Rethinking Resource Sharing Dare to Share

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Re-thinking Resource Sharing Dare to Share

• Gail Wanner (SirsiDynix)
• Clare MacKeigan (Relais International)
• October 12, 2006

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Agenda

• Rethinking Resource Sharing initiative
• What is it and why now?
• Interoperability
• GET IT!!
• What it is
• Status
• Future

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Its Time Again to Think about Resource Sharing
A White Paper published February
2005 http//www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusa
sections/ stars/starssections/committeesa/rrscomm/
rrscomm.htm
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Why change resource sharing?

• User expectations
• OCLC Perceptions study (http//www.oclc.org/report
  s/2005perceptions.htm)
• Amazon, eBay, Google
• Digitization
• Netflix
• Technological advances

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Rethinking Forums

• Chicago, November 2005 Denver, February 2006
• Planned Chicago, April 2007
• International focus
• Participants from all types of libraries
• Public
• Academic
• State, Consortia
• Special, K-12
• Vendors
• Small group discussions working groups

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Vision Statement

• Create a new global service framework that allows
  individuals to obtain what they want based on
  factors such as cost, time, format, and delivery.
  
• This framework will encompass promoting and
  exposing library services in a variety of
  environments.

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Rethinking Main ideas

• User focus, not enhancing staff tasks
• Vendor neutral
• Global context
• Broad definition of resource sharing
• ILL
• Consortial borrowing
• Reference
• Digital services

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Working Groups

• Steering Committee
• User Needs (ALA RUSA STARS)
• Continue evaluation of barriers, expectations
• Policies (ALA RUSA STARS)
• Remove barriers, change policies
• Interoperability (NISO possible)
• Leapfrog todays interoperability issues

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Rethinking Resource Sharing

• Interoperability

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Resource Sharing Models

• Traditional Model
• Todays Model
• But commercial search engines used to Find 98
  time
• New Resource Sharing Model

Discover
Locate
Request
Deliver
Find
Get
GET IT
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Introducing

• GET IT...
• Service operates as a plug-in
• Independent of other software
• Developed as open source

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Internet
get-it
User-object
Search
Results
Item Lookup
Item-object
GET-IT
Domain page list parser
Source list html constructor
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GET-IT Application components

• Personal configuration
• Domain page list parser
• Item look-up
• Source list html constructor
• Logging agent
• Intelligent profiler

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Internet
User-object
Search
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Profiling Serviceuser-object

• Populate at installation
• Modify as needed
• Possible elements include
• Postal or zip code
• Local library registration
• May be stored on (to be determined)
• User workstation
• Remote server
• Maintains and stores user-object

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Internet
User-object
Search
Results
item-object
GET-IT
Domain page list parser
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Domain page list parseritem-object

• Parse the content of each web page as it is
  displayed
• If a handle is found, e.g., ISBN, OpenURL, UPC,
  titles
• Generate link, , i.e., Get-It button
• Create item-object
• Not COinS dependent
• although these elements will serve as handles

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This has been done.

• Extensions or plug-ins for web browsers that
  assist in locating library resources have been
  developed.
• Examples of these are
• OpenURL Referrer by Openly Informatics
• Wake County Library Lookup by Josh Staiger
• Denver-Prospector-WorldCat-CD-DVD Lookup by Sean
  LeBlanc

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Internet
User-object
Search
Results
Item Lookup
Item-object
GET-IT
Domain page list parser
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Item lookup

• Uses an underlying database of services/suppliers
  this may be part of the user profile
• Based on user-object identifies relevant sources
• Possible sources include
• libraries within the users service area,
• commercial supply services, e.g., Amazon, NetFlix
• information sources (online help, for example)
• request services
• Based on item-object determines availability from
  sources
• Creates list of sources that can supply

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Internet
User-object
Search
Results
Item Lookup
Item-object
GET-IT
Domain page list parser
Source list html constructor
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Source list html constructor

• Item lookup passes list to the source list html
  constructor
• Builds browser window with list of sources
• Each item deep link to source

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Logging agent

• Gathers the data for statistical analysis (pilot)
• Two types of click actions reported
• get-it button
• a link in the resulting pop-up page

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Intelligent profiler

• Track sources user recently selected.
• Used to sort list so that the users preferred
  sources are at the top.

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Reality proof of concept

• Initial focus is to
• Enable following web pages
• Amazon book, CD and DVD pages
• Netflix
• One or more OPACs
• Identify and use following sources
• OpenURL resolvers
• Amazon book, CD and DVD web pages
• Netflix
• One or more OPACs
• One or more resource sharing systems
• Firefox

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Whats next for GET-IT?

• Development with preview at Midwinter ALA Jan
  2007
• Marketing / Testing
• Evaluation
• Next generation
• Developers will build on prototype

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Interested?

• Functional specification
• Call sent out for volunteers for prototype by
  John Bodfish via
• Web4Lib
• Code4Lib
• NGC4Lib
• Gcs-pcs
• Greasemonkey
• Email J.Bodfish_at_oclcpica.org