VALA2006 Proceedings

The VALA2006 13th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at Crown Towers, Melbourne, Australia from 8 – 10 February 2006. The theme for this conference was Connecting with Users.

The following programme was presented at VALA2006. See also VALA2006 Programme or the archived VALA2006 conference web site.

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VALA2006 Plenary 3 Balakrishnan

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerUniversal Digital Library – connecting users to digital contents

Narayanaswamy BalakrishnanVALA 2008 PLENARY 3: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Thursday 9 February 2006, 09:00 – 10:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-3-balakrishnan

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science
http://www.iisc.ernet.in

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The Universal Digital Library epitomises international collaboration with partners from USA, China, Egypt and Australia spanning academia, Government and religious institutions as stakeholders. Nearly 600,000 books have been scanned so far and most of them are available for free browsing.

Discuss the Indian Language Technology Research that was stimulated by the vast information base made available by the UDL project. The efforts to connect the users to content using mobile vans, Internet based dissemination and the personalised Digital collections are compared. The talk concludes with the discussion on the issue of copyright and presents a novel idea of a “Consortium for Compensating for Creating Contents” – the FourCs.

 

VALA2006 Session 7 Atkinson

VALA2006Digital practice: Picture NSW and the development of guidelines for local digitising programs

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Delivering Online Content
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-7-atkinson

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperLaurie Atkinson

Co-ordinator, Corporate Information, City of Boroondara
http://boroondara.vic.gov.au

Vincent Dale

Information Systems Coordinator, Lake Macquarie City Library
http://www.lakemac.com.au

Ellen Forsyth

Consultant, Public Library Services, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au

Judy Peppard

Director, Practico Pty Ltd
http://www.practico.com.au

Derek Whitehead

Director, Information Resources, Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.swinburne.edu.au

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The paper arises from the PictureNSW project undertaken in 2004 and 2005 by the State Library of New South Wales in cooperation with New South Wales public libraries. The paper sets out the goals of the project, the processes followed, and the rationale and nature of the Guidelines produced by the project. It sets out some lessons of the project, and some suggestions for the future.

 

VALA2006 Session 7 Ayres

VALA2006Bringing the stories to the people: online sound at the National Library of Australia

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Delivering Online Content
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-7-ayres

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperMarie-Louise Ayres

Associate Curator of Manuscripts, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Judith Pearce

Director, Business Analysis, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Dianne Dahlitz

Senior Librarian, Oral History, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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This paper describes the National Library’s project to make web delivery of its sound collections possible. The paper outlines the key infrastructure components required for routine web delivery of streamed sound files and XML encoded transcripts and summaries from a very large collection, and the standards adopted and/or adapted to facilitate delivery. It also describes the content conversion strategies required to convert analogue recordings to digital format, and to convert printed summaries and transcripts to encoded documents. The paper will conclude with a demonstration of the Library’s online sound delivery system, and a brief view of the multiple discovery pathways to these remarkable resources.

 

VALA2006 Session 8 Mercieca

VALA2006Changing patterns in scholarly publishing: interim report on ARC funded research project

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Digital and e-publishing
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-8-mercieca

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPaul Mercieca

Lecturer – Information Management and Digital Publishing, RMIT University
http://www.rmit.edu.au

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This paper reports on the progress of a three year ARC funded research project that is exploring issues associated with ongoing business models for digital scholarly publishing. While the ARC project itself is exploring broad changes within the publishing environment, this paper focuses on issues associated with open access publishing. The paper provides an overview of the research focus and its methodology and then broadly discusses issues of ongoing sustainability, and the impact of policy change on access and potential changing patterns of usage of digital scholarly content. These issues form the basis for the ongoing research project.

