1	Phase I Accomplishments Katherine Kott, DLF Aquifer Perry Willett and Kat Hagedorn, University of Michigan Jon Dunn, Indiana University Thomas Habing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thornton Staples, University of Virginia
2	Panel outline Status report Portal demonstration Background on asset action packages Asset action packages demonstration Collector tool implementation example Next steps and wrap-up Time for questions
3	Status report Activities Scoping and defining Operational plan Mode of operation Products Guidelines and reports Software prototypes
4	Focus on Products Guidelines and reports MODS implementation (at BOF) Institutional survey report distributed and posted Software prototypes Started with what we know—OIA portal Leveraging collaborative development—Asset Action Packages
5	Aquifer Portal at U of Michigan Kat Hagedorn and Perry Willett University of Michigan DLF Spring Forum, Austin TX April 11, 2006
6	Aquifer: Collections Subject matter: American Civil War and Lincoln Metadata requirements: MODS profile Currently only two institutions meet both requirements: Library of Congress Indiana University
7	Aquifer: Harvester Built upon the experience with OAIster and IMLS grant Expanded to harvest MODS records Including thumbnails, “harvested” from UIUC
8	Aquifer: Portal (1) Developed from OAIster Improved interface More fields to search Language (now human readable!) Institution
9	Aquifer: Portal (2) Added “dataset” as resource type Developed SRU functionality
10	Aquifer: Portal <http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/aquifer>
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14	Aquifer: Next steps Date normalization Subject classification / clustering
15	Asset Action Packages Expose an abstract set of actions that can be delivered on demand for an object Named, typed groups of actionable URIs Developed by UVA, Tufts and Northwestern New schema developed as a quick, pragmatic way to get started Will look at UnAPI, METS and MPEG21
16	"Asset action packages contain one..." Asset action packages contain one or more action groups Must contain a “default” group Can contain any number of other groups Action groups contain any number of actions Actions are composed of: Label: string that could be presented to a user Name: machine-readable name for the function Type: ideally, a registered content type URI: returns the named function
17	default action group getActionPackage: returns the current version of the asset definition. getPreview: returns minimal view of the resource that can share the viewing space with other previews. getLabel: returns the appropriate string of plain text that can represent the resource. getDCRecord: returns an XML OAI-DC Dublin core record. getWebView: returns a view of the resource as a web page. getDefaultContent: returns a byte stream of raw content for the resource.
18	basicImage action group getThumbnail: returns a small image that can share the viewing space with other images. getScreenSize: returns an image that assumes the entire viewing space. getMaxSize: returns the largest image that will be made available. getDynamicView: returns and interactive the image embedded in a web page; it is intended to provide the image in an interactive setting.
19	Asset Action Experiments at Grainger Engineering Library Information Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Including a Description of XML Schema) Contributors: Jon Dunn Bill Parod Robert Chavez Robert Haschart
20	Asset Actions XML Schema http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/aquifertechwg/assetactions.xsd <aqa:assetActions> (@objid @type) <aqa:actionGroup> + (@name @label) <aqa:action> + (@name @label @uri @format) Very loose validation, does not enforce any of the value enumerations for attributes:
21	Example <aqa:assetActions type="image" objid="2372012"> <aqa:actionGroup label="default Action Group" name="defaultActionGroup"> <aqa:action label="Asset Definition" name="getAssetDefinition" format="text/xml" uri="http://sulzer.at.northwestern.edu/.../posters_africana-assetdef/2372012" /> <aqa:action label="Preview" name="getPreview" format="image/gif" uri="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/.../posters/img/af1640-85-sml.gif" /> <!-- … --> </aqa:actionGroup> <aqa:actionGroup label="basic Image Action Group" name="basicImageActionGroup"> <aqa:action label="Thumbnail" name="getThumbnail" format="image/gif" uri="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/.../posters/img/af1640-85-sml.gif" /> <aqa:action label="Screen Size" name="getScreenSize" format="image/jpeg" uri="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/.../posters/img/af1640-85.jpg" /> <!-- … --> </aqa:actionGroup> </aqa:assetActions>
22	Wrapper Schema for use with OAI http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/aquifertechwg/aquifer_dc.xsd <aq_dc:wrapper> <oai_dc:dc> <aqa:assetActions> http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/aquifertechwg/aquifer_mods.xsd <aq_mods:wrapper> <mods:mods> <aqa:assetActions>
23	Service Provider Objectives Exploit richness offered by actionable URIs Image Manipulation Annotation Bookbag
24	Collections Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection Indiana University Archives (Aquifer Mods) Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago Historical Society) Northwestern University Library World War II Poster Collection African Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University The Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London (Digital Collections and Archives - Tufts University)
25	Technology Grainger OAI Harvester and Service Provider Bookbag Custom code using XSLT and XSL-FO FOP and XMLMind for creating PDFs and RTFs Commercial email library Image Annotations Script from Web Kanzaki (http://www.kanzaki.com/) Image Manipulations Drag'nDrop & DHTML Library (http://www.walterzorn.com/) Other Jscript Libraries OverLib library (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/)
26	Demo http://rama.grainger.uiuc.edu/assetactions/index.asp
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41	Where DLF Aquifer adds value Working on “institution specific needs that can be addressed effectively through collaboration”. Building enabling technologies (for use in local environments) Incubating innovation
42	Future plans Ambitious project plan for next 2 years Strategic decisions Extending OAI Leveraging lightweight portable development Experimenting with federation as an alternative to metadata aggregation
43	Questions??? kkott@clir.org http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/