Axel Kaschte Product Strategy Director EMEA OCLC 04 July 2015 ICSTI Workshops Hannover Globalization Global Library Network Global Information Network Explain Libraries shift their focus from collections on the shelf to the services they offer Pressure on collection budgets ID: 269465
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Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web
Axel KaschteProduct Strategy Director EMEA OCLC
04. July,
2015
ICSTI Workshops HannoverSlide2
Globalization
Global Library Network
Global Information
NetworkSlide3
Explain:
Libraries shift their focus from collections on the shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets.
Trends
Trend 2: Search for Distinctiveness
Explain:
As licensed content is available in commodity collections,
a
cademic libraries strive to declare their distinctiveness
.
Trend 3: Be Found on the Web
Explain:
As users search on the web, libraries want their commodity and distinctive collections to be found on the web.
Improve Library Workflows
Help Libraries Be Found on the Web
Trend 1: Shift from collections to servicesSlide4
Landscape: Vision for the Ecosystem
"
DBpediaLogo
" by The
DBpedia
Team
Licensed
under Public domain via Wikimedia CommonsSlide5
THE LIBRARY KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
The Library Data Revolution
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide6
Umberto Eco
Born: 5 January 1932
Alessandria, Italy
Italian
semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
Works
Subjects
Quotes
Find Umberto Eco works at:
Libraries near me
|
Online Retailers
Semiotics
|
Religions
|
Thought and Thinking
Art—Philosophy
|
Foucault’s Pendulum
|
Vodou
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody
else.”Slide7
Library data stored as entities
person
place
object
concept
organization
work
author
subject
item
availabilitySlide8
The library knowledge graph
A graph of relationships
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide9
The library knowledge graph
Works
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide10
The library knowledge graph
Putting entities in library
workflows
Cataloging
ILL and Analytics
Cataloging
Discovery
Integration with the webSlide11
ENTITIES AND LIBRARY WORKFLOWS
The Library Data Revolution
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide12
Entities and library
workflows
Discovery
The Name of the Rose
Summary:
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror.
Subjects
Borrowing Options
eBooks
|
Printed Books
|
Audio Books
Other Languages
Monastic
libraries -- Italy
– Fiction
|
Semiotics
--
Fiction Slide13
Entities and library
workflows
Cataloging
Improve data quality
Link to authoritative sources
A new approach to cataloging
Point and click cataloging
Managing entities instead of managing records
Consistent with RDASlide14
Entities and library
workflows
Web exposure
Be found on the web
Connect your users to unique content
What the web requires for web exposure
Aggregation
Familiar structures
A Network of Links
Entity IdentifiersSlide15
WHAT’S HAPPENING
The Library Data Revolution
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide16
15%
of
Web use
Schema.org markup!Slide17
Sponsored by
The Library of Congress
http://
www.bibframe.orgSlide18
http://www.w3.org/community/
schemabibex
/
Schema
Bib ExtendSlide19
http:/
/
www.BiblioGraph.net
OCLC’s Approach to Data Modeling
Model things
of
interest to the web
.
Make those
things available via structures
familiar to the web
.
Improve
library
workflows
.Slide20
ENTITIES AND WORLDCAT
The Library Data Revolution
person
place
object
concept
organization
workSlide21
197+ million Work descriptions and URIs
Schema.org
+
BiblioGraph.net
RDF Data formats
RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD
Links to WorldCat manifestations
Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, VIAF, FAST
Open Data license via Linked Data Explorer
2015: Discovery API, Metadata API
Released
April 2014
http:/
/
www.oclc.org
/data
The Work EntitySlide22
98+ million Person descriptions
and
URIs
Person entities with
authority: 20.2 million
Person entities without
authority: 78.3 million
Schema.org
+
BiblioGraph.net
Harvested from WorldCat data and enriched from
other hubs RDF
Data formats
RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD
Links to WorldCat W
orks. Added links from WC Works.
Open Data license via Linked Data
Explorer
2015: Linked Data Explorer, Discovery API
http:/
/
www.oclc.org
/data
The Person EntitySlide23Slide24Slide25Slide26
VIAF, ISNI, FAST Publish Linked Data
WorldCat.org
Linked Data Release – using
Schema.org
Internal agreement on data strategy
Evangelism
Research & Design with Data Architecture Group
Data mining of WorldCat resources
WorldCat Works Released
2012
2014
Application Integration
WorldCat Discovery
Analytics
Discovery API
Cataloging
…
More Entities Released
Person
Manifestation
Organization
Concept
New Products
Continuing Evangelism
New Services
Continuing Innovation
2013
OCLC
Entity-Based
Data StrategySlide27
Metadata Globalization
Global Library Network
Global Information
NetworkSlide28
Explain:
Libraries shift their focus from collections on the shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets.
Current Challenges in Libraries
# 2: Search for Distinctiveness
Explain:
As licensed content is available in commodity collections,
a
cademic libraries strive to declare their distinctiveness. Rise of OA.
# 3: Be Found on the Web
Explain:
As users search on the web, libraries want their commodity and distinctive collections to be found on the web.
# 1: Shift from collections to servicesSlide29
Lifecycle of scholarly communication
Publish
Write
Read
Study / Research
Libraries
WEB
of data
Students
Researchers
Librarians
ManagersSlide30
Researchers
Librarians
Homework
ManagersSlide31
Researchers
Librarians
Managers
Homework
As a
librarian
I would like to ____ so that ___.
As a
researcher
I would like to ____ so that ___.
As a
director
I would like to ____ so that ___.Slide32
As
librarian, I want high quality data from around the world so that I can support my university’s international business school.
Examples: Identifying the Problems to Solve
# 2: Search for Distinctiveness
As a
researcher
, I want
to identify original sources
so that
I can produce original findings in my grant funded research project.
# 3: Be Found on the Web
As a
library director
, I want to
show that my library has global relevance and a durable future
so that
I can prove value to my skeptical chancellor
.
Improve Library Workflows
Help Libraries Be Found on the Web
# 1: Shift from collections to servicesSlide33
Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web
Ted Fons, OCLCfonst@oclc.org