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Ministerial Conference on Information Infrastructure for Science, Education, and Culture Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University Library http://www.librarytechnology.org/ http://www.librarytechnology.org Repository for library automation data Expanding to include more international scope Announcements and developments made by companies and organizations involved in library automation technologies Started building database in 1995 Most comprehensive resource for tracking ILS and other library automation products Serves as a directory for general public Specialized tool for tracking ILS and other automation products 40,825 Total libraries listed 384 Slovenian Libraries Need data for libraries in other countries in region Annual Industry report published in Library Journal: 2009: Investing in the future 2008: Opportunity out of turmoil 2007: An industry redefined 2006: Reshuffling the deck 2005: Gradual evolution 2004: Migration down, innovation up 2003: The competition heats up 2002: Capturing the migrating customer Vision of the possibilities for library interfaces well suited for today’s information environment No single product implements all possibilities These concepts are not necessarily connected to the COBISS OPAC, but may stimulate ideas to stimulate new directions. Lots of non-library Web destinations deliver content to library patrons ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Google Scholar Amazon.com Wikipedia Ask.com Do Library Web sites and catalogs meet the information needs of our users? Do they attract their interest? Print > Electronic Increasing emphasis on subscribed content, especially articles and databases New emphasis on digitizing local collections New generations of library users: ◦ Millennial generation ◦ Web savvy ◦ Pervasive Web 2.0 concepts Urgent need for libraries to offer interfaces their users will like to use Powerful search capabilities in tune with how the Web works today Meet user expectations set by other Web destination Maintain quality of searching in precision, predictability, and scope Silos Prevail ◦ Books: Library OPAC (ILS module) ◦ Articles: Aggregated content products, ejournal collections ◦ OpenURL linking services ◦ E-journal finding aids (Often managed by link resolver) ◦ Local digital collections ETDs, photos, rich media collections ◦ Metasearch engines All searched separately Widespread dissatisfaction with legacy OPACs. Many efforts toward nextgeneration discovery layer products. Movement among libraries to break out of the current mold of library catalogs and offer new interfaces better suited to the expectations of library users. Decoupling of the front-end interface from the back-end library automation system. Eventual redesign of the ILS to be better suited for current library collections of digital and print content Modern Interface ◦ Visual appeal ◦ Relevancy-based retrieval ◦ Faceted navigation Comprehensive, global scope Deep indexing More comprehensive information discovery environments Primary search tool that extends beyond print resources Digital resources cannot be an afterthought Systems designed for e-content only are also problematic Forcing users to use different interfaces depending on type of content becoming less tenable Libraries working toward consolidated user environments that give equal footing to digital and print resources Card Catalogs Library online catalogs – OPACs Discovery interfaces Web-scale discovery services A single point of entry to all the content and services offered by the library Single search box Query tools ◦ Did you mean ◦ Type-ahead Relevance ranked results Faceted navigation Enhanced visual displays ◦ Cover art ◦ Summaries, reviews, Recommendation services Online Catalog ◦ Interface conventions from an earlier Web era ◦ Scope: Tied to the ILS and its content domain Discovery Layer ◦ Modern interface elements ◦ Scope: aims to address broad range of components that constitute library collections ◦ Tags, user-supplied ratings and reviews ◦ Leverage social networking interactions to assist readers in identifying interesting materials: BiblioCommons ◦ Leverage use data for a recommendation service of scholarly content based on link resolver data: Ex Libris bX service AquaBrowser Ex Libris Primo Innovative Interfaces: Encore Serials Solutions: Summon (under development) SirsiDynix Enterprise The Library Corporation: LS2 PAC VUFind (open source) BiblioCommons eXtensible Catalog (under development) Earliest and most implemented discovery interface Developed by Medialab Solutions in The Netherlands Now owned by R.R. Bowker, part of CIG Features word cloud, faceted navigation, relevancy ranked results Based on Apache Solr search toolkit Lead developer: Andrew Nagey (now with Serials Solutions) http://www.vufind.org/ Libraries using VuFind: ◦ National Library of Australia; Villanova University; CARLI, University of Georgia libraries, South Dakota Library Network, etc Initially developed by John Blyberg Build on Drupal Developed at the University of Virginia Apache SOLR Ruby on Rails interface Libraries working with Blacklight include: ◦ Stanford University, University of Virginia University of Rochester – River Campus Libraries Financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/ ◦ Two rounds of funding from Mellon $283,000 (April 2006) $749,000 (October 2007) ◦ Wider institutional participation Initial products focused on technology ◦ AquaBrowser, Endeca, Primo, Encore, VUfind ◦ Mostly locally-installed software Current phase focused on pre-populated indexes that aim to deliver Web-scale discovery ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ Summon (Serials Solutions) WorldCat Local (OCLC) EBSCO Discovery Service (EBSCO) Primo Central Pre-populated indexes Web-scale Increased full-text indexing New-generation interface Harvested local content ◦ ILS metadata ◦ Institutional repositories, ETDs, Digital Collection platforms Vendor-supplied indexes of library content ◦ E-journals, databases, e-books Full-text and metadata corresponding to e-content subscriptions ◦ Book collections beyond local library collections Indexing the full corpus of information available globally Or at least major portions Not quite comprehensive – partial harvesting of any given resource Google aims to address all the world’s information Discovery Layer Products for libraries aim to address all content collected by libraries: Print Remotely access electronic content: e-journals, e-books, databases, licensed and open access. Local special collections: digital and print. Addresses the comprehensive body of content held within library collections Comprehensive, unified Entering post-metadata search era Increasing opportunities to search the full contents ◦ Google Library Print, Google Publisher, Open Content Alliance, government publications, etc. ◦ High-quality metadata will improve search precision Commercial search providers already offer “search inside the book” and searching across the full text of large book collections Not currently available through library search environments Deep search highly improved by high-quality metadata New Discovery Service – initial libraries now in production Consolidated index harvested from many sources ◦ ProQuest, Gale, Thompson Reuters (Web of Science), LexisNexis, etc ◦ 500,000,000 articles represented ◦ Full-text search + Citations Local catalog data harvested, real-time link to holdings Other local repositories harvested Others available through metasearch Repository of article-level indexes maintained and hosted by Ex Libris Available to Primo sites without additional cost Move more content from metasearch to local index Agreement with OCLC for WorldCat data EBSCO Host interface and content Content from other publishers and providers Existing service in pilot stage for new discovery service WorldCat.org data + ArticleFirst (30 million articles) Agreement with EBSCO to load EBSCOhost citation data into WorldCat Pursuing agreements with additional content providers No-cost option to FirstSearch subscribers No reclamation to reconcile local ILS with WorldCat One ILS supported; must be among supported products Program to expose thousands of libraries to WorldCat Local as a discovery option Now viewed as separate problem Many interdependencies Current model of feeding discovery systems from many underlying repositories ◦ ILS / e-journal collections / collections of digital objects Will models of resource management change to consolidate the repositories? Realign Discovery and management? Traditional Proprietary Commercial ILS ◦ Millennium, Symphony, Polaris Traditional Open Source ILS ◦ Evergreen, Koha Clean slate automation framework (SOA, enterprise-ready) ◦ Ex Libris URM, OLE Project Cloud-based automation system ◦ WorldCat Local (+circ, acq, license management) Beyond selecting one brand from an assortment of similar products Several conceptually diverse options Companies and projects now competing on innovation