Common Hours. Eric Childress Consulting Project Manager OCLC Research

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1 A Success Unexpected in Common Hours Eric Childress Consulting Project Manager OCLC Research

2 To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -- Henry David Thoreau WorldCat Identit ies A success unexpected in common hours

future -- however unevenly distributed at present -- is coming soon to a library near

3 Believe... We are not merely at a point of transition but rather at a point of inflection The future -- however unevenly distributed at present -- is coming soon to a library near you... Don t panic & don t despair -- We are LIBRARIANS! We have a gift for working smartly and figuring it out A success unexpected in common hours

4 Overview A success unexpected in common hours

5 Big tides

6 The Big Picture A success unexpected in common hours

7 Fuzzy Boundaries, Network Centrality Boundaries of libraries, collections, organizations & roles are shifting and sometimes fuzzy Collection boundaries (licensed, shared, open web) Constant tuning and retuning of roles, organizational structure The Network reconfigures the Library We must be in the users flow (and their time and expectations are on/from the Net) A success unexpected in common hours

8 Academia: Declining budget share... A success unexpected in common hours

9 Irresistible movement to e... Most research libraries i are shifting to e-centric ti acquisitions, iiti service models 100 Licens sed Content t as % of Libr rary Materia ls $ Wayne State Alberta Auburn Utah George Washington Columbia Toronto Harvard Yale 0 $ $5,000,000 $10,000,000 $15,000,000 $20,000,000 $25,000,000 $30,000,000 $35,000,000 $40,000,000 Library Materials Expenditures ( ): derived from ARL annual stats A success unexpected in common hours

10 The Ship of Cataloging g

11 "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, plfy, simplify." plfy. -- Henry David Thoreau A success unexpected in common hours

management) Downshifting p Adding less p, more e Discarding/moving i p to offsite Music industry: CDs going

12 Now: More e, better, cheaper, open More e Big deals vs. pricey selectivity (journals) Many e-book models Open access is gaining momentum ERM (electronic resource management) Downshifting p Adding less p, more e Discarding/moving i p to offsite Music industry: CDs going away in 2012 Many metadata sources, many flows Content provider metadata-to-marc flows ONIX-to-MARC conversion (e.g., by OCLC) A success unexpected in common hours

Collective Scale 250 Millions of records

1998 139 100 108 86 50 50 52 55 39 41 44

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 A

13 Collective Scale 250 Millions of records WorldCat growth since A success unexpected in common hours

14 Where does WorldCat content come from? A success unexpected in common hours

15 Next: Cloud, Fond farewell Library local systems are in transition Cloud solutions (e.g., OCLC s WorldCat Local, WMS) Collaborative development / shared platforms MARC is at the end of its useful life? Not an instant death, but gradual retirement... LC s Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative will help chart what s next (i.e. Linked Data) Linked Data is in A success unexpected in common hours

16 The Starship of Linked Data

17 What is Linked Data? The Web enables us to link related documents. Similarly it enables us to link related data. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. Key technologies that support Linked Data are URIs (a generic means to identify entities or concepts in the world), HTTP (a simple yet universal mechanism for retrieving resources, or descriptions of resources), and RDF (a generic graph-based data model with which to structure and link data that describes things in the world). Source: /f A success unexpected in common hours

18 Linked Open Data Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. A success unexpected in common hours

19 Linked Open Library Data Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. A success unexpected in common hours

network of resources, librarians will be able to do a much better job of linking their patrons to resources of all kinds

20 Bibliographic framework is... an environment rather than a format The new bibliographic framework we are aiming for will broaden participation in the network of resources, librarians will be able to do a much better job of linking their patrons to resources of all kinds (from the library and from many other sources), and costs can be better contained. -- Library of Congress A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) A success unexpected in common hours

21 Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment Broad accommodation of content rules and data models The accommodation of RDA (Resource Description and Access) will be a key factor in the development of elements, as will other mainstream library, archive, and cultural community rules Provision for types of data that logically accompany or support bibliographic description Such as: holdings, authority, classification, preservation, technical, rights, and archival metadata Accommodation of textual data, linked data with URIs instead of text, and both A variety of environments and systems will exist with different capabilities for communicating and receiving and using textual data and links A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) A success unexpected in common hours

22 Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment (cont ) Consideration of the relationships between and recommendations for communications format tagging, g, record input conventions, and system storage/manipulation a future bibliographic framework is likely to be seen less by catalogers than the current MARC format. Internal storage, displays from communicated data, and input screens are unlikely to have the close relationship to a communication format that they have had in the past. Consideration of the needs of all sizes and types of libraries, from small public to large research The new bibliographic framework will continue to support simpler needs in addition to those of large research libraries. A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) A success unexpected in common hours

23 FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) example [mockup] <skos:concept rdf:about= <rdfs:label>--standards</rdfs:label> </skos:concept> A success unexpected in common hours

24 Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment (cont ) Continuation of maintenance of MARC until no longer necessary Will need to have RDA-adapted MARC available RDA is still evolving and additional changes may be required Changes to MARC not associated with RDA should be minimal Compatibility with MARC-based records A new schema for communications will need to enable use of data currently found in MARC, since redescribing resources will not be feasible. Ideally there would be an option to preserve all data from a MARC record. Provision of transformation from MARC 21 to a new bibliographic environment. Need software that converts data to be moved from MARC to the new bibliographic framework and back, if possible, in order to enable experimentation, testing, and other activities related to evolution of the environment. A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) A success unexpected in common hours

25 RDA-in-MARC sample record A success unexpected in common hours

26 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. --Henry David Thoreau A success unexpected in common hours

27 For more information on library linked data /LinkedDataWorkshop.pdf A success unexpected in common hours

28 Questions? A success unexpected in common hours

RDA: Where We Are and

RDA: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference Harvard University 30 November 2011 Christopher Cronin Christopher Cronin Director,