The network reconfigures the catalog

Slide 1: The network rewrites the catalog Lorcan Dempsey University of Virginia Libraries April 26 2007

Slide 2: Overview Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 2

Slide 3: 1 The network rewrites behaviors 3

Slide 4:  Workflow  Attention  Gravity: the long tail 4

Slide 5: ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library? 5

Slide 6: University of Minnesota http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps 6

Slide 7: Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html 7

Slide 8: Database > website > workflow 8

Slide 9: Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) 9

Slide 10: Then: The user built workflow around the library Now: The library must build its services around user workflow •Get into the flow •Disclose into other environments 10

Slide 11: Then: Resources scarce, attention abundant Now: Attention scarce, resources abundant •Competition for attention 11

Slide 12: The long tail: manage attention? Systemwide efficiences Aggregation of supply •Unified discovery •Low transaction costs Aggregation of demand •Mobilize users •Brand Impact? 12

Slide 13: 2 A webscale library experience 13

Slide 14: A library experience which matches the experience of the web? 14

Slide 15: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns: a rich texture of suggestion (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 15

Slide 16: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 16

Slide 17: stewardship high low Books Freely-accessible Journals web resources Newspapers Open source software low uniqueness Gov. docs Newsgroup archives CD, DVD Maps Scores Research and learning materials high Special •ePrints/tech reports collections •Learning objects Rare books •Courseware Local/Historical •E-portfolios newspapers •Research data Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations 17

Slide 18: Metasearch Catalog Repositories … Resolver Digital Research Licensed Print & learning outputs ERM … Repositories … ILS Knowledgebase 18

Slide 19: User environment Switch: delivery, routing, resolution … Management environment 19

Slide 20: ? Primo, Encore, ….  Metasearch?  Local loading  Google scholar, Scopus, Worldcat, ….  20

Slide 21: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 21

Slide 22: Network level Integrated Personal workflow local user Workflow Google, … environment? RSS, Library web toolbars, .. presence Resource Institutional sharing, … Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … library Consumer environments Management environment … Bought Licensed Faculty& Digitized Aggregations students Resource sharing 22

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Slide 31: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 31

Slide 32: University of Washington on WorldCat.org (screen shot) 32

Slide 33: Holdings: Local, Group, Global Univ Washington collections Summit collections WorldCat 33

Slide 34: Detailed record – item held by UW 34

Slide 35: Personal and social 35

Slide 36: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 36

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Slide 39: Detailed record – request item 39

Slide 40: Request handled locally 40

Slide 41: Item not held by UW or Summit 41

Slide 42: Article citations 42

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Slide 44: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns: a texture of suggestion (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 44

Slide 45: Social network? ‘Expert’  Programmatic  ‘Crowdsourced’  Use (intention/attention)  45

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Slide 58: ? Comprehensive: unified discovery: its all there (e.g. Google, Amazon) In the flow: disclosed into research and learning workflows (toolbars, apis, …) Telescopic: a personal to global traverse (e.g. delicious) Low transaction costs: A short path between discovery and fulfilment (e.g iTunes, Google, Amazon, ..) Network: navigable knowledge patterns (e.g. ….) Reflexive: adapt based on aggregate intention/attention (e.g. page rank, people who read this, personalize, ..) 58

Slide 59: 3 Some current catalog responses 59

Slide 60: Local Discovery Environments  Shared Discovery Environments  Syndicated Discovery Environments  Leveraged Discovery Environments  60

Slide 61: Local Discovery environment  Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations  Make data work harder  Integrate access to locally managed resources  Escape from ILS limitations NCSU  Rochester  SOLR  Worldcat 2.0  Primo  Encore …  61

Slide 62: Shared discovery environment  Increase impact  Create gravitational pull  Aggregate demand and supply  Reduce costs Summit  OhioLink  Libraries Australia  ….  62

Slide 63: Some comments  Integration of discovery to delivery becoming essential  A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels  Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections  Growing evidence 63

Slide 64: Syndicated discovery experience  Syndicate data or service or links 64

Slide 65: Some remarks  Syndication of data now common among data providers  Routing issue for non-unique materials  Resolution services  Worldcat and other union catalogs  Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting  Google Scholar 65

Slide 66:  Service disclosure of growing importance APIs  Web services  Portlets  HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’  Toolbars  Widgets, extensions, …  RSS  Interesting project: Sakaibrary   Slower to develop than expected? 66

Slide 67: The Leveraged discovery experience  In some ways the most interesting  Use another discovery service to connect back to your resources  Compare to the situation with article databases and resolvers 67

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Slide 70: Some remarks  Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a direction  Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure (microformats) will improve ability. 70

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