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Information Strategy of the University - a Vice President's View

Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann

Vice President

Georg-August-University Göttingen

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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Initial situation

Information supply is an essential infrastructure factor for- research- education and teaching

Information supply as a factor of university competition

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (state and university library) Göttingen

Information supply for a full university- Requirements of natural sciences- Requirements of humanities

Duties of the state library National and international information supply Completion and maintenance of traditional collections

and preservation of the library’s cultural heritage

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Library Purchasing Expenditures

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of

information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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Developments of supply and publication of information

E-Only information offerings Concepts of in-house publishing and utilization of print

on demand Multimedia offerings Long-term archiving Digitization centres

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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Electronic information supply

Informationportal

User

Download

Print on Demand

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Changes in the market for digital scientific journals

Tendency towards oligopolies and monopolies on the supply side

Rising prices It is necessary to increase market power on the demand

side with cooperations

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Consequences of electronic information supply

Sophisticated billing solutions A multi-level library structure is no longer affordable and

required New spatial requirements In-house publishing as a strategic option

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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scientific information

media neutral & multimedia

scientific information

media neutral & multimedia

- long-term archiving- assuring sustainability

- long-term archiving- assuring sustainability

texts in media neutral formats

images

video material

provision on the university's publication server by the library

- access by internationally compatible metadata

- worldwide distribution- added value: cross-linking

provision on the university's publication server by the library

- access by internationally compatible metadata

- worldwide distribution- added value: cross-linking

printed traditional publications (books, journals etc.)

e-publishing

print-on-demand (e.g. ProPrint)

Göttingen University publication server

SUB WebDoc Server

multimedia presentationsCD-ROM. Internet presentations

(exhibitions, guided tours)

multimedia presentationsCD-ROM. Internet presentations

(exhibitions, guided tours)

production publication

E-learning applicationscourse modules, learning platforms,

didactic units

E-learning applicationscourse modules, learning platforms,

didactic units

The Future of Scientific Publishing

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A B C

a

b

c

ProPrint-DBsearch

research

ordercombi-nation

delivery with invoiceor pickup and cash payment

ProPrint ProPrint printdocument server

ProPrint-Workflow

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media neutral publishingIntranet or Internet and Print on Demand

master theses dissertations

university publisher

teaching materialcompilations of existing documents

learning material

university printing

ProPrint

publications

scientific articlesby publishing house

Intranet, Internet and print

The Pyramid of Publication

scientific articlesfrom the University

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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Multimedia lecture room

Transmission of the lecture

• Autoring on the fly• Studio productions with animations

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Learning management system

TeacherLearning

managementsystem

ContentManagement

Student

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Multimedia service centres

Competence development for teaching staff and students

Provisioning of the technical infrastructure Media competence for students Advisory services for teaching staff Multimedia production

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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Digitization centre

Mass digitization of scientific content High quality digitization of historical images and text

documents Digitization of existing courseware

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Long-term archiving

Permanent access to the electronic information Cooperation between libraries and data processing

centres Further developments necessary

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Long-term archiving

Archive systems, back-up-robots, SAN-Infrastructure

E.g. LOCKSSTechnique

E.g. DDB, MPI

- Medical data (esp. images)- SAP

E.g. research dataPublicationsContent

Data backup

E.g. DDB, ISN, Humboldt-Uni,IWI and others

State of the artmeta dataformats

Standards

further project

partnersBE ITGWDGSUB

Server backup

Software (e.g. IBM DIAS)Hardware (e.g. Centera)

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion

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applications third party funds

researchers

confe-rences

researchdata

teaching

e-learning

teachersstudents

seminar-organization

e-teaching

provision

acquisition

processing

distribution

teaching-management-system (TMS)

Göttingen Digitization centre

(mass-/quality-)

digitization

long-term archiving

PUBLICATION

media neutral

multimedia

customized

master theses dissertations

teaching materialcompilations of existing documents learning material

publications

scientific articlespublishers

scientific articlesUniversity

Intranet or Internet and Print on Demand

request service resultmultimedia-service-point in SUB and natural sciences library

INTERNET

OPAC

inventory

electronic full texts

subito pay-per-view

online - interlending

V-LIBs Internet-Guides

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IT staff university

administrationBE ITGWDG

SUB

MedicineUniversityMPG

synergies synergies

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Comprehensive projects

Core competencies

Comprehensive projects

Core competencies

Comprehensive projects

Core competencies

Special projects Special projects

Executive board (Mgmt. BE IT, Mgmt. GWDG, Mgmt. SUB)

chair man

Staff positions

Project groups (project manager and members of all service facilities)•permanent team structures•temporary team structures

Steering committee(executive board BHMed, member chair,

executive board MPI)

Advisory board Gö*Chairman foundation board, Mgmt. MPG,

experts of international sites, representatives of the user group

Cooperation structures of the information service providers at Göttingen University

BE IT SUB GWDG Sub centres, IT staff,departments/teams

External participants

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Technical and organisational consequences

Cooperation of service providers and creation of new organisational structures

New spatial requirements, in particular multimedia production and learning centres

Changes to the library's business processes New requirements for the employees

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Outline

Initial situation Developments of supply and publication of information Examples:

- Electronic information provisioning- Publishing information- Multimedia teaching and learning- Digitization and long-term archiving

Technical and organisational consequences of changing requirements

Conclusion