KU-DLI Portal Design Working Group
Established by: Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Chair, Digital Library Executive Group (Marilu Goodyear)
Members:
- Julie Loats, Web Administrator, Academic Computing Services, Co-Chair
- John Miller, Assistant Dean for Information Technology-Libraries, Co-Chair
- Faye Christenberry, Reference, Libraries
- Mary Miller, Reference, Libraries
- Greg Raschke, Engineering Librarian
- Becky Schulte, Reader Services, Spencer Library
Ex-Officio:
- Beth Warner, Director, Digital Library Initiatives
- Julia Rholes, Interim Dean, Libraries
Effective Dates: April 9 - October 1, 2001
Background:
A major aspect of the development of the KU Digital Library is refining and implementing the basic infrastructure, i.e. the architecture, standards, guidelines, services, and staffing. The development of digital resources is facilitated by the availability of appropriate tools and services that fit within the overall architectural framework, meet the approved standards, and provide easily accessed resources and services to the user community.
Charge:
The KU-DLI Portal Working Group is charged to develop specific design guidelines and recommendations, and an implementation plan for the initial portal and selected secondary interfaces for KU information resources. Building on the description of the Information Portal in the Library's Strategic Plan and the architectural foundations in the KU Digital Library Technical Infrastructure Report:
- Develop a framework to facilitate digital content management and access that
- incorporates categories of content including, but not limited to, remotely accessed content, locally maintained commercial content, local Library/DLI-created content, other locally created content (faculty research, presentations, courses, etc.)
- incorporates access to all content formats, including print and other non-digital formats
- recommends an organizational schema for content presentation
- accommodates tiers of access to content resources
- integrates existing resources and management systems, as appropriate
- incorporates information manipulation and creation tools, as appropriate
- provides customization mechanisms for individual users
- Design recommendations should incorporate the following considerations:
- the top-level interface will be a platform-independent web interface
- any secondary interface(s) will be web-based to the extent possible; platform-specific interfaces will be used only when necessary
- interface(s) will be ADA compliant (to the extent KU has control; vendor-supplied interfaces will be evaluated for compliance)
- distance learning requirements will be incorporated to the extent possible
- authentication/authorization support will be provided
- Recommend the types of services necessary to implement the KU-DLI Portal design (search protocols / systems, metadata sources / services, other tools, staff, etc.) and their basic functional requirements.
- Recommend priorities for implementation.
The Working Group should consult with other campus resources as appropriate to inform their work. The Working Group will present their initial recommendations and guidelines to the DLEG by June 1, 2001, initial implementation plans by August 1, 2001, and detailed implementation plans by October 1, 2001. The implementation plans should present task plans, resource needs (staff, software, equipment, and budget) and timelines for accomplishment.
Suggested Background Resources:
KU Digital Library Technical Infrastructure Task Force Report,
Working Document, ver. 1.0, November 10, 2000 (
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/reports/ ,
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/presentations/)
Library Strategic Plan, January 2001 (Task Force reports)
Eric Lease Morgan, Guest Editor, Special Issue: User-Customizable Library Portals,
Information Technology and Libraries
, Volume 19, Number 4, December
2000
Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville,
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly & Associates, 1998 (Engineering Library, Call Number: TK5105.888 .R67 1998)
