Programs and Research In the flow: from discovery to disclosure Lorcan Dempsey CIC March

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3  Environment  Scholarly information flow  An example: the catalog

Programs and research 4 Environment: The network rewrites behaviors

Programs and research 5 A few things….  Workflow and Attention  Aggregation of demand and supply: the long tail

Programs and research 6 ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library?

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Programs and research 8 Database > website > workflow Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Self assembled digital identity Netvibes, onfolio, my yahoo, myspace, RSS aggregator, … ‘getting things done’

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10 Workflow  Then  Users built workflow around the library  Now  The library must build its services around user workflow Get into the flow Disclose into other environments

Programs and research 11 Attention  Then  Resources scarce, attention abundant  Now  Attention scarce, resources abundant Competition for attention

Programs and research 12 Long tail information providers Impact? Systemwide efficiences Aggregation of supply Unified discovery Low transaction costs Aggregation of demand Mobilize users Brand Network evolution?

Programs and research 13 Collections and scholarly information flow

Programs and research 14 Print Licensed Digital Research & learning outputs … Catalog Metasearch Resolver Repositories … ILS ERM Knowledgebase

Programs and research 15 … Management environment Consumer environment

Programs and research 16 library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars,.. Network level workflow Google, … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, …

Programs and research 17 scholarly information flow? peer-reviewed journals, conferences, … aggregators Research & e-science Repositories Deposit, self archiving data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling Publish, discovery Data creation, capture and gathering: lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … Learning & teaching Deposit, self archiving learning object creation, re-use Discovery, linking, embedding Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Discovery, linking, embedding Harvesting Discovery, harvesting Validation A&I services Adapted with permission from Liz Lyons eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36,

Programs and research 18 scholarly information flow? peer-reviewed journals, conferences, … aggregators Research & e-science Repositories Deposit, self archiving data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling Publish, discovery Data creation, capture and gathering: lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … Learning & teaching Deposit, self archiving learning object creation, re-use Discovery, linking, embedding Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Discovery, linking, embedding Harvesting Discovery, harvesting Validation A&I services Adapted with permission from Liz Lyons eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36,

Programs and research 19 scholarly information flow? peer-reviewed journals, conferences, … aggregators Research & e-science Repositories Deposit, self archiving data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling Publish, discovery Data creation, capture and gathering: lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … Learning & teaching Deposit, self archiving learning object creation, re-use Discovery, linking, embedding Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Discovery, linking, embedding Harvesting Discovery, harvesting Validation A&I services Adapted with permission from Liz Lyons eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36,

Programs and research 20 scholarly information flow? peer-reviewed journals, conferences, … aggregators Research & e-science Repositories Deposit, self archiving data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling Publish, discovery Data creation, capture and gathering: lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … Learning & teaching Deposit, self archiving learning object creation, re-use Discovery, linking, embedding Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Discovery, linking, embedding Harvesting Discovery, harvesting Validation A&I services Adapted with permission from Liz Lyons eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36,

Programs and research 21 The network rewrites the library: The catalog, discovery and disclosure

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Programs and research 23 Discovery: focus on catalog with some related …  Local Discovery Environments  Shared Discovery Environments  Syndicated Discovery Environments  Leveraged Discovery Environments

Programs and research 24 Local Discovery environment  Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations  ‘Make data work harder’  Integrate consumer environment  Escape from ILS limitations  NCSU  Rochester  SOLR  Worldcat 2.0  Primo  Encore …

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Programs and research 28 Some remarks  Unified?  How does MARC data play with other data  Subjects, authors,..  Historic investment in structure?  Duplicate cost?  Relationship to Metasearch?

Programs and research 29 Shared discovery environment  Increase impact  Create gravitational pull  Aggregate demand and supply  Unified discovery  Reduce transaction costs  Reach more users  Stronger brand  Reduce costs

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Programs and research 32 Some comments  Integration of discovery 2 delivery becoming essential  A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels  Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections  Growing evidence  Discovery at the group ‘network level’

Programs and research 33 Syndicated discovery experience  Syndicate data or service or links

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Programs and research 39 Syndicating services  RSS  Portlets  APIs, Protocol-based  Projects  Sakailibrary  … Not as rapid as one might expect?

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Programs and research 41 Syndicating links

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Programs and research 43 Some remarks  Syndication of data now common among data providers  Routing issue for non-unique materials  Resolution  Worldcat  Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting  Google Scholar

Programs and research 44  Service disclosure less common  Different levels of integration:  APIs  Web services  Portlets  HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’  Toolbars  Widgets, extensions, …  But should become much more common …  Cf Amazon Web Services  At what level and where?

Programs and research 45 The Leveraged discovery experience  In some ways the most interesting  Use another discovery service to connect back to your resources  Compare to the situation with article databases and resolvers

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Programs and research 48 Some remarks  Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a direction  Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure (microformats) will improve ability.

Programs and research 49 So ….  The library website is not the front door  We need to connect multiple discovery environments to library fulfilment options  We need to put library resources in users’ workflow  We need to place library resources in places which aggregate demand

Programs and research 50 For many years, Chinese people cited a proverb: if the wine smells really wonderful, customers will come in spite of the length of the lane.