Linking Data the ALM way- benefitting the community -

Boris Zetterlund, Prague, May 2011

Agenda

Views

Thoughts

Challenges

Why we should place our bets on David and not on Goliath

or

Why the local librarian trumps the CEO of OCLC, Europeana …

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jan2004/DavidGoliath.htm

The Culture Portal

One search to find it all

FindFind

Worldcat1067 hits

Swedish Film Institute

28 träffar

Stockholm Library65 hits

Film Encyclopedia 121 hits

Garbo-society

Greta Garbo

Archive

Museum

Data Layers

Library Services

Backends

Cost interest

Impact WEB

$

Overview LMS

LMS services• Vendors as we know them (Ex Libris, III, Axiell)• Local Authority ICT Portfolio (Civica, Capita)• Open Source (Koha, Evergreen, OLE)• State or ”non-taxed” systems (OCLC, DBC, BIBSYS)• ”NextGen Web Scale systems” (ALMA, OCLC, OLE, DBC)

- Cloud access- SOA, Web services build (WOA)- ERM Integrated- Digital from bottom up- Services open for external interaction- ”Cost effective”

Ex Libris

ALMA (URM)

OLEProject

OCLC Web-scale

Management Services

InnovativeSierra

WEB

Next Generation Public Interfaces- Find and Interact -

• Open Source (Sopac2)• State or ”non-taxed” institutions (DBC, ”OCLC”)• Vendors (LMS) (Axiell Arena, Infor Iguana, SirsiDynix Enterprise, III Encore, EL Primo)• CMS vendors• Media vendors (Overdrive, Elib, Gale, Ebsco)

The Values

Literacy• Digital Literacy

Identity• Personal development• Heritage knowledge• Cultural understanding

Work force development Business development Power of Place Third Place

Not dependent on individual economy

328 million visits in UK.

80 m in Sweden 40 m in

Denmark60 m in Finland

99€ month for communication and entertainment

99mb BroadbandTelephony9999 SMS99 TV Channels9 Movies99 MP3 E-books1 Coffe Table Book

The challenge

”Test TV, broadband, telephony and E-books in 3 months for 0 €”

The Quest

Local Library CatalogueLocal Archives DatabaseLocal Museum WebLocality informationRegional alternativesWorldCatEuropeanaEbsco/Proquest/Gale DatabasesDOAJ (free journals)

In one go? In two? In three?

From Searching to Finding

The Users

Wisdom of crowds (James Surowiecki)

• - failures like “smartest member”, conformity etc

Self expression

• ... is the new entertainment (Arianne Huffington)

Transparency/Accessibility

• From tip to place, weight, payments

• “still wet from the shower”

Self Sufficient Choice (comfort and speed)

App not web Fewer channels

The Treasures

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmae/126644558/

Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images Europe

Diagonalthoughts.com

From oblivion to experience- The Herring Tradition -

Neil MacGregor, British Museum

”The future has to be, without question, the museum as a publisher and broadcaster”

BAM, Germany

In the information society, it is not surprising that many call for libraries, archives and museums to merge into one digital memory institution, a single platform for cultural heritage online.

The Swedish Royal Library

The purpose with ALM cooperation is:• To increase the access to the collections• To improve the quality• More effective extension of the existing resources• To make the ALM institutions more powerful

The Heritage of Culture, DK

Our goal is that you only search one place, and the search machine will find all relevant information in all culture institutions’ databases

What lies ahead and how can it be solved?The ALM institutions already talk about ALM …

Report from Ålborg, DK

The tendency on the ALM area in several countries is a development away from sector devided and seperated institutions and instead focus on the endusers and their access to the institutions ’ services.

But it is not just talk ... ... we can see it in tenders

To develop the digital side of the John Gray Centre, we require:A user-friendly, web-based portal linked to an interactive map, whichthe public can use to search and cross-reference information held onthe databases (catalogues) of the different contributing services:Archaeology, Archives, Local History and Museums.

