Libraries in the age of Amazoogle some issues
Libraries in the age of Amazoogle: some issues and responses: the example of Open. World. Cat Lorcan Dempsey JISC/CNI Conference, 8/9 June 2004
Scan chapter. . Social landscape • The ‘Amazoogle’ effect • Value • The fabric of collaboration • Generations ‘The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet’ William Gibson
Overview …
The Amazoogle effect • Four perceived user attributes? – – Comprehensive Accessible Immediate gratification ‘Followability’ of data ‘The net generation doesn’t love a wall’ Eric Childress
The Amazoogle effect • Creating network application platforms – Computational hubs in a loosely coupled world – E-bay, Google, Amazon, Mapquest, …
“Search engine mindshare” John Regazzi “In a survey for this lecture, librarians and scientists were asked to name the top scientific and medical search resources that they use or are aware of. The difference is startling. ” • Scientists: – Google – Yahoo – Pub. Med • Librarians: – Science Direct – ISI Web of Science – Med. Line Source: John Regazzi, The Battle for Mindshare: A battle beyond access and retrieval http: //www. nfais. org/publications/mc_lecture_2004. htm
‘Burn the catalog’ “Electronic catalogs, wherever you go in the academic “I’m to the point where I think we’d be better off world, have become a horrible crazy-quilt assemblage to just utterly erase our existing academic of incompatible interfaces and vendor-constrained catalogs and forget about backwardslistings. Working through […] a relatively small compatibility, lock all the vendors and librarians collection, you still have to navigate at least five and scholars together in a room, and make them completely different interfaces for searching. Historical hammer out electronic research tools that are epochs of data collection and cataloguing lie indigestibly Amazon-plus, Amazon without the intent to sell atop one another. ” books but with the intent of guiding users of all Tim Burke, Swarthmore kinds to the books and articles and materials that they ought to find, a catalog that is a partner rather than an obstacle in the making and tracking of knowledge. ” Tim Burke, Swarthmore
Open World. Cat • Facilitate the rendezvous of users and library services on the web • Surface the library where the users are
Some examples • Book vendors and bibliographies § § § Click in presentation mode to go through to examples ABE Books ABAA Alibris HCBIB Book. Page • Search engines (pilot with 2 M records exposed as web pages for harvesting) § § Google Yahoo! Try a search for: A history of caricature and grotesque in literature and art
Example 1: Non-IP-authenticated user
User enters ‘uk’
User selects (Non-IP-authenticated)
Example 2: IP-authenticated user
User enters ‘uk’
If the user’s IP address is recognized and can be mapped to a First. Search account, we will show fulfillment links that are active for that account. See next slide for open. URL results (IP-authenticated)
See next slide for click results (Results from open. URL resolver)
(Results from clicking “UNIcat Web OPAC”)
Open World. Cat Architecture World. Cat , Additional collections can be added to Worldcatlibraries domain Metadata OCLC will use tools such as x. ISBN and FRBR models to organize World. Cat public views suitable for low precision access Schemas and Vocabularies OCLC Developed Geo-locator services to matches users to extensive First. Search World. Cat institution and user profiles OCLC Uses Host of Authentication and Authorization tools to progressively match content to rights OCLC Organizes World. Cat content in model suitable for harvesting, anticipate unique aspects of various portals Google, Yahoo and Book Vendors Aggregators Portals Profiles and Relationships Content Owner Access Distribution, Search, Display Organization and Presentation
Google and Yahoo! timeline 8/14/03: Google contract signed 10/22/03: Google harvests 150, 000 records 9/19/03: Google given goahead to harvest records Jan. ’ 04: 32, 000 inbound links logged (SSO) Dec. ’ 03: Records begin to appear in Google; 800 inbound-links logged (searchsite-originating [SSO]) 5/21/04: Yahoo contract signed Mar. ’ 04: 109, 000 inbound links logged (SSO) May’ 04: 725, 000 inbound links logged (SSO) 5/28/04: Yahoo harvests records 6/6/04: Yahoo completes indexing of 2 million WC records
Traffic *Full record displays. Projected for June.
Mechanics • Google. Crawls web pages. • Yahoo. Pulls file in IDIF (Inktomi Data Interchange Format)
Next steps … • Expose all of World. Cat – 54 M ‘titles’ – 1 B ‘holdings’ • Expose other data – ‘hosted data’ – Content. DM collections – Other harvested collections • Enrich services available at rendezvous page
Attributes • Leverage OCLC ‘platform’ • Uniquely well-placed to broker many (searchers) to many (libraries) relationship • Focus on increasing value and visibility of member libraries.
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