1. Metadata switch Lorcan Dempsey Members’ Council, May 2002

2. Metadata switch Explore a set of services which add value to metadata by leveraging OCLC expertise and position. Under discussion with Metadata and Cooperative Discovery Services High acronymic density … please shout out!

3. Proposition Add value to metadata created elsewhere –Aggregate metadata for reuse –Leverage knowledge structures –Investigate schema interoperability services An initiative which builds on OCLC’s ‘cooperative processing’ strengths ‘Open metadata services’

4. Environment Major digital initiatives as part of learning, research and cultural engagement Libraries looking at management and disclosure of institutional assets Growing importance of unique, non- published materials –Learning materials, research data, technical reports, e-prints

6. OAI E-prints cultural heritage learning Knowledge bank, Dspace, … NSDL, IMLS, NOF, NLA, FAIR, …

7. Switch

8. Agg.

9. Switch KO NA Agg.

10. Switch Schema trans. KO NA Agg.

11. Components also stand alone Aggregator –Metadata creation and exchange KO NA –Make knowledge organisation services more accessible Schema transformations –Infrastructure of interoperability

12. For Example … e-Prints UK RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service RDN gateway/portal service Institutional e-print archives Personal e-print archives OAI-PMH Non-institutional e-print archives Subject classification service Name authority service Citation analysis service SOAP Javascript/HTTP Z39.50 JISC FAIR program

13. Don’t do it? Share of metadata creation declines Become peripheral to major activities in information management for research and learning Increasingly marginal to many ‘digital library’ initiatives on campus Lose potentially valuable ‘reference’ resources

14. Next steps Aggregator –NDLTD –Learning objects –Contentdm KONA –Under development Schema trans –Investigation Will work with CMS Exploratory Diane VG’s group

15. discussion? dempseyl@oclc.org