The Future of Cataloguing? Future Cataloguers!

Jenn RileyAssociate Dean, Digital Initiatives, McGill Universityjenn.riley@mcgill.ca@jenlrile

It’s about the connections

https://linkedjazz.org/network/

http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4167

Cataloguing and metadata work as gardening

Photo by Temari 09; https://www.flickr.com/photos/34053291@N05/3875381418/

Planting

Photo by Center for International Forestry Research; https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/7995496995/

Reframing of metadata creation

https://thenounproject.com/term/note/35744/https://thenounproject.com/term/information/45188/

Pollinating

Photo by Holly Occhipinti; https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinti1/9488064980/

A new model – making connections

https://thenounproject.com/term/connection/25392/

Weeding

Photo by Transition Brockley; https://www.flickr.com/photos/transitionbrockley/5669450261/

Keep it growing

https://thenounproject.com/term/community-garden/6396/https://thenounproject.com/term/construction/5531/

Really, we can’t fix everything

https://xkcd.com/386/

For facts and for meaning

Domain experts and enthusiasts know more than we do And have more resources to devote to understanding of specific resources

Our value is in connections and curation And facilitating new knowledge by others

We don’t “own” the information ecosystem

We must do what it takes to scale up to current and future volumes of data

We will be increasingly reliant on others

For users: To mine usage data to provide more relevant and authoritative discovery To start from the most relevant information and provide easy means for quick

expansion To coherently display conflicting information

For cataloguers: To flag dead ends for review and action To mine and show candidate connections for review To highlight potentially conflicting information To hide complexity (URIs, etc)

We will be increasingly reliant on systems

The data and systems are all in the cloud

Library-based discovery less important but likely still around for a while

Several ways systems can navigate the graph Crawling Dereferencing Query federation (See http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc84)

So how will Linked Data systems work?

Creativity

Judgment

Quick analysis

Ability to see patterns

Good technical instincts

Trust

What skills are needed in the future for cataloguers?

Watch it grow!

https://thenounproject.com/term/garden/6515/

jenn.riley@mcgill.ca

@jenlrile

These presentation slides: http://www.jennriley.com/presentations/dbt2015/nurnberg.pptx

Vielen dank!