Bruce Crocco CBBD 2013

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Managing Integration of Library Collections with Today’s Web

XXV CBBD ConferenceJuly 8, 2013

Bruce CroccoVice President, Library Services for the AmericasOCLC


Library patrons


National/GlobalSystem

Electronic

Vendor

A complex environment

Print

Vendors

Library

ILSCirculation

CatalogingSelf-

Service

Acquisitions

ConsortialSystemResolver

ERM

Meta-search

A to ZList

Users OPAC


Exemplum College Library

Vision

Goals

Strategies

http://www.librarything.com/



http://global.lexisnexis.com/




How college students use information sources

Perceptions 2010, p 54

Search engine2005: 92%2010: 83%

Wikipedia2005: NA2010: 7%

Library Web site2005: less than 1%2010: 0%

Library Web site use

2010: 57% 2005: 61%

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010 Context and Community


Libraries vs. search engines

Perceptions 2010, p 55

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010 Context and Community

More trustworthy 76% 24%More accurate 69% 31%

Faster 8% 92%More convenient 13% 87%Easier-to-use 16% 84%More reliable 36% 64%

Libraries:more trustworthy

Search engines:faster


http://oc.lc/Convenience

http://oc.lc/Convenience


The User Has Many Choices


National/GlobalSystem

Electronic

Vendor

Bringing the User and Library Environments Together

Print

Vendors

Library

ILSCirculation

CatalogingSelf-

Service

Acquisitions

ConsortialSystemResolver

ERM

Meta-search

A to ZListYouTube

GoodReads

UsersFacebook

Wikipedia

Amazon

WebMD

BBC News

HathiTrust

iTunes

Scholarportals

EasyBib

Google Scholar

ESPN

OPAC

JSTOR

university.edu

Google


The “problem” with access to library collections isn’t that the user isn’t using

the library catalog.

The problem is that access to library collections is imperfect because we are not exposing our collections to today’s

web as well as we should.


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CatalogOPAC Web

Web ofData

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ratio ofdata curators to

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1 to several

severalto hundreds

dozensto thousands

hundreds to tens-of

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tens-ofthousands

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ScribeCard

CatalogOPAC Web

Web ofData

Imp

act

ratio ofdata curators to

audience

benefits

personalliteracy

societaleducation

communityaccess

efficiencycooperation

economyubiquitycreativity

social

discoveryresearch

relationshipserendipity


Describe/Register AggregateSyndicate


Knowledge Cards


Managing Entities

Local Catalogs

Regional

Global


Managing Entities

Cataloging in a linked environment:

Locating the resource within a network of useful links.


Linked Data


Metadata Management in the Future

Algorithmic Data Loading & Mining

Cataloging

Title:

Subject:


Managing Entities for Linked Data

• Manage all of the data—not just books and journals

• Today focus on books and journals

• Users care about parts of books, articles, collections

• Change cataloging to manage entities:

• Works

• Persons (via authority files)

• Manifestations

• Concepts

• Places


OCLC Experience with Linked Data


OCLC Open Linked Data – FAST Subject Headings


OCLC Open Linked Data – Dewey Decimal Classification


OCLC Open Linked Data – VIAF International Authority File


Aggregation

InstitutionLocationHours

CollectionsPrintElectronic/LicensedDigital

ServicesOPACResource sharingRemote access

ConceptsDeweyFAST

EventsCBBD

PeopleWorldCat IdentitiesWikipedia

Central Data Hub


Data Hubs


Central Data Hub

Syndication


FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 (est)0

20,000,000

40,000,000

60,000,000

80,000,000

100,000,000

120,000,000

Users Find Library Content

WorldCat Syndication Library Content Views


Libraries create value on the web with authorities


Knowledge Cards


Library Collections in Today’s Web

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina BibliotecaThe Goal


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Bruce Crocco CBBD 2013

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