Book a Library Course• University Mobile strategy....?

5. Managing Research

Research Management System Research Repository

Funding environment creates a driver for research management systems including management of

research outputs

Government and other funding bodies requirement for improved performance

Government wanting to see higher profile internationally for NZ research

Higher profile of institutional research on the web also required because of ranking system developments

Which piece of the puzzle is common?

Research

Outputs

Background on the Research+ Project at UoA

During 2009 the University of Auckland began a process to implement a new Research Management System using InfoEd (US)

In 2010 decision made to use Symplectic Elements (UK) for research publications module of the overall system

Symplectic will become the integration layer as data entered into this system can be offered up for re-use in other systems (eg InfoEd grants module) and it comes with an “out of the box” (SWORD) upload facility so full text can be uploaded to the existing University of Auckland DSpace repository – ResearchSpace

Symplectic Elements

• Symplectic.co.uk

– Spinout from Imperial College London 2003

– Their flagship product

What does it do?

• Tool to manage ‘Research Outputs’– Publications

• Books, journal articles, performances, exhibitions etc

– Peer Esteem / Contributions to the Research Environment

• Prizes, awards, panel memberships, fellowships etc• AKA ‘Academic Profile’

» Teaching duties» Areas of expertise» Personal research statements

How the model works

2 way flowDeposit entry point in the RO Module, uses SWORD protocol for deposit

API services and direct exports populated with data from RO Module

Problems solved using integrated model

Metadata is entered once only and flows into other systems

Accurate well formed data is sourced from indexing services/publishers/suppliers wherever possible

Full text can be uploaded at anytime and the repository acts as a file store for the system

Two way connection between the Research Publications system (Symplectic) and the Research Repository (Dspace) so Permanent URL can be exchanged, & if records are deleted the change flows back to the other system

The BeSTGRID Data GRID:

Over 100 Terabytes of Data Storage for Research Data distributed between Auckland,

Canterbury and Massey.

•Austronesian Basic Vocabulary and Bantu Language Databases

•New Zealand Biomirror

•BeSTGRID BLAST Server

•New Zealand Social Sciences Data Service

•Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

•Landcare Research Databases and Collections

•GeoNet Earthquake Resources

•GeoNet Volcano Resources

•GeoNet Landslide Resources

•GeoNet Tsunami Resources

Kia Ora Koutou Katoa