1. Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College From Electronic Catalog to Linked Open Data (LOD) Carol A. Ellerbeck, Taxonomist Baker Library, Harvard Business School

2. …..in Three Leaps over Nine Years Our transformations show in changes to our: Name, Services, Tools, Content Focus 1.Technical Services 2.Information Management Services 3.Information Product Services Changes prompted by: Projects, Reorganizations

3. 2007 2007: Many libraries at HU have their own Tech Services Depts. & Catalogs, as we did Services: Acquisitions; Cataloging; Collection Development; Preparation Services (binding, etc.), traditional library materials Dept. Catalog: Voyager; Harvard centralizes libraries into one university electronic catalog – Aleph New Project: Convert, normalize Voyager catalog records, clean up converted records, export to Aleph; year-long project Change: Department staff trained to catalog in new system Leap 1: Traditional Technical Services – New Catalog

4. Leap 2: Information Management Services (IMS) As a result of: Three projects and Two reorganizations between 2008 - 2012

5. Leap 2 : Information Management Services; 2008 Centennial 2007 – 2008 2008: School develops two websites: the Centennial Site & Institutional Memory Site; these 2 projects redirect us Services: Baker Tech Services tapped to provide Metadata & Taxonomy creation services for both websites’ content Proj. Catalog: XML repository; oXygen to author “metadata records” New Project: Learn XML, create the metadata schema & taxonomies, help tag & classify the website content: thousands of photos, audios, videos, school timeline events Change: Department starts providing Information Management Services (department-created Metadata & Taxonomy) websites across the school (MBA, EE, ER, DVAM…)

6. Leap 2: IMS – 2 Reorganizations; Faculty Project & Focus 2009 – 2012 2009-12: 1) Baker Library Reorganizes--Tech Services Group split; 2) HUL Reorganizes--Creates a Central Tech Services unit Services: Our reorganization: we keep only Metadata, Taxonomy, Acquisitions; during HUL reorganization: we add Web Search, Analytics, & Tagging services; lost Acquisitions Dept. Catalog: N/A (use IT web repositories for metadata & taxonomy) New Project: Faculty works: Develop better, & user-centered, access points. Develop Schema & Taxonomy; 3 rd project Research Information System to store & display on web Change: Department learns to collect/analyze user requirements; find & centralize faculty Metadata & Taxonomy from cross-school systems; & we tag faculty content in RIS

7. Leap 3: Information Product Services (IPS) ; Integration & Production Integrate website silos with a semantic-based information architecture & Institute content creation / production standards via A new three-tiered project, 2013 - 2016

8. Leap 3: IPS: Develop Integration Architecture & Production Standards

9. APPENDIX: Evolution of a Department at a glance 2007 – 2016…. Department Name: Technical Services Information Management Services Information Product Services Services: Acquisitions; Cataloging; Collection Development; Prep Services Metadata Creation; Vocabulary Creation; Web Search; Web Analytics; Tagging Metadata Integration; Vocabulary Integration; Identity/Entity Mgmt; Data Science; LOD; Analytics; Content Creation & Production Standards Catalog/Tools: Voyager; Aleph, MARC XML; eXist; oXygen RDF; Fuseki; Protégé; E-Z Publish Content Focus: Traditional Library Materials Centennial Websites; School website/repository content; faculty publication metadata & taxonomies Describe, integrate, link, make discoverable the website content of the library (1 st ), [then: school websites?]