Global Book Publication: Books as an Expression of Cultural Diversity

1. Global Book Publication: Books as an Expression of Cultural Diversity Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Researcher OCLC Research

2. Overview • Introduction to the Project • Research Results: • Publication profiles • Language data • Translation data • Next steps

3. Introduction: Genesis and Background of the Project

4. Genesis and Background of the Project • Interested in measures of cultural diversity: • UNESCO Institute for Statistics • IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Committee • ISO Global Library Statistics Project • Book and Media Studies School, Leiden • Index Translationum • UNESCO Division of Cultural Expressions & Creative Industries • 1932 - present

5. Genesis and Background of the Project

6. Genesis and Background of the Project

7. Genesis and Background of the Project • WorldCatTM and Global Book Data: • 200 million records, 1.63 billion holdings • Strongest in monographic records • 72,000 libraries • 171 countries • ~ 54% non-English cataloging • > 470 languages

8. WorldCat as an “Aggregate Collection“ • Data Mining can: • “…not only provide librarians data for decision-making for collection and service development, but also provide users with enhanced discovery and access methods.” • Connaway, L.S., & Dickey, T.J. (2008). Beyond data mining: Delivering the next generation of service from library data. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 1059-63 at 1062.

9. Project Objectives • Mine data from WorldCat’s monographic records • Parse the data: • Country of publication • Year of publication • Language use as a “measure of cultural diversity” • Seek patterns in the data

10. Project Objectives • Data limits: • Textual material, non-serial • Publication date numeric, < 2010 • Data extracted: • Published titles • Holdings – indigenous libraries and worldwide • Languages • Translation data

11. Project Objectives • Profiles of book publishing in six countries: • Bolivia, Chile, Germany, Poland, South Africa, Thailand • Data extraction in groups: • China, Columbia, Finland, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela • Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Korea(s), Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland • Etc.

12. Project Limitations • “As reflected in WorldCat” • Collection patterns • Cataloging practice • Definition of a book • Definition of a COUNTRY • Definition of a publishing date

13. National Publishing Profiles

14. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

15. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

16. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

17. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

18. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

19. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

20. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

21. Book Publishing Profiles: Publishing Output

22. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

23. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

24. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

25. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

26. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

27. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

28. Book Publishing Profiles: Language Data

29. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

30. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

31. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

32. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

33. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

34. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

35. Book Publishing Profiles: Translation Data

36. Next Steps • Refinements (always) to data extraction • Examine “foreign” holdings data • Map and graphical interface • Longitudinal data

37. Questions? • Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D. • dickeyt@oclc.org • www.oclc.org/research/projects/globalbooks/default.htm Special thanks to Jeremy Browning, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Michael Heaney, and Karen Smith-Yoshimura