Jabes 2008 - conférence inaugurale, la grande révélation : penser les ressources de la bibliothèque à l'échelle du web - Lorcan Dempsey, dans le cadre des Journées Abes 2008

1. Full
disclosure:
thinking about
library
resources in
web-scale
discovery
environments
Lorcan
Dempsey
OCLC Programs
and Research
Journée abes
Montpellier
20 mai 2008

2. Overview
• Prelude
• 4 workflows
• 4 sources of
metadata about
things
• 4 ways forward

3. The real
Web
2.0?
Concentration
Scale matters
Diffusion
Spread matters

4. Then: Attention abundant;
resources scarce
Then: users built workflow around
libraries
Now: library must build services around user
workflow
Now: Attention scarce;
resources abundant

5. Discovery happens elsewhere

6. Overview
• Prelude
• 4 workflows
• 4 sources of
metadata about
things
• 4 ways forward

8. User
environment
Library &
Network
Resource
Management
environment
End User Access
Management
Digitised/
Digital
Bought/
Physical
Elctronic/
Licensed
Special
colls/
Archives
Management

9. User
environment
Library &
Network
Resource
Management
environment
End User Access
Management
Digitised/
Digital
Bought/
Physical
Elctronic/
Licensed
Special
colls/
Archives
Find It
Get It
Manage It
Metadata
Content

10. User
environment
Library &
Network
Resource
Management
environment
End User Access
Management
Digitised/
Digital
Bought/
Physical
Elctronic/
Licensed
Special
colls/
Archives
Find It
Get It
Manage It
Metadata
Content
ILL/CIR
C
LINK
RESOLVER
SPECIAL
SPECIALILS ERM REPOSITORY
OPAC MetaSearch WebsiteA-Z NxtGen
MARC DC EADA&I XXX

11. Integrated user environments
Need to be able to ‘mobilize’ the full library
resource where it is needed

12. Overview
• Prelude
• 4 workflows
• 4 sources of
metadata about
things
• 4 ways forward

13. 1. Professional
2. Contributed
3. Intentional
4. Programmatically promoted

14. Professional

16. Contributed
‘Montpellier’ and ‘antigone’

17. Sofitel Montpellier Antigone

18. Sofitel Montpelier Antigone on TripAdvisor

20. Programmatically
promoted

23. Intentional data
“The database of
intentions”
John Battelle

26. Scale: mobilize community around social
objects
Expectations:
• We look for hints and hooks
• Rank, relate, recommend
Make (all types of data) work harder

27. Overview
• Prelude
• 4 workflows
• 4 sources of
metadata about
things
• 4 ways forward

28. 1. End-user environments
2. Disclosure: syndicating data,
services and links
3. Making data work harder
4. Creating scale

29. End-user environment
Next generation
catalogues
Integrated local+ search
• Primo
• Encore
• Worldcat Local

30. Local ILS
system
Local ILS
system
Open URL
resolver
Open URL
resolver
Electronic
journals
Electronic
journalsDigital
collections
Digital
collections
eBook
collections
eBook
collections
Resource
sharing
systems
Resource
sharing
systems
Worldcat.org

33. Disclosure
Discovery happens
elswhere
• Course management
system
• RSS aggregator
• Google
• Social networking site
• Reading list
• …..
Syndicate data, links,
services

34. Syndicate data
Union catalogues and institutional Knowledge base data

35. Links

38. Intentional data

40. Scale

42. Scale
• What level is best to achieve impact?
– Get into user workflows
• End-user environments
• Syndication
– Aggregate contributed and intentional
metadata

43. Thank you
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