{"id":76,"date":"2008-06-29T18:28:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-06-29T18:28:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T01:28:26","slug":"ala-2008-catalogs-and-the-network-level-roy-tennant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/ala-2008-catalogs-and-the-network-level-roy-tennant\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA 2008: Catalogs and the Network level &#8211; Roy Tennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy using a quote\/concept that I&#8217;m going to use in my presentation (grrr):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Then<\/strong>: Users built workflow around libraries\n<li><strong>Now:<\/strong> Library must build services around user workflow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discovery happens elsewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Roy mentioning some prominent web services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\n<li>Amazon\n<li>Digg\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Noting that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scale matters\n<li>Spread matters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>a.k.a Concentation and Diffusion<\/p>\n<p>Roy looking back to the time when cataloguers created bib metadata on cards, which could be distributed around libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Roy telling an anecdote how he decided to put &#8216;Rolling Stones&#8217; under &#8216;Rock Music&#8217; rather than &#8216;Music, Pop&#8217; &#8211; but that when he did this, only his local library benefited.<\/p>\n<p>We now have the ability to share records &#8211; but still we create local records, so changes we make still only deliver local benefit.<\/p>\n<p>If we pushed data back into a global system (Worldcat of course in this context, but the point stands), then we can share that benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of &#8216;concentation&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search results ranking\n<ul>\n<li>Holding data &#8211; the number of libraries holding a book says something about &#8216;importance&#8217; (I think this is true, but Roy&#8217;s example of &#8216;the more libraries, the more important&#8217; I&#8217;m not convinced about &#8211; there is an issue with &#8216;ant trails&#8217; here &#8211; that is if we all &#8216;follow the leader&#8217; or the strongest path, there is a risk we don&#8217;t explore other potentially useful\/better avenue)\n<li>Usage data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Recommendations of related books (a la LibraryThing)\n<li>User contributed content\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orlabs.oclc.org\/Identities\/\">WorldCat Identities<\/a> is an example of the data mining possibilities of a large aggregation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steve.museum\/\">Steve Museum<\/a> a good example of user contributed data enhancing a collection<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Switching service&#8217; &#8211; allows you to move from one piece of information to another &#8211; Roy uses an example of moving from a blog post (via http link) to a book in Worldcat, to a local library record. Noting the &#8216;last link&#8217; is missing &#8211; no option on his local library homepage to &#8216;send this to me&#8217;. If libraries did this &#8211; they would &#8216;so rock&#8217; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Benefits of &#8216;diffusion&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Library holding syndicated into places where people are found (e.g. Google)\n<li>Small libraries can play in big spaces\n<li>The more paths to your content the better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Examples of integration of links to library resources &#8211; in web pages, in wikipedia etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concentation\n<ul>\n<li>Webscale presence\n<li>Mobilize data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Diffusion\n<ul>\n<li>Disclosure of links, data and services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6f031b34-8668-47f7-99e8-e76af454f77c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ala2008\" rel=\"tag\">ala2008<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy using a quote\/concept that I&#8217;m going to use in my presentation (grrr): Then: Users built workflow around libraries Now: Library must build services around user workflow Discovery happens elsewhere&#8230; Roy mentioning some prominent web services: Google Amazon Digg etc. Noting that: Scale matters Spread matters a.k.a Concentation and Diffusion Roy looking back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ala2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}