OCLC Research Update ALA Annual 2014

ALA Annual 2014/Las Vegas, NV

Eric Childress

OCLC Research Update

Consulting Project Manager

OCLC Research

• Research group devoted exclusively to exploring the challenges facing libraries & archives

Advanced Development

Community R&D

Member/Partner Engagement

Identify challenges, evaluate responses, survey, investigate, analyze, report, prototype, data work…

Convene, connect, shape, influence

Experiment with new processes, software, systems

OCLC ResearchLibrary Partnership

Incl. 22 of Top 25 Universities

Honored, we are

2014

Forthcoming

• Expertly curated selection of entries from Dempsey’s blog

• Available 3rd quarter 2014– Pre-orders may be

placed with ALA online or at the ALA bookstore

Alien Abductions, Jazz, Love Stories

What in the WorldCat?• Because even library

data should have a playful side!

• Fair warning: More coming soon

• Suggestions welcomehttp://oclc.org/research/wtworldcat.html

Today’s presentations

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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D.

Reordering Ranganathan:Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities

Senior Research ScientistOCLC Researchconnawal@oclc.org@LynnConnaway

Ixchel M. Faniel, Ph.D. Associate Research ScientistOCLC Researchfanieli@oclc.org

Moved from an era of content scarcity to one of incredible abundance and diversity

(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 4)

Ranganathan’s Original Laws

Our Interpretation and Reordering

Embed library systems and services into users’ existing workflows

(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 15)

Know your community and its needs

(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 32)

Develop the physical and technical infrastructure to deliver materials

(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 51)

Increase the discoverability, access and use of resources within users’ existing workflows

(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 74)

A library is a growing organism(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 92)

References

Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Ixchel M. Faniel. 2014. Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting user behaviors, shifting priorities. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-reordering-ranganathan-2014.pdf.

Dempsey, Lorcan. 2012. Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery, and the catalog: Scale, workflow, attention. EDUCAUSE Review Online (December 10, 2012), http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/thirteen-ways-looking-libraries-discovery-and-catalog-scale-workflow-attention.

Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita. 1931. The five laws of library science. London: Edward Goldston, Ltd.

Acknowledgements

Without the help of Andy Havens, Brad Gauder and Tom Storey for their insightful contributions and valuable feedback; Julianna Barrera-Gomez, Alyssa Darden, Erin M. Hood and Carrie Vass for their dedicated research support; Tam Dalrymple, Larry Olszewski and Jennifer Smither for their thoughtful comments; and Renee Page for her talented design and layout expertise, it would have been difficult to make this report a reality.

Funding A Cyberinfrastructure Evaluation of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering

Simulation (NEES), funded by the National Science Foundation (CMMI-0714116)The Cyber Synergy: Seeking Sustainability through Collaboration between Virtual Reference and Social

Q&A Sites, funded by the Institution of Museum and Library Services (LG-06-11-0342-11) in collaboration with OCLC Research, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Digital Information Seeker Report, jointly sponsored by Jisc and OCLC ResearchThe Digital Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information

Environment? project, funded by Jisc in collaboration with the University of Oxford, OCLC Research, and the University of North Carolina

The Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse (DIPIR) project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (LG-06-10-0140-10) in collaboration with the University of Michigan

The Seeking Synchronicity: Evaluating Virtual Reference Services from User, Non-user and Librarian Perspectives, funded by the Institution of Museum and Library Services (LG-06-05-0109-05) in collaboration with OCLC Research, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Study, which was a collaborative project between Jisc and OCLC Research

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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist connawal@oclc.org @LynnConnaway

Ixchel M. Faniel, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist fanieli@oclc.org

Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities Webinar with Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Ixchel FanielTuesday, 8 July 11am-12pm EDT

http://oc.lc/rrreportwebinar

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Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Multilingual Bibliographic StructureProgram Officer

WorldCat Today

• Resources in nearly all languages

• Contributed by more than 20,000 libraries worldwide

• More than half the database is for works not in English

Languages

EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishChineseDutchJapaneseRussianArabic469 others

Leo Tolstoy: 32 languagesHomer: 28 languages

Rabindranath Tagore: 21Isaac Bashevis Singer: 17Najib Mahfuz: 12 languages

Cao Xueqin: 9 languages

Mahatma Gandhi: 7 languages

Murasaki Shikabu: 7 languages

Translations

ΙλιάδαThe Iliad 紅樓夢

Dream of the Red Chamber

Война и миръWar and Peace

ঘরে� বা�ইরে�The Home and the World

સતયના� પરયો�ગો� અથવા� આતમકથ�The Story of My Experiments with Truth [Gandhi autobiography]

源氏物語

The Tale of Genji

דער בעל-תשובהThe Penitent

زقاق المدقMidaq Alley

Title: Journey to the WestLanguage: EnglishTranslator: Anthony C. YuDate: 1977IsTranslationOf:

Title: Journey to the WestLanguage: EnglishTranslator: W. J. F. JennerDate: 1982-1984IsTranslationOf:

Title: 西遊記Language: ChineseAuthor: 吳承恩Created: 1592HasTranslation:

Title: Tay du ky binh khaoLanguage: VietnameseTranslator: Phan QuanDate: 1980IsTranslationOf:

Title: 西遊記Language: JapaneseTranslator: 中野美代子Date: 1986IsTranslationOf:

Title: Monkeys PilgerfahrtLanguage: GermanTranslator: Georgette Boner Date: 1983IsTranslationOf:

Addition of xR records to VIAF

Before

After

UNESCO Translation Database

The UNESCO database has translations in only 3 languages of 雪国

# Original Work (in Chinese)<http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1215997>

a schema:CreativeWork; schema:creator <http://viaf.org/viaf/102266649> ; # "Gao,

Xingjian” schema:inLanguage "zh"; schema:name "靈山 "@zh..

# Translated Work (in English)<http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/145209748>

a schema:CreativeWork; schema:creator <http://viaf.org/viaf/102266649> ; # "Gao, Xingjian“ [new]:translator <http://viaf.org/viaf/81663420> ; # "Lee, Mabel" schema:inLanguage "en"; schema:name "Soul Mountain"@en ; [new]:translationOfWork <http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1215997> .

Markup for the Semantic Web

Understanding information sharing across cultures

• What percentage of non-English works are translations of English works, and vice-versa?• Which authors are translated the most?• Which works have been translated into the most languages?• Which countries translate the most English works, the most non-English works?• Which countries translate a new work the fastest?• How many translations are from the original work (not a translation of a translation)?Etc.

http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/multilingual-bib-structure.html

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Karen Smith-YoshimuraProgram Officer

smithyok@oclc.org

@KarenS_Y

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Constance Malpas

The Evolving Scholarly Record

Program Officer

With thanks to Brian Lavoie, Ricky Erway,

Jennifer Schaffner, Titia Van der Werf, Ixchel Faniel and Eric Childress

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/2012/10/the-new-scholarly-record/

The network reconfigures the record?

Faculty: what establishes credentials, contributes to professional advancement

Library: what is selected, preserved

Researchers: what is necessary to validate & build on current literature

Date $ bn2012-01-01 16289.62012-04-01 16419.22012-07-01 16603.72012-10-01 16677.32013-01-01 16772.72013-04-01 16907.92013-07-01 17175.9

float gasdev(long *idum) { static int iset = 0; static float gset; float fac, rsq, v1, v2; if (iset == 0) { do {

v1 = 2.0*ran1(idum) - 1.0;v2 = 2.0*ran1(idum) - 1.0;rsq = v1*v1 + v2*v2;

e-

Publishers: peer-reviewed content

Scholarly record: content & perspective

‘Meters’ :what is cited

Stakeholder roles reconfiguring: New paths for the scholarly communication supply chain

Format transition:Print-centric to digital, networked

Framework

Boundaries blurring: Articles/monographs, but also research data, computer models, video, blogs, visualizations, conference posters & presentations, pre-prints, etc.

Create

Fix

Use

Collect

Key characteristics impacting stewardship …• Increasing volume of content• Increasing diversity/complexity of content• Increasing distribution of custodial

responsibility

‘local copies’ of scholarly record are increasingly partial discovery and management are increasingly fragmented coherence of scholarly record is reduced

Stakeholders

• Community consultation around framework– Use cases for library assessment , alt-

metrics, collection development strategies, etc.

• Stewardship of ‘system-wide’ scholarly record– Higher education trends that are driving

concentration/distribution of custodial roles– Division of labor; incentives & benefits– Coordination models; cooperative

infrastructure

What’s next ..

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Constance MalpasProgram Officer

malpasc@oclc.org

@ConstanceM

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Dennis Massie

We’re Building an Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator!Program Officer

Where can I find ILL cost data?

$16.93/$10.56

$17.82/$9.56

$17.50/$9.27

$9.62/$3.93(23 responses)

(72 responses)

Old Apples vs New Oranges

• 2002– Filled requests only– Selective tracking of

unmediated methods

• 2011– Filled and unfilled– No tracking of mediated

vs unmediated

• Meanwhile:– Libraries are now

lending from electronic holdings

– Print items are being loaned directly from offsite storage

– Many new methods, models, and technologies have emerged

• Megan Gaffney, University of Delaware

• Justin Hill, Temple University

• Margarita Moreno, National Library of Australia

• Ralph LeVan and Dennis Massie, OCLC Research

ILL Cost Calculator Working Group

• Users want to know:– Their resource sharing unit costs– How those costs evolve over time– How their costs compare with peers

• Users would like to project:– The financial impact of joining a consortium– Of buying a certain piece of equipment– Of implementing a new service

Use cases, surveys, and wireframes,oh, my!

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Google “oclc ill cost calculator”

• July/August: finish and test• September: call for data• January: report out to the community• June: report some more• September: rinse, repeat

Time frame

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Dennis MassieProgram Officer

massied@oclc.org

@SHARESguy

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