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Reflections
Global Council Meeting, Dublin, 18 April 2012
#OCLC #GC
Jay Jordan
President and CEO
OCLC
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People +
Information +
Technology
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First, what we haven’t solved
• Scholarly
communication
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First, what we haven’t solved
• Scholarly
communication
• Digital divide
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First, what we haven’t solved
• Scholarly
communication
• Digital divide
• Global warming
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Technology: The network
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Technology: Network effects
• Platform concentrates data
• Community forms around
platform
• Gravitational hubs
– the rich get richer
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Technology: Search engines
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Technology: Cloud services
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An ecosystem
Beyond the mobile web. Stephanie Rieger.
http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/beyond-themobilewebbyyiibu
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• Blogs
• Instant messaging
• Wikis
• Social bookmarking
Technology: Social/crowd-sourcing
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The original social network
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• Y2K approaching!
• Running out of
holding symbols!!
• Running out of
OCLC numbers!!!
Technology at OCLC : 1998
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Technology at OCLC
• Proprietary software to
open systems
architecture
• New development
techniques
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agile_Software_Development_methodology.jpg
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8 engineering centers
Technology at OCLC
Dublin
Leiden Mannheim
Oberhaching
Melbourne
San Mateo
Seattle Sheffield
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Technology at OCLC
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• 17 17
OCLC 1989 footprint: 44,400 sq. ft.
17 mainframes
249 disk drives
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Servers
• 760 Physical AMD / Intel
• 4,000 Virtual on 144 Hosts
• 1 IBM Mainframe z9-J01
Storage
• 600 Terabytes Primary
• 10,000 slot Tape Library 1.2
petabytes
• 200 Terabytes Virtual tape
Data Centers
• Dublin, Ohio, USA
• Westerville, Ohio, USA
• London, UK
• Sydney, Australia
OCLC 2012 footprint: 14,800 sq. ft.
Operations Center, Kilgour Building, Dublin, Ohio,
USA
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Technology at OCLC: Global data centers
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Cell phone: 1998
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Cell phone : 2012
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Information: 1998
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Information: 2012
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The Birth of Metadata
Metadata
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high low
low
hig
h
Un
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es
s
Low
Stewardship
High
Stewardship
In few
collections
In many
collections
Collections grid (Lorcan Dempsey and Eric Childress, OCLC Research)
Stewardship/scarcity
Low-Low
Freely-accessible
web resources Open source software
Newsgroup archives
Low-High
Books & Journals Newspapers
Gov Documents
CD & DVD
Maps
Scores
High-Low
Research & Learning
Materials
Institutional records ePrints/tech reports
Learning objects
Courseware
E-portfolios
Research data
Prospectus
Institutional website
High-High
Special Collections Rare books
Local/Historical Newspapers
Local History Materials
Archives & Manuscripts
Theses & dissertations
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• Descriptive
• Analytics
• Social
• Algorithmic
Future of bibliographic work
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Sources of Metadata
1. Professional
2. Social/crowd-sourced
3. Transaction
4. Programmatically promoted
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User-generated content • Annotations
• Audio comments
• Images
• Links
• Lists
• Ratings
• Recommendations
• Reviews
• Tagging
• Text editing
• Video
Social
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• Discovering
patterns in data
• Automatic/
semi-automatic
Data mining
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People: May 18-20, 1998
My first Users Council meeting
“The Value of OCLC Membership in a Global
Library Community”
UC Executive Committee:
Kris Senecal, Brad Baker,
Larry Alford, Betsy Wilson
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“It is futile, Mr. Bond.
You will not be able to
stop me once I have
control of all libraries
on the planet.”
Fast forward to 2009
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OCLC staff
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OCLC staff
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Librarians
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Librarians
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OCLC Board of Trustees
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OCLC Global Council 2011-2012
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Public purposes:
Further access to the world’s information
Reduce the rate of rise of library costs
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