In the flow: from discovery to disclosure

1. In the flow:from discovery to disclosure Lorcan Dempsey CIC March 19 2007

3. Environment • Scholarly information flow • An example: the catalog

4. Environment: The network rewrites behaviors

5. A few things…. • Workflow and Attention • Aggregation of demand and supply: the long tail

6. ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library?

7. University of Minnesota http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps

8. Netvibes, onfolio, my yahoo, myspace, RSS aggregator, … Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Database > website > workflow ‘getting things done’

10. Workflow • Then • Users built workflow around the library • Now • The library must build its services around user workflow Get into the flow Disclose into other environments

11. Attention • Then • Resources scarce, attention abundant • Now • Attention scarce, resources abundant Competition for attention

12. Impact? Long tail information providers Systemwide efficiences • Aggregation of supply • Unified discovery • Low transaction costs • Aggregation of demand • Mobilize users • Brand Network evolution?

13. Collections and scholarly information flow

14. Metasearch Resolver Catalog Repositories … Digital Research&learning outputs Licensed Print ERM Knowledgebase … Repositories … ILS

15. Consumer environment … Management environment

16. Network level workflow Google, … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … library Consumer environments Management environment Bought Licensed Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing

17. scholarly information flow? Discovery, harvesting Discovery,linking,embedding aggregators Harvesting data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling learning object creation, re-use Learning & teaching Research & e-science Deposit,self archiving Deposit,self archiving Repositories Validation Publish, discovery Discovery,linking,embedding Data creation, capture and gathering:lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … peer-reviewed journals,conferences, … Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Adapted with permission from Liz LyonseBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36, 2003. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/lyon/ A&I services

18. scholarly information flow? Discovery, harvesting Discovery,linking,embedding aggregators Harvesting data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling learning object creation, re-use Learning & teaching Research & e-science Deposit,self archiving Deposit,self archiving Repositories Validation Publish, discovery Discovery,linking,embedding Data creation, capture and gathering:lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … peer-reviewed journals,conferences, … Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Adapted with permission from Liz LyonseBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36, 2003. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/lyon/ A&I services

19. scholarly information flow? Discovery, harvesting Discovery,linking,embedding aggregators Harvesting data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling learning object creation, re-use Learning & teaching Research & e-science Deposit,self archiving Deposit,self archiving Repositories Validation Publish, discovery Discovery,linking,embedding Data creation, capture and gathering:lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … peer-reviewed journals,conferences, … Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Adapted with permission from Liz LyonseBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36, 2003. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/lyon/ A&I services

20. scholarly information flow? Discovery, harvesting Discovery,linking,embedding aggregators Harvesting data analysis, transformation, mining,modeling learning object creation, re-use Learning & teaching Research & e-science Deposit,self archiving Deposit,self archiving Repositories Validation Publish, discovery Discovery,linking,embedding Data creation, capture and gathering:lab experiments, fieldwork, surveys, grids, media, … peer-reviewed journals,conferences, … Courses, modules, Learning management systems, learning portals, … Adapted with permission from Liz LyonseBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning. Ariadne 36, 2003. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/lyon/ A&I services

21. The network rewrites the library: The catalog, discovery and disclosure

22. Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html

23. Discovery: focus on catalog with some related … • Local Discovery Environments • Shared Discovery Environments • Syndicated Discovery Environments • Leveraged Discovery Environments

24. Local Discovery environment • Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations • ‘Make data work harder’ • Integrate consumer environment • Escape from ILS limitations • NCSU • Rochester • SOLR • Worldcat 2.0 • Primo • Encore …

28. Some remarks • Unified? • How does MARC data play with other data • Subjects, authors, .. • Historic investment in structure? • Duplicate cost? • Relationship to Metasearch?

29. Shared discovery environment • Increase impact • Create gravitational pull • Aggregate demand and supply • Unified discovery • Reduce transaction costs • Reach more users • Stronger brand • Reduce costs

32. Some comments • Integration of discovery 2 delivery becoming essential • A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels • Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections • Growing evidence • Discovery at the group ‘network level’

33. Syndicated discovery experience • Syndicate data or service or links

39. RSS Portlets APIs, Protocol-based Projects Sakailibrary … Syndicating services Not as rapid as one might expect?

41. Syndicating links

43. Some remarks • Syndication of data now common among data providers • Routing issue for non-unique materials • Resolution • Worldcat • Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting • Google Scholar

44. Service disclosure less common Different levels of integration: APIs Web services Portlets HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’ Toolbars Widgets, extensions, … But should become much more common … Cf Amazon Web Services At what level and where?

45. The Leveraged discovery experience • In some ways the most interesting • Use another discovery service to connect back to your resources • Compare to the situation with article databases and resolvers

48. Some remarks • Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a direction • Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure (microformats) will improve ability.

49. So …. • The library website is not the front door • We need to connect multiple discovery environments to library fulfilment options • We need to put library resources in users’ workflow • We need to place library resources in places which aggregate demand

50. For many years, Chinese people cited a proverb: if the wine smells really wonderful, customers will come in spite of the length of the lane.