collective data wells for social impact - local and national context: det danish scenario
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Presentation by Director of DBC's Bibliographic Division Carsten. H. Andersen at Next Library June 2013 on the Interactive Session: "Innovating on the collaborative: Using collective data wells for social impact".TRANSCRIPT
Local and national context: the Danish scenario
Innovating on the collaborative: using collective data wells for social impact
Carsten H. Andersen Director of Bibliographic Division, DBC
IFLA Bibliography Section Chair
DBC (Danish Bibliographic Centre)
• Limited company, not for profit
• Shareholders: the state & LGDK (Local Government Denmark)
• Staff: approx. 165
Major activities
• National bibliography & library
metadata enhancements: same
record, same process
• National infrastructure, union catalog:
– Danbib for library professionals
– Bibliotek.dk for end users
DBC – facilitating collaboration
Metadata creation and national infrastructure on behalf of the libraries
Annotations, subject headings etc.
National bibliography
National metadata collaboration
Union catalog
1 title = 1 record
record
Local ILS Local ILS
T!NG community • Open source • Open data • Generic discovery platform
o Input all kinds of data o Structurize, harmonize,
relate, make searchable o Output to all kinds of
interfaces
T!NG meets DBC
DBC Open Library Strategy • Migrate union catalog to SOA • Use open source, provide open source • Generic national infrastructure for LAM
o Data well o Web services
• WWW standards • To be used in local, consortial and
national contexts • Library focus on user interaction
DanBib (Union catalog)
Functionality
Metadata
Webservice Webservice
Webservice Web service
Data well
The data well
Structured data
Full text
Images
Audio
Video
Structurize Harmonize Relate Index
Data well
About the author
Literary analysis
The critics say
Play the video game
Watch the movie
Read the ebook
Listen to the audio book
About the subject
Listen to the soundtrack
Others, who borrowed…
User contributed
data
The data well - more than just bibliographic records …
Data well
Search
Web services – interacting with the data well
Format Resource sharing
Input Reference questions
User contributed data
ERM Universal
search
Configure 3. party repository
Data well
Search
A multipurpose infrastructure for application building
Format Resource sharing
Input Reference questions
User contributed data
ERM Universal
search
Configure 3. party repository
Build applications picking data sets and web services
SOA means cost effectiveness: pay once, reuse infinitely
The data well infrastructure is LMS vendor independent and open
… which means that all libraries can collaborate to achieve even more
Innovative projects become sustainable services, because they are based on
the national data well infrastructure
Collaboration also means sharing, and the data well serves as a data hub
Web services supports collaboration and integration beyond the library
community
The data well infrastructure – a national framework for collaboration
A multi purpose discovery platform
DanBib Union catalog for library professionals
Danish Digital Library
Moving to the data well
Data well
The data well serving as ILS back office catalog
DBC
Local ILS
Changing from metadata replication ….
Data well
The data well serving as ILS back office catalog
Local ILS
DBC … to true metadata
sharing
Catalogue webservice
Search webservice
Format webservice
Data well
Bibliographic records
OCLC control number
Close to real time syncronization with WorldCat
The data well and WorldCat