A Matter of Semantics?

Intelligence, Open Data and the Future of ERM

Jonathan Blackburn

Mason Hall

Mason HallElectronic Resource Integration

Management Librarian

Jonathan BlackburnWeb Development Librarian

Overview

The “Perfect” DB Record

• Title• Alternate Titles• Description• Full-text coverage• Content Types Included (journals, newspapers,

etc.)• Features (RSS, Alerts, Refworks, etc.)

But this takes work to maintain (update) . . .

?Who would do the work?

?

Librarians at FSU

Librarians Outside FSU

Publishers and Vendors

All of the Above

Who?

Databases

Publishers/Providers

Journals

All of the Above

What?

Why?

How?

So, began our quest . . .

So what is the problem?

Duplication of Data

KB(expanded academic)

Open URLResolver

DatabaseFinder

FederatedSearch

Other Web Services

Licensing Manager

Services require a Knowledge Base…

KB KB KB KB KB

Open URLResolver

etc

Database Finder

Licensing Manager

Federated Search

Other Web Services

etc

…but the Reality is often a different beast

KB KB KB KB KB

Open URLResolver

etc

Database Finder

Licensing Manager

Federated Search

Other Web Services

etc

Another

Local SQL

+

Serials

Solutions

ERMS

Local SQLSFX

MetalibVaries

@ FSU Libraries

FSU University A

Consortia X

Who owns the data?

Is this a problem?

Is there a solution?

Solutions: Past and Future

Jake

• Formerly at: http://jake.openly.com/

CUFTShttp://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts

Registry Projects

• Ockham (http://www.ockham.org/registry.php)

• IESR (http://iesr.ac.uk/)

• ORCA (http://pilot.apsr.edu.au/wiki/index.php/ORCA_Registry )

• Combined Global Efforts

“Theoretical” Perfect System

Library OKRA?

“One Knowledgebase to Rule Them All

One Knowledgebase to Find Them

One Knowledgebase to Bring Them All

And In the Darkness Bind Them “

Library OKRA

- The Lord of the … ERM?

What might this look like?

Open

• Open Access

• Open Source

• Open Data

THIS IS US!

Shared

Models

• Cooperative Cataloging

• Wikipedia

• Freebase.com (the website)

(For Sharing)

Semantic

Semantic = Relationships

A very brief lesson

Triples

Subject Predicate Object

Publisher publishes JournalVendor owns Database

Article has author(s)

The Old (...current) Way

Item Attributes

Journal Name

Publisher

Subjects

Frequency

Etc..

?

Semantic Way

journal

subjects

alternate

namepublished

place

name

publisher

date

titled

also titledpublished in has alternate

published by

published

during

covers

publishes about

Semantic ERM

DBs

Providers

Subjects

PublishersInstitutions

Services

Usage Stats

Interface

Rights

Data

Journals

Challenges

• SCOPE

• PRIVACY (INSTITUTIONS)

• METADATA (SCHMETADATA)

• INCENTIVES

The “Killer App”

Other “Killer Apps”

Internet E-mail

WWW Mosaic

Library

OKRA ??

?

Is there hope?

• Encourage Publishers to be more Open with Data

• Press Vendors to Uncouple Data and Services

• Support Open Source Library Software

Continue this Discussion on:

LibraryOKRA.com