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OCLC PICA A general overview SELL Presentation Madrid 16/03 Janifer Gatenby [email protected] Sébastien Vellay [email protected] General Overview OCLC PICA now. -Basics -New situation -European presence -Our network in Southern Europe Various services -Ebooks -Databases -Online collection management system -Reference Service -Other -Collaborative catalogue WorldCat -Worldcat overview -European library holdings in WorldCat -OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org -Support of Union Catalogues -Future Directions and Research 2 Some basics -OCLC founded in 67 in Ohio -PICA founded in 69 in the Netherland -Organizations joined in 2003 -We serve 57.000 libraries in 112 countries 3 New situation -SISIS acquisition -FDI acquisition -Dimema integration -RLG integration -OpenWorldCat project 4 USA: 12 NL: 97 UK: 74 F: 3 GER: 46 AU: 6 5 Our network in Southern Europe 6 Main services: -Collection: www.netlibrary.com/titleselect -130,000 ebooks -On going or annual access -2 simultaneous users per copy -No subscription, no entry fee 7 Main services: FirstSearch -75+ Online Databases (Worldcat) -More than 5.9 million full text articles -6,000 journals -53 databases with full text or links to full text Where to find more information: http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/default.htm 8 Main services: CONTENT dm -Online collections -All formats of records -All items (video, audio, images, books - compound objects…) -OCR – Jpeg 2000 -WorldCat ContenDM URL: www.contentdm.com 9 Main services: QuestionPoint -Collaborative digital reference service -Proximity with users (Online Form) -Professional reference assistance (KB) QuestionPoint QuestionPoint web site: http://www.questionpoint.org 10 Main services: in a nutshell -ILL systems (VDX/OCLC Resource Sharing) -Portals -Dewey classification - WebDewey -Cataloguing repository (Connexion – WorldCat) 11 Main services: CBS – Union Catalogue system Flexible solution for collaborative catalogues : -All formats -Automatic updates -Deduplication of records -Local OPAC via web -Architecture customizable (8 modules) -WorldCat 12 WorldCat.org and other initiatives 13 Agenda • WorldCat overview • European library holdings in WorldCat • OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org • Support of Union Catalogues • Future Directions and Research 14 WorldCat Overview – 83 million records, 1.115.907.505 holdings – All types of materials • print, maps, visual, electronic, serials, all date ranges – All languages • Unicode support includes non-roman scripts – Global Exposure & also • • • • Cataloguing Resource sharing Reference Collection analysis – Interfaces • Connexion, Z39.50, SRU, SRU update, FirstSearch, WorldCat.org 15 OCLC PICA contribution to WorldCat – 36 million European holdings – Contribution methods: • via online cataloguing, retrospective conversion, batch loading, SRU update – Major OCLC PICA contributors: • UK, Scandinavia, South Africa, France (pre-2002) – Batch loaded files: • BL, Czech National Bibliography, GGC, LinkUK, Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National Library of Education – Major ILL users: • BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia 16 Open WorldCat – making the library visible in search engines – Started 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now extended to further partners – Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC WorldCat records – Search engine displays results as “Find in a Library” – Link to library holdings – Deep linking to OPAC and full text 17 Open WorldCat : meeting the user where the user is Find in a Library 84% use search engines to begin information search Only 1% begin an information search on a library web site Search engines use achieves high satisfaction rates People trust what they find on search engines Search engines are a better ‘life style’ fit than physical libraries ‘Self serve’ is a growing trend findings from “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources :18a report to the OCLC Membership” OCLC, 2005 • • • • • • Open WorldCat Find in a Library Limitations on loading imposed by harvesters – Google only interested in titles with many holdings 19 Self-service models Linking by ISBN, ISSN, OCLC Number and now by search term Accounts for 10% or more of all traffic! Firefox Google Yahoo! 20 Exposure Start with an Internet search … 21 22 Exposure 23 Exposure Library Info 24 Exposure Ask a Librarian 25 Exposure Other Editions 26 Exposure Reviews 27 Exposure Tables of Contents 28 Purchase options 29 Pilot - link to Amazon.co.uk Clicks and orders every day during the pilot • Books Music DVD Electronics Kitchen & House 380 20 13 6 2 30 Exposure Google Scholar 31 Exposure WorldCat.org – – – – – OCLC’s own destination portal builds on Open WorldCat access to all WorldCat records holdings of subscribing libraries only OWC interface translations (inc Dutch) initial beta release August 2006 32 Exposure WorldCat.org Deliver Library Capacity to the User at the Point of Need • WorldCat.org will enable users to . . . – Discover and access libraries, their collections, their expertise and their services – at the point of need – Participate in an online community of library users, researchers, librarians – Manage personal identity, relationships, collections, reading and research 33 Exposure WorldCat.org 34 WorldCat.org Brief results 35 WorldCat.org – registration 36 WorldCat.org Tracked Statistics ata-glance Impression s: Clickthrough: Conversion : Conversion rate: 300M to 1B/year 10M/ month 550k/month 120M per year 6.6M/year • Overall: 5.5% = “best in class” for web site 5.9% in January 07 It’s worth noting that our conversion rate is well above Google’s “typical” range of 1-3%. 37 Click-throughs to WorldCat.org pages Month over month Referrals In millions 12,000,000 2005 2006 10 10,000,000 8,000,000 6 6,000,000 4,000,000 2 2,000,000 0 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 38 0 Oct '06 Sep '06 Aug '06 Jul '06 Jun '06 May '06 Apr '06 Mar '06 Feb '06 Jan '06 Clicks to Library Services 600000 500000 400000 300000 200000 100000 39 Worldcat.org Traffic Drivers - Today 40 WorldCat.org - where next? – More Add more European holdings – More “Get it” options • Integrate with European resource sharing services • Request Transfer Message – Add payment options – Add authentication and other resolvers – Add more personalisation and social features 41 WorldCat Future Directions – Add more non-US union and national catalogues (particularly non roman scripts) – Add more full text and digital content – Improve holdings level for e-serials – Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in nonroman scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials and special collections) – Integrate into OCLC PICA services 42 Exposure 43 Timeline: Social Networking Features Milestone Single Citation Conversion Target Date February 2007 Personal Profiling April 2007 Create & Share Lists April 2007 Citation Export April 2007 Reviews & Ratings Recommendations & Collaborative Filters Social Tagging RSS/Alerts May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 Summer 2007 44 0.62 work Human-readable interface manifestations in workset 45 Contribution : Follow on Services – Collection Analysis • Analyze collection age & subject content • Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness • Analyze group collections for uniqueness & overlap for cooperative collection development – Registry of Digital Masters 46 Exposure UK Public Library group analysis 47 Union Catalogue Support • Data services – FRBR – Faceted searching – Audience Level – Holdings Count - Rarity 48 FRBR – Divide and conquer • • • • Creation of works (38 million) Algorithm Authority records Cleaning bibliographic records where necessary • No manual links created • Improved user interfaces • • • • Harvesting Loading IDs & records Authority records Improved user interfaces • Suggestions for the improvement of the algorithm and records 49 Without clustering 50 With Clustering 51 Office of Research prototypes ……… 52 WorldCat statistics 53 Watch WorldCat grow …….. 54 Questions ? 55