ED Plus Electronic Reserve Collection For the Libraries Wai Chan Asia Corporate Information Ltd. October 1999

ED Plus About Asia Corporate Information Ltd. Over 3 years experience providing solutions to university libraries and premier enterprises Providers of ED-Plus and BASIS Customers: Open University of Hong Kong HK University of Science and Technology Chinese University of HK Polytechnic University of Hong Kong

ED Plus About Asia Corporate Information Ltd. Customers: City University of Hong Kong Shanghai Jiao Tong University Economic Research Division, Bank of China China Academy of Railway Science The Hong Kong Jockey Club South China Morning Post

Intersecting Library Expertise in Document Applications OPAC Catalog Circulation Serials Management Acquisitions Processing internal documents, URLs, Video/sound downloads. on-line documentation, CD-ROM on-line delivery, , newsfeeds Books, periodicals, audio tapes, video tapes, microfiche, CDs Traditional Library The New Digital Library

ED Plus Opportunities for library today The intranet Document management Knowledge management

ED Plus FIREWALLFIREWALL Main Library Remote Office Other Departments Public TCP/IP Internal Network (LAN) Secured Internet Communication I N T R A N E T Intranet

ED PlusIntranets Foundation for the virtual library -- no longer limited to physical location No longer limited to number of copies in the library Universal client facilitates desktop access Users expect a web-like experience Librarians fix it

ED Plus Opportunities for library today The intranet Document management Knowledge management

ED Plus Document management Workflow processes improve publication Document control procedures improve value and usability of content Content and process treated separately Scalability impacts retrieval precision Librarians fix it

ED Plus Opportunities for library today The intranet Document management Knowledge management

ED Plus Knowledge management A sustainable, authenticated and well organized knowledge base Knowledge managers to oversee the knowledge base Brokers to facilitate collaboration by bringing together knowledge seekers and and knowledge owners Librarians fix it

ED Plus Information assets can be stored anywhere Information users can be anywhere Eliminate barriers to creating, sharing and discovering information Put the world of information on every users’ desktop ACI Goal

ED Plus We Provide We Provide Document Database – Large, secure collections – High performance – Varying file formats Document Imaging Application for – Document scanning – Image editing – Chinese and English OCR – Integrate with Document Imaging Systems ED Plus BASIS

ED Plus Intelligent linguistic search assistant Portable to common ODMA databases Bilingual document handling Versatile data source : electronic files and paper documents

ED Plus Backend

ED Plus Browser Frontend

ED Plus Scalable relational database Bilingual full text search engine Thesaurus handling Versatile file format Internet web gateway readyBASIS

ED Plus Using... Using... Specialized database technology - integrated relational, and thesaurus queries - specialized data types, arrays - integrated transactions for relations, text, and documents Industry-standard application development interfaces - Client-server interfaces (C, C++, Visual Basic, ODBC) - WEB interfaces (Active, Java, Javascript)

ED PlusConclusions Web technologies can dramatically change the information sharing potential in your organization Whole new technology areas of capturing and sharing work and expertise are emerging Library science and document management can help realize that potential