An attractive and easy-to-use website to house the portal and as timegoes on, additional educational, informative and interactive digitalresources. The portal needs to be search-engine optimised and mobilefriendly. It is a condition of the HLF funding that the portal should allowusers to add their own content and comments, and for the site to havestrong interactive elements.

A user-friendly, web-based portal

Search and cross-reference information

Search-engine optimised

Mobile friendly

Allow users to add their own content and comments

Strong interactive elements

The national library of Finland:The National Digital Library project will create a

national access point, the Public Interface for libraries, museums and archives to make their information resources accessible to the end-user.

The National Digital Library and Europeana are working in close collaboration. Collaboration will ensure that the essential materials in Finnish libraries, museums and archives will also be available through Europeana and those available through Europeana will also be available through the Finnish Public Interface.

But it is not just talk ... ... we can see it in tenders

A national access point

Make information resources accessible to the end-user

Collaboration

Available through Europeana

The Traces

We need well formatted sources to be able to go

from Finding to Presenting

different material from different sources

Eva Maler

Oasis? Data Well (Discovery platforms)

Infrastructure needs to canalize to and from

The Well – The Kiss of Death?

The local knowledge will always trump the generic

Really nice!!! Compliments(2 months ago | )

The Superior Knowledge

The Power of Control

What metadata does the library want to present?• …and how?What local services does the library want to couple

(mash up) with external metadata..• ..and what external services with local

metadata?What metadata..• ..should be coupled to searches in the libraries

website…• ..and to external or local Social Media

functionality?• ..should be available in the libraries mobile

phone solutions?• ..does the library want to stream to services in

the local civil society?• ..should be searchable together with metadata

from other cultural institutions in the locality?• ..can be used by the library patrons?• ..is available to partners• ..should be presented? in which order, which

form? Physical media, own digital collection, chosen electronic media, externally available media, national collections etc...

The local webThe only place where the locals and the local professionals can meet interactively and change ideas and competenceon local needs

Together Cultural Services are stronger

Archive Museum

Other

more value for less money

increased visibility

more customers

stronger position

better exposure

Library

Local Community Cooperation for Synergy

CHILDREN' SLIBRARY

CHILDREN' SLIBRARY

CULTURECENTER

CULTURECENTER

MUSEUMMUSEUM

READING GROUPSREADING GROUPS

SCHOOL LIBRARYSCHOOL LIBRARY

PUBLICLIBRARIES

PUBLICLIBRARIES

ARCHIVEARCHIVE

“ANYTHING” WITH A PROFILE

“ANYTHING” WITH A PROFILE

CULTURENET

(Powered by ?)

CULTURENET

(Powered by ?)

Interaction with CommunityInteraction with Community

Combine multi content with Community Competence

AUTHOR BIO

AUTHOR BIO

OTHER TITLES

BY SAME

AUTHOR

OTHER TITLES

BY SAME

AUTHOR

TOCTOC

SIMILAR TITLES/

SERENDIPITY

SIMILAR TITLES/

SERENDIPITY

TITLETITLE

REVIEWSREVIEWS

FIRST CHAPTERFIRST CHAPTER

TAGSTAGS

BUY THIS BOOKBUY THIS BOOK

Web Portal eContent Management

Web Portal Access Layers

Axiell Arena

Internet Integration Techniques

Mashups

Gadgets, Widgets

I-Frames

RSS

Apps

Arena Cloud Services

Arena Local Services

Web Layer

Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter

Business Logic

Index Logic FacetsRelevance0-hit”Title match”

Presentation Logic/Data Well

Web Layer Administration (CMS)

PORTLET

PORTLET

Portlet

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET

PORTLET Tags

CommentsRatings

AliasMyCollection

ArticlesImages

Local and External records (Lokal Collections, Links ...)

LIBRA

WEB

SERVICES

WEB SERVICES

Axiell ALMA Web Services

OG CALM ????????

