# Presentation: 213787

## The new environment of description

**Lorcan Dempsey**
**PCC Policy and Steering Committee**
**ALA Midwinter, Seattle **
**January 21 2007**

## Slide 2

-  Prelude: examples of                ‘making data work               harder’ ...

## Prototype – not yet released

**Prototype – not yet released**

## Overview

- Description
- Discovery&Disclosure

-  Description ...

## Collections

**Collections**

**Databases**

**Services**

**Institutions**

**People**

**Licences, policies**

**Information objects**

- high

- low

- low

- high

- stewardship

- uniqueness

**Books**
**Journals**
- Newspapers
- Gov. docs
- CD, DVD
- Maps
- Scores

**Special ****collections**
- Rare books
- Local/Historical      newspapers
- Local history materials
- Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations

- ePrints/tech reports
- Learning objects
- Courseware
- E-portfolios
- Research data

**Freely-accessible web resources**
- Open source software
- Newsgroup archives

- Ingest into
- local collections

- Print collections
- Storage, digitization, resourcesharing ...
- ERM
- Knowledge bases

- Focus of much digital
- library activity.
- Archival practices.

- New behaviors and
- support for research
- and learning
- Digital ‘record’
- more important(prospectus, course
- catalog, student records)

## Special: primary materials?

**Curatorial **
**responsibility for**
**more unique materials****?**
**Selectively capture**
**and manage parts of**
**the web?**

**Examples**
**Thematic research collection**
**Curated databases**
**Political websites**

## Managing digital?

**An archival perspective****?**
**Provenance**
**Evidential integrity**
**Versioning**

## eprints

**Powell and Allison**

**http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Model**

## OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

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

## Folks want to get, link, share, create:personal, research and learning environments

## Mature?

- Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures
- Libraries organized around ‘owned’ materials.
- Emerging techniques for licensed materials being put in place
- Under construction
- ERM/Knowledge base vs ILS/catalog over time?

- Institutional immaturity
- Organizational models for collective
- activity, reducing costs, etc,
- in development.
- Commodity systems not available
- Expensive

## Metadata?

**MARC**
**MODS**
**Onix**

**DC (simple/qualified)**
**EAD/DACS**
**VRA/CCO**
**MARC AMC**

**‘****Vernacular’**
**Domain-specific **
**   ****approaches**
**DC**
**IEEE LOM**

**...**

## Community?

- EAD, MARC AMC, ..

- MARC, MODS, DC, RSLP, ..

- Onix,

- XML, RDF, OWL, ...

- CSDGM, DDI, NBII, IVOA, ...

- EGMS, AGLS, GILS, ...

- GEM, DC-ED, IEEE-LOM, SCORM, ...

- MPEG, JPEG, ...

- TIAA CREF,...

## Simple descriptive metadata!!

**FRBR****INDECS****CIDOC**
**...**

**MARC21**
**DC**
**VRA Core****MODS****Onix**
**...**

**AACR**
**CCO**
**DACS****Controlled **** vocabs.****...**

**XML**
**ISO2709**
**...**

## Some issues:the lake is becoming more like a river

- Think about mass digitization
- Versions
- Rights
- Relationships
- Think about selection for mass digitization/off-site storage
- ‘Systemwide’ data
- Last copy
- Think about next generation catalog
- Control for facets
- Control for FRBR
- Membersip of sets

## Some issues:digital environment

- Describe parts (front of page 23) and whole and relationships
- Articulation with user contributed materials (way of sharing)
-  ...

## Some issues:classic cataloging

- A smaller part of the collection?
- RDA/MARC/FRBR: separate organizational and development paths a barrier?
- More selection from controlled lists?
- Consistency of data

-  Discovery and disclosure

## The world has changed

- There was no need or room for marketing. 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*. Such an approach was not applicable in today's business world. [_[When red is black](http://worldcat.org/oclc/53356382)_. New York: Soho Press inc., 2004. p. 140]** **

## Discovery and disclosure

- Improve the discovery experience
- Put the discovery experience where users are (disclosure)
- Whole-library discovery and disclosure experience?

## Discovery: ‘catalog’

- Local Catalog Discovery Environments
- Next generation catalog discussion
- Combine access over local collections
- NCSU, Primo, WorldCat...
- Shared Catalog Discovery Environments
- OhioLink, WorldCat, ...
- Syndicated Catalog Discovery Environments
- Google, Academic Live, ...
- The Leveraged Discovery Environment

**Firefox extension**
**Web services:**
**xISBN**
**University of Huddersfield catalogue**

## Futures

- More acquisition of catalogue data upstream
- More automated creation of metadata from digital materials
- Common metadata creation environments (across resource types)
- More structured data: machine-processable, identifiers, supply chain, shared inventory management, ...
- Less discretion, ...
- Make data work harder ...