York "Hosting the Collection"
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This presentation was provided by Maurice York of The Big Ten Academic Alliance during the "15th Annual NISO–BISG Changing Standards Landscape Forum: The Book: Usage, Economics, and the Future." The event was held at ALA Annual in Washington D.C. on Friday, June 24, 2022.
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- 1. HOSTING THE COLLECTION MAURICE YORK Director of Library Initiatives Big Ten Academic Alliance NISO-BISG Forum : ALA 2022 Washington, DC
- 3. © DSAT for MSFT, GeoNames, Navteq Powered by Bing Big Ten Academic Alliance
- 4. THE POWER OF COLLABORATION - THE POWER OF THE BIG COLLECTION BTAA CONTEXT Join our strengths Articulate the needs of the whole Coordinate holistic action ENGAGE INTENTIONAL AND STRATEGIC COORDINATION Elevate the collective interest and the greater good Create something more powerful than the sum of our parts
- 6. maximize access ensure preservation of the scholarly record support our common mission serve our students & scholars IMPLEMENT THE NECESSARY TO CREATE A IN ORDER TO systems services policies fully networked collection
- 7. three lenses 1 what do we purchase & collect? Shi ft ing from the print book to a linked object in a linked and dynamic world 2 how do we do it? Collec ti ve collec ti ng in a digital fi rst world 3 for whom? Eleva ti ng marginalized and unheard voices
- 8. what do we produce, purchase, and collect? PART 1
- 10. tools of knowledge creation computation gaming data visualization animation & modeling media
- 11. multi-part, linked, dynamic objects even if we can fi nd them, what gives us the right to preserve them? (much less provide access to them)
- 12. unlikely unimaginable The Library of Alexandria, wonder of the ancient world
- 13. ! ! 120 members approved 3777 IC books checked out 1500 USERS 156,000 page views HathiTrust " # $ ! 10% of all Hathi traffic TUESDAY APRIL 7 2020 ONE WEEK AFTER ETAS ACTIVATION %
- 14. HathiTrust 15.9 million volumes 120 partner libraries 5.9 million volumes = public domain Epistles of Paul papyrus 200 C.E. 30 leaves Michigan Daily student newspaper 1890 - 2014 200,000 pages Early English Books 1475 - 1700 125,000 books 150 libraries
- 15. 13% PD Illinois 33% IC 45% 9% PD 27% IC 36% Indiana 9% PD 27% IC 36% Michigan St. 10% PD 36% IC 46% Northwestern 33% IC 41% the Ohio St. 8% PD 23% IC 31% Penn State 11% PD 42% IC 53% 7% PD 32% IC 37% Rutgers Purdue 7% PD 32% IC 39% Iowa 8% PD 30% IC 38% 10% PD 27% IC 37% 10% PD 31% IC 41% 13% PD 37% IC 50% 10% PD 32% IC 42% 16% PD 49% IC 65% Maryland Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Chicago H A T H I E T A S O V E R L A P 9% PD
- 16. Hathi corpus 13% PD 33% IC 9% PD 27% IC 9% PD 27% IC 10% PD 36% IC 33% IC 8% PD 23% IC 11% PD 42% IC 7% PD 32% IC 7% PD 32% IC 8% PD 30% IC 10% PD 27% IC 10% PD 31% IC 13% PD 37% IC 10% PD 32% IC 49% IC 9% PD 16% PD Illinois Indiana Michigan St. Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Rutgers Purdue Iowa Maryland Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Chicago
- 18. in the most recent pandemic, our physical buildings shut down and we lost the use of the print record for a year and a half a thought experiment…. in the next global crisis… what if we lose the digital realm for two years and all we have is the physical? all we had was the digital
- 19. The Book of Eli
- 20. - the durable is the copy of record - institutional failure is as dangerous as format failure - accessibility is basic and powerful - reformatting and portability = longevity - collections disperse and re-assemble - rights….rights….rights…. Eli’s lessons of the post-apocalyptic book
- 21. how do we collect? PART 2
- 22. A start: buy digital first for access, and buy a print copy for the consortium for long-term preservation purposes the “collective collection”
- 23. coordinated purchasing and collection development for a genuinely shared collection the “collective collection” how do we advance to steps beyond that? shared platforms & common infrastructure for coherence in access and preservation
- 24. E pub.js :: Show Sold Separately by Jonathan Gray :: NYU Press 2010 PLATFORM for Long-form Monographs and Source Material DURABLE DISCOVERABLE FLEXIBLE
- 25. “EPUB is software” - Lisa McCloy-Kelley The Hathi Workaround: - Turn the software back into content… XML - “Meet our spec or we can’t let it into the repository” - If we lose the book, at least we have the content SCRIPTING INTERACTIVE MEDIA LINKS RIGHTS
- 26. Another THOUGHT EXPERIMENT… Twenty years from now, what is left? What if the device doesn’t exist anymore? What if the browser doesn’t exist anymore? What if the organization that published it is gone? Also the one that committed to saving it?
- 27. Degrade gracefully (and leave tombstones) : party_parrot : xxx??xxx
- 28. What long-term preservation needs is not all that different from what accessibility needs
- 29. here, we come back to standards not only shaping standards, but actively using them in how we produce, purchase, house, & deliver content
- 30. for whom? PART 3
- 31. what gets published? what is possible to license? what gets selected and purchased?
- 32. who decides what will be remembered and studied 50 years from now?
- 33. 27.6% 26.1% 5.6% 50.3% 8.8m items 38.1% 4.6m items 11.6% 2.5m items the HathiTrust corpus: 17.6m items
- 34. the problem of systemically marginalizing & excluding voices goes back decades, if not centuries how do we reach into the past and elevate or center, even represent, voices that have been excluded? how will we address that inequity going forward, for what we WILL publish and collect? June 22, 2022
- 36. we have been in dialectic the era of attempting this alone is gone… publishers…libraries… aggregators…distributors… vendors…customers… commpetitors…collaborators…
- 37. I would like to propose a unity point of view we are partners
- 38. the power of the collective the power of partnership the power of shared investment even more powerful: gratitude of the community
- 39. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all people are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar, 1837
- 40. corporate We are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit: we are parties also, and have a responsibility which is not to be declined —Ralph Waldo Emerson Introductory Lecture on The Times, 1841
- 42. 1940s: 279,000 volumes : 3.4% 13 tons 2000s: 765,000 volumes : 9.3%
- 43. Digitization of “very old” things…things that may not even have been digitized in HathiTrust, because not a part of any library collections
- 44. Working at Scale fueling teaching, research, scholarship providing full lifecycle services stewarding unique & distinctive materials combined purchasing power over $265M (P&E) $10.1 billion 600,000+ students 50,000+ faculty in funded research 114 million library volumes
- 46. no small plans
- 47. [slide about SimplyE….riot of platforms for delivering ebook content from various publisher…think of the poor reader….]
- 48. aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. —Daniel Burnham Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir the blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans;
- 49. Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics, March 1949
- 50. - Game of Thrones - The Time Machine - Star Wars: Episode II - Star Wars: Rogue One - The Book of Eli Libraries in the far future
- 51. - the durable is the copy of record - institutional failure is as dangerous as format failure - accessibility is basic and powerful - reformatting and portability = longevity - collections disperse and re-assemble - rights….rights….rights…. Eli’s lessons of the post-apocalyptic book
- 52. content is king
- 54. Leave breadcrumbs for rights and licenses
- 55. what EPUB4 needs: be preservation ready