Re-thinking Resource Sharing Dare to Share

Gail Wanner (SirsiDynix) &

Clare MacKeigan (Relais International)

October 12, 2006

Agenda

• Rethinking Resource Sharing initiative– What is it and why now?

• Interoperability – GET IT!!

• What it is• Status• Future

It’s Time Again to Think about Resource Sharing

A White Paper published February 2005http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/ stars/starssections/committeesa/rrscomm/rrscomm.htm

Why change resource sharing?

• User expectations– OCLC Perceptions study

(http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm)

– Amazon, eBay, Google– Digitization – Netflix

• Technological advances

Rethinking Forums

• Chicago, November 2005 & Denver, February 2006• Planned: Chicago, April 2007• International focus• Participants from all types of libraries

– Public– Academic– State, Consortia– Special, K-12– Vendors

• Small group discussions & working groups

Vision Statement

• Create a new global service framework that allows individuals to obtain what they want based on factors such as cost, time, format, and delivery.

• This framework will encompass promoting and exposing library services in a variety of environments.

Rethinking Main ideas

– User focus, not enhancing staff tasks– Vendor neutral– Global context– Broad definition of resource sharing

• ILL• Consortial borrowing• Reference• Digital services

Working Groups

• Steering Committee • User Needs (ALA RUSA STARS)

– Continue evaluation of barriers, expectations• Policies (ALA RUSA STARS)

– Remove barriers, change policies• Interoperability (NISO – possible)

– Leapfrog today’s interoperability issues

Rethinking Resource Sharing

Interoperability

Resource Sharing Models

• Traditional Model:

• Today’s Model:

But commercial search engines used to Find 98% time

• New Resource Sharing Model =

Discover Locate Request Deliver

Find Get

GET IT

Introducing

GET IT...– Service operates as a plug-in

– Independent of other software

– Developed as open source

Internet Internet

GET-IT

NCIP Update: Growing Pains Candy Zemon, NCIP-IG chair

Despite many current successful implementations of both direct consortial borrowing and self service applications, NCIP is not yet as widely used as developers might wish. There are several real and perceived hurdles slowing more widespread adoption. The NCIP Implementers’ Group spent its September meeting addressing those issues.

Eight specific problem areas formed the agenda of the three-day meeting.

1. extension mechanism

2. smaller messages

3. DTD/ schema

4. transport options

5. reported defects

6. profile structure and purpose

7. supporting documentation for developers and other interest groups

8. ILL/ wider resource sharing ramifications

Coming out of this meeting are several specific initiatives to produce documentation and examples, to correct a small number of defects identified over the last few

Search

Results Item Lookup

Domain page list parser

Item-object

Source list html

constructor

get-it

User-object

GET-IT Application components

• Personal configuration

• Domain page list parser

• Item look-up

• Source list html constructor

• Logging agent

• Intelligent profiler

Internet InternetSearch

User-object

Profiling Serviceuser-object

• Populate at installation

• Modify as needed

• Possible elements include– Postal or zip code– Local library registration

• May be stored on (to be determined)– User workstation– Remote server

• Maintains and stores user-object

Internet Internet

GET-IT

Search

Results

Domain page list parser

item-object

User-object

Domain page list parserDomain page list parseritem-objectitem-object

– Parse the content of each web page as it is displayed– If a ‘handle’ is found, e.g., ISBN, OpenURL, UPC,

titles• Generate link, , i.e., Get-It button• Create item-object

– Not COinS dependent • although these elements will serve as ‘handles’

This has been done….

• Extensions or plug-ins for web browsers that assist in locating library resources have been developed.

• Examples of these are:– OpenURL Referrer by Openly Informatics– Wake County Library Lookup by Josh Staiger– Denver-Prospector-WorldCat-CD-DVD Lookup by

Sean LeBlanc

Internet Internet

GET-IT

NCIP Update: Growing Pains Candy Zemon, NCIP-IG chair

Despite many current successful implementations of both direct consortial borrowing and self service applications, NCIP is not yet as widely used as developers might wish. There are several real and perceived hurdles slowing more widespread adoption. The NCIP Implementers’ Group spent its September meeting addressing those issues.

Eight specific problem areas formed the agenda of the three-day meeting.

1. extension mechanism

2. smaller messages

3. DTD/ schema

4. transport options

5. reported defects

6. profile structure and purpose

7. supporting documentation for developers and other interest groups

8. ILL/ wider resource sharing ramifications

Coming out of this meeting are several specific initiatives to produce documentation and examples, to correct a small number of defects identified over the last few

Search

Results Item Lookup

Domain page list parser

Item-object

User-object

Item lookup

• Uses an underlying database of services/suppliers this may be part of the user profile

• Based on user-object identifies relevant sources

• Possible sources include– libraries within the user’s service area, – commercial supply services, e.g., Amazon, NetFlix– information sources (online help, for example)– request services

• Based on item-object determines availability from sources

• Creates list of sources that can supply

Internet Internet

GET-IT

NCIP Update: Growing Pains Candy Zemon, NCIP-IG chair

Despite many current successful implementations of both direct consortial borrowing and self service applications, NCIP is not yet as widely used as developers might wish. There are several real and perceived hurdles slowing more widespread adoption. The NCIP Implementers’ Group spent its September meeting addressing those issues.

Eight specific problem areas formed the agenda of the three-day meeting.

1. extension mechanism

2. smaller messages

3. DTD/ schema

4. transport options

5. reported defects

6. profile structure and purpose

7. supporting documentation for developers and other interest groups

8. ILL/ wider resource sharing ramifications

Coming out of this meeting are several specific initiatives to produce documentation and examples, to correct a small number of defects identified over the last few

Search

Results Item Lookup

Domain page list parser

Item-object

Source list html

constructor

User-object

Source list html constructor

• Item lookup passes list to the source list html constructor

• Builds browser window with list of sources

• Each item = deep link to source

Logging agent

• Gathers the data for statistical analysis (pilot)

• Two types of click actions reported:– “get-it” button– a link in the resulting pop-up page

Intelligent profiler

• Track sources user recently selected.

• Used to sort list so that the user’s preferred sources are at the top.

Reality – proof of concept

• Initial focus is to – Enable following web pages:

• Amazon book, CD and DVD pages• Netflix• One or more OPACs

– Identify and use following sources:• OpenURL resolvers• Amazon book, CD and DVD web pages• Netflix• One or more OPACs• One or more resource sharing systems

• Firefox

What’s next for GET-IT?

• Development with preview at Midwinter ALA Jan 2007

• Marketing / Testing

• Evaluation

• Next generation

• Developers will build on prototype

Interested?

• Functional specification• Call sent out for volunteers for prototype by John

Bodfish via– Web4Lib– Code4Lib– NGC4Lib– Gcs-pcs– Greasemonkey

• Email: J.Bodfish@oclcpica.org