Building a digital ecosystem:foundations & opportunities

Euwe Ermita

Systems and Applications Leader

Digital Experience Division

Source: http://www.gartner.com

Image source: http://www.hyperspectral.alaska.edu/applications_ecology.html

Principles - natural & digital ecosystems

Natural ecosystem Digital ecosystem

Solid foundation (bedrock, roots) Robust, fit-for-purpose & fit-for-use digital infrastructure

Intercommunication between agents Integration and data - open standards

Resilient to changes (weather, climate)

Resilient to change (digital disruption, innovation), agile

Self organising - living things (species)

Taxonomies, domains

Harmony Seamless coexistence of systems

Agents - produce and consume resources

Systems act as agents, produce and consume information and data

Sustainable - lifecycle Valued and relevant

Systems of Record - foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity

“I don’t know exactly what I want. I need to experiment.”

“I know exactly what I want, but it needs to be different from my competitors.”

“I know exactly what I want, and it doesn’t have to be unique.”

Digital ecosystem: self organisingGartner Pace Layering

Digital ecosystem:Pace Layering: Systems of Record

Systems of Differentiation

Systems of Innovation

Systems of Innovation

Systems of Record

Digital ecosystem:Pace Layering: Systems of Differentiation

Systems of Differentiation

Systems of Record

Digital ecosystem:Pace Layering: Systems of Innovation

Systems of Differentiation

Systems of Record

Digital ecosystem:Pace Layering: Service Layer

Systems of Innovation

API Service Layer

Category Attributes Systems of Record Systems of Differentiation Systems of Innovation

General Principles

Driving Force Common Ideas Better Ideas New Ideas

Business Processes Well-understood, highly integrated and commoditised, interdpendent, stable

Well-understood, highly configurable and customisable; autonomous

Unique, not well-understood, experimental, ambiguous, dynamic and ad hoc

Pace of Change Slow, infrequent, incremental; changes every six to 12 months

Moderate, more frequent, configurability is key - Changes every three to six months

Rapid, frequent and ad hoc; "throwaway" customisation; changes weekly, sometimes daily

Security Tightly controlled, managed complexity Distributed control, manageable complexity

Federated control, high potential complexity

Lifetime - how long it usually stays in that layer

More than 10 years Two to five years Three to 12 months

Planning Horizon - How long you describe the plan in application strategy

More than 7 years One to two years. As long as six months

Business Aspects

Strategic Focus Standardisation: operatonal efficiency. "Run the business"

Agility/flexibility; competitive differentiation; "Grow the business"

Disruptive thinking; alternative business models, market leadership; "Transform the business"

Stakeholders/Ownership High business executive engagement and alignment between business and IT strategy; low end-user engagement; formalo handover from business to IT

High business executive engagement, but driven by lines of business; moderate end-user engagement; business engaging on hot spots and IT filling the gaps

Moderate business executive engagement, some sponsored and under-the-radar, tactival; high end-user engagement

Data/information Highly structured, well-managed Internal and external, some unstructutured; more dynamic

Structured and unstructured data; heavy reliance on external data

Risk Minimum Medium High

Digital ecosystem - other agents

People and Culture

Processes and Procedures

Partners

Digital ecosystem

Maturity

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Application Portfolio Management Strategy:Pace Layering: Systems of Record

Systems of Differentiation

Systems of Innovation

Smart Library Digital preservation

Smart-enabled[/sɪˈmɑːt neɪb(ə)l,ɛ-/]

The use of data with high performance computing to change the way in which services and resources are managed and delivered.

Smart city

Smart home and devices

Smart Library[/sɪˈmɑːt neɪb(ə)l,ɛ- lʌɪbrəri,-bri/]

For our clientsA new data-driven approach to deliver personalised services to clients - using real-time data, tools and cloud technology.

For our staffAutomating business processes and workflows using data, tools and cloud technology.

Data @ the Library -

Systems of Record - Foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity

Capture

ProcessAnalyse

Act

Data @ the Library -

Systems of Record - Foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity

Capture

Data @ the Library -

Systems of Record - Foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity

Process

Data @ the Library -

Systems of Record - Foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity

Analyse

Data @ the Library -

Systems of Record - Foundation

Systems of Differentiation - opportunity

Systems of Innovation - opportunity Act

Digital preservation strategy

People and Culture

Processes and Procedures

Partners

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Digital ecosystem

Digital Preservation

training

Publishing & harvesting

Metadata & digitisation standards

Cool URIs

Public libraries GLAM

Academic, State and National Libraries

international communities

Crowd sourcing tools

Cultural protocols

Next steps: persistent identifiers - Cool URIs

URIs for People data

URIs for Places data

URIs for Resource data

URIs for Event data

Person

Service Layer

New: COOL URI SERVICE

MachinePerson Machine Person

Next steps: publish to other aggregators

GoogleWikidata

Alma

Service Layer

Aggregators

Primo/Alma Linked Open Data

Adlib

Website

Next steps: Automation - curation, correction and description

Machine Learning, Image

recognition

Crowd Sourcing (audio, video etc)

Authorities and Linked Data Cultural protocols

Catalogue Record

Digital Asset

File-level metadata (XMP,

EXIFF etc)Geotagged Provenance License and

Access

-- Roadmap --

People and Culture

Processes and Procedures

Partners

Digital ecosystem

Maturity

Public libraries: digital

preservation for local studies

Public libraries

Questions?

Euwe ErmitaSystems and Applications

State Library NSW