2015 NISO Forum: The Future of Library Resource Discovery
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Panel Discussion: Discovery Service Providers Moderated by: Marshall Breeding, Independent Library Consultant Panelist (3 of 4): Mike Showalter, Executive Director, End-User Services, OCLC
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2015 NISO Forum: The Future of Library Resource Discovery
- 1. NISO Discovery Forum October 5, 2015 Discovery Services at OCLC Mike Showalter Executive Director, End-User Services OCLC
- 2. OCLC is a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs.
- 3. Together, we support access to the world’s collected knowledge so that libraries can fuel learning, research and innovation.
- 5. 347million records 2.3billion holdings 44million digital items 16million eBooks
- 6. Help users find and get resources from your library + libraries worldwide through a single search of WorldCat and familiar, authoritative e-content collections. Central Index WorldCat knowledge base 1.9 billion+ electronic, digital and physical resources
- 8. Visibility for library collections
- 9. OCLC: A Leader in Linked Data Resources WorldCat Catalog: 15 billion triples WorldCat Works: 5 billion RDF triples DDC: 300 million triples VIAF: 2 billion triples FAST: 23 Million triples
- 11. • Libraries to understand their workflow requirements as they begin to work with linked data • The Library of Congress and the BIBFRAME community to evaluate pilot data and finalize the BIBFRAME standard • Schema.org to improve standards for publishing entity data on the Web OCLC will design future products and services to help members register their collections in WorldCat and expose library data in the format best suited for the need. Focusing on Linked Data by working with…
- 12. Thank you Mike Showalter Executive Director, End-User Services showaltm@oclc.org
Editor's Notes
- Who is OCLC? A global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs. OCLC is owned by and for libraries. Governed by a 14 member Board of Trustees, of which 10 of them are librarians.
- What makes the cooperative different is that we work together to fuel learning, research and innovation in your communities. More importantly. The money libraries invest in OCLC activities, products and services stays within the library community.
- WorldCat Discovery Services is based on WorldCat. And WorldCat continues to grow at a record pace. These statistics represent one of the core ways in which libraries are able to share knowledge across institutions, countries and technologies. WorldCat doesn’t just happen – it requires members, cooperation, and staff at OCLC working to constantly improve the quality of the data.
- WorldCat: a community built database of more than 340 million items that libraries own A vendor neutral index of over 2,200 collections of electronic resources A database of electronic resources representing 12,800 collections from 5,828 providers To help you improve graduation rates, student retention rates, advance faculty research agendas, enable more successful grant proposals and patent awards for the university. The syndication program ensures your materials show up whenever your students start their search for understanding (on Google, on a mobile phone—wherever) The precision search functionality for faculty and library staff members Drives increased USAGE of the expensive full text materials you’ve purchased on your users’ behalf Supports specific faculty needs, with advanced search functionality, the ability to include institutional repository content and optional course reserves Leverages your longtime investment with WorldCat and the WorldCat knowledge base. One click access links to electronic materials show up “by magic,” in the words of one electronic services librarian. Makes it easy to see what you have locally, what’s available close by and what scholarship exists, somewhere in the world (if you can find it, we can get it)
- The central index includes collections from all the major content providers – EBSCO, Gale and ProQuest. So libraries can select content based on your users’ needs, not their discovery service’s ability to include content. Because of our vendor neutral approach to content, we can attract top publishers and are always looking for more. 6,000 providers
- Libraries that maintain holdings in WorldCat also gain Web visibility for their collections on the websites of OCLC partners. Because people usually don’t start their research at the library, this program bring the library to them on the sites they DO consult. The sites on which library collections appear are some of the more popular consumer and research sites where people usually begin their research. These include sites such as GoogleBooks, BibMe, EasyBib, Goodreads, Wikipedia, Mendeley. How does this work? Well OCLC’s Syndication activities makes the collection of library data it manages on behalf of libraries available to consumer service providers, content providers and library industry vendors in order to increase the visibility, efficiency and use of libraries, their collections and services. Because of these syndication partnerships, users of Google Books and Google Scholar now have access to the library data represented in WorldCat through the “Find in a library link.” Clicking on this link from Google will take users to the WorldCat.org library search site. From there, they can find a local library that has the materials they need, and then click through to the library’s own services.
- As of August 2014, we can say that OCLC has published over 20 billion RDF triples extracted MARC records and library authority files. And from OCLC Research’s survey results, conducted in September 2014 (and now being updated): OCLC’s RDF datasets are among the oldest, largest, and most referenced LD stores in the ‘library’ sector of the linked data cloud. There is international interest in linked data There are many still-emerging datasets. WorldCat Works is in that group.
- Thank you.