Metadata switch

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Metadata switch

• Lorcan DempseyMembers Council, May 2002

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Metadata switch

• Explore a set of services which add value to
  metadata by leveraging OCLC expertise and
  position.
• Under discussion with Metadata and Cooperative
  Discovery Services
• High acronymic density please shout out!

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Proposition

• Add value to metadata created elsewhere
• Aggregate metadata for reuse
• Leverage knowledge structures
• Investigate schema interoperability services
• An initiative which builds on OCLCs cooperative
  processing strengths
• Open metadata services

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Environment

• Major digital initiatives as part of learning,
  research and cultural engagement
• Libraries looking at management and disclosure of
  institutional assets
• Growing importance of unique, non-published
  materials
• Learning materials, research data, technical
  reports, e-prints

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• OAI
• E-prints
• cultural heritage
• learning

Knowledge bank, Dspace,
NSDL, IMLS, NOF, NLA, FAIR,
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Switch
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Agg.
Switch
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Agg.
Switch
KONA
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Agg.
Switch
KONA
Schema trans.
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Components also stand alone

• Aggregator
• Metadata creation and exchange
• KO NA
• Make knowledge organisation services more
  accessible
• Schema transformations
• Infrastructure of interoperability

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For Example
Institutional
Personal
Non
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institutional
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print
e
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print
e
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print
archives
archives
archives
OAI
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PMH
e
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Prints UK
SOAP
Javascript
/HTTP
Z39.50
RDN
RDN
RDN
RDN
gateway/portal
RDN
gateway/portal
RDN
gateway/portal
gateway/portal
JISC FAIR program
service
gateway/portal
service
gateway/portal
service
service
service
service
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Dont do it?

• Share of metadata creation declines
• Become peripheral to major activities in
  information management for research and learning
• Increasingly marginal to many digital library
  initiatives on campus
• Lose potentially valuable reference resources

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Next steps

• Aggregator
• NDLTD
• Learning objects
• Contentdm
• KONA
• Under development
• Schema trans
• Investigation

• Will work with CMS
• Exploratory
• Diane VGs group

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discussion?
dempseyl_at_oclc.org