The Indonesian Digital Library Network is Born to

The Indonesian Digital Library Network is Born to Struggle with the Digital Divide Ismail Fahmi < ismail@itb. ac. id > Knowledge Management Research Group ITB ASIST Annual Conference 3 -7 November 2001, Washington DC 1

Acknowledgement Funding: n IDRC, International Development Research Centre (Canada) n YLTI, Yayasan Litbang Telekomunikasi dan Informatika (Indonesia) Support in-kind: n Central Library ITB n AI 3/ITB, Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives n CNRG, Computer Network Research Group 2

Agenda n n n n Where is Indonesia? Motivation Strategies Activities Results Future direction You can help developing countries ! 3

About Indonesia > 3000 islands ! BALI Jakarta Bandung 4

Current Condition n n Few new books at libraries. Few journals subscription. So that, libraries unable to provide good information resources. Internet access ? Java island is information rich (enough) compared to other islands. 5

Motivation n n By bridging people (from digital & space divide) and utilizing the LOCAL KNOWLEDGE, Indonesian people will able to improve their literacy. 6

Problems n n Their knowledge is locked Digital and space divide Telecommunication infrastructure is very limited and expensive Computer literacy is low Inhabitants: 210 million 7

Mission Unlock ACCESS to the Indonesian knowledge Unlock ! 8

What we need? n n n We need SOLUTION. Not state of the art of technology, but a Regional Technology. Able to run on narrow bandwidth and unreliable connections. Familiar User Interface. Attract individual and institution (knowledge producers) to share knowledge. Ease and cheap of implementation and integration. 9

Strategies (Society) n n n Establish a community (Indonesia. DLN) of knowledge sharing Type of partner: Institution, Individual, and Internet Café. Promote sub-networks: I. e. health, agriculture, human rights, etc. Bottom-up approach License: GPL it ! 10

Strategies (Technical) n n n Networked: through a national networked digital library Distributed: every institutions can manage their own digital library system Unified: all knowledge will be unified Disseminated: all knowledge will be disseminated (mirrored), bring information near to the users. Standardized: using international acknowledged metadata standard (Dublin Core) 11

What we share? n n Information: abstract and full content of the LOCAL CONTENT. Including: n n n Research report Final Project, Theses, Dissertation Article, paper, proceeding, journal E-book, e-learning material, course material Clipping, Heritage, Multimedia, expertise directory, etc. In the form of: document, audio, image, and video files. 12

Activities n Develop Software (technical): n n Ganesha Digital Library (GDL) Establish Community (society): n The Indonesian Digital Library Network (Indonesia. DLN) 13

Ganesha Digital Library n n Web-based application Client-server (GDL Network) Open-source/free software Edition: n n n Personal Internet café Institution 14

Architecture of the Network Key: -Standard Metadata -Protocol There a hub and many digital library servers. 15

Indonesia. DLN Interoperability Metadata Std. n n Objective: to manage electronic resources (documents, audio, video files) on the Internet among the digital library networks. Dublin Core Metadata Element Sets n n n Simple, multipurpose Widely used Indonesia. DLN Interoperability Metadata Std was derived from NDLTD Metadata Std (also based on Dublin Core). 16

Example: Metadata in XML Metadata is formatted into XML before exchanged among the digital library servers. All digital library servers in Indonesia. DLN should use the Indonesia. DLN Interoperability Metadata Standard. Currently is version 1. 1. 17

Metadata storage n n Metadata is stored in database. XML is used only for synchronization. 18

Identifier n n n Every metadata will be recognized from its IDENTIFIER. Identifier is unique within Indonesia. DLN. It contains the following information: n n n n Publisher ID Digital Library Network ID Type of the electronic resources Year of creation Creator Record number, and Content theme 19

Example of Identifier Publisher ID Digital Library Network ID Type of the electronic resources Year of creation Creator Record number, and Content theme jbpeismail-gdl-res-2001 -ismail-11 -idrc Benefit: Entering URL containing the identifier to any digital library servers will show the same metadata content. Example: http: //digilib. xxx/go. php? id= jbpeismail-gdl-res-2001 -ismail-11 -idrc 20

The Synchronization Protocol n Items to be synchronized: n n Metadata Files (optional) Publisher information Membership information 21

