Bob Schulz Senior Product Manager Data Services & WorldCat Quality. Collective Impact and the Power of Shared Data

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1 Bob Schulz Senior Product Manager Data Services & WorldCat Quality Collective Impact and the Power of Shared Data

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5 Today s online information seekers have many choices

6 Today s online information seekers have many choices Select Acquire Describe Preserve Expose

7 The problem with access to library collections: People aren t using the library catalog? (No that s just a fact.) The real problem is that we don t expose our collections very well on the web.

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9 The fundamental questions: How to connect users to library collections on the web? And what does the web want?

10 Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web Web of Data

11 ratio of data curators to audience Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs 100 s-to- 1,000 s 1,000 s -tomillions millions -tobillions 1-to-10 s 10 s-to-100 s Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web Web of Data

12 Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web Web of Data

13 What the Web wants What is required to join the web of data?

14 What the Web wants Some things the web wants: 1. Size 2. Familiar structures 3. A network of links 4. Entity identifiers

15 library data: stored as records author edition holding location title source classification publisher ISBN subject date of publication

16 library data: stored as records person author edition location title place object holding source classification concept publisher ISBN date of publication organization work

17 library data: stored as records person author edition location title place object holding source classification concept publisher ISBN date of publication organization work

18 library data stored as entities person author place object concept item availability subject organization work

19 library data stored as entities library knowledge graph person place object concept organization work

20 library data stored as entities library knowledge graph person place object concept organization work

21 Knowledge cards for libraries Günter Grass Born: 16 October 1927 Gdańsk, Poland German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Works Subjects Germany German literature Historical fiction War stories Black humor Fantasy Quotes Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. The Tin Drum Find Günter Grass works at: Libraries near me Online Retailers

22 library data stored as entities library knowledge graph person place object concept knowledge card organization Library content work Links out to e-commerce Web content

23 library data stored as entities Field in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph person Günter Grass place Germany object this copy of The Tin Drum Historical Fiction concept library organization expression Die The Blechtrommel Tin Drum work

24 Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs person place object concept organization work Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web Web of Data

25 Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs person place object concept organization work Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web Web of Data

26 How does a library contribute to all of this? 1. Register Add your holdings to the network Manage identifiers: Authorities Institutions 2. Aggregate 3. Expose object person place concept organization work

27 What the Web wants We are already doing a lot of this 1. Size = Aggregation 2. Familiar structures = Linked Data 3. A network of links = Referrals 4. Entity identifiers = Identifiers schema.org VIAF

28 1. Size & Aggregation

29 2. Familiar Structures Short term: Participating in BFI EE process and public discussions Experimentation with WorldCat data under BIBFRAME Distributed experimental data to EE s Study and discuss: Long term: Collections Authority LIBRARY LIBRARY Explore the dynamic of library data and web exposure LIBRARY LIBRARY schema.org LIBRARY schema.org LIBRARY To provide services for new metadata workflows and member library exposure on the web LIBRARY LIBRARY

30 3. Network of Links End users will Find in a Library through WorldCat.org more than 100 million times in 2013! FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 (est)

31 4. A Network of Links & Entity Identifiers

32 How does a library contribute to all of this? 1. Register Add your holdings to the network Manage identifiers: Authorities Institutions 2. Aggregate 3. Expose object person organization place work concept Analytics Discovery Cataloging Circulation Acquisitions License Mgmt

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