Programs and Research In the flow: from discovery to disclosure Lorcan Dempsey CIC March 19 2007

Programs and Research

In the flow:from discovery to disclosure

Lorcan Dempsey

CICMarch 19 2007

Programs and research 2

Environment Scholarly information flow An example: the catalog

Environment:The network rewritesbehaviors

A few things….

Workflow and Attention Aggregation of demand and supply: the long tail

~18 months oldNo FaceBook, MySpaceLibrary?

University of Minnesotahttp://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps

Database > website > workflow

Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)

Self assembled digital identity

Netvibes, onfolio, my yahoo, myspace, RSS aggregator, …

‘getting things done’

Workflow

Then Users built workflow around the library

Now The library must build its services around user workflow

Get into the flowDisclose into other environments

Attention

Then Resources scarce, attention abundant

Now Attention scarce, resources abundant

Competition for attention

Long tail information providers

Impact?

Systemwide efficiences

Aggregation of supply•Unified discovery•Low transaction costs

Aggregation of demand•Mobilize users•Brand

Network evolution?

Collections and scholarly information flow

Print Licensed Digital Research&

learningoutputs

Catalog MetasearchResolver

Repositories …

Repositories …ILS ERMKnowledgebase

Management environment

Consumer environment

libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment

Licensed

Bought

Faculty&students

Digitized AggregationsResource sharing

Institutional WorkflowPortals, CMS, IR, …

PersonalWorkflowRSS, toolbars, ..

Network level workflowGoogle, …

Integratedlocal consumer environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …

scholarly information flow?

peer-reviewed journals,

conferences, …

aggregators

Research & e-science

Repositories

Deposit,self archiving

data analysis,transformation,

mining,modeling

Publish,discovery

Data creation, capture and gathering:lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, …

Learning & teachingDeposit,

self archiving

learning objectcreation, re-use

Discovery,linking,embedding

Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, …

Harvesting

Discovery,harvesting

Validation

A&I services

Adapted with permission from Liz Lyons eBank UK: Building the links between research data,

scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36, 2003. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/lyon/

conferences, …

aggregators

Repositories

mining,modeling

Publish,discovery

self archiving

Harvesting

Validation

A&I services

conferences, …

aggregators

Repositories

mining,modeling

Publish,discovery

self archiving

Harvesting

Validation

A&I services

conferences, …

aggregators

Repositories

mining,modeling

Publish,discovery

self archiving

Harvesting

Validation

A&I services

The network rewrites the library:The catalog, discovery and disclosure

Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html

Discovery: focus on catalog with some related …

Local Discovery Environments Shared Discovery Environments Syndicated Discovery Environments Leveraged Discovery Environments

Local Discovery environment

Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations ‘Make data work harder’ Integrate consumer environment Escape from ILS limitations

NCSU Rochester SOLR Worldcat 2.0 Primo Encore …

Some remarks

Unified? How does MARC data play with other data

Subjects, authors, .. Historic investment in structure?

Duplicate cost? Relationship to Metasearch?

Shared discovery environment

Increase impact Create gravitational pull Aggregate demand and supply

Unified discovery Reduce transaction costs Reach more users Stronger brand

Reduce costs

Some comments

Integration of discovery 2 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

Discovery at the group ‘network level’

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?

Syndicating links

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

Different levels of integration: APIs Web services Portlets HTML fragments –

‘search boxes’ Toolbars Widgets, extensions, …

But should become much more common … Cf Amazon Web

Services At what level and

where?

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 ….

The library website is not the front door We need to connect multiple discovery environments to

library fulfilment options We need to put library resources in users’ workflow We need to place library resources in places which

aggregate demand

For many years, Chinese people cited a proverb: if the wine smells really wonderful, customers will come in spite of the length of the lane.

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