 

VALA2006 Session 8 Coleman

VALA2006Sydney University Press: publication, business and the digital library

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Digital and e-publishing
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-8-coleman

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperRoss Coleman

Manager, Innovation and Development, University of Sydney Library
http://library.usyd.edu.au

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This paper argues that the business strategies of the emerging e-press movement benefit from the values and standards that are part of the digital library. The paper will discuss these values and standards and their relationship to the business processes of e-publishing. The paper will explore these relationships through developments at Sydney University Press (SUP), recently re-established as an electronic publisher based on the digital library platform of SETIS, the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service of the University of Sydney Library. The paper will also consider the integration of repository content into these publication processes within the broader context of eScholarship

 

VALA2006 Session 9 Sokvitne

VALA2006 Rediscovering metadata: an outcomes-oriented approach

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Metadata
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-9-sokvitne

VALA2006 Invited PaperLloyd Sokvitne

Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State Library of Tasmania
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au

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VALA2006 Session 9 Kiorgaard

VALA2006 A rose by any other name?: from AACR2 to Resource Description and Access

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Metadata
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-9-kiorgaard

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperDeidre Kiorgaard

Director, Bibliographic Standards, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Ebe Kartus

Coordinator, Metadata, The University of Melbourne
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au

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Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for description and access, designed for the digital world. The paper charts the drivers that are shaping RDA’s development. It explains why simply revising AACR2 is no longer an option. It discusses the relationship between RDA and other international standards developments, such as IFLA’s draft statement of International Cataloguing Principles; the influence of models such as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAR (Functional Requirements for Authority records). The timeline for the publication of RDA is outlined, and information given on how you can influence the development of RDA.

 

VALA2006 Session 10 Meitar

VALA2006 Questions of terminology and classification in digitising a Jewish Culture Heritage Collection

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Resource Capture and Access
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-10-meitar

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperAnat Meitar

Collections Assistant, Jewish Museum of Australia
http://www.jewishmuseum.com.au

Susan Faine

Curator, Collections, Jewish Museum of Australia
http://www.jewishmuseum.com.au

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In working toward a comprehensive computerised database of its collection, the Jewish Museum of Australia has been redefining its terminology and classification systems. These definitions have played a central part in determining inner relationships between collection items in an electronic environment, and thereby support the museum and the wide diverse range of communities searching the collection. Facilitating the multilingual requirements of the cultural collection is of high importance. This paper proposes to establish an online thesaurus for the international Jewish museums communities, in which they could name and identify their object’s terminology.

 

VALA2006 Session 10 Balajapally

VALA2006 Multilingual book reader: transliteration, word-to-word translation and full-text translation

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 10: Resource Capture and Access
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-10-balajapally

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPrashanth Balajapally

Sai Spurthi Institute of Technology, India
http://www.saispurthi.ac.in

Phanindra Pydimarri

Institute Of Aeronautical Engineering, India
http://www.iiaedehradun.org

Madhavi Ganapathiraju

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
http://www.cs.cmu.edu

N. Balakrishnan

Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, India
http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in

Raj Reddy

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
http://www.cs.cmu.edu

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India being a multilingual nation, with 22 recognised official languages, also has literature in all these languages; they find representation in the Digital Library of India (DLI) which holds over 120,000 books. DLI has driven the creation of a large number of applications to process and present the Indian language content. In this paper, we present the creation of a multilingual book reader interface for DLI that supports transliteration and “good enough translation” features making it possible for readers to read a book that is written in another language.

 

VALA2006 Plenary 4 Woldering

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerConnecting with users: Europe and multilinguality

 

Britta WolderingVALA 2008 PLENARY 4: Britta Woldering
Thursday 9 February 2006, 16:10 – 17:25
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-4-woldering

Britta Woldering

Assistant for International Relations to the Director General, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library), Germany
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/index.htm

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This paper introduces to the new Internet service The European Library, provided by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), and gives an overview of activities in Europe for multilingual library services, developed and tested in various projects: TEL-MEMOR, MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects), MSAC (Multilingual Subject Access to Catalogues of National Libraries), Crisscross, and VIAF (Virtual International Authority File).