OAI

Digital Repository- Fedora SW- Cloud HW

WEB

SERVICES

-LevelItem-RepositoryCity of Westminster Archives Centre-RefNoA05A2188-AltRefNoT138 Stratford Place (005)-UserText1-Accruals

-Arrangement

-SubjectStreet traders-SubjectWomen workers-SubjectWomens employment-SubjectWomen-SubjectCostume-SubjectOccupations-SubjectTrade-SubjectFood-SubjectFruit-PersonCodeNA315-PersonCodeDS/UK/927-Location

PersonKeyPhillips; Richard-PersonKeyCraig; William Marshall-PlaceKey-Extent-TitleStreet cries, baking or boiling apples - Shows a woman selling apples from a wheelbarrow in Stratford Place-Date1802-CONTENT-DescriptionPublished by Richard Phillips, 72 St Paul's Church Yard. Engraver William Marshall Craig-TypeArt print (line engraving)-RCNR64745-MgtGroupLocal studies-MgtSubGroup-ThumbnailA05A2188.jpg-ImageA05A2188.jpg-Notes

-Appraisal

Part of archival record

...arr name="targetAudience_view">  <str>a</str>   </arr>- <arr name="titleMain_index">  <str>Who controls the Internet?</str>   </arr>- <arr name="titleMain_view">  <str>Who controls the Internet?</str>   </arr>- <arr name="title_index">  <str>Who controls the Internet? illusions of a borderless world /</str>   </arr>  <str name="title_sort">who controls the internet?/goldsmith, jack l</str> - <arr name="title_uberkey">  <str>who controls the internet?</str>   </arr>- <arr name="title_view">  <str>Who controls the Internet?</str>   </arr>  <str name="uberkey">ff808181-2ff7ef73-012f-f80df223-0001</str>   </doc>…

Internal XML representation

External

Web Service

External

Web Service

External

Web Service

External

Web Service

External Web

Service

External Web

Service

Where do we go from here?

We are all connected - Linked Data will show it

Internet as a gigantic relational database

Everything related via ”field names”

Algorithms for interpretation

• Agreements?• Killer app?• No hands?• Interactivity?

• Agreements?• Killer app?• No hands?• Interactivity?

Library catalogues and encyclopedias can go hand in hand inthis

Location awareness LAN – help with building orientation

Library Services

Add/See ratings, reviews, similar titles

Bar Code Scanningcheapest available1:st chapter of E-book alternative

Music recognition – Does my library have this song on record

New books on previous search (via RSS)

Cover/Barcode scanning Nearest library/branch

QR code facilities (smart phones can use QR codes as is, for example on library leaflets and other library materials, we are here thinking of other useful implementations of it)

Geotagging - tag and read other tags about a location

“ in this place Joanna Doe murdered John Doe in Mrs N. Smiths novel “The Anonymous”.

BookDesire

First Choice (Libraries)

First choice for literacy (learn to read) First choice for reading experiences (read) First choice for learning support (educational development) First choice for digital competence Primary guide to information (at least when Google chokes) Creates contacts and knowledge with and about its community

Digital Central

Media

• Choice

• Control

• ERM external media

• Digitizing Local Media

• “Harvesting” metadata

• “Repository” metadata

• Linked Data

• Presentation

• Dialogue - Forum

Local collection

Programs

Document Community Life

Present

DIGITIZEDIGITIZE

The Libraries, Museums and Archives carry the Now into the Future

Publishing Role

From Library to Culture Portal

Servicing the city- a culture shop

with interactivity,indexed and catalogue integrated, thematically

orientated….

Your town has it!!

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Richard Florida (i “The Great Reset”, 2010) points out that local creativity among local people will be a decisive force in building strong communities/cities for the future economy.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mute.swan.flaps.arp.750pix.jpg

Centrally you create infrastructure. Locally you create.

Thanks for listening

Call me “Anytime at all”

Boris Zetterlund, bz@axiell.com