Is Open Enough? - Rachel Bruce
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Is Open Enough Rachel Bruce, Jisc
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Rachel's keynote presentation at the Jisc/British Library Discovery Summit 2013. February 2013, London
Transcript of Is Open Enough? - Rachel Bruce
Is Open Enough Rachel Bruce, Jisc
21–22 February 2013 British Library Conference Centre, London 2
The Confusing Library …
• We REALLY need to sort out copyright and licensing
Resource Discovery Taskforce
•What resource discovery
infrastructure would you
build if you could start
from scratch?
Agreement What services should we
provide?
One stop shop?
Research tools?
Digitisation?
Cataloguing?
Personalisation?
Open
Metadata
http://ww1.discovery.ac.uk/
http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.co.uk/
Innovative cataloguing
Are we failing users? Are open approaches enough?
Digital Bodleian
Technical coping strategies for resource discovery?
Pelagios digital map of the Roman World
Calm with AliCat embedded
Library Museum Archive
Authorities
Services for end users and institutions
Aggregations
Possible JISC
approach to
Discovery technical
infrastructure
Will we make progress? What stands in our way?
• Disruption – Knowledge Graph ?
• 3D printing ?
• Skills?
• The business case? http://guidance.discovery.ac.uk/business-case
•What one thing might make a change?
Is there a key stone habit?
21–22 February 2013 British Library Conference Centre, London 15
Perhaps not?
“…the Three-Click Rule does not focus on the real problem. The number of clicks isn’t what is important to users, but whether or not they’re successful at finding what they’re seeking.”
Joshua Porter of User Interface Engineering
21–22 February 2013 British Library Conference Centre, London 17
Before After
Be good at supporting Discovery …
Leave an information scent
Let your data be promiscuous
“Data is a precious thing and will last
longer than the than the systems
themselves” – Tim Berners-Lee
A design principle for data?
Make it shallow …..users
shouldn’t need to dig
deep
• Thank you for listening …
• rachelbruce on twitter and skype
Image credits
Sweet Shop
• Alana Veitch - http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss-hxcfairy/6039120199/sizes/m/in/photostream/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Arrows
• Roj Smith - http://www.flickr.com/photos/roj/4179478228/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
• Alan Berning - http://www.flickr.com/photos/14617207@N00/3432232452/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• Vistavision - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vistavision/2877848012/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Lassie
• Erjkprunczýk- https://www.flickr.com/photos/24842486@N07/8477402600/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Let Data be promiscuous
• Rebecca Lee- http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorelei-ranveig/2294885420/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Shallow
• Rosa Say - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosasay/2649950207/ - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
