The new environment of description

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The new environment of description

• Lorcan Dempsey
• PCC Policy and Steering Committee
• ALA Midwinter, Seattle
• January 21 2007

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1. Prelude examples of making
   data work harder

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Prototype not yet released
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Overview

• Description
• DiscoveryDisclosure

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1. Description

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Licences, policies
Information objects
Databases
Collections
Institutions
Services
People
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stewardship
high
low
Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD,
DVD Maps Scores
Freely-accessible web resources Open source
software Newsgroup archives
low
uniqueness

• Research and learning materials
• ePrints/tech reports
• Learning objects
• Courseware
• E-portfolios
• Research data

Special collections Rare books Local/Historical
newspapers Local history materials Archives
Manuscripts, Theses dissertations
high
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• Print collections
• Storage, digitization, resourcesharing
• ERM
• Knowledge bases

Ingest into local collections
New behaviors and support for research and
learning Digital record more
important(prospectus, course catalog, student
records)
Focus of much digital library activity. Archival
practices.
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Special primary materials?
Curatorial responsibility for more unique
materials? Selectively capture and manage parts
of the web?

• Examples
• Thematic research collection
• Curated databases
• Political websites

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Managing digital?
An archival perspective? Provenance Evidential
integrity Versioning
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eprints
Powell and Allison
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/
Model
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OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
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University of Minnesota http//www.lib.umn.edu/abo
ut/mellon/KM20JStor20Presentation.pps
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Folks want to get, link, share, createpersonal,
research and learning environments
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Mature?

• Institutional maturity an industry and
  cooperative structures
• Libraries organized around owned materials.
• Emerging techniques for licensed materials being
  put in place
• Under construction
• ERM/Knowledge base vs ILS/catalog over time?

• Institutional immaturity
• Organizational models for collective
• activity, reducing costs, etc,
• in development.
• Commodity systems not available
• Expensive

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Metadata?

MARC MODS Onix
Vernacular Domain-specific
approaches DC IEEE LOM
DC (simple/qualified) EAD/DACS VRA/CCO MARC AMC
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Community?
EAD, MARC AMC, ..
MARC, MODS, DC, RSLP, ..
TIAA CREF,
Onix,
MPEG, JPEG,
XML, RDF, OWL,
CSDGM, DDI, NBII, IVOA,
EGMS, AGLS, GILS,
GEM, DC-ED, IEEE-LOM, SCORM,
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Simple descriptive metadata!!
AACR CCO DACSControlled vocabs.
FRBRINDECSCIDOC
MARC21 DC VRA CoreMODSOnix
XML ISO2709
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Some issuesthe lake is becoming more like a
river

• Think about mass digitization
• Versions
• Rights
• Relationships
• Think about selection for mass digitization/off-si
  te storage
• Systemwide data
• Last copy
• Think about next generation catalog
• Control for facets
• Control for FRBR
• Membersip of sets

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Some issuesdigital environment

• Describe parts (front of page 23) and whole and
  relationships
• Articulation with user contributed materials (way
  of sharing)

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Some issuesclassic cataloging

• A smaller part of the collection?
• RDA/MARC/FRBR separate organizational and
  development paths a barrier?
• More selection from controlled lists?
• Consistency of data

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1. Discovery and disclosure

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The world has changed
There was no need or room for marketing. For many
years, Chinese people cited a proverb if the
wine smells really wonderful, customers will come
in spite of the length of the lane. Such an
approach was not applicable in today's business
world. When red is black. New York Soho Press
inc., 2004. p. 140
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Discovery and disclosure

• Improve the discovery experience
• Put the discovery experience where users are
  (disclosure)
• Whole-library discovery and disclosure experience?

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Discovery catalog

• Local Catalog Discovery Environments
• Next generation catalog discussion
• Combine access over local collections
• NCSU, Primo, WorldCat
• Shared Catalog Discovery Environments
• OhioLink, WorldCat,
• Syndicated Catalog Discovery Environments
• Google, Academic Live,
• The Leveraged Discovery Environment

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• Firefox extension
• Web services
• xISBN
• University of Huddersfield catalogue

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Futures

• More acquisition of catalogue data upstream
• More automated creation of metadata from digital
  materials
• Common metadata creation environments (across
  resource types)
• More structured data machine-processable,
  identifiers, supply chain, shared inventory
  management,
• Less discretion,
• Make data work harder