http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/162 Search the Channel search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/simple-search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/789 Title: Piloting an institutional repository at a research-intensive university:Strategies for content recruitment and the role of the library <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah, A. <br/> <br/>Abstract: Objective: This paper describes how a research group at a research intensive university ,whose vested interest is in increasing the accessibility of the university’s research output to the world literature, develops a self-sustainable and expandable open access institutional repository (IR). It also reports on how the university recruits content for its institutional repository, and how the roles of librarians would have changed in the process. Design/methodology/approach - This paper describes the background on how institutional repositories have developed in response to the open access movement. The case of the University of Malaya’s Institutional Repository is described, showing the strategies that the digital library research group employed in recruiting content. Findings - The paper illustrates the strategies to populate the IR which include encouraging researchers to self-archive papers and capturing pre-existing collections of theses and dissertations. It also describes how the roles of academic librarians would change in the process of building the institutional repository. There are extensions of existing roles in terms of system evaluation, advocacy and reference services. New roles include content recruitment and interpreting policies. It also points out possible directions which can make the repository sustainable. Practical implications - The paper provides a useful case study to which other academic libraries may refer when they plan to develop their own institutional repositories. Originality/value - This paper provides descriptions on the changing roles of librarians not covered in previous literature. Discussions on policies, strategies, barriers and challenges will have reference value for academic libraries who want to embark on a similar project. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/319 Title: DSpace Road Map <br/> <br/>Authors: Digital Library Research Group <br/> <br/>Description: 3-day Institutional Repository Workshop using dSpace, for members of the ASEAN University Network Inter-Library Online (AUNILO) 25th â 27th May, 2009 Computer Lab, Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Tue, 26 May 2009 01:38:55 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/318 Title: Installation of DSpace on Windows <br/> <br/>Authors: Digital Library Research Group <br/> <br/>Description: 3-day Institutional Repository Workshop using dSpace, for members of the ASEAN University Network Inter-Library Online (AUNILO) 25th – 27th May, 2009 Computer Lab, Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Fri, 22 May 2009 07:46:02 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/317 Title: DSpace Workflow, Administration and Customization <br/> <br/>Authors: Digital Library Research Group <br/> <br/>Description: 3-day Institutional Repository Workshop using dSpace, for members of the ASEAN University Network Inter-Library Online (AUNILO) 25th – 27th May, 2009 Computer Lab, Faculty of Business and Accountancy University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Fri, 22 May 2009 07:44:29 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/222 Title: An Architecture for Efficient Resource Discovery with Metadata Harvesting in a Multidisciplinary Distributed Repository <br/> <br/>Authors: Jayan C Kurian; M.G. Sreekumar; Dion Hoe-Lian Goh; Diljit Singh; Abrizah Abdullah; Joy Lynn Wheeler <br/> <br/>Abstract: The profusion of non-relevant information for a given query on the Web explains the pressing need for formulating ebullient strategies for pertinent Web resource discovery and retrieval. One of the major requirements for effective document retrieval is its diligently encoded metadata. At the same time metadata standards to be followed for annotating documents from large collections are pretty complex. This is because the standardized global metadata cannot represent all the elusive forms of document metadata for improved retrieval ranking. In this context, we propose an approach to facilitate document retrieval from multidisciplinary domains where each belonging to discrete domains would be indexed in a segregated instance of a repository. This would facilitate document metadata customization for each specific discipline by adding specific metadata themes. Since the approach retains the standard metadata schema in addition to the customized metadata schema, it would result in enhanced resource discovery. The metadata retrieval process will be supported by an extended protocol for metadata harvesting (X-PMH) [1] and will be implemented in each repository. The extended metadata harvesting approach has been used to tie together the metadata customization components made at various repository instances. The proposed framework could be integrated into Open Digital Libraries (ODLs) [2] and shall serve as an intrinsic model that adds value in the context of multidisciplinary metadata simplicity, maintenance, and descriptive metadata availability in the event of repository instance failures. Our approach is to implement this cost-effective architecture using the PKP-OAI (Public Knowledge Project – Open Archive Initiative) [3,4] harvester on DSpace [5], an open source digital repository platform that supports metadata harvesting in its innate form. Once this is fully achieved, a federated search build upon such repository instances using open source technologies [6] would yield promising results in the context of information retrieval Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT 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 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT