OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference 2012, National Library of Malaysia, 3-4 September 2012.

1. APAC Regional Council Meeting 4th September 2012
OCLC WorldShare
Cooperating and Innovating at Webscale
Chris Thewlis
Regional Manager, Australia / New Zealand
OCLC
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2. Shared data about the world’s libraries.
Find and get it.
Shared infrastructure to manage and share resources
across libraries and across communities.

3. • The core infrastructure underlying all OCLC applications.
Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Webscale with Libraries.
•Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a „Webscale‟ world
• Designed from the ground up for and reduceoperations
•Increase efficiencies Webscale costs.
App Gallery
Webscale Data, Discovery and Webscale management of library
Syndication Services services across Print, Licensed &
Open to the community Digital
to enable Web Services
Collaboration & Innovation
“Collective Innovation”
Support greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
and sharing Platform
Data
Support library collaboration and innovation at scale, by providing an
open, Webscale technical infrastructure.
Management
Infrastructure

4. Data Centers and Business Continuity
Data Centers Today:
US2 App Gallery
EMEA 1
US1
Web Services
Platform
Data
• 600Tb of online storage Management
• 4,000 virtual machines
• High resilience Infrastructure
• Geographically distributed for legal, data
protection and performance reasons
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5. Infrastructure
Data Centers and Business Continuity
New Data Centers
CAN 1
US2 EMEA 1
US1 EMEA 2
• Additional data centers
APAC 1
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6. Infrastructure
Privacy and Security
Privacy and Security Policies available:
http://www.oclc.org/policies
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7. Highly shared data models
Flexible, open
platform for the
264M+ Bib Records
Print
community to share
applications and 1.8Bn+ Holdings
innovation
956M+ Articles
App Gallery
13M+ eBooks Licensed
10M KB Services
Web Entries
Digital
40M Digital Items
Platform
Data
Management
Infrastructure
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8. Data
Highly shared data models
Real-time Synchronization
Cooperative Management 264M+ Bib Records
Flexible, open
platform for the Local
community to share
1.8Bn+ Holdings System
applications and
innovation 956M Articles
13M+ eBooks Union
Catalog
10M KB Entries
40M Digital Items Regional
Libraries Metadata Hubs
Supply Chains
Publishers Database Providers Mass Digitization
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9. Data Services & Business Logic Services
WorldCat Web Services Acquisitions Web Services
Flexible, open
platform for the
community to share
Knowledge
applications and base Web Services App Gallery Web Services
Circulation
innovation
WorldCat Registry Web Services Vendor Information Web
Web Services
Services
WorldCat Identities Web Web Services Platform
OpenURL Web Services
Data
Services Management
Identifier Web Services Infrastructure QuestionPoint knowledge
base Web Services
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10. WorldShare Platform:
What is it really?
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11. 1. A “toolbox” for developers who want to use OCLC services and
data to build new or enhance existing applications
Flexible, open
platform for the
community to share
applications and
innovation
App Gallery
Web Services
Platform
Data
Management
Infrastructure
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12. Platform
Management
2. An “App Gallery” through which libraries can easily share
apps created by the community.
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13. Platform
Management
3. Support for collaboration and cooperation within the library
community
Flexible, open
platform for the
community to share
applications and
innovation
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14. ―This is potentially a game-changer
in how libraries work with ―Game-changer‖
bibliographic open It turns the
Flexible,
data.
traditional approach of information
platform for the
processing inside out—the data is
community to share
in a superior position to the
applications and
innovation
computer program. The WorldShare
Platform is sort of like Facebook. App Gallery
Just as Facebook introduced ways
for outside developers to ‗integrate
into the core Facebook experience,‘
the WorldShare Platform enables Web Services
external providers to supply
applications that can use the data Platform
residing in the platform.‖ Data
Management
− Peter Murray, Lyrasis
―OCLC Introduces WorldShare‖ blog Infrastructure
post, December 22, 2011
http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2011w51/
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15. WorldShare Platform
+
A New Model for Library
Automation
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16. BASIC PRINCIPLE: ANYONE can develop on the WorldShare Platform
Flexible, open
• OCLC creates an app
platform for the OCLC-built Library-built Partner-built
community to share Applications Applications Applications
applications and
innovation
• A library developer creates
App Gallery
an app
Web Services
• A third party creates an
app
Platform
Data
Management
• Many happy libraries will
consume all three without Infrastructure
ever having to do anything!
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17. Library and Partner App Examples
Acquisitions plug-in Apps…
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18. WorldShare Management Services
An OCLC Developed ‗app‘ on the Platform
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19. What‘s included
• Acquisitions for physical and electronic collections
– all available in one service
• Circulation and patron management for the 21st century
– handled centrally using a simple, web-based interface
• Discovery and delivery as users expect it
– with WorldCat Local‘s or alternative single search interface
• Cataloging tools for data creation and enrichment
– powered by WorldCat
• The WorldCat knowledge base – combining data about
your library‘s electronic resources and linking features
• WMS Reporting
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20. What can be included
• Group / Consortial Functionality
• WorldShare License Manager
• management of license terms, integration with WMS Acquisitions,
electronic resource management efficiencies
• Next-gen Analytics tools (currently under development)
• Peer and authoritative list comparisons
• Decision-making tools
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21. WMS: Acquisitions
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22. WMS: Circulation
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23. License Manager: License Terms
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24. License Manager: Knowledge base
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25. WorldCat Local: Discovery
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26. WorldCat Local: Patron Record
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27. WorldCat Local: Course Reserves
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28. Analytics
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29. WorldShare Management Services Community (US and Canada)
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30. OCLC in the ANZ Region
• ANZ presence:
• 22 Staff
• Nearly all with library backgrounds & qualifications
• Local Support
• National Cataloguing Agreements:
• NLA
• Te Puna
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31. ANZ Region Product Offering
• Library Management Systems Digital Repositories
• CONTENTdm
• Amlib & CBS
Authentication services
• WorldCat Local (Discovery) • EZproxy
• Dewey
• Interlibrary Loan
• VDX
• WorldCat Resource Sharing
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32. Australian presence
OCLC WorldShare
Management Services community
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33. Controlled Role Out
• Identified Suitable partner libraries to work with
• Existing Amlib libraries
• New business
• Train Local Staff
• How to train libraries
• How to implement
• Datacentre in place
• Learn how to local data
• Bibliographic
• Holdings
• Transactional
• Train Operations Staff
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34. We are ready !
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35. Chris Thewlis
chris.thewlis@oclc.org
Questions?
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