A Matter of Semantics? Intelligence, Open Data and the Future of ERM Jonathan Blackburn Mason Hall

Mason Hall Electronic Resource Integration Management Librarian Jonathan Blackburn Web Development Librarian

Mason Hall

Electronic Resource Integration Management Librarian

Jonathan Blackburn

Web Development Librarian

Overview

The “Perfect” DB Record Title Alternate Titles Description Full-text coverage Content Types Included (journals, newspapers, etc.) Features (RSS, Alerts, Refworks, etc.) But this takes work to maintain (update) . . .

Title

Alternate Titles

Description

Full-text coverage

Content Types Included (journals, newspapers, etc.)

Features (RSS, Alerts, Refworks, etc.)

Who would do the work? ? ?

Librarians at FSU Librarians Outside FSU Publishers and Vendors All of the Above Who?

Librarians at FSU

Librarians Outside FSU

Publishers and Vendors

All of the Above

Databases Publishers/Providers Journals All of the Above What?

Databases

Publishers/Providers

Journals

All of the Above

Why?

How?

So, began our quest . . .

So what is the problem?

Duplication of Data

KB (expanded academic) Open URL Resolver Database Finder Federated Search Other Web Services Licensing Manager Services require a Knowledge Base…

KB KB KB KB KB Open URL Resolver etc Database Finder Licensing Manager Federated Search Other Web Services etc … but the Reality is often a different beast

KB KB KB KB KB Open URL Resolver etc Database Finder Licensing Manager Federated Search Other Web Services etc Another Local SQL + Serials Solutions ERMS Local SQL SFX Metalib Varies @ FSU Libraries

FSU University A Consortia X

Who owns the data?

Who owns the data?

Is this a problem?

Is there a solution?

Solutions: Past and Future

Jake Formerly at: http://jake.openly.com/

Formerly at: http://jake.openly.com/

CUFTS http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts

http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts

Registry Projects Ockham (http://www.ockham.org/registry.php) IESR (http://iesr.ac.uk/) ORCA (http://pilot.apsr.edu.au/wiki/index.php/ORCA_Registry ) Combined Global Efforts

Ockham (http://www.ockham.org/registry.php)

IESR (http://iesr.ac.uk/)

ORCA (http://pilot.apsr.edu.au/wiki/index.php/ORCA_Registry )

Combined Global Efforts

“ Theoretical” Perfect System

Library OKRA ?

Library OKRA ?

“ O ne K nowledgebase to R ule Them A ll One Knowledgebase to Find Them One Knowledgebase to Bring Them All And In the Darkness Bind Them “ Library OKRA - The Lord of the … ERM?

“ O ne K nowledgebase to R ule Them A ll

What might this look like ?

Open Open Access Open Source Open Data THIS IS US!

Open Access

Open Source

Open Data

Shared

Models Cooperative Cataloging Wikipedia Freebase .com (the website) (For Sharing)

Cooperative Cataloging

Wikipedia

Freebase .com (the website)

Semantic

Semantic = Relationships A very brief lesson Triples Subject  Predicate  Object Publisher publishes Journal Vendor owns Database Article has author(s)

The Old (...current) Way Item Attributes Journal Name Publisher Subjects Frequency Etc.. ?

Semantic Way journal subjects alternate name published place name publisher date titled also titled published in has alternate published by published during covers publishes about

Semantic ERM DBs Providers Subjects Publishers Institutions Services Usage Stats Interface Rights Data Journals

Challenges SCOPE PRIVACY (INSTITUTIONS) METADATA (SCHMETADATA) INCENTIVES

SCOPE

PRIVACY (INSTITUTIONS)

METADATA (SCHMETADATA)

INCENTIVES

The “Killer App”

Other “Killer Apps” Internet E-mail

Internet E-mail

WWW Mosaic

Library OKRA ? ? ?

Is there hope? Encourage Publishers to be more Open with Data Press Vendors to Uncouple Data and Services Support Open Source Library Software

Encourage Publishers to be more Open with Data

Press Vendors to Uncouple Data and Services

Support Open Source Library Software

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Continue this Discussion on:

LibraryOKRA.com