Resource Discovery Infrastructure - what if we were starting from scratch?

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Presentation give at inaugural meeting of JISC Resource Discovery Infrastructure Taskforce 25/11/08

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Federated Search

SRU/SRW

FRAD

FRBR

ISBD AACR2

AACRRDA MARC

MAB

UKMARC

MARC21

OCLC

CURL

RLG

OPAC

Catalogue

WOW!Wow!

Ranganathan’s 5 Laws

• Books are for use• Every person his or her book• Every book its reader• Save the time of the reader• A library is a growing organism

Resources

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Resources

All Resources

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B

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Build Indexes, not ‘Catalogues’

Acknowledgements

• Cuniform– http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscott/

• Alexandrian Library– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ancientlibrary

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• Bombay Clocks– http://www.flickr.com/photos/mybigtrip/

Acknowledgements

• Melvil Dewey– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey

• Davis, Oswald Harcourt, 1882-1962– http://www.flickr.com/photos/yolaleah/

• The card catalog– http://www.flickr.com/photos/misshaley/

• Hammond Card Cataloger– http://www.libraryhistorybuff.com/library-bureau

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Acknowledgements

• Charles Cutter– http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/100th/1904-1930.htm

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tim_Berners-L

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• Google Logo– http://www.google.co.uk

• Yahoo logo– http://uk.yahoo.com

Acknowledgements

• Rotunda Spokes– http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinl8888/

• Sheep Portrait– http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/

• The Pied Piper of Sheep– http://www.flickr.com/photos/kman999/

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