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Page 1: Metadata Support and Management Eric Childress Karen Smith-Yoshimura OCLC Research FutureCast, Washington D.C. 8 June 2011

Metadata Support and Management

Eric ChildressKaren Smith-Yoshimura

OCLC Research

FutureCast, Washington D.C.

8 June 2011

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Long-term, keep doing more with less

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US Academic Library Expenditures vs. Total Spending on Post-Secondary Education

Aggregate US Spending on Post-Secondary Education US Library Operating Exp. as % of Ed. Spending

$6.8 billion in 2008

OCLC Research. Derived from data reported in NCES Digest of Education Statistics: 2008.

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A limited population, growing economic pressure

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OCLC Research. Derived from data reported in NCES Digest of Education Statistics: 2008.

Increasing expense, decreasing purchasing power

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In US research libraries, a tipping point …

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OCLC Research. Derived from ARL Annual Statistics, 2007-2008

Majority of research libraries shifting toward e-centric acquisitions, service model

Shrinking pool of libraries with mission and resources to sustain print preservation as a ‘core’ operation

HarvardYale

Center of gravity

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The Semantic Web dream

“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers.” —Tim Berners-Lee

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Metadata Support and Management

Three broad groups of activities:• Classification & Controlled Vocabularies• Tools and Processes• Works-based and Other Special Views

Help define future research services System-wide efficiencies in library management Services where library users are

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Classification & Controlled Vocabularies

•Classify [leveraging WC to support classification assignment]

•FAST [LCSH into machine-friendly facets]

•Terminology Services [BISAC, MeSH, more vocabs rendered for machines]

•VIAF [one file from many national authority files]

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Tools and Processes

•FAST Converter [demo tool for LCSH-to-FAST conversion]

•Metadata Schema Transformation Services

[metadata crosswalking]

•Name Extraction [pulling names from text]

•Sharing and Aggregating Social Metadata

[exploring crowdsourcing]

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Works-based and Other Special Views

•MapFAST [About-place titles shown on a map]

•Work Records in WorldCat [1 rich page per work]

•WorldCat Genres [1 rich page per genre]

•WorldCat Identities [1 rich page per person/corporate body/fictional character]

•WorldCat Publisher Pages [1 rich page per publisher]

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mapFAST

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Work Records in WorldCat

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WorldCat Genres

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WorldCat Identities

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WorldCat Publisher Pages

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Networking Names

Basis: Networking Names Advisory Group developed use case scenarios and defined attributes of a “cooperative Identities Hub” (2009)

Reflected in EAC-CPF, NISO’s Institutional Identifiers, UK’s Names Project, WC Identities, VIAF

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One persona, many representations …

http://viaf.org/viaf/95216565

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Social Networks and Archival Context

socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/search

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http://www.fihrist.org.uk/

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Freebase also uses Linked Data

freebase.com

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Networking Names

Looking forward: Extensible VIAF: Pilot with Syriac studies scholars to edit and add Syriac-script names to VIAF

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Social Metadata

21-member working group from five countries

Identify success factors for tapping user contributions to augment and provide context to metadata created by libraries, archives, and museums

Reviewed 76 sites supporting social metadata; analyzed responses from 46 site managers to a survey

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Some recommendations

Differentiate creating communities around your organization and around your collections.

Leverage users’ enthusiasm to contribute.

Consider the trade-offs in using third-party hosted sites.

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Metadata Support and Management

• Classification & Controlled Vocabularies• Tools and Processes

Crowdsourcing and Collaboration

• Works-based and Other Special Views

What would you like OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership do next?

Help define future research services System-wide efficiencies in library management Services where library users are

Resourcing: Trends and patterns