Riley, Jenn. “The Future of Cataloguing? Future Cataloguers!” 104. Bibliothekartag, Nürnberg, Germany, May 26 – 29, 2015

1. The Future of Cataloguing? Future
Cataloguers!
Jenn Riley
Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives, McGill University
jenn.riley@mcgill.ca
@jenlrile

2. It’s about the connections
https://linkedjazz.org/network/

3. http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4167

4. Cataloguing and metadata work as gardening
Photo by Temari 09; https://www.flickr.com/photos/34053291@N05/3875381418/

5. Planting
Photo by Center for International Forestry Research; https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/7995496995/

6. Reframing of metadata creation
https://thenounproject.com/term/note/35744/
https://thenounproject.com/term/information/45188/

7. Pollinating
Photo by Holly Occhipinti; https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinti1/9488064980/

8. A new model – making connections
https://thenounproject.com/term/connection/25392/

9. Weeding
Photo by Transition Brockley; https://www.flickr.com/photos/transitionbrockley/5669450261/

10. Keep it growing
https://thenounproject.com/term/community-
garden/6396/https://thenounproject.com/term/construction/

11. Really, we can’t fix everything
https://xkcd.com/386/

12.  For facts and for meaning
 Domain experts and enthusiasts know more than we do
 And have more resources to devote to understanding of specific resources
 Our value is in connections and curation
 And facilitating new knowledge by others
 We don’t “own” the information ecosystem
 We must do what it takes to scale up to current and future
volumes of data
We will be increasingly reliant on others

13.  For users:
 To mine usage data to provide more relevant and authoritative discovery
 To start from the most relevant information and provide easy means for quick
expansion
 To coherently display conflicting information
 For cataloguers:
 To flag dead ends for review and action
 To mine and show candidate connections for review
 To highlight potentially conflicting information
 To hide complexity (URIs, etc)
We will be increasingly reliant on systems

14.  The data and systems are all in the cloud
 Library-based discovery less important but likely still around for a
while
 Several ways systems can navigate the graph
 Crawling
 Dereferencing
 Query federation
 (See http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc84)
So how will Linked Data systems work?

15.  Creativity
 Judgment
 Quick analysis
 Ability to see patterns
 Good technical instincts
 Trust
What skills are needed in the future for cataloguers?

16. Watch it grow!
https://thenounproject.com/term/garden/6515/

17.  jenn.riley@mcgill.ca
 @jenlrile
 These presentation slides:
http://www.jennriley.com/presentations/dbt2015/nurnberg.pptx
Vielen dank!