Rise and fall of the cataloguer’s empire: a changing landscape

1. Rise and fall of the cataloguer’s empire: a changing landscape Daniel van Spanje Senior productmanager metadata services OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands Rome, 27 February 2014

2. The paradigm shift

4. http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/virtual/discovery/

5. The online informationindustry remote user deviceswereAcousticCouplersthataccepted a standard GPO handset placedintofoam cups …. This link worked at anamazing 110 baud and these deviceswere the wonder of the age at the time. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/publicity/oucs-news-trinity-2010.xml?ID=du-history

6. Web scalediscovery services • “toolsthat search seamlesslyacrosss a wide range of local and remote content and provide relevance-rankedresults” • “have the ambitious goal of providing a single point of entry into a library’scollection” MarshallBreeding, january 14, 2014 – 18:37, in: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

11. The web

19. The catalogue: characteristics • Discovery happens at the library • The physicallibrary • The online catalog • Collectioncentered • Item oriented • Workoriented

20. Web-scalediscovery services • Discovery happens at the online library • Fromcollection to connection • Subject and discipline oriented

21. The web • Discovery happens outside the library • Fromconnection to navigation and linking • Context oriented

22. Physical • Item / work • Subject • Context • Digital

23. Metadata management proces Cataloguer Item Catalogue

24. Metadata management proces Item OPAC IT staff Bibliografic records Authority control Item records “Cataloguer” Discovery Web

25. Metadata management proces IT staff E-journals OPAC Bibliografic records Identifier control Holding and URL control IT staff Collection manager Cataloguer Metadata manager Knowledge base Discovery Web

27. Metadata management proces IT staff Library materials OPAC Bibliografic records Identifier control URL control Bibliografic records Identifier control Holding and URL control IT staff Metadata / Collection manager Knowledge base Discovery IT staff Web

28. The fundamental question How to connect users to library collections on the web? How to expose library collections on the web?

29. What the Web wants Some things the web wants: • Size • Familiar structures • A network of links • Entity identifiers

30. Examples of library initiatives LIBRARY LIBRARY • Developing linked data initiatives by moving away from managing records to managing entities Examples: • VIAF • Dewey.info • Schema.org exposure • Bibliographic Framework Initiative schema.org LIBRARY LIBRARY

31. Examples of library initiatives The BIBFRAME Model

32. Library data stored as records person place author author location location title edition title holding holding source object concept classification classification ISBN publisher publisher date of publication organization work

33. Building a libraryknowledgegraph person place object concept organization work Field in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph

34. Field in a record vs. entity in a knowledgegraph person place Martin Heidegger Germany this copy of“What is a thing” Metaphysics object concept “Die Fragenachdem Ding” expression “What is a thing” library organization work

35. Results Knowledge Base IT specialist on indexing and ranking person place Item Catalogue E-collections Discovery Cataloguer Metadata manager author location title edition holding source classification concept object ISBN publisher date of publication work organization

36. Ourchallenges • The focus of many libraries shifts from acquiring externally created content toward disclosing internally curated assets! Think of special collections, data sets, MOOCs and online education. If we are not “cataloguing” anymore, we definitely cannot stop doing metadatamanagement? • Cataloguing needs to change from record management to entity management! And we need persistent identifiers for these entities. We need to develop new workflows. Will this be a new metadata creation process (“catalinking”) or just another way of metadata exposure? • We need to look at the whole process: focus on the enduser on the web but also involve the supply chain of vendors, distributors and publishers. Is there a link between Entity management and e.g., Demand Driven Acquisition?

37. Thankyou! Rise and fall of the cataloguer’s empire: a changing landscape Daniel van Spanje Senior productmanager metadata services OCLC Leiden – The Netherlands Rome, 27 February 2014