LOCAL NEEDS,
SHARED SOLUTIONS:
ASPECTS OF COLLABORATION
C h ew C h i a t N a un
H e a ds o f
C a t a l oging
In te re s t G ro up
ALA An n ua l
C o n fe renc e
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DISCLAIMERS
Reality is complex
Speculation, not research
Bread and butter issues
Not specifically about 2CUL
SHARED PRODUCTION WORK
Predicated on overlapping collections
Common standards
Integrated processes
Shared values
COLLECTION TRENDS
VALUES
Free rider problem
“Open access”
Workflows
Incentives?
Purpose of utilities
FORMAL COLLABORATIONS,
VENDOR SERVICES
FORMAL COLLABORATIONS,
VENDOR SERVICES
Long tail problem
Other ways to distribute work
2CUL and Cornell examples
How to pay for work is crucial
OUTSOURCING
Attitudes very dependent on local situation
Reasons for sharing vendors
 Economies of scale, stability
 Don’t have to keep reinventing processes
 Well understood business model
 Locating, hiring, compensating staff
Consider broader range of services
Progress depends on building relationships
STANDARDS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT
Are cataloguing standards lining up with
objectives?
Unresolved issues in RDA
Implementation issues
Timeframes
CATALOGUING STANDARDS
Other ways to do standards?
Devolve decisionmaking
Role of specialist communities
Relevant developments:
Open Metadata Registry
OCLC WorldCat Works
FRBR IN THE REAL WORLD
OCLC WORKS
“SHARING OUTWARDS”
“Build to share” principle
Example is shared code
Pioneering ventures (e.g. NCSU Endeca)
Two current Cornell projects
 PubMed/HathiTrust
 FAST
PUBMED/HATHITRUST LINKING
FAST
(FACETED APPLICATION OF SUBJECT
TERMINOLOGY)
Multiple objectives
 Use for faceting in discovery system
 Lightweight controlled subject vocabulary for MARC
cataloguing
 “Linked data ready”
Collaboration with OCLC Research
 Workflow (e.g. maintenance)
 Vocabulary development (e.g. local extensions )
QUESTIONS?
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