More than a feeling: I see my MARC life walking away Eric Childress Consulting Project Manager OCLC Research
It's s more than a feeling (more than a feeling) When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling) I begin dreaming (more than a feeling) 'till I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin' away From More Than A Feeling T. Scholtz More than a feeling 2011-12-01 2
More than a feeling... We are not merely at a point of transition but rather at a point of inflection The future -- however unevenly distributed at present -- is coming soon to a library near you... Don t panic & don t despair -- We are LIBRARIANS! We have a gift for working collectively and figuring it out More than a feeling 2011-12-01 3
Big tides
The Big Picture More than a feeling 2011-12-01 5
Fuzzy Boundaries Boundaries of libraries, collections, organizations & roles are shifting and sometimes fuzzy What is a collection? Collection boundaries (licensed, shared, open web) How do we organize ourselves in a changing world? Constant tuning and retuning of roles, organizational structure More than a feeling 2011-12-01 6
Network Centrality The Network reconfigures the Library The Network sets expectations We must be in the users flow More than a feeling 2011-12-01 7
PL Budgets: Long-term pain persists More than a feeling 2011-12-01 8
Moving to e... More than a feeling 2011-12-01 9
Top 25 U.S. Public Libraries, in Aggregate Lavoie, Brian. 2011. The Top 25 US Public Libraries' Collective Collection as Represented in WorldCat. OCLC Research p. 2 More than a feeling 2011-12-01 10
Top 25 U.S. Public Libraries collection overlap with ARL member s collections Lavoie, Brian. 2011. The Top 25 US Public Libraries' Collective Collection as Represented in WorldCat. OCLC Research p. 6 More than a feeling 2011-12-01 11
The Ship of Cataloging g
Now: More e More e [electronic] content Big deals vs. pricey selectivity (journals) Many e-book models Including some patron-driven-acquisition plans Open access is gaining momentum ERM (electronic resource management) More than a feeling 2011-12-01 13
Collective Scale 250 Millions of records 235 200 197 150 WorldCat growth since 1998 139 100 108 86 50 50 52 55 39 41 44 47 61 67 0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 More than a feeling 2011-12-01 14
Where does WorldCat content come from? More than a feeling 2011-12-01 15
WorldCat Quality removing duplicates More than a feeling 2011-12-01 16
Changing system environment Cloud solutions E.g., OCLC s WorldCat Local, WorldCat Management System Collaborative development / shared platforms E.g., OCLC Developer Network, OCLC platform More than a feeling 2011-12-01 17
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The Starship of Linked Data
Inflection point MARC is at the end of its useful life? Not an instant death, but gradual retirement... LC s Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative will help chart what s next (i.e. Linked Data) Linked Data is in More than a feeling 2011-12-01 23
What is Linked Data? The Web enables us to link related documents. Similarly it enables us to link related data. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. Key technologies that support Linked Data are URIs (a generic means to identify entities or concepts in the world), HTTP (a simple yet universal mechanism for retrieving resources, or descriptions of resources), and RDF (a generic graph-based data model with which to structure and link data that describes things in the world). Source: http://linkeddata.org/faq /f More than a feeling 2011-12-01 24
Linked Open Data Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ More than a feeling 2011-12-01 25
Linked Open Library Data Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ More than a feeling 2011-12-01 26
Bibliographic framework is... an environment rather than a format The new bibliographic framework we are aiming for will broaden participation in the network of resources, librarians will be able to do a much better job of linking their patrons to resources of all kinds (from the library and from many other sources), and costs can be better contained. -- Library of Congress A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) More than a feeling 2011-12-01 27
Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment Broad accommodation of content rules and data models The accommodation of RDA (Resource Description and Access) will be a key factor in the development of elements, as will other mainstream library, archive, and cultural community rules Provision for types of data that logically accompany or support bibliographic description Such as: holdings, authority, classification, preservation, technical, rights, and archival metadata Accommodation of textual data, linked data with URIs instead of text, and both A variety of environments and systems will exist with different capabilities for communicating and receiving and using textual data and links A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) More than a feeling 2011-12-01 28
Illustration: URI + text MARC Authority format: 180 $x Standards As linked data: <skos:concept rdf:about=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007508#concept> <rdfs:label>--standards</rdfs:label> </skos:concept> More than a feeling 2011-12-01 29
Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment (cont ) Consideration of the relationships between and recommendations for communications format tagging, g, record input conventions, and system storage/manipulation a future bibliographic framework is likely to be seen less by catalogers than the current MARC format. Internal storage, displays from communicated data, and input screens are unlikely to have the close relationship to a communication format that they have had in the past. Consideration of the needs of all sizes and types of libraries, from small public to large research The new bibliographic framework will continue to support simpler needs in addition to those of large research libraries. A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) More than a feeling 2011-12-01 30
Requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment (cont ) Continuation of maintenance of MARC until no longer necessary Will need to have RDA-adapted MARC available RDA is still evolving and additional changes may be required Changes to MARC not associated with RDA should be minimal Compatibility with MARC-based records A new schema for communications will need to enable use of data currently found in MARC, since redescribing resources will not be feasible. Ideally there would be an option to preserve all data from a MARC record. Provision of transformation from MARC 21 to a new bibliographic environment. Need software that converts data to be moved from MARC to the new bibliographic framework and back, if possible, in order to enable experimentation, testing, and other activities related to evolution of the environment. A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age (October 31, 2011) More than a feeling 2011-12-01 31
RDA-in-MARC sample record More than a feeling 2011-12-01 32
I don't mind you hangin' out, And talkin' in your sleep. It doesn't matter where you've been, As long as it was deep, yeah. From Just What I Needed R. Ocasek The Cars swimfan More than a feeling 2011-12-01 33
For more information on library linked data http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub152 /LinkedDataWorkshop.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/rdfrda-and-other-tlas http://www.w3.org/2005/incubator/lld/xgr-lld-20111025/ More than a feeling 2011-12-01 34
Questions? More than a feeling 2011-12-01 35