Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf(CBTL), Business strategy case study
OUR space: the new world of metadata
1. Karen Calhoun Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services OCLC OUR Space: the new world of metadata IFLA 13 August 2008
2. The Catalog: First Self-Service Information Tool 2007/2008 Statistics for a Large Research Library: 175K unique visitors/month to Library Web pages (9% of overall site use) ------------------------- 2007/2008 Statistics for Amazon.com: 55M unique visitors/month (U.S.) Data sources: http:// siteanalytics.compete.com / and http:// www.alexa.com /
3. LC Action Item 6.4: “Support research and development on the changing nature of the catalog to include consideration of a framework for its integration with other discovery tools.” Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 17 March 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf
4. The Catalog in Context Online catalogs represent one node in the end user’s information universe
8. ebay: User-Supplied Metadata Supported By Sophisticated Web Templates and Indexing Not shown: categories (controlled vocabulary), item specifics, abstract, more
9. Remix, reuse, ‘mashup’: Web 2.0 metadata management http:// www.housingmaps.com / Fed by Google Maps + craigslist.com
11. Which One Is the “Full” Record? + 3 more screens Product Description & Purchase Information More like this Editorial Reviews & Author Info Inside the Book Tags, Ratings Customer Reviews Lists More With thanks to David Lankes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/ 2007/ALCTS.pdf Bibliographic Information Library Holdings Details Subjects Editions Reviews Bibliographic Information Australian Library Holdings
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15. Libraries and What They Collect on Behalf of Their Communities Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations
16. Expenditures: What ARL Libraries Are Buying Percent of 2006 total materials spend: eSerials 36.6% Monographs 21.6% Source: ARL Statistics Interactive Edition http:// fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/index.html
17. The Promise of Institutional Repositories IR of the Université du Québec à Montréal http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/448/
18. Scholarly Portals arXiv.org Open access to 490,465 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics
25. Information Seekers Have Changed [ about the people following them ] Butch Cassidy : I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys? http://outnow.ch/Movies/1969/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid/Bilder/dvd-film.ws/11
26. The Changing Context for Research, Teaching, and Learning on University Campuses Knowledge itself will be modified and research and development transformed by the new capacities provided by IT. Nothing will be left untouched. The liberal arts will be revived and transfigured, liberated from their age-long reliance on text alone. The silos of the departments will topple as new approaches to bewildering issues are pursued with new vigor by scholars in mind-boggling combinations of once insular and isolated disciplines. – Frank H. T. Rhodes, past President of Cornell University, in The Creation of the Future
27. The Toppling Silos of the Disciplines and Mind-Boggling New Forms of Scholarly Communication Kurt Wüthrich Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Scripps Research Institute Fields: Chemistry, physics, mathematics, biophysics --How does the library help him create new knowledge? --What are his information seeking/sharing behaviors and preferences? --In what ways does the library serve his colleagues and his graduate and post-doctoral students?
28. And Then There’s Today’s (and Tomorrow’s) Student No, you weren’t downloaded. You were born.”
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32. Will Search Engines Usurp Library Catalogs? College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: a Report to the OCLC Membership : http:// www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm
33. Will Google Books Usurp the Library Catalog? Ludwig, Mark J. and Wells, Margaret R. “Google Books vs. BISON.” Library Journal , July 15, 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6566451.html
36. 1. Be Where Their Eyes Are La Grande bibliothèque nationale du Québec Attribution: Uploaded on May 8, 2005 by Master Long http://flickr.com/photos/long/12987307/ Library as Place Place as Library
45. GLOBAL GROUP LOCAL Outward Integration, Exposure, And Linking Of Collections (e.g., Google, WorldCat, Other aggregators, national libraries, consortia) Local/Group Authentication, Discovery And Delivery Services Data Flows, Syndication, Synchronization, Linking We Can Be Connected: A New Vision for Metadata Sharing
46. WorldCat Partner Sites Google, Google Books, Google Scholar HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources
47. WorldCat.org: Destination or Metadata Switch? It’s a switch. Referrals to worldcat.org, Jan. 1 – May 31, 2008 Search Engines 47.45% Other Web Sites 39.91% Typed/Bookmarked URLs 12.64% Total
48. WorldCat Global Coverage *2007/08:forecast based on Q2 results Objectives for FY09: 300-500M records processed; Significant coverage in more countries outside N.A.
62. Forecast: Future So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades by Netream http://flickr.com/photos/maerten/521195773/
63. From article “Being a librarian” – cited next page Increasing expertise in discovery and delivery systems Help build new kinds of systems for IR and delivery; many new kinds of metadata; emphasis on re-use, interconnections, interoperability Active participation in the local community Blurring of lines between what has been public services and technical services; project and team-based workplaces; involvement in local community projects and digital asset management; consulting work; decreasing involvement in traditional cataloging duties Technology-driven research, teaching and learning Need for “IT fluency,” esp. metadata specialists; increasing involvement in large-scale digital library research, development, and production projects
64. Thank You Merci Gracias Shukran Xie xie Danke Spasibo [email_address] http:// community.oclc.org/metalogue Calhoun, Karen. Being a librarian: metadata and metadata specialists in the 21st century. Library Hi Tech , Volume 25, Number 2, 2007 , pp. 174-187(14) Open access preprint: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/2231/1/Calhoun-20041217-final-preprint1.pdf