Download - OCLC Research: an update
OCLC ResearchOCLC Research
• Mission
• Emphasis
• Perceptions
Systems and interaction design
Interoperability Managementintelligence
Metadatamanagement
Knowledgeorganization
Contentmanagement
Systems and interaction design
Interoperability
Dublin Core
ZING … SRU/SRW
IMS
OAI - PMH
Visualization Support
Management intelligenceManagement intelligence
Under constructionUnder construction
Explore how to support management decisions by making
better use of available data.
Interlibrary Loan StudyInterlibrary Loan Study
• Compare interlibrary loan borrowing patterns within a consortium
– Begin with OhioLink
• Compare netLibrary holdings to titles borrowed through interlibrary loan
Collection AssessmentCollection Assessment
• Analyze and compare aggregate WorldCat holdings for libraries
– ARL
– Academic, non-ARL
– Public
– Identify titles and their intellectual levels, subjects (using conspectus), and publishers
User Behavior StudyUser Behavior Study
• Identify how print book and eBooks are used
– Focus group interviews
– Individual interviews
– Transaction log analysis
Metadata switchMetadata switch
Under constructionUnder construction
Explore a set of services which add value to metadata by leveraging OCLC expertise and cooperative
processing model.
SOAP
Javascript /HTTP
Z39.50
RDN
gateway/portal
service
RDN
gateway/portal
serviceRDNGateway
E-prints UKE-prints UK
Institutional
e - print
archives
Personal
e - print
archives
OAI - PMH
E-Prints UK
Non - institutional
e - print
archives
Subject
classification
service
Name
authority
service
Citation
analysis
service
SOAP
Emerging technologies provide opportunities for new servicesEmerging technologies provide opportunities for new services
• Tools and features previously available only in integrated systems can now be provided as 'web services'
• “network accessible application components”
• “interoperable building blocks for constructing applications”
• “self-describing applications that can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications”
• Technical definition– Web Services are a suite of protocols that define
how requests and responses between software applications should be encoded & transferred over the web
Aggregationand fusion
Schematransformation Names
Terminologyservices
Aggregation and fusionAggregation and fusion
• OAI
• Theses
• ??
• Fusion
Record enhancementRecord enhancement
Terminology servicesTerminology services
• Methods effective for print, unlikely to be the same techniques used for digital documents
• Need to determine role of knowledge organization (KO) resources in relation to new approaches
• Authority files
• Subject heading systems and thesauri
• Classification schemes
Terminology resources are currently embedded in systems & servicesTerminology resources are currently embedded in systems & services
• OCLC Connexion
– Provides access to several KO schemes & links among schemes
• Dewey, LCSH, Name authorities
– Automated application tools
• Harvest & record creation
• Classification
• Control of names, subjects, class numbers
Need more flexible, modular knowledge organization servicesNeed more flexible, modular knowledge organization services
• For example, one set of requirements:– Automatically check name and subject
authorities
– Automatically supply Dewey Decimal Classification numbers based on subject entries
– On-demand check of subject and name authorities in non-OCLC record sources
– Authorities notification service
– Improve record quality/completeness
Knowledge Organization ServicesKnowledge Organization Services
KOSchemes
NameAuthority
Files
DDC
LCSH
Classification•Auto-class•Number verification•Captions•Associated Terms•Updates
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Authority Control•Auto-assign•Name/Subject validation•Associated Classes•Authorities notification
Record Enrichment•Classes•Subjects•Names•Summaries
OCLC Web Services DemoOCLC Web Services Demo
Rare and endangered animals
Rare and endangered species
Prototypes & Demonstration projects Prototypes & Demonstration projects
• Prototype
– LCCN Web Service Demo (previous slide)
• OCLC & Northwestern University
– DDC number verification for Cataloger's Toolkit for Voyager ILS
• eprints-UK
– OCLC will supply subject descriptions & name authorities as Web services for harvested resources
Schema transformation servicesSchema transformation services
• Accept metadata in one schema and return metadata in another schema
NamesNames
• Accept a name and return
– Authoritative version of the name
– Cluster of related names
Content managementContent management
Under constructionUnder construction
Make a leading contribution to the economic and engineering
issues facing the digital preservation community.
Digital preservationDigital preservation
• OCLC/RLG collaboration
• Moving from a consensus making phase to an implementation phase
• Real economic and engineering issues being addressed
EconomicsEconomics
• White paper
Digital preservation .. engineeringDigital preservation .. engineering
• Research fellow
• Digital coop
