RLG Programs and International Collaboration

RLG Programs and
International
Collaboration

Living the Future: Transforming Libraries
Through Collaboration

Nancy Elkington, OCLC Programs & Research
May 2, 2008
Tucson. Arizona

A word from our sponsors…

RLG Programs Living the Future7 – May 2, 2008

Areas for focus

• Now that they have gone…

• RLG – then and now

• Relationship management

• Value and choice

• Project sampler


Now that Peter and Rick have gone

• Behaviors and expectations

• Social networks
• Technology drivers

• Degrees of complexity


Behaviors and Expectations

Jstor
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Traditional Social Networks - Then


Traditional Social Networks - Now


Technology Drivers for Networking


Degrees of Complexity


RLG – Then and Now

• 1970’s – sharing

• 1980’s – cooperation

• 1990’s – international collaboration

• 2000’s – collective action


Collaboration is…

A. An unnatural act

B. A defining characteristic and an essential
operational tactic of RLG Programs

C. Woven into the fabric of the social web

D. A preferred business strategy for web-scale
organizations


Transnational Collaboration

Japan
Europe

Australia

US and Canada

Egypt and UAE

United Kingdom France
Ireland Italy
Germany Spain
Netherlands Switzerland
New Zealand


Building New Relationships

• Cultures

• Languages

• Values

• Funding

• Expectations

• Challenges


Sustaining Thriving Relationships

• Value drivers

• Metrics

• CRM system

• Networking


Remediation


RLG Programs and OCLC Research


Programs and Research Work Agenda


Managing the Collective Collection

Data Mining
RLG Programs worked with the New York Art Resources
Consortium to supply the art museum libraries with
the business intelligence they need to make informed
decisions about the nature of their collaborative efforts.



Shared Print Program
Collectively enable research institutions to enact
cooperative print management schemes

Duplication Rate Circulation by Subject
6 Law
Library Science, Generalities, and Reference
Geography and Earth Sciences
Political Science
5 Business and Economics
Average No. of Copies

Language, Linguistics, and Literature
Agriculture
4.5 History and Auxiliary Sciences
Physical Sciences
4 Philosophy and Religion
Biological Sciences
Engineering and Technology
Education
3 Chemistry
Music
Performing Arts
Art and Architecture
2 Mathematics
Anthropology
Medicine
Physical Education and Recreation
Sociology
1 Psychology
1900 1915 1930 1945 1960 1975 1990 2005 Computer Science

Publication Date 0 1 2 3 4

Figure 1. Duplication rates have remained stable since the mid 1970s. Figure 2. Circulation activity varies by subject; shelf-status (reserves;
closed stacks) may be a factor.


Harmonizing Digitization
While the mass digitization
partnerships have focused
largely on published works,
our approaches to special
collections will have to
evolve to make a significant
contribution.


Supporting New Modes of
Scholarship

Organizational and service relationships

Bring about greater collaboration among libraries,
archives and museums by surfacing models for
sharing data, services and expertise.

Smithsonian Institution

Princeton University
Edinburgh University
Yale University V&A Museum


Renovating Descriptive & Organizing
Practices

Prototype an Identities Resource


WorldCat Identities


Renovating Descriptive & Organizing
Practices

VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France,
and OCLC are jointly conducting a project to match and link the authority records for personal
names in the retrospective personal name authority files of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (dnb),
the Library of Congress (LC), and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).


Measurements and Behaviors


Operating in the Cloud


Registries


Modeling New Service
Infrastructures

Contribute to the
development of a
Registry of Copyright
Evidence

The work undertaken by RLG Partner
institutions for this project was an early
step in contributing to the development
of the Registry of Copyright Evidence.
This registry will ultimately lead to the
creation of a consistent, accepted
process for libraries, archives and
museums to gain permission to provide
access to high-risk or special
collection materials.

Infrastructures

Terminology Services

A team at OCLC Research is putting
the finishing touches on an experimental
web services environment for controlled
vocabularies that will support: search for
a concept/heading in a controlled
vocabulary; retrieval of a single
vocabulary record by its identifier; return
of search results in vocabulary records
in HTML, MARC XML, Zthes 1.0, and
SKOS; search using SRU CQL syntax.


Infrastructures

Grid Services


Outputs

• Prototypes

• Usability tests

• Surveys

• Reports, articles and white papers

• Podcasts and webinars

• Blogs about our work


Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog


hangingtogether.org

Categories
Architecture and standards (10)
Archives (40)
Digital Preservation (32)
LAM (Libraries, Archives, Museums) (57)
Libraries (27)
Managing the Collective Collection (42)
Measurement and Behaviors (11)
Miscellaneous (91)
Modeling new services (13)
Museums (34)
Renovating Descriptive Practice (46)
RLG Programs (45)
Searching (27)
Supporting Scholarship (11)
Visual Resources (7)


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