Wednesday Closing speakers: Where are we headed? Tools & Technologies for the Future

WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

Ross Singer, Talis Interoperability and Open Standards Champion Andrew Nagy, Serials SolutionsMarket Manager North America, Discovery Services

… I have no idea.Any Questions?

A brief intro

• both started as a software developer• both worked in libraries for many years• both established open source projects• both moved into corporate positions

So where are we headed?

• Software as a Service and Cloud Computing

• Web-scale Discovery• Linked Data

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Vendor Hosted• Scalable Infrastructure• Blahty blahty blah

• Saves time and money• No servers to buy and replace every few

years• No updates to load

Very Centralized

Very Decentralized

Even Mix More Centralized

Very Centralized

Cloud Computing

• Infrastructure that grows with your needs  • Amazon EC2• Google App Engine• OCLC QuickStart

Library Resource Discovery

• Web Search (Google, Yahoo, Etc.)• WorldCat• Next Generation Catalog (Discovery

Layers)oVuFind / BlackLightoAquaBrowser / Primo / Encore

Next Gen Catalog: Only Half the Solution

Web-scale Discovery

Simple, Easy, Fast

• We are not attracted to Google because of it’s name

• We use it because of its attributes

Linked Data

Tim Berners-Lee 4 Rules

1. Use URIs as names for things 2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. 3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information,

using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) 4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more

things. 5.  6.  7.  8.  9. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html 

Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde in RDF

Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde

sameas.org

Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde   

http://purl.org/NET/lccn/75624382#i

Also available as RDF

http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007432731#i

http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007379628#i

Putting it together