Towards  a  Cloud  Library  (not  a  technical  talk)  

Rachel  L.  Frick  Director,  Digital  Library  Federa>on  

Council  on  Library  and  Informa>on  Resources  October  15,  2010  

 

Towards  a  Global  Cloud  Library  

•  Introduc>on  •  Up  to  now  •  Defining  “Libraries  at  Scale”  •  Collabora>on  –  the  necessary  ingredient  •  Workflows    •  Wrap  up  and  ques>ons  

COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES

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1997:  created  as  a  merger  between  Council  on  Library  Resources,(est.1956,  CLR)  and  the    Commission  on  Preserva>on  and  Access,  (est.  1985,  CPA)      1995:  Digital  Library  Federa>on  was  established  as  a  part  of  CPA    2010:  DLF  returns  as  a  Program  of  CLIR  

1995  –  The  Digital  Library  Federa>on  Bibliotheca  Alexandrina  California  Digital  Library  Carnegie  Mellon  University  Clemson  University  Columbia  University  Cornell  University  Dartmouth  College  Emory  University  Florida  Center  for  Library  Automa>on  George  Washington  University  Harvard  University  Indiana  University  Johns  Hopkins  University  Library  of  Congress  Los  Alamos  Na>onal  Laboratory  Massachuseas  Ins>tute  of  Technology  Na>onal  Archives  at  College  Park  Na>onal  Library  of  Medicine  New  York  Public  Library  New  York  University  North  Carolina  State  University  Libraries  Pennsylvania  State  University,  University  

Libraries  Princeton  University  Library  Rhodes  College  Rice  University  Smithsonian  Ins>tu>on  Libraries  Stanford  University  Texas  A  &  M  The  University  of  Tennessee  University  of  Arizona  University  of  California,  Berkeley  University  of  California,  Los  Angeles  University  of  California,  San  Diego  University  of  Chicago  Library  University  of  Florida  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-­‐Champaign  University  of  Kentucky  University  of  Maryland  University  of  Michigan  University  of  Minnesota  University  of  North  Texas  University  of  Pennsylvania  University  of  Southern  California  

University  of  Texas  at  Aus>n  University  of  Utah  University  of  Virginia  University  of  Washington    Yale  University  Library  Allies  RLG  Programs  Coali>on  for  Networked  Informa>on  (CNI)  Inter-­‐University  Consor>um  for  Poli>cal  and  Social  Research  (ICPSR)  Joint  Informa>on  Systems  Commiaee  (JISC)    OCLC  Online  Computer  Library  

2011:  DLF  Community  

DLF  

Execu>ve  Leadership  and  Administra>on  

Scholarship  Teaching  Learning  

Industry  Technical  Communi>es  

Professional  Development  

Macro  Solu>ons:  “Common  to  these  efforts  will  be  developing  strong  regional  coali>ons  that  bring  together  diverse  ins>tu>ons  within  a  na>onal  framework;  federa>ng  shared  resources  and  interests,  including  collec>ons,  technology,  and  exper>se;  and  crea>ng  a  genuine,  voli>onal  dependency  on  other  par>cipa>ng  ins>tu>ons  for  the  provision  of  what  was  once  a  locally  owned  and  managed  asset.  We  are  calling  these  collabora>ve  projects  macro  solu*ons.”    

CLIR  Annual  Report,  2009-­‐2010,  p.  3    

Dempsey:    Taxonomy  of  Scale  

•   Ins>tu>on  Scale:  – Within  an  Ins>tu>on  /  Local  Target  

 •   Group  Scale:  –  Supra-­‐Ins>tu>onal  /    corresponding  groups  

 •  Web  Scale  –  Networked  level  /  poten>al  for  all  users  

     

 

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Collabora>on:  Inter-­‐Library  Loan  Common  Interest  /  Group  Scale  

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Waibel:    Collabora>on  Con>nuum  

•   Groups:  Common  Interests  •   Groups:  Common  Values    •  Convergence    

hap://www.oclc.org/research/publica>ons/library/2010/2010-­‐09.pdf  

Collabora>on:    Common  Interest  

•  Open-­‐source  solware  development  •  Subject-­‐based  data  aggrega>ons  •  Shared  technological  plamorms  such  as  HathiTrust  

 

Collabora>on  Con>nuum  

•   Groups:  Common  Interests  •   Groups:  Common  Values    •  Convergence    

hap://www.oclc.org/research/publica>ons/library/2010/2010-­‐09.pdf    

Collabora>on:    Common  Values  •   Standards  •  Data  Aggrega8ons  •  Open  Access:  Open  Data          

Open  Knowledge  Founda>on      hap://okfn.org/  

Collabora>on  Con>nuum  

•   Groups:  Common  Interests  •   Groups:  Common  Values    •  Convergence    

hap://www.oclc.org/research/publica>ons/library/2010/2010-­‐09.pdf  

Network  Effect:  Legacy  Print  Archives  Cloud-­‐sourcing  Research  Collec>ons  hap://www.oclc.org/research/publica>ons/library2011/2011-­‐01.pdf  

 

 

Network  Effect:  Omeka  

 

Omeka  is  a  project  of  the  Center  for  History  and  New  Media,  George  Mason  University.  Omeka  and  the  Omeka  logo  are  registered  trademarks.  Copyright  ©  2007–2011  CHNM.  

Network  Effect:  HubZero  

 

M.  McLennan,  R.  Kennell,  "HUBzero:  A  Plamorm  for  Dissemina>on  and  Collabora>on  in  Computa>onal  Science  and  Engineering,"  Compu>ng  in  Science  and  Engineering,  12(2),  pp.  48-­‐52,  March/April,  2010.  

Scholarship  Social  Networks  

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Bollen  J,  Van  de  Sompel  H,  Hagberg  A,  Beaencourt  L,  Chute  R,  et  al.  2009  Clickstream  Data  Yields  High-­‐Resolu>on  Maps  of  Science.  PLoS  ONE  4(3):  e4803.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803    

Thank  You!  

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