Pattern recognition

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Pattern recognition
Lorcan DempseyPALINET's 7th Annual OCLC Users
Conference, May 28-30, 2003 Keynote presentation
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Pattern
We have no future because our present is too
volatile. We have only risk management. The
spinning of the given moments scenarios. Pattern
recognition
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Overview
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Overview
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Environment

• Increasingly complex collections
• Changing patterns of behavior research,
  learning, cultural engagement
• Creating value
• Funding envelope?
• The scholarly and cultural record in a digital
  environment?

• Look at
• Special collections
• Research and learning
• Wide open web
• All the other stuff
• Books, journals, AI !!

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Reclaiming the special
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The Archival Research Center is a direct
outgrowth of the belief that primary resource
materials should be a major focal point of
instruction and research. . However, traditional
access to these materials is cumbersome and
labor-intensive and most institutions do not
allow copying. Digitizing these materials keeps
them alive and relevent for modern users (ARL
report)
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The return of the special

• There is growing appreciation among libraries
  that unique or rare materials
• are valuable research and learning resources
• that they have been underutilized,
• that digitization offers opportunities for
  releasing their value in new ways.
• There is a growing interest in digitizing
  cultural heritage materials
• as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of
  communities.

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The engagement with research and learning
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Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket
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Knowledge bank OSU in planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of
an OSU knowledge bank
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Research and learning

• Research and learning behavior is increasingly
  entering the network space
• Library resources need to be available at the
  appropriate stage within the learning or research
  environment
• New forms of engagement and support.
• Research and learning outputs will present major
  management and curatorial issues
• Institutions and faculty are interested in
  disclosing research and learning materials as
  part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI)

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Books, journals,

• Rich business apparatus. Commodity?
• Ease of access D2D
• Discovery ltgt locate ltgt request ltgt Delivery
• Reduce costs of processing
• Increased interest in management information for
  collection development, collection management,
• Increased interest in outsourcing?
• Collections
• Vanilla
• Specialist
• formats, language, communities

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Licensed materials
Like many libraries, the UW Libraries has
struggled with how to effectively and efficiently
manage its growing licensed resources such as
e-journals, AI databases, and full-text
services. We were using a mix of locally
developed and maintained files and databases (in
file cabinets, on our intranet, etc.) to manage
our electronic resources. In a highly distributed
workflow and service provision environment, the
UW Libraries sought a way to integrate this
information with our local system and streamline
our processes.
Univ. Washington response. ARL survey.
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Resources

• Licensed
• D2D
• Rights and linking
• Portalization?
• Visibility and integration
• Value
• Streamline management of licenses
• Long term access

• Bought
• D2D
• New catalog configurations
• Enhance records
• Get better management information for resource
  sharing, collection management, collection
  development

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Wide open web

• Ongoing interest in mediating access to
  high-quality Internet resources linked to other
  resources and interests of users
• Multiple local and shared initiatives

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Collections grid
stewardship
high
low
low
uniqueness
high
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• Manage commodity materials and services - cost.
• Streamline discovery to delivery for print
  (owned) and digital (licensed) materials
• Portalization and resource sharing
• Management intelligence collection management
  and analysis (print collections)
• Incentive to preserve?

• Institutional digital content management
• Immature (diverse metadata creation practice --
  hierarchical description, multiple standards and
  practices, diverse content management approaches)
• OAI? Shining a light on hidden resources.
• Extend knowledge organization approaches?
• Incentive to preserve?

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The example of metadata
stewardship
high
low
Books Journals
Freely-accessible web resources
MARC, Onix
Dublin Core
low
uniqueness
MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI
Special collections
high
Research and learning materials
DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM
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Trends
Scholarly communication
high
low
Books,Journals
Web
low
Specialcollections
Research Learning
high
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Trends
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stewardship
high
low
Books,Journals
Web
low
uniqueness
Research Learning
Specialcollections
high
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The pattern is new in every moment

• Different materials call forward different types
  of attention
• Selection
• Organization
• Collection management
• Securing access
• Preservation
• What is a collection?

• Responsibility to the scholarly record
• Licensed
• Below the line
• Print
• Fragmentation of knowledge technologies?
• Knowledge organization topics, places, names,
  educational standards, resource types
• Identifiers
• etc

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Thank you