Rome, 27 February 2014
Rise and fall of the
cataloguer’s empire: a
changing landscape
Daniel van Spanje
Senior productmanager metadata services
OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands
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– http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/virtual/discovery/
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The online information industry
remote user devices were Acoustic Couplers
that accepted a standard GPO handset
placed into foam cups ….
This link worked at an amazing 110 baud
and these devices were the wonder of the
age at the time.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/publicity/oucs-news-trinity-2010.xml?ID=du-history
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Web scale discovery services
• “tools that search seamlessly acrosss a wide
range of local and remote content and provide
relevance-ranked results”
• “have the ambitious goal of providing a single
point of entry into a library’s collection”
Marshall Breeding, january 14, 2014 – 18:37, in: americanlibrariesmagazine.org
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The web
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The catalogue: characteristics
• Discovery happens at the library
– The physical library
– The online catalog
• Collection centered
• Item
Workoriented
oriented
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Web-scale discovery services
• Discovery happens at the online library
• From collection to connection
• Subject and discipline oriented
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The web
• Discovery happens outside the library
• From connection to navigation and linking
• Context oriented
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Centralized
PhysicalCatalogue searching LocalOutside-in
Item / work
Subject
Context
Decentralized
Digital Discovery
GlobalInside-out
searching
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Metadata management proces
Item
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Cataloguer
Catalogue
Metadata management proces
OPAC
Item
IT
staff
“Cataloguer”
Bibliografic
records
Authority control
Item records
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Discovery
Web
Metadata management proces
IT
staff
E-journals
Collection
Metadata
Cataloguer
manager
Bibliografic records
Identifier control
Holding and URL
Knowledge
control
base
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OPAC
IT
staff
Discovery
Web
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Metadata management proces
IT
staff
Library
materials
Metadata /
Collection
manager
Bibliografic records
Identifier control
Holding
URL control
and URL
Knowledge
control
baseIT
OPAC
IT
staff
Discovery
staff
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Web
The fundamental question
How to connect users to library collections
on the web?
How to expose library collections on the
web?
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What the Web
wants
Some things
the web wants:
1.
Size
2.
Familiar structures
3.
A network of links
4.
Entity identifiers
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Examples of library initiatives
 Developing linked data initiatives by moving away from
managing records to managing entities
Examples:
 VIAF
LIBRARY
 Dewey.info
 Schema.org exposure
LIBRARY
 Bibliographic Framework Initiative
LIBRARY
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schema.org
LIBRARY
Examples of library initiatives
The BIBFRAME Model
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Library data stored as records
person
place
author
location
edition
title
holding
source
object
concept
classification
publisher
ISBN
date of publication
organization
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work
Building a library knowledge graph
person
place
object
concept
organization
work
Field in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph
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Field in a record vs. entity in a knowledge graph
person
Martin Heidegger
this copy of
object “What
is a thing”
library
organization
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place
Germany
Metaphysicsconcept
expression
“Die Frage
nach dem Ding”
“What is a thing”
work
Results
IT specialist
on indexing
and ranking
Knowledge
Base
Item
E-collections
Metadata
Cataloguer
manager
Catalogue
Discovery
person
author location
title
edition
holding source
classification
publisher ISBN
place
object
concept
date of publication
organization
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work
Our challenges
• The focus of many libraries shifts from acquiring externally created content
toward disclosing internally curated assets! Think of special collections,
data sets, MOOCs and online education. If we are not “cataloguing”
anymore, we definitely cannot stop doing metadatamanagement?
• Cataloguing needs to change from record management to entity
management! And we need persistent identifiers for these entities. We
need to develop new workflows. Will this be a new metadata creation
process (“catalinking”) or just another way of metadata exposure?
• We need to look at the whole process: focus on the enduser on the web
but also involve the supply chain of vendors, distributors and publishers. Is
there a link between Entity management and e.g., Demand Driven
Acquisition?
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Rome, 27 February 2014
Rise and fall of the
cataloguer’s empire: a
changing landscape
Daniel van Spanje
Senior productmanager metadata services
OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Thank you!