Transcript OCLC Online Computer Library Center Pattern recognition Lorcan Dempsey PALINET's 7th Annual OCLC Users Conference, May 28-30, 2003 Keynote presentation.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Pattern recognition
Lorcan Dempsey
PALINET's 7th Annual OCLC Users Conference, May 28-30, 2003
Keynote presentation
Pattern
The knowledge imposes a pattern,
and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
We have no future because our
present is too volatile. We have only
risk management. The spinning of
the given moment’s scenarios.
Pattern recognition …
Overview
Overview
Environment
• Increasingly complex
collections
• Changing patterns of
behavior – research,
learning, cultural
engagement
• Creating value
• Funding envelope?
• The scholarly and
cultural record in a
digital environment?
• Look at:
– Special collections
– Research and
learning
– Wide open web
– All the other stuff
• Books, journals,
A&I !!
Reclaiming the ‘special’
The Archival Research Center is a direct outgrowth of the belief that primary
resource materials should be a major focal point of instruction and research. ….
However, traditional access to these materials is cumbersome and labor-intensive
and most institutions do not allow copying. …Digitizing these materials keeps
them alive and relevent for modern users … (ARL report)
The return of the special
• There is growing appreciation among libraries that
unique or rare materials
– are valuable research and learning resources
– that they have been underutilized,
– that digitization offers opportunities for releasing their value
in new ways.
• There is a growing interest in digitizing cultural
heritage materials
– as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of
communities.
The engagement with research
and learning
“Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket”
Biomedical informatics
Source: http://medicine.osu.edu/informatics/
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) Motion Capture Lab
Source: http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/mocap/mocap_info.htm
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park
Source: http://swamp.ag.ohio-state.edu/ichart/index.html
Knowledge bank – OSU – in
planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of an OSU knowledge bank
Research and learning
• Research and learning behavior is
increasingly entering the network space
– Library resources need to be available at the
appropriate stage within the learning or research
environment
– New forms of engagement and support.
– Research and learning outputs will present major
management and curatorial issues
– Institutions and faculty are interested in ‘disclosing’
research and learning materials as part of the
scholarly enterprise (OAI)
Books, journals, …
• Rich business apparatus. Commodity?
• Ease of access – D2D
• Discovery <> locate <> request <> Delivery
• Reduce costs of processing
• Increased interest in management information for collection
development, collection management, …
• Increased interest in outsourcing?
• Collections
– Vanilla
– Specialist
•
formats, language, communities
Licensed materials
“Like many libraries, the UW Libraries has struggled with how to
effectively and efficiently manage its growing licensed resources
such as e-journals, A&I databases, and full-text services. We were
using a mix of locally developed and maintained files and
databases (in file cabinets, on our intranet, etc.) to manage our
electronic resources. In a highly distributed workflow and service
provision environment, the UW Libraries sought a way to integrate
this information with our local system and streamline our
processes.”
Univ. Washington response. ARL survey.
Resources
• Licensed
– D2D
• Rights and linking
• Portalization?
– Visibility and integration
– Value
– Streamline
management of
licenses
– Long term access
• Bought
– D2D
• New catalog
configurations
– Enhance records
– Get better management
information for
resource sharing,
collection
management,
collection development
Wide open web
• Ongoing interest in mediating access to highquality Internet resources linked to other
resources and interests of users
• Multiple local and shared initiatives
Collections grid
stewardship
high
Books
Journals
low
high
Special
collections
Freely-accessible
web resources
uniqueness
Newspapers
Gov. docs
CD, DVD
Maps
Scores
low
Rare books
Local/Historical
newspapers
Local history materials
Archives & Manuscripts,
Theses & dissertations
Open source software
Newsgroup archives
Research and learning
materials
•ePrints/tech reports
•Learning objects
•Courseware
•E-portfolios
•Research data
• Manage commodity materials and services - cost.
• Streamline discovery to delivery for print (owned) and
digital (licensed) materials
• Portalization and resource sharing
• Management intelligence – collection management
and analysis (print collections)
• Incentive to preserve?
• Institutional digital content management
• Immature (diverse metadata creation practice -hierarchical description, multiple standards and
practices, diverse content management
approaches)
• OAI? Shining a light on hidden resources.
• Extend knowledge organization approaches?
• Incentive to preserve?
The example of metadata
stewardship
high
MARC,
Onix
uniqueness
low
Books
Journals
MARC, METS,
EAD, DC, TEI
high
Special
collections
low
Dublin
Core
DC, DDI,
IEEE/LOM, FGDC,
EAD, TEI, SCORM
Freely-accessible web
resources
Research and learning
materials
Trends
Scholarly
communication
“Special collections”
stewardship
low
Special
collections
high
low
Books,
Journals
unique
low
high
high
high
Disclosure,
Licensing
low
Web
Research &
Learning
Trends
stewardship
high
Web
high
low
low
Books,
Journals
unique
high
low
E-reserves
low
high
Special
collections
Research &
Learning
The
google
factor
stewardship
high
high
Special
collections
low
Web
uniqueness
Books,
Journals
low
Research &
Learning
The pattern is new in every
moment
• Different materials
call forward different
types of attention
– Selection
– Organization
– Collection
management
– Securing access
– Preservation
• What is a collection?
• Responsibility to the
scholarly record
– Licensed
– Below the line
– Print
• Fragmentation of
knowledge technologies?
– Knowledge organization –
topics, places, names,
educational standards,
resource types
– Identifiers
– etc
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Thank you