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Eye to the Telescope: Future-Gazing & Current Projects from OCLC Research

Eye to the Telescope: Future-Gazing & Current Projects from OCLC Research. SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting 12 May 2006 Atlanta, GA Eric Childress OCLC Research. Outline. The Big Picture Pattern Recognition Me, Mine, Ours Techscape Library 2.0 Selected OCLC Research work.

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Eye to the Telescope: Future-Gazing & Current Projects from OCLC Research

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  1. Eye to the Telescope: Future-Gazing & Current Projects from OCLC Research SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting 12 May 2006 Atlanta, GA Eric Childress OCLC Research

  2. Outline • The Big Picture • Pattern Recognition • Me, Mine, Ours • Techscape • Library 2.0 • Selected OCLC Research work

  3. Pattern recognition • Production anywhere, Global distribution • Make products anywhere, ship them everywhere • Offshore business processes & research centers • Big brands & mini channels • Mega-publishers, -media, -retailers, -search engines • Niche markets exploited via AdWords & affiliate programs • Self-service, micro-consumption • The “convenience” society – 24x7 stores, ATMs, click-n-buy • Disaggregation – consume by the news story, song, etc. • Intellectual property issues • Big business not-so-secretly wants all transactions billable • Open Source & Open Content rising (e.g., Apache, Creative Commons)

  4. Me, mine, ours • Portable devices, digital content, interactive Net • Devices (iPods, now with video; Are iPhones next?) • Audio (Ringtones, iTunes, Podcasts) & Video (Vlogs, Google) • Online gaming, VOIP, chat • Individual-driven content rising: • Personal web pages/Blogs (a new one each second!) • Digital images/video (flickr, Picasa, YouTube) • Bookmarks, etc. (e.g., del.icio.us, furl, digg, technorati) • The Network as community • Community authorship, open content (Wikipedia) • Myspace, Facebook, etc. personal presence services

  5. Blog Trends Source: David Sifry

  6. Techscape • Web 2.0: • The Network spans all attached devices (e.g., iPods, phones, etc.) • Software resides on the Net, not the workstation • “Participative Net” – social environment, shared content reused • Everywhere Net • Internet, GPS, cellphone, municipal wireless… • System refactoring • Modularity (micro-services, remixing, multiple sources) • Layering (loosely-coupled systems) • Interoperability (low-friction, high reuse) • Lightweight protocols gaining favor (e.g., SRW/SRU, microformats) • Machine-oriented services (web services)

  7. Libraries: Re-thinking, re-engineering • Library 2.0 changes systems & services • Modularity in systems & data • Integration of data from many sources • User contributed content • Supporting Library 2.0 will mean changing organizations & operations • More people space, fewer bookshelves • Process & operational changes • Point-of-need delivery (library in other systems) • Surfacing: Open WorldCat, RedLightGreen, OAIster, etc.

  8. Selected OCLC Research work • Making data work harder • FictionFinder – browse/search all fiction works in WorldCat • DeweyBrowser – Dewey-based visualization of WorldCat, more • xISBN – send OCLC an ISBN, receive all ISBNs for the same work

  9. Thank you “I used to talk, With honest conviction, Of how I predicted my world. I'm gonna leave it to stargazers, Tell me what your telescope says.” - K.T. Tunstall (“Through the Dark”)

  10. Further reading • OCLC Reports • http://www.oclc.org/reports • OCLC Research • http://www.oclc.org/research • OCLC-related blogs: • Lorcan Dempsey http://orweblog.oclc.org • Thom Hickey http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing • Stu Weibel http://weibel-lines.typepad.com • It’s All Good http://scanblog.blogspot.com

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