Programs and research
Libraries in the new network environment
San Jose16 November 2007
Lorcan DempseyOCLC
Part 1
Part 2
Part 1:Environment
Getting thingsdone
Workflow
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Brand is the new real estate
Discovery happens
elsewhere
Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html
The rich get richer
Then: the user built their workflow around the library
Now: the library must build its service around the user workflow
Then: resources were scarce and attention was abundant
Now: attention is scarce and resourcesare abundant
People are entry points
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libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment
LicensedBought
Faculty&studentsDigitized Aggregations
Resource sharing
…
Institutional WorkflowPortals, CMS, IR, …
PersonalWorkflowRSS, toolbars, ..
Network level workflowGoogle, …
Integratedlocal user environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …
Print Licensed Digital Research&
learningoutputs
…
Catalog MetasearchResolver
Repositories …
Repositories …ILS ERMKnowledgebase
…
Management environment
User environment
Switch: delivery, routing, resolution
PAUSE
Webscale …A library experience which matches the experience of the web?
RecombinantAdaptive
Navigation
Short path from discovery to fulfilment
Traverse from personal to global
Comprehensive
Machine interface:scale with use
Part 2:The catalog: from discovery to disclosure
Local Discovery Environments
Shared Discovery Environments Syndicated Discovery Environments Leveraged Discovery Environments
Remember: focus on catalog
Requiredisclosure
Local Discovery environment Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations
Make data work harder Integrate access to locally managed resources Escape from ILS limitations
NCSU Rochester SOLR Worldcat local Primo Encore …
Making data work harder: simple search followed by rich navigation and participation
Glancability
Some remarks
How does MARC data play with other data Subjects, authors, .. Historic investment in structure?
Duplicate cost? Relationship to Metasearch? Social and scale
Shared discovery environment
Increase impact Create gravitational pull Aggregate demand and supply
Reduce costs
Some comments
Integration of discovery to delivery becoming essential
A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels
Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections Growing evidence
Integration of materials?
Syndicated discovery experience
Syndicate data or service or links
Syndicating services RSS Portlets APIs, Protocol-based
Projects Sakailibrary …
Not as rapid as one might expect?
Susan Hollar - Inside the Course at Michigan Diane Dallis - Inside the Course at Indiana
Sakaibrary:Michigan
Indiana
Some remarks
Syndication of data now common among data providers
Routing issue for non-unique materials Resolution Worldcat
Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting Google Scholar
Service disclosure less common APIs Web services Portlets HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’ Toolbars Widgets, extensions, …
Social?
The Leveraged discovery experience
In some ways the most interesting Use another discovery service to connect back to
your resources Compare to the situation with article databases
and resolvers
Some remarks
Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a direction
Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure (microformats) will improve ability.
So …
How to get to webscale User environment Management environment
A new balance between Institutional development Shared activities
How to most release value in research and learning lives of users
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