Technology Trends Public Purposes: 72,035 Libraries in 171 Countries
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11/2/2011 Kinokuniya 20 October 2011 Technology Trends Jay Jordan President and CEO OCLC The OCLC Cooperative: a nonprofit, membership organization Public purposes: Further access to the world’s information Reduce the rate of rise of library costs 72,035 libraries in 171 countries 1 11/2/2011 Five trends: 2011 1. student-produced apps 2. information habits of young people 3. evolution of search 4. cloud services 5. linked open data Trend 1 Student-produced apps 2 11/2/2011 Trend 1 Attack of the killer apps! Trend 1 Attack of the killer apps! 3 11/2/2011 Trend 1 GetchaBooks Inc. magazine’s “America’s Coolest College Startups of 2011“ Trend 1 Student apps OSU Engineering Student Project: Parking Space Availability Rutgers Washing Machine Availability 4 11/2/2011 Trend 1 North Carolina State University NCSU Computer and Study NCSU Webcams, Hill of Beans NCSU Hill of Beans Coffee Room Availability Coffee line most popular of all Line (of course no line mobile features since it is summer!) Trend 1 North Carolina State University NCSU Library Mobile Web. NCSU Transportation Mobile NCSU Digital Campus Tour Note that catalog search is Web Site: Exact location of in both mobile web and a minor part of offering every bus on their route iPhone app 5 11/2/2011 Trend 1 California Polytechnic State University Top App in Android App Contest sponsored by Intuit Where’s My Book “It is ideal for students who are borrowing textbooks as well as for those readers who haven’t switched over to a Kindle yet.” The winners! Henrietta Wong and Adriel Fuad Trend 1 Developer Network 170 registered members 70 applications built 20 million calls/month Most popular WorldCat Search API xISBN, xISSN WorldCat Registry WorldCat Identities QuestionPoint Knowledge Base xOCLCNUM 6 11/2/2011 Trend 1 Student-produced apps “Open your API or your customers will” Trend 2 Information habits of young people 7 11/2/2011 Trend 2 K-12 and young adults E-mail is for grandparents Twitter is for parents Texting is for kids Trend 2 Membership Reports/Studies 84% use search engines to begin an information search 2% begin an information search on a library Web site 90% are satisfied with search engines libraries = books 8 11/2/2011 Trend 2 Facebook Generation: Who Are They? Millennials Born 1979—1994 70-80 million strong 17-32 year olds Now outnumber Baby Boomers! Trend 2 Millenials don’t use the library “The library is a good source if you have several months.” “Hard to find things in library catalog.” “Yeah, I don't step in the library anymore… better to read a 25-page article from JSTOR than a 250-page book.” 9 11/2/2011 Trend 2 They want convenient and quick information “…first thing I do, is, I go to Google… I don't go into the [library] system unless I have to because there's like 15 logins, you have to get into the research databases. Then it takes you out of that to [the local consortium]…” 10 11/2/2011 Trend 2 Information habits of young people By understanding them, we can serve everyone better 11 11/2/2011 Trend 3 Google 12 11/2/2011 Trend 3 Bing Trend 3 Hakia 13 11/2/2011 Trend 3 Keio University on Hakia Trend 3 Yebol 14 11/2/2011 Trend 3 Sumo wrestling on Yebol Trend 3 Aardvark 15 11/2/2011 Trend 3 Quora Trend 3 MacArthur Foundation Grant Syracuse University, University of Washington and OCLC Web search experience based on expertise from librarians Credibility engine 16 11/2/2011 Trend 4 Cloud Services Wayne Gretzky on strategic planning “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.” 17 11/2/2011 Trend 4 WorldCat Local: More than books! 193 million books and… • 526+ million articles • 11+ million e-books • 1,424 databases/collections Direct links to full-text articles and open-access objects Trend 4 WorldCat Local: Mobile access included 18 11/2/2011 Trend 4 Representing the collective collection 2.1 billion items and growing! Licensed digital Physical holdings content/articles in Local library content in WorldCat library collections being digitized 235 million bib records 530.8 million records 43.7 million items (Google, HathiTrust, OAIster) 1.7+ billion holdings Trend 4 Change in the library: the impact of OCLC Web-scale Management Services ILS Acquisitions A to Z OPAC Library List Self ERM Service Circulation Print Users Cataloging Resolver Vendors Meta- search Institutional Electronic Repository Vendor National/ Cataloging Consortial Global Utility System System 19 11/2/2011 Trend 4 Change in the library: The impact of OCLC Web-scale Management Services ILS Acquisitions A to Z OPAC Library List Self ERM Service Circulation Print Users Cataloging Resolver Users Data SuppliersVendors Meta- search Institutional Electronic Repository Vendor National/ Cataloging Consortial PartnersGlobal Utility System System Trend 4 WMS early adopters: Norway, The Netherlands, Canada 20 11/2/2011 Trend 4 Fred Kilgour’s Strategic Plan—1967 • Online union catalog and shared cataloging • Serials control • Technical processing (acquisitions) • Interlibrary loan • Retrieval by subject (reference) • Remote catalog access and circulation control WorldCat: Happy 40 th ! 26 August 1971 21 11/2/2011 Trend 5 Linked open data Definition: “Open data” is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. −from Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Trend 5 Semantic web "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.“ −Tim Berners-Lee 22 11/2/2011 Trend 5 GeoNames Trend 5 GeoNames 23 11/2/2011 Trend 5 DBpedia Trend 5 Virtual International Authority File Principals Contributors National Library of Australia • Library of Congress/NACO National Library of the Czech Republic • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) • Bibliothèque nationale de France Getty Research Institute National Library of Israel • OCLC Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Italy) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de España National Library of Sweden Swiss National Library Vatican Library NUKAT Center (Poland) Library and Archives Canada National Széchényi Library (Hungary) RERO (Switzerland) Russian State Library [Currently in test] 24 11/2/2011 Trend 5 VIAF: Linked data Trend 5 VIAF: Linked data 25 11/2/2011 Trend 5 OCLC data and formats WorldCat MARC WorldCat Identities Dublin Core Terminologies XML Dewey Decimal Classification Knowledge Base WorldCat Registry Current authority control copies in well-formatted string of characters to the destination record/entry. Value proposition: Well-formatted data Rupert Murdoch Photo: ronkayela.com 26 11/2/2011 Outfoxed Rupert Murdoch’s war on With consistent & coherent data journalism infrastructure, headings have Business the Rupert Murdoch explicit navigational links that can Way… be exposed and traversed. The man who owns the news… … Works Australia Biography Rupert Murdoch News Corporation Broadcasting Geoff Pryor Fox News Fox News Mass media Newspaper Publishing James Murdoch … … Concepts Names (subset of links in WorldCat Identities) Copy string of characters and create Outfoxed Rupert Murdoch’s war on navigation links to “web of data”. journalism Business the Value Proposition: Rupert Murdoch Well-formatted data AND Way… Automatic data enrichment and navigation The man who owns the news… … Works Australia Biography Rupert Murdoch News Corporation Broadcasting Geoff Pryor Fox News Fox News Mass media Newspaper Publishing James Murdoch … … Concepts Names 27 11/2/2011 28 11/2/2011 29 11/2/2011 Thank You! 30.