http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/166 Researchers: Prof Dr Zainab Awang Ngah, Assoc Prof Dr Abrizah Abdullah, Nor Badrul Anuar & Bustamin Ahmad Search the Channel search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/simple-search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/220 Title: The Digital Library as an Enterprise: the Zachman Approach <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab <br/> <br/>Abstract: Purpose: Examines the needs of digital library stakeholders and how a collaborative digital library might be designed to meet these needs. The collaborative digital library has been conceived to support secondary school students’ information needs in conducting school-based projects. Design/methodology/approach: Uses the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture as the approach to investigate the user requirements and define the digital library organisation, resources, processes, technology and information flows In applying the Zachman Framework and to holistically control the study, the case study approach and multiple data collection techniques were adopted. Findings: Information obtained from these data gathering techniques helps to populate the requirements of the top three layers (18 cells) in the Zachman Framework to ascertain the design details of the digital library’s scope, business and system model. The framework requires the abstraction of the characteristics and features of the digital library based on six dimensons, Motivation, Data, People, Process, Place and Time, as well as explains their structures and processes from the perspectives of the planner, owner and designer of the digital library. Originality/Value: Would be of significance in the field of collaborative digital libraries since stakeholders’ needs and the contexts of use are not usually captured comprehensively, and the ongoing challenge is to model complex human and social behaviours in the form of collaboration and communication in such digital libraries Keywords: Collaborative digital libraries; Digital library research framework; Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture; Digital libraries in education; User needs; Malaysia Paper type: Case study http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/219 Title: The Application of Zachman Framework in Architecting a Collaborative Digital Library <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper illustrates the possibility of using an Enterprise Architecture as an instrument for requirements analysis and evaluation in digital library development. The collaborative digital library has been conceived to support secondary school students information needs in conducting school-based projects. The researchers examine the needs of digital library stakeholders and how a collaborative digital library might be designed to meet these needs. Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture was used as the approach to investigate the user requirements and define the digital library organisation, resources, processes, technology and information flows. In applying Zachman Framework and to holistically control the study, the case study approach and multiple data collection techniques were adopted. Information obtained from these data gathering techniques helps to populate the requirements of the top three layers (18 cells) in Zachman Framework to ascertain the design details of the digital library’s scope, business and system model. The framework abstracts the characteristics and features of the digital library based on six dimensons, Motivation, Data, People, Process, Place and Time, and explains their structures and processes from the perspectives of the planner, owner and designer of the digital library. This paper provides the detailed mapping between the first three layers of the Zachman cells and the dimensions utilized in formulating the requirements and design of the collaborative digital library. It consists of the various elements that a digital library should provide for as delineated in several frameworks being conceptualized and described in digital library research since 1995 for the design, development, and evaluation of digital libraries. Instead of listing the elements as requirements, the researchers embed the requirement process and development in an architectural framework, thus presenting it more systematically taking into account the six digital library dimensions mentioned earlier http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/218 Title: Empowering students in information literacy practices using a collaborative digital library for school projects <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper examines the affordances that a collaborative digital library (CDL) can bring to bear on supporting information literacy practices in the digital information environment. It suggests that the digital library can contribute to student empowerment in information literacy practices while searching, using and collaboratively building the digital library resources. To illustrate this, the authors have been experimenting with the implementation of an integrated information literacy model based on Eisenberg and Berkowitz’ Big 6 Model and describes the CDL features in association with the information literacy dimensions in this model. The CDL focuses on the project-based learning approach to conduct students’ project, which supports specific information behaviors that underpin research and learning such as information seeking, browsing, encountering, foraging, sharing, gathering, filtering, and using. Findings regarding teachers’ reception of the digital library are encouraging as they feel the relevance of the digital library to the current requirement of the students’ project and its potential to entrench information and resource study skills through project-based learning. http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/171 Title: Supporting Information Literacy Practices In Digital Information Environment: An Approach Using A Collaborative Digital Library For School Projects <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab; Halida Yu <br/> <br/>Abstract: Project-based teaching methods are increasingly used in Malaysian secondary school classrooms with the expectations that students will be engaged by the chance to use different information sources creatively and will especially benefit from the use of various presentation types to improve learning. In project-based learning (PBL) students exhibit information literacy (IL) skills: they formulate authentic, meaningful questions; plan tasks; gather resources and information; evaluate information; collaborate with others; and report findings. This paper examines the affordances that a collaborative digital library (CDL) can bring to bear on supporting IL practices in the digital information environment (DIGIE). The CDL supports solitary information seeking, interaction among users as well as working with information. The collaborative environment provides the platform for the students to participate in e-publishing of reports and digital resources that can be shared by others. It also allows students to organize their project reports in various presentation styles, cite the references they use in the appropriate format as well as submit the report and other resources in various formats, in order to create materials for publication in the digital library. The CDL places much of the responsibility for managing the digital library workflow into the hands of students, teachers and teacher librarians. Student responsibilities include the application of metadata, as well as conventional IL skills such as ascertaining information resource provenance and investigating intellectual property rights before depositing digital resources within the library. Findings regarding students’ and teachers’ reception of the digital library are encouraging. <br/> <br/>Description: International Conference of Information Literacy (ICIL) 2006, 14 & 15 June 2006, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. 18p. http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/170 Title: Digital Library of Historical Resources:Evaluation of First Users <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library’s public use on the web. The digital library is modeled to focus on serving secondary students information needs in conducting history projects. As such, in the implementation of the digital library, the use of online resources would be an integral part of history project-based learning activities. Students should be enabled to access digital resources, create and publish their own documents in the digital library and share them with others. As a testbed system, the collaborative digital library known as CoreDev has demonstrated its capabilities in serving an educational community as has been reflected by the positive feedback on the functional requirements from 44 users. Over 75% of the respondents in the user survey considered themselves capable of using the digital library easily. The beta tester demographics (n = 105) indicate that the digital library is reaching its target communities. <br/> <br/>Description: Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, Vol. 12, no. 2, Dec 2007: 99-122 http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/169 Title: Are Malaysian Students Ready to Be Authors of Digital Contents? A Case Study of Digital Library Stakeholders’ Readiness <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah; A.N.Zainab <br/> <br/>Abstract: The paper reports on a study that ascertains the factors facilitating students to utilize digital libraries for educational purposes. The study investigates students ICT readiness, usage of online resources and information seeking behaviour of secondary school students with the specific goal of applying the results to the design of a collaborative digital library for school projects. The digital library has been conceived to support resource needs of these students as well provide the space for them to publish their school projects, which are currently submitted handwritten. The study uses the case study approach and an urban secondary school in Malaysia is chosen as the case school. Findings from a survey and focus group interviews indicate that the students are ready to collaboratively build the digital library resources as evidenced by students digital library readiness score of 31.4/40. <br/> <br/>Description: Journal of Educational Media & Library Services, no 45, Vol 1, September 2007 http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/168 Title: Applying the Zachman Framework Data Dimension to Determine Content of a Digital Library <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah Abdullah <br/> <br/>Abstract: The paper describes how the Data dimension in Zachman Framework is applied to determine the contents in the design of a collaborative digital library for school projects. Zachman Framework abstracts the characteristics and features of the digital library based on six artifacts, Motivation, Data, People, Process, Place and Time, as well as explains their structures and processes from the perspectives of the planner, owner and designer of the digital library. Information obtained from multiple data gathering techniques helps to populate the requirements of these perspectives to ascertain the design details of the digital library’s scope, business and system model. Planner’s perspective of the Data dimension describes the digital library resources in various media types and format. The owner’s perspective describes the subject scope, collection and resource criteria. The designer’s perspective defines the metadata profile for the digital objects resource description. These perspectives are used in the implementation of a collaborative digital library of historical resources at the physical design layer, as well as in the modules and subsystems. <br/> <br/>Description: InBuilding an information society for all: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2007, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 26-27 June 2007 / Abrizah Abdullah et al. (eds); organized by the Library and Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. -- Kuala Lumpur: Library and Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 2007.