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Library - IT Collaboration January 7, 2009
Library-IT Collaboration at Georgetown: Building a New Rich
Media Environment
CSG Workshop
University of Colorado at Boulder
Charles F. Leonhardt
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Library - IT Collaboration January 7, 2009
Georgetown Libraries Major library for each campus:
Main: Joseph Lauinger Memorial Library Medical: John Vinton Dahlgren Library Law: Edward Bennett Williams Library
Specialized Libraries: Blommer Science Library Kennedy Bioethics Library Woodstock Theological Library
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Library-IT Collaboration Historically:
Low level of Collaboration Technology islands
• (e.g. 3 separate instances of the same library management system)
• Library systems housed in each library typically without test, development, or business continuity environments
Today: Regular interaction of librarians, CNDLS
(pedagogical support staff), and UIS (central IT) Encouraging increase in collaborative projects
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Scholarly Systems Group Created in the central IT organization to support the
enterprise technology needs of the libraries and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and their customers
Supports scholarly systems in schools and departments that need enterprise technology services
A dedicated scholarly service group akin to the HR/Payroll, Student System, and Financial Services support groups
Group encourages collaborative projects
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Examples of Collaborations Interfacing the IdM & Library Systems Wireless Network Replacement NetID-enabling of services; moving to Shib Web server hosting Digital Repository Pilots Course Mgmt/ Library System integration Planning for migration of library systems to new
enterprise data center Building a new Rich Media Environment
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Creating a Rich Media Pilot Academic Year 2003-2004: Multimedia Working
Group formed, chaired by the Digital Media Libarian, to determine University requirements for Rich Media. Report published in May 2004 and presented to the University administration.
High Interest in Rich Media Review of Vendor provided systems No University Capital Available
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Librarian Thinking on Rich Media
Dramatically increasing demand Faculty want to deliver more media to students Students want “better” access to course materials
eliminating restrictions on time on place
Demand for anytime, anywhere services Download and streaming Podcasts Lecture Capture What’s Next???
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Technical Drivers
Liabilities of existing Cisco IPTV System Proliferation of Apple Streaming Servers
No AuthN / AuthZ “Under someone’s desk” Varying level of reliability
No enterprise-class services
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The Decision to Partner
Georgetown brings: Knowledge of higher ed Functional requirements Quality assurance / testing Real-world use cases
ShareStream brings: Capital investment Development resources Experience with streaming
media and related tech. Risk!
Significant capital requirements… with no University funding available An offer from local startup: ShareStream Vendor play - Everyone contributes
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What is ShareStream?
ShareStream provides the means to capture, encode, store, deliver, and archive rich media materials. Media may be streamed, downloaded, or RSS-fed to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the general public as appropriate.
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High Level Requirements Access: Public and Privileged Authentication and Authorization Content Management – metadata, browsing &
searching, asset and collection relationships Capture, Encode, and Archive E-Commerce Interfaces and Interoperability Monitoring and statistics Support for a large number of users Significant Storage
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If you can’t get Open Source…..Will being Agnostic work?
Desired Areas for Agnosticism Operating Systems DBMS Storage Systems / Repositories Authentication and Authorization Engines Streaming Media Services Media Clients Course, Student, Library, and Portal Systems Metadata Structures
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Intellectual Property Issues
Fair Use TEACH Act Issues DMCA Issues
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Capture, Encoding, Storing
Building Relationships with Faculty “Scope” of content Faculty planning
A different kind of “bandwidth” problem Capture & Encode process (high-level)
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Audio Capture, Encode & Upload
iTunes Create MP3s Import metadata
ShareStream uploading tool Imports metadata from iTunes Transfers metadata to server Squeeze (Hint) MP3s so they’re streamable
Upload hinted MP3s to ShareStream
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VHS Capture, Encode & Upload
VHS Capture in iMovie Export as a full quality QuickTime file (dv) Use QuickTime Pro to compress (H264 MPG4)
Hint the file in QT Pro Use Sharestream to upload the hinted file Enter metadata in ShareStream
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DVD Capture, Encode & Upload
All of these steps are the same as with VHS (i.e. digital to analog to digital) Capture via iMovie Use QuickTime Pro to compress (H264 MPG4) Hint the file in QT Pro Use ShareStream to upload the hinted file Enter metadata in ShareStream
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Technologies
Red Hat Linux / Solaris AJAX-based front-end Java-based back-end Apache Tomcat MySQL / Oracle Databases Darwin streaming server
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Project Process Extremely Collaborative effort
CNDLS, Lauinger, Dahlgren, LLT, UIS, ShareStream have met weekly since Fall ‘04
Close Vendor relationship Project evolution
Rapid application development vs. Formal development
Project Tools PM, Formal Bug Tracking, Version Control, etc.
Pilot Process
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A Constant Stream of Pilots
Many Pilots Spring 2006
• ShareStream v 1.0 Fall 2006
• ShareStream v 1.5 Spring 2007
• ShareStream v 2.0 Fall 2007 - Fall 2008
• ShareStream 2.5
Sometime in Spring 2009: ShareStream 3.0
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Moving to Production / GA
New hardware (multiple servers and SAN) to support anticipated needs
Locking down addition of new features / requirements
Anticipate general availability for the campus in Fall 2009 once new University Data Center has been completed