September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation1 A digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 2 Overview of Talk Challenges Partners Goal Location Services TDL Management 5 Year Plan TDL Membership Opportunities Impacts Discussion/Questions

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 3 Challenges Increasing demands on research and education infrastructure –THECB Regional Plan for Higher Education 500,000 new students, 7500 new faculty by 2015 Scarce resources Underutilized intellectual capital on campuses –If not used, actual value is zero Global movement to transform scholarly communication –Open access journals –Federated institutional repositories –New forms of communication - Blogs, WIKIs, etc… Cornyn-Lieberman bill

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 4 Addressing the Challenges A unified Texas Digital Library Collaboration of higher education institutions in Texas Sharing of resources Shared services model

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 5 Partners Initially –4 Texas ARL libraries: UT, A&M, TTU, and UH –8 prospective libraries: University of North Texas University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Arlington Texas State University Baylor MD Anderson A&M Galveston Angelo State University Currently –Preparing a “slow growth” plan Later – All of higher education in Texas

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 6 TDL Goal Become a center of excellence in the curation and preservation of digital scholarly information of the state of Texas.

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 7 Location Initially – Central facility in Austin at UT Currently –Building redundancy by mirroring core TDL systems at TAMU and TTU Later –Universities will have repositories of their own and choose to federate certain collections with TDL or just use TDL as their repository

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation8 Storage Network Technical Report Series Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository Content From the user’s perspective: Learning Object Repositories Current faculty research: preprints, postprints, datasets Access Services Faculty archives Google, etc. Scholarly Publishing (TDL Press), Collection Management, etc. Preservation

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 9 LEARN Lonestar Education and Research Network 1 Gigabit Dedicated Link for TDL

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation10 Network and Computing Internet/Internet 2 Tigre/Learn Storage/Server Systems Middleware Shibboleth OAI-PMH Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Preservation Software (eg LOCKSS) Workflow Directory Services Enablers DSpace Fedora ADORE SAKAI Open Journal System Eprints Dpubs Services Institutional Repositories Learning Object Repositories Scholarly publishing Collection management Preservation TDL Architectural Layers Contributed staff Base budget

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 11 Website Went live February 1, 2006 TAMU, UT, and TTU ETDs in Manakin/DSpace TAMU’s Journal of Digital Information [JoDI] in Open Journal System [OJS]

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September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 15 TDL Management

Computing Infrastructure ETD Repositories Cataloging/Metadata Web Oversight Coming Soon: Collection Management UT Repositories Bridge Group

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 17 Participation in TDL Working Groups The success of the Texas Digital Library depends on the collaboration of working group members from participating institutions. Through this new model of work we will gain an unparalleled level of interoperability among ourselves and within the global scholarly community. Working groups serve many purposes: pooling of staff skills and resources, distribution of work, sharing of information and ideas, and most importantly, the advancement of TDL’s major projects. Working group members drawn from the participating TDL institutions are selected from volunteers or are appointed by the co-directors/chairs based on expertise and/or position.

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 18 Guidelines for Working Group Participation Responsibilities of Chairs –Working in concert with the co-directors, chair will contact and discuss the working group charge and work requirements with prospective members. –Submit monthly progress updates to the co-directors Responsibilities of Members –Will discuss working group invitation with supervisor –Attend meetings and actively participate in discussions and creation of working group documents and processes Responsibilities of co-directors –Will notify prospective member’s supervisor of invitation to join the working group –Make every attempt to be flexible in allowing staff from participating institutions to serve on working groups in support of TDL goals

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 19 TDL Bridge Groups Bridge Group Co-Chairs: Aaron Choate and Lexie Thompson- Young Sponsor: Mark McFarland Purpose: –The TDL Bridge Group will contribute to Aaron’s and Lexie’s work on the TDL Repositories Working Group (WG), supporting the developing infrastructure of UT Austin’s and TDL’s Repository. The Bridge Group will help develop a LOR implementation plan, define General TDL Repository Policies, and constructively comment on the FAR and Manakin Projects, all of which will help the WG meet their FY07 deliverables. UT Repository Bridge Group

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September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 22 5 Year Plan Year 1: Start-Up Year 2: Plan Year 3: Demonstrate Year 4: Deploy Year 5: Assess

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 23 Year 1: Start-up Establish presence, core technology, and a basic set of services Business case Establish computing infrastructure –Core infrastructure at UT, mirrored at TAMU Website Open Journal System Journal of Digital Information [JoDI] conversion Manakin/DSpace Hiring –Administrative Assistant –IT Manager –Systems Analyst

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 24 Year 1: Start-up, continued ETD Project –A&M, UT, TTU Presentations –8 presentations in Computing Infrastructure implementation testing –Storage Resource Broker [SRB] –Vendor Specific Replication [SnapVault] Connections –Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) –Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) –Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN)

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 25 Year 2: Plan Plan infrastructure and develop policies for content submission and management Common Submission System for ETDs Computing Infrastructure Preservation Network Access Control –Shibboleth Repositories –Learning Object Repositories –Faculty Object Repositories

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 26 Year 3: Demonstrate Demonstrate infrastructure and policies for content submission and management Year 4: Deploy Deploy infrastructure and policies for content submission throughout Texas Year 5: Assess Assess impact of TDL services on higher education in Texas

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 27 Next 12 months: Major Projects: Preservation Network ETD Common Submission System Shibboleth Manakin/DSpace Faculty Archives Repository Learning Objects Repository Open Repositories 2007 Conference

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September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 30 TDL Membership Opportunities Tier 2: Associate Members Tier 3: Affiliate Members Contributors

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 31 Membership Assumptions Participating ARLs each have a voting member on the Governing Board T2 representation on the governing board T3’s and Contributors not represented on governing board Contributed staff managed by co-Directors Monetary contributions are central; staff contribution is local

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 32 Tier 2: Associate Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas $50,000 annual commitment 1 local FTE (40 hrs/wk) commitment –Managed by TDL Directors –Participate in TDL Working Groups Representation on the governing board Content contributor

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 33 Tier 3: Affiliate Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas $25,000 annual commitment Content contributor

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 34 Contributors Inst. of Higher Ed in Texas Solicited content contributors

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 35 TDL Members and Prospective Members Tier 1: –University of Texas at Austin –Texas A&M University –Texas Tech University –University of Houston Tier 2 (prospective): –University of North Texas –University of Texas at Dallas –University of Texas at Arlington –Texas State University –Baylor University Tier 3 (prospective): –MD Anderson –Texas A&M at Galveston –Angelo State University

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 36 The TDL Budget Funds the TDL infrastructure - core technology, core team Does not fund the actual work of putting up the Institutional Repository, website, and ETDs Tiers 1-3 must provide cash –For personnel costs –For shared computing infrastructure

September 20, 2006 TCAL Presentation 37 7 Major Impacts 1.Increases the institution’s visibility and impact 2.Increases accessibility to scholarship and research 3.Increases competitiveness for research funding 4.Maximizes the research capabilities of faculties by increasing the pace of scholarly dissemination and discovery 5.Increases stature as a leader in developing new working models for publication and dissemination of scholarly, research, and educational information 6.Advances core teaching and research missions by fostering innovation in education and research 7.Preserves intellectual assets for future generations of researchers, teachers, students, and scholars

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