1	OCLC’s Strategic Direction: The Future of MLC OCLC Users Day - June 2, 2005 Bill Carney, Product Portfolio Manager, Cataloging Product Management Tam Dalrymple, Global Product Manager, WorldCat Content Services
2	Outline The “Amazoogle” model WorldCat as data store WorldCat as service platform Futures
3	“Amazoogle” model of data stores Massively centralized data stores Powerful application platform Local data is stored in a consistent format Amazon and Google could not provide their current quality of service over distributed repositories of data.
4	WorldCat is a centralized data store Excellent tool for discovery Economies of scale Services that cannot be created at the local level
5	Leverage a central database to Provide a rewarding user experience Provide quick response time Accommodate all types of libraries Accommodate all types of collections
6	What is WorldCat content?
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8	Electronic Serials gap in WorldCat
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10	Closing the gap WorldCat Global Knowledge Base Pilot e-holdings service Enhance WorldCat-based services
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14	Value Proposition Patrons Patrons discover previously “hidden” e-serials held by their library through WorldCat on FirstSearch, and via Open WorldCat Resource Sharing Librarians Library staff discover serials within the library collection via OCLC Resource Sharing, reducing the need for external requests Collection Analysis Librarians Collection analysis staff able to see and compare print and digital serials collections
15	E-Holdings Service Pilot Enhancement to OCLC cataloging Libraries authorize vendors to send holdings statements for e-content OCLC sets and maintains holdings automatically Optional MARC record update and delivery 20+ libraries June through October
16	E-Holdings Pilot Participating Partners
17	OCLC Cataloging – Looking Forward! Passport for cataloging retires this Saturday! CatME, CJK and Arabic software retire on July 1 Connexion client v1.40 is due out in July and will contain a spell checker and local validation Support for cataloging with Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic scripts is coming in the July – September 2005 timeframe for the Connexion client. This is in addition to Chinese, Japanese and Korean
18	And more WorldCat growth….
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20	Increase the breadth of WorldCat Add metadata and holdings for more institutions Group catalogs Union catalogs New kinds of institutions
21	Increase the depth of WorldCat Improve access to and management of article-level metadata Add evaluative content
22	Improving access: serials holdings MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data (MFHD) Better interoperability Accommodates more detail, better routing Store local call numbers
23	Improving access: article metadata Program to add collections of article-level metadata to WorldCat 500,000 article records in WorldCat today Adding Electronic Collections Online metadata Latin American article content Actively looking for new article suppliers to WorldCat
24	Versioning WorldCat 14 group catalogs Regional National Association WorldCat “views” Ebooks Dissertations
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26	Open WorldCat A cooperative approach to making libraries visible and available on the open Web Cooperation enables libraries to achieve effective integration with many search engines Connects the user with the library at the point of need
27	How Open WorldCat works
28	Clicks from Open WorldCat
29	Futures
30	Evaluative content: Wiki WorldCat User-contributed evaluative content associated with WorldCat records Will enable WorldCat users to share their expertise Input capability August 2005 from Open WorldCat records Later from other services Goal to make data available in all services
31	Wiki WorldCat: Wiki Content Page
32	Unlocking the value of the data in WorldCat FRBR Collection Analysis
33	What is FRBR? Work Hamlet Expression Hamlet in French Manifestation Andre Gide’s translation published in Paris in 1946 Item DLC – Call #PR2779.H3G5 1946
34	Sample search for Carol Shields
35	Benefits of this streamlining Reduces “duplicates” Improves metadata Consolidates holdings Enhances all services Resource sharing Online collection analysis Group catalogs Open WorldCat
36	Online Collection Analysis
37	Benefits of using a centralized data store for collection analysis Choice of 12,000 libraries for comparison Analyzes entire collections, regardless of classification schemes, local system Requires no data preparation Unified approach to subject classification
38	For individual libraries…
39	Drill down by subject
40	How it helps libraries … Identify gaps & duplicates Facilitate weeding, cancellations Supports preservation Identify “opening day” collections Leverage the investments in cooperation
41	What questions do you have? bill_carney@oclc.org tam_dalrymple@oclc.org
42	Your collections enable WorldCat To make more library collections more widely available To help libraries manage and conserve their resources Special collections International Licensed content More granular metadata We will Enhance user functionality Meet the users at the point of need Involve users with your collections Help you version your collections Help you with data mining your collections
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44	Futures
45	Current list
46	Prototype – Record Display
47	Qualitative Feedback on Open WorldCat