OCLC PICA A general overview

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OCLC PICAA general overview
SELL Presentation Madrid 16/03

• Janifer Gatenby
• j.gatenby_at_oclcpica.org
• Sébastien Vellay
• s.vellay_at_oclcpica.org

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General Overview

• OCLC PICA now.
• -Basics
• -New situation
• -European presence
• -Our network in Southern Europe
• Various services
• -Ebooks
• -Databases
• -Online collection management system
• -Reference Service
• -Other
• -Collaborative catalogue
• WorldCat
• -Worldcat overview
• -European library holdings in WorldCat
• -OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org
• -Support of Union Catalogues

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Some basics

• -OCLC founded in 67 in Ohio
• -PICA founded in 69 in the Netherland
• -Organizations joined in 2003
• -We serve 57.000 libraries in 112 countries

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New situation

• -SISIS acquisition
• -FDI acquisition
• -Dimema integration
• -RLG integration
• -OpenWorldCat project

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USA 12
NL 97
UK 74
F 3
GER 46
AU 6
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Our network in Southern Europe
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Main services

• -Collection www.netlibrary.com/titleselect
• -130,000 ebooks
• -On going or annual access
• -2 simultaneous users per copy
• -No subscription, no entry fee

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Main services FirstSearch
-75 Online Databases (Worldcat)
-More than 5.9 million full text articles
-6,000 journals -53 databases with full text or
links to full text
Where to find more information
http//www.oclc.org/firstsearch/default.htm
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Main services CONTENT dm
-Online collections -All formats of records -All
items (video, audio, images, books - compound
objects) -OCR Jpeg 2000 -WorldCat
ContenDM URL www.contentdm.com
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Main services QuestionPoint

• -Collaborative digital reference service
• -Proximity with users (Online Form)
• -Professional reference assistance (KB)

QuestionPoint web site http//www.questionpoint.
org
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Main services in a nutshell
-ILL systems (VDX/OCLC Resource
Sharing) -Portals -Dewey classification -
WebDewey -Cataloguing repository (Connexion
WorldCat)
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Main services CBS Union Catalogue system

• Flexible solution for collaborative catalogues
• -All formats
• -Automatic updates
• -Deduplication of records
• -Local OPAC via web
• -Architecture customizable (8 modules)
• -WorldCat

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WorldCat.org and other initiatives
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Agenda

• WorldCat overview
• European library holdings in WorldCat
• OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org
• Support of Union Catalogues
• Future Directions and Research

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WorldCat Overview

• 83 million records, 1.115.907.505 holdings
• All types of materials
• print, maps, visual, electronic, serials, all
  date ranges
• All languages
• Unicode support includes non-roman scripts
• Global Exposure also
• Cataloguing
• Resource sharing
• Reference
• Collection analysis
• Interfaces
• Connexion, Z39.50, SRU, SRU update, FirstSearch,
  WorldCat.org

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OCLC PICA contribution to WorldCat

• 36 million European holdings
• Contribution methods
• via online cataloguing, retrospective
  conversion, batch loading, SRU update
• Major OCLC PICA contributors
• UK, Scandinavia, South Africa, France (pre-2002)
• Batch loaded files
• BL, Czech National Bibliography, GGC, LinkUK,
  Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National
  Library of Education
• Major ILL users
• BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia

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Open WorldCat making the library visible in
search engines

• Started 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now
  extended to further partners
• Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC WorldCat
  records
• Search engine displays results as Find in a
  Library
• Link to library holdings
• Deep linking to OPAC and full text

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Open WorldCat meeting the user where the user
is

• 84 use search engines to begin information
  search
• Only 1 begin an information search on a
  library web site
• Search engines use achieves high satisfaction
  rates
• People trust what they find on search engines
• Search engines are a better life style fit
  than physical libraries
• Self serve is a growing trend
• findings from Perceptions of Libraries
  and Information Resources a report to the OCLC
  Membership OCLC, 2005

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Open WorldCat
Limitations on loading imposed by harvesters
Google only interested in titles with many
holdings
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Self-service models
Linking by ISBN, ISSN, OCLC Number and now by
search termAccounts for 10 or more of all
traffic!
Exposure
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Start with an Internet search
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Exposure
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Exposure
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Library Info
Exposure
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Ask a Librarian
Exposure
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Other Editions
Exposure
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Reviews
Exposure
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Tables of Contents
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Purchase options
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Pilot - link to Amazon.co.uk
Clicks and orders every day during the pilot

Exposure
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Google Scholar
Exposure
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WorldCat.org

• - OCLCs own destination portal
• builds on Open WorldCat
• access to all WorldCat records
• holdings of subscribing libraries only
• OWC interface translations (inc Dutch)
• initial beta release August 2006

Exposure
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WorldCat.org Deliver Library Capacity to the
User at the Point of Need

• WorldCat.org will enable users to . . .
• Discover and access libraries, their collections,
  their expertise and their services at the point
  of need
• Participate in an online community of library
  users, researchers, librarians
• Manage personal identity, relationships,
  collections, reading and research

Exposure
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WorldCat.org
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WorldCat.org Brief results
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WorldCat.org registration
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WorldCat.org Tracked Statistics at-a-glance
Impressions 300M to 1B/year
Click-through 10M/ month 120M per year
Conversion 550k/month 6.6M/year

• Conversionrate
• Overall 5.5 best in class for web site
• 5.9 in January 07

• Its worth noting that our conversion rate is
  well above Googles typical range of 1-3.

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Click-throughs to WorldCat.org pages
Month over month
Referrals In millions
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6
2
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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Clicks to Library Services
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Worldcat.org Traffic Drivers - Today
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WorldCat.org - where next?

• More Add more European holdings
• More Get it options
• Integrate with European resource sharing services
  
• Request Transfer Message
• Add payment options
• Add authentication and other resolvers
• Add more personalisation and social features

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WorldCat Future Directions

• Add more non-US union and national catalogues
  (particularly non roman scripts)
• Add more full text and digital content
• Improve holdings level for e-serials
• Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in non-roman
  scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials
  and special collections)
• Integrate into OCLC PICA services

Exposure
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Timeline Social Networking Features
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work
Human-readable interface
manifestations in workset
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Contribution Follow on Services

• Collection Analysis
• Analyze collection age subject content
• Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries
  to identify overlap and uniqueness
• Analyze group collections for uniqueness
  overlap for cooperative collection development
• Registry of Digital Masters

Exposure
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UK Public Library group analysis
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Union Catalogue Support

• Data services
• FRBR
• Faceted searching
• Audience Level
• Holdings Count - Rarity

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FRBR Divide and conquer

• Creation of works (38 million)
• Algorithm
• Authority records
• Cleaning bibliographic records where necessary
• No manual links created
• Improved user interfaces

• Harvesting
• Loading IDs records
• Authority records
• Improved user interfaces
• Suggestions for the improvement of the algorithm
  and records

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Without clustering
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With Clustering
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Office of Research prototypes
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WorldCat statistics
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Watch WorldCat grow ..
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• Questions ?