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RLG Programs
OCLC Programs and Research – Work Agenda
1 CNI Fall Task Force – 4 Dec 2006
Progress – the elements
RLG Partners Oversight and direction Programs with Research
The high-level agenda
Near-term work
Questions/Discussion/Advice
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RLG and OCLC: where we fit
The programmatic efforts and players RLG Programs RLG Partners Area specialists: digital libraries, information
architecture, preservation, resource sharing, special collections
The research effort and activities OCLC Research Research scientists: information science, knowledge
organization, classification/terminologies, data-mining
The new division OCLC Programs and Research
RLG Programs
OCLC Research
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OCLC Programs and Research – Work Agenda
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RLG Partners
RLG Partner Institutions (ca. 149 to date) Libraries, Museums, Archives, cultural institutions
Deep, rich collections Mandate to make accessible Commitment to exploit technology Contribute to ‘commons’ Commitment to collaboration Capability to contribute (collections, expertise,
infrastructure, etc.) New partners and future recruitment
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RLG Programs – Resources and Funding
Three sources of funding Partner dues OCLC corporate stipend Grants
Office of Research Dedicated effort
The combination has resulted in significantly increased capacity to support research, focused experimentationand innovation with our partners
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Oversight and direction
RLG Committee of the Board of Trustees Account, regulate, assess
Program Council Advise, represent and amplify
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Board of Trustee Committee members
James Neal (Chair) (Columbia University)
Nancy Eaton (Pennsylvania State University)
Carol Mandel (New York University)
Lizabeth Wilson (University of Washington)
Jane Ryland (EDUCAUSE)
Elisabeth Niggemann (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
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Program Council members
Shirley Baker (Washington University in St. Louis)
Nancy Eaton (Pennsylvania State University)
Kenneth Hamma (J. Paul Getty Trust)
Tony Hey (Microsoft)
Wendy Pradt Lougee (University of Minnesota)
Clifford A. Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)
Carol Mandel (New York University)
James Neal (Columbia University)
Chris Rusbridge (Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh)
Gary Strong (Chair) (University of California, Los Angeles)
Lizabeth Wilson (University of Washington)
David Zeidberg (Huntington Library)
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BUILDCOMMUNITY
MAKECONSENSUS
FILTER BESTPRACTICE
PERFORMRESEARCH
PRODUCEOUTCOMES
TRANSFERTECHNOLOGY
DO RAPIDDEVELOPMENT
BUILDPROTOTYPES
CONVENEEXPERTS
DEVELOP ARCHITECTURE& STANDARDS
Programs and Research: Arc of Capabilities
issues & uncertainties community solutions
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Mutual Interest? Leverage? Integration?
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OCLC Programs and Research – Work Agenda
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UNCERTAINTY
TECHNOLOGY
JOINT ACTION
COOPERATIVE EFFORT
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RLG Programs – Areas of Work
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RLG Programs – areas of work
Managing the collective collection Objective: To understand, prepare for, and help advance
libraries, archives and museums in more profoundly cooperative models of acquiring, managing and disclosing collections
Renovating descriptive and organizing practices Objective: Change the economics of metadata at research
institutions—set new expectations for investment, model the attendant work flows, and prototype needed support.
Modeling new services Objective: Help libraries, archives, and museums achieve a
common understanding of the processes for which they should be responsible, demonstrate these new frameworks through prototypes, and enable them through open source code and architectures.
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Managing the collective collection
Chart mass digitization course Collaboration, policy, practice, impacts Principles for Mass Digitization Partnerships Surveys
Shared Print Storage North American Storage Trust
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Mass Digitization & the Collective Collection
12 “hard questions” about library partnerships Challenge: identify 3 most pressing concerns Opportunity: identify (and fill) gaps
Distributed to all DLF registrants 61 responses as of 6 November 2006 Represents US (88%); Canada, UK, EU (12%)
In general: There was interest in all of the questions we posed The really important questions really stand out 17% of respondents supplied an additional question
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DLF Survey: Most Urgent Questions
Is a regional, national, or multi-national framework for digitization desirable or feasible? What would you expect such a framework to contribute?
Who is responsible for ensuring the persistence of the aggregate collections to which you have contributed?
What does your institution know (or need to know) about how users are interacting with the outputs of mass digitization?
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Renovating descriptive and organizing practices
Forum – “More, Better, Faster, Cheaper” Museum Collection Sharing Discovery to Delivery - Symposium
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Discovery to Delivery Survey
11 questions circulated to US and UK attendees of invitational meetings on “Discovery to Delivery Services”
40 institutional responses (23 US; 17 UK)
Broad agreement on key issues A majority of institutions consider themselves only “partly
successful” in exposing print and electronic collections Improving exposure of collections is “very important” to all –
but the solutions may lie beyond institutional grasp Most institutions consider themselves “successful” in
delivering collections to users – but UK respondents are more confident of their success than US respondents
A majority feel only “somewhat confident” that they understand user needs and expectations
Discovery to Delivery symposium, March 2007, will explore possible community solutions to these challenges
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Modeling new services
Service Frameworks building on DLF work
extend shared view to archives and museums
model key processes across sectors to identify opportunities for shared service development
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Modeling shared business processes
Programs & Research: identifying community needs and developing prototype solutions
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