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The world’s libraries. Connected.
Rise and fall of the cataloguer’s empire: a changing landscapeDaniel van SpanjeSenior productmanager metadata services
OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands
Rome, 27 February 2014
The world’s libraries. Connected.
The paradigm shift
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The world’s libraries. Connected.
– http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/virtual/discovery/
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The online information industry
remote user devices were Acoustic Couplers that accepted a standard GPO handset placed into foam cups ….
This link worked at an amazing 110 baud and these devices were the wonder of the age at the time.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/publicity/oucs-news-trinity-2010.xml?ID=du-history
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• “tools that search seamlessly acrosss a wide range of local and remote content and provide relevance-ranked results”
• “have the ambitious goal of providing a single point of entry into a library’s collection”Marshall Breeding, january 14, 2014 – 18:37, in: americanlibrariesmagazine.org
Web scale discovery services
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The web
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The catalogue: characteristics
• Discovery happens at the library – The physical library
– The online catalog
• Collection centered
• Item oriented•Work oriented
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• Discovery happens at the online library
• From collection to connection
• Subject and discipline oriented
Web-scale discovery services
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• Discovery happens outside the library
• From connection to navigation and linking
• Context oriented
The web
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Context
Subject
Item / work
Physical
Digital
Catalogue
Discovery
Centralized searching
Decentralized searching
Local
Global
Outside-in
Inside-out
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Metadata management proces
Item Cataloguer Catalogue
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Metadata management proces
Item
“Cataloguer”Bibliografic
recordsAuthority control
Item records
OPAC
Web
Discovery
IT staff
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Metadata management proces
E-journals
CataloguerBibliografic
recordsIdentifier controlHolding and URL
control
OPAC
Web
DiscoveryKnowled
ge base
Metadata manager
IT staff
IT staff
Collection manager
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The world’s libraries. Connected.
Metadata management proces
Metadata / Collection manager
Bibliografic records
Identifier controlHolding and URL
control
OPAC
Discovery
IT staff
IT staff
Bibliografic records
Identifier controlURL control
Knowledge
base
Library materials
IT staff
Web
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How to connect users to library collections on the web?
How to expose library collections on the web?
The fundamental question
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Some things the web wants:
1. Size
2. Familiar structures
3. A network of links
4. Entity identifiers
What the Web wants
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Developing linked data initiatives by moving away from managing records to managing entities
Examples:
VIAF
Dewey.info
Schema.org exposure
Bibliographic Framework Initiative
Examples of library initiatives
LIBRARY
LIBRARY
LIBRARY
LIBRARY
schema.org
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Examples of library initiatives
The BIBFRAME Model
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edition
author location
holding
date of publication
classification
publisher
title
source
ISBN
author location
holding
classification
publisher
person place
object concept
organization work
title
Library data stored as records
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person place
object concept
organization work
Field in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph
Building a library knowledge graph
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person place
work
concept
organization
object
Martin Heidegger
Metaphysicsthis copy of“What is a thing”
Germany
library “Die Frage nach dem Ding”expression“What is a thing”
Field in a record vs. entity in a knowledge graph
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Results
Item Cataloguer Catalogue
edition
date of publication
source
ISBN
author location
holding
classificationpublisher
title
DiscoveryMetadata manager
E-collections
IT specialist on indexing and ranking
Knowledge Base
person place
work
concept
organization
object
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• The focus of many libraries shifts from acquiring externally created content toward disclosing internally curated assets! Think of special collections, data sets, MOOCs and online education. If we are not “cataloguing” anymore, we definitely cannot stop doing metadatamanagement?
• Cataloguing needs to change from record management to entity management! And we need persistent identifiers for these entities. We need to develop new workflows. Will this be a new metadata creation process (“catalinking”) or just another way of metadata exposure?
• We need to look at the whole process: focus on the enduser on the web but also involve the supply chain of vendors, distributors and publishers. Is there a link between Entity management and e.g., Demand Driven Acquisition?
Our challenges
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Rise and fall of the cataloguer’s empire: a changing landscape
Thank you!
Daniel van SpanjeSenior productmanager metadata services
OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands
Rome, 27 February 2014