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Open Metadata:
Chris BanksUniversity Librarian and Director, Library, Special Collections and Museums
opportunities and challenges for the HE library
www.abdn.ac.uk/library/
What metadata have we got?• Manuscript/Archives
• Printed materials with unique content
• Published materials
• Repository publications
• Research Data
• Digitised content
• Electronic: in perpetuity
• Electronic: licensed
• Just in time
• Project created resources
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Agencies• Author / creator/ project
• Publisher
• Aggregator
• Acquired/licensed from
• Licensed to
• LMS
• Local
• Cloud
• Library
• Public
• Re-purposing / Semantic enrichment
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Metadata priorities• Buy / license / link to pre-
existing metadata
• Eliminate cottage industries
• Concentrate human resource on managing the uniquely held metadata creation:
• MSS & Archives
• Research outputs
• Digitised materials
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Metadata utopia• Created once
• Enhanced and enriched by the community
• Held in the cloud
• Ability to link holdings / copy specific information / library specific metadata
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• Maximise the investment in the purchased / licensed resources
• Eliminate complexity
• Eliminate barriers to access
• Get the data to where it is needed
Resource discovery priorities
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The catalogue still matters!
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New e-Book acquisition
e-books become available
E-book catalogue records added to our catalogue
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Investment in resource discovery tools
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Cross searching all collections, including museum and archives (with single-sign-on)
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Investment in training
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Training
Reader instruction - user hours
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Metadata characteristics
• Created
• Licensed
• Distributed
• Enriched
• Discovered
• Re-purposed
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Whose metadata is it anyway?
Opportunities
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• Minimise duplication
• Maximise reach
• Allow for community created richness
• Opportunities for new services which add value to the community
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Existing sharing includes
• RLUK / Copac
• Backup catalogue
• Collection management tool
• WorldCat
• Uniqueness /collection strength comparison
• Aggregation of unique items
• eThos
• Europeana
• NRA
• Archives Grid
• Much data is OAI/PMH enabled (more to come)
Challenges
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Challenges
• Data ownership(s)
• Data quality
• Don’t just need to convince libraries
• Existing aggregations, business models, associated services and community benefits
• Resources required to publish
Metadata as £ $ €
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Various agencies exploiting metadata
• Aggregators• License to libraries• License to LMS /
resource discovery agencies
• Create “value added” services based on mass creation/accumulation of metadata
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• LMS suppliers• Aggregate publisher
created and library created data
• In the cloud• Opportunity for
community created enrichment
• Opportunity to move physical storage (and storage management) into the cloud
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Others who aggregate data give HE
• Strategic decision making tools
• Value added search
• H- index
• Peer review information
• Citation information
• Data in the cloud
Inspire to enquire