User data in the Open Library and other
systems...

Internet Archive

User-submitted data & metadata

User interaction around resources

Digitizing of texts

Library of Congress (books only)
Amazon (crawl)
~6 library systems
publishers

Change models

Open Library
− Data from LC, libraries, publishers, Amazon,
individuals
− All change/add a single versioned record

LibraryThing
− Data from individuals (via libraries)
− Every individual has their own record

Bibliocommons
− User data separate from catalog data; every user
their own \"space\"

ID
Moby
Dick
Connect user data to a resource

ID
Moby
Dick
Connect users to each other
through resource.
Basis of a conversation

Thank You
Karen Coyle
kcoyle@kcoyle.net