Programs and Research The new environment of description Lorcan Dempsey PCC Policy and Steering Committee ALA Midwinter, Seattle January

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Programs and research 11 Prototype – not yet released

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Programs and research 14 Overview  Description  Discovery&Disclosure

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Programs and research 16 Collections Databases Services Institutions People Licences, policies Information objects

Programs and research 17 highlow high stewardship uniqueness Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations Research and learning materials ePrints/tech reports Learning objects Courseware E-portfolios Research data Freely-accessible web resources Open source software Newsgroup archives

Programs and research 18 Ingest into local collections Print collections Storage, digitization, resource sharing … ERM Knowledge bases Focus of much digital library activity. Archival practices. New behaviors and support for research and learning Digital ‘record’ more important (prospectus, course catalog, student records)

Programs and research 19 Special: primary materials? Curatorial responsibility for more unique materials ? Selectively capture and manage parts of the web? Examples Thematic research collection Curated databases Political websites

Programs and research 20 Managing digital? An archival perspective ? Provenance Evidential integrity Versioning

Programs and research 21 eprints Powell and Allison

Programs and research 22 OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

Programs and research 23 University of Minnesota

Programs and research 24 Folks want to get, link, share, create: personal, research and learning environments

Programs and research 25 Mature? Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures Libraries organized around ‘owned’ materials. Emerging techniques for licensed materials being put in place Under construction ERM/Knowledge base vs ILS/catalog over time? Institutional immaturity  Organizational models for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in development.  Commodity systems not available  Expensive

Programs and research 26 Metadata? MARC MODS Onix DC (simple/qualified) EAD/DACS VRA/CCO MARC AMC ‘Vernacular’ Domain-specific approaches DC IEEE LOM …

Programs and research 27 Community? Cultural heritage Media industry Web/ Internet Library Instructional technology E-gov Research communities EAD, MARC AMC,.. MARC, MODS, DC, RSLP,.. Onix, XML, RDF, OWL, … CSDGM, DDI, NBII, IVOA, … EGMS, AGLS, GILS, … GEM, DC-ED, IEEE-LOM, SCORM, … MPEG, JPEG, … TIAA CREF,…

Programs and research 28 Simple descriptive metadata!! ‘Element set’ Information model Encoding Values/content Application profile FRBR INDECS CIDOC … MARC21 DC VRA Core MODS Onix … AACR CCO DACS Controlled vocabs. … XML ISO2709 …

Programs and research 29 Some issues: the lake is becoming more like a river  Think about mass digitization  Versions  Rights  Relationships  Think about selection for mass digitization/off-site storage  ‘Systemwide’ data  Last copy  Think about next generation catalog  Control for facets  Control for FRBR  Membersip of sets

Programs and research 30 Some issues: digital environment  Describe parts (front of page 23) and whole and relationships  Articulation with user contributed materials (way of sharing)  …

Programs and research 31 Some issues: classic cataloging  A smaller part of the collection?  RDA/MARC/FRBR: separate organizational and development paths a barrier?  More selection from controlled lists?  Consistency of data

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Programs and research 33 The world has changed There was no need or room for marketing. 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. Such an approach was not applicable in today's business world. [When red is black. New York: Soho Press inc., p. 140]When red is black

Programs and research 34 Discovery and disclosure  Improve the discovery experience  Put the discovery experience where users are (disclosure)  Whole-library discovery and disclosure experience?

Programs and research 35 Discovery: ‘catalog’  Local Catalog Discovery Environments  Next generation catalog discussion  Combine access over local collections  NCSU, Primo, WorldCat…  Shared Catalog Discovery Environments  OhioLink, WorldCat, …  Syndicated Catalog Discovery Environments  Google, Academic Live, …  The Leveraged Discovery Environment

Programs and research 36 Firefox extension Web services: xISBN University of Huddersfield catalogue

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Programs and research 39 Futures  More acquisition of catalogue data upstream  More automated creation of metadata from digital materials  Common metadata creation environments (across resource types)  More structured data: machine-processable, identifiers, supply chain, shared inventory management, …  Less discretion, …  Make data work harder …