The Synchronization Services (1/2) n Using the services of: n HTTP (operational) n n n Post office : -) n n Real time transaction Good for reliable connection Burned into CD-ROM Takes days or weeks Good for no internet connection at all Protocol: Currently using Indonesia. DLN specific protocol, which is similar with the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) Protocol. 22

The Synchronization Services (2/2) Metadata are: - sent from LOCAL to HUB server and, - downloaded from HUB to LOCAL server, through the synchronization services. Optionally, the files also can be sent from LOCAL to HUB. There are 3 groups of requests: Authentication, PUT, and GET. 23

Indonesia. DLN HUB Other DL Network Other GDL-HUB GDL-Network institusi warnet personal 24

GDL-Network GDL-HUB personal GDL-Network Depkes ITB RSHS institusi warnet Unsyiah UMM Binus UAJ IPB Salman 25

Scenario of Sharing & Replication Share GDL-HUB GDL-Network Depkes ITB RSHS Replication institusi warnet Unsyiah UMM Binus UAJ personal IPB Salman Replication 26

How it looks like? n n n Demo of Personal Digital Library Navigate the Indonesia. DLN collections locally! Click here 27

The Technology n n GDL 3. 1, open-sources/free software Operating system: n n n n Unix/Linux Windows 98/NT/2000 Windows 95 – needs winsock 32 Web server: Apache Scripting Language: PHP 4 Database Server: My. SQL Infrastructure: Dedicated or Dial-Up 28

Implementation Status n n n 1999 = Software development started Oct 2000 = Community development started June 2001 (it just 4 months ago) = Indonesia. DLN was launched 29

Indonesia. DLN Partners By Nov 2001 30

The Distribution Map of Indonesia. DLN Partners By Nov 2001 Irian Jaya Aceh 31

Members of Indonesia. DLN n n Member = users that have registered at GDL servers. Currently the total members registered at GDL Hub is about 3467 users. 32

Members of Indonesia. DLN (by partners) By November 2001 33

Members’ Country By Nov 2001 34

Members’ Job By August 2001 35

The Contents By Nov 2001 36

Future of Indonesia. DLN: The Network of Networks New Spektra Distance Learning. Network GDL-Engine Agriculture Network Indonesia. DLN GDL-Engine Human Rights- Network GDL-Engine Heritage. Network Biblio. Network GDL-Engine 37

OAI: The Networking Protocol n n Indonesia. DLN will adopt the OAI (Open Archives Initiatives) protocol / concept. Further integration with other international digital library network. 38

Current activities: n Develop the sub-networks: n n Indonesian Human Rights Information System Indonesian Agriculture Information Network (this will reach the farmers needs, not only the researchers) Indonesian Heritage Network Indonesian Bibliographic Network 39

International Collaboration n n GDL has been successfully installed at an NGO in Pakistan (contact peace 786 pk@yahoo. com) Digital Library Network among Indonesia. Malaysia (Penang Library Network, USM) is being discussed. 40

Example: The Agriculture Network Agriculture Information Network (subnetwork) OAI Group of Farmers A Agri. Hub Server Access: Internet Café & Dial-up Group of Farmers B Indonesia. DLN Hub Server OAI Other Subnetworks in Indonesia. DLN Group of Researchers 41 ETD, Heritage, Health, Human Rights, etc

Important URLs n n n Indonesia. DLN web site; Mailing list; technical, scenario, society, announcement; standard, http: //idln. itb. ac. id About GDL-Network, registration, join, software, patch, download, etc, http: //gdlhub. indonesia. DLN. org/faqgdl. php Download GDL source code for free, http: //gdl. itb. ac. id/download/ GDL-HUB, http: //gdlhub. indonesia. DLN. org Digital Library ITB, http: //digilib. itb. ac. id Contact KMRG: kmrg@kmrg. lib. itb. ac. id 42

You can help developing countries! n n n Open access to your digital libraries for the 3 rd world. Use the OAI protocol and standard metadata (Dublin Core-based) Knowledge will be: n n Shared And exchanged 43

Summaries n n n GDL has proved its abilities to integrate digital library network in Indonesia. Able to run on dedicated, dial-up, and behind proxy internet connection. Indonesia. DLN is a bottom-up approach community that grows very fast. Indonesia. DLN will become a network of networks. Possible integration with other international digital library network (using Dublin Core metadata standard). 44

Thank you 45