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Programs and Research
The new environment of description
Lorcan Dempsey
PCC Policy and Steering CommitteeALA Midwinter, Seattle January 21 2007
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1. Prelude: examples of ‘making data work harder’ …
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Prototype – not yet released
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Overview
Description Discovery&Disclosure
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1. Description …
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Collections
Databases
Services
Institutions
People
Licences, policiesInformation objects
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high low
low
high
stewardship
uni
que
ne
ssBooksJournalsNewspapersGov. docsCD, DVDMapsScores
Special collectionsRare booksLocal/Historical newspapersLocal history materialsArchives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations
Research and learning materials •ePrints/tech reports•Learning objects•Courseware•E-portfolios•Research data
Freely-accessible web resourcesOpen source softwareNewsgroup archives
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Ingest into local collections
•Print collections•Storage, digitization, resourcesharing …
•ERM•Knowledge bases
Focus of much digitallibrary activity.Archival practices.
New behaviors and support for research and learning
Digital ‘record’ more important(prospectus, course catalog, student records)
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Special: primary materials?
Curatorial responsibility for
more unique materials?
Selectively captureand manage parts ofthe web?
Examples•Thematic research collection•Curated databases•Political websites
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Managing digital?
An archival perspective?
ProvenanceEvidential integrityVersioning
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eprints
Powell and Allison
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Model
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OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
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University of Minnesotahttp://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps
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Folks want to get, link, share, create:personal, research and learning environments
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Mature?Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures
•Libraries organized around ‘owned’ materials.•Emerging techniques for licensed materials being put in place
•Under construction•ERM/Knowledge base vs ILS/catalog over time?
Institutional immaturity Organizational models for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in development. Commodity systems not availableExpensive
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Metadata?
MARCMODSOnix
DC (simple/qualified)EAD/DACSVRA/CCOMARC AMC
‘Vernacular’Domain-specific approachesDCIEEE LOM
…
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Community?
Cultural heritage Media
industry
Web/Internet
LibraryInstructionaltechnology
E-gov
Researchcommunities
Book industry
EAD, MARC AMC, ..
MARC, MODS, DC, RSLP, ..
Onix,
XML, RDF, OWL, …
CSDGM, DDI, NBII, IVOA, …
EGMS, AGLS, GILS, …
GEM, DC-ED, IEEE-LOM, SCORM, …
MPEG, JPEG, …
TIAA CREF,…
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Simple descriptive metadata!!
‘Element set’
Information model
Encoding
Values/content
Application profile
FRBRINDECSCIDOC…
MARC21DCVRA CoreMODSOnix…
AACRCCODACSControlled vocabs.…
XMLISO2709…
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Some issues:the lake is becoming more like a river
Think about mass digitization Versions Rights Relationships
Think about selection for mass digitization/off-site storage ‘Systemwide’ data Last copy
Think about next generation catalog Control for facets Control for FRBR Membersip of sets
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Some issues:digital environment
Describe parts (front of page 23) and whole and relationships
Articulation with user contributed materials (way of sharing)
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Some issues:classic cataloging
A smaller part of the collection? RDA/MARC/FRBR: separate organizational and
development paths a barrier? More selection from controlled lists?
Consistency of data
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1. Discovery and disclosure
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The world has changed
There was no need or room for marketing. 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. Such an approach was not applicable in today's business world. [When red is black. New York: Soho Press
inc., 2004. p. 140]
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Discovery and disclosure
Improve the discovery experience Put the discovery experience where users are
(disclosure) Whole-library discovery and disclosure
experience?
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Discovery: ‘catalog’
Local Catalog Discovery Environments Next generation catalog discussion Combine access over local collections NCSU, Primo, WorldCat…
Shared Catalog Discovery Environments OhioLink, WorldCat, …
Syndicated Catalog Discovery Environments Google, Academic Live, …
The Leveraged Discovery Environment
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Firefox extensionWeb services:•xISBN•University of Huddersfield catalogue
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Futures
More acquisition of catalogue data upstream More automated creation of metadata from digital
materials Common metadata creation environments (across
resource types) More structured data: machine-processable,
identifiers, supply chain, shared inventory management, …
Less discretion, … Make data work harder …
