Challenges of large scale operations

The main challenges facing the British Library in building a large scale operational capability for handling digital content.

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

Instead of being limited to a series of discrete printed events, journals are now increasingly regarded as prestige brands identified with a certain type of continually unfolding scholarly content, whenever the date of availability.

2

Title

Volume

Issue

Articles

Issue

Articles

Issue

Articles

Articles

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

Each book, journal, issue, journal article, research article etc.does not stand alone but is intrinsically embedded within a greater semantic world, a relational landscape of content

Meta-tagging and linking => research pathway

4

Sea

rch

Eng

ines

Data

Repos

itorie

s

Informatio

n

commons

Related

blogs

Listservs ForumsE-mail blasts

Facebook pages

YouTube

content

Tweets

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

Increase in multimedia components and electronic supplemental materials.

5

Deeply textured articles

Dynamic articles

Clinical and experimental procedures

Discourse transcripts

Data from individual

participants

Video and Audio

Enhances translation of

research

Enhances replication of

research

Research in Audiology

Speech-language pathology

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

Growing interactivity and dialogue – virtual communities

Dynamic media e.g. Sophie and Commentpress

6

wikis blogs MySpace Second Life

Facebook Forums Listservs Blogs

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

Moving to Mobile

Preferred way to read and retrieve with individualization and mobility

7

Kindle Nook iPad Droid iPhone

Challenges of large scale operations

publishing

“Scholarly presses should continue to publish the best work being produced. That is our job. We need, however, to deliver that scholarship to our readers in the format they find most useful, most supportive of their own work, while maintaining a workable financial model to support its publication. That means exploring new formats when they become available. New technology, used intelligently and effectively, offers the opportunity to provide scholars and their students with the material they need in a useful form, and it offers scholarly publishers one way to maintain their role as creative and skilled disseminators of that work. It is our job to figure out what is intelligent and effective in the digital/online format.” Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University

8

Challenges of large scale operations

procurement

• Global sourcing instead of local

• Further elimination of non value added resellers and so shortening the supply chain.

• More focus on social justified entrepreneurship, "Green" procurement (environmental issues) and sustainable procurement

• Further power shift from sellers to buyers

• More REAL value added partnerships

• advanced supply management techniques:collaborative cost reduction (CPFR),End-to-End integration, tiered sourcing design-to-cost

• improved working capital

• increased quality of products and services

9

Challenges of large scale operations

10

Diversity of formats + repackaging, repurposing, bundling

Large Scale, huge data challenges, petabytes not terabytes, BANDWIDTH

Dynamic Data, Database publishing for multi-platform - mobile, tablet and online

Social Networking integration = community experience

Device Convergence e.g. e-Book+ readers

Interdisciplinary cooperation

Digital Rights, Open Access

Publisher systems outsourced

Low entry to electronic publishing e.g. Print on Demand

Challenges of large scale operations

How to

Agile business change

Adaptive Infrastructure

Adaptive enterprise solution requires infrastructure planning process

12

13

Trends affecting Digital Processing

How to

Key Organizing Principles for Adaptive Infrastructure

14

Trends affecting Digital Processing

How to

Goals of a Pattern-based Infrastructure

15

Trends affecting Digital Processing

How to

Benefits of Adaptive Infrastructure

16

Challenges of large scale operations

How to

Industry standard Best Practice: Code Re-use where appropriate Version Control on all source code Standardisation within the workflow as well as outside it Modular design Flexible architecture Extendable functionality Simplification first Incremental Implementation Tested with large datasets from the outset

Challenges of large scale operations

immediate actions

Daily incremental improvement

Measurable Change reviewed weekly and monthly

Workshops to notify and involve staff of Change

Kanban notice boards, wiki for dynamic communication

Elimination of waste

Concentrate on value-added internally and outsource run of the mill activity

Workplace shadowing to reduce mystique of digital

Use cloud services for non legal deposit projects

17