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Nurturing the Virtual Community
Digital Library Collections
Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian
University of Guelph
NELINET Annual Collections Services Conference Collections as Services
Mount Wachusett Community College March 18, 2008
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Digital Collections
Understanding Canadians
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Canadian
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Digital Collections
Understanding Canadians
If a Canadian had written Gone With the Wind,
what would Rhett Butler have said to
Scarlett O’Hara?
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Digital Collections
Disclaimer…
I’m an academic librarian. I feel your pain.
I’m also a CIO and a university administrator.
So, I come to you from
the dark side.
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Digital Collections
Street Cred
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Digital Collections
“When simple change becomes transformational
change, the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.”
The Mirage of Continuity (1999) Hawkins & Battin
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Digital Collections
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
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Digital Collections
Libraries are ….
Arbitrators or Gatekeepers
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Digital Collections
Paul SaffoInstitute for the Future
“The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.”filtering, searching and sense-making tools
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Digital Collections
Libraries are ….
Sense Makers & Coherence Engines
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Digital Collections
What Has Happened?
• Collections: digital, collective, ubiquitous, shared
• Services: collaborative, integrated, networked
• Staff: specialized, diverse, team-based, learners
• Users: nomadic, cross institutional, global, expanded
• Space: shared, diverse, multipurpose, community
Massive interdependence
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Digital Collections
Collaboration
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Digital Collections
Collaboration
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Digital Collections
Information Ecology
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Two Major Transformations
to Environment1. From database & repository
to Information Finding People2. From people finding information
Towards the Information
Ecology
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Digital Collections
In an age of abundance, current libraries are still designed for scarcity.
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The Digital Tsunami
Exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes
Amount of digital information created, captured or
replicated in 2006: 161 exabytes
All spoken human language since
the beginning of time: 5 exabytes
Email traffic in 2006: 6 exabytes
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Digital Collections
Flickr Google RSS Kartoo MySpace Twitter
API Boing Boing Mashups Facebook Grokker
Digg Second Life Wiki Podcasts Del.icio.us
YouTube JumpTV BitTorrent Bloglines uPortal WordPress Miro Netflix Yahoo! Ruby on Rails PHP
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Digital Collections
Key Issues
Interoperability
Smart Content
Digital Preservation
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Small changes
Big impacts
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Digital Collections
What are “Digital Collections?”
• not really about format
• more conceptual than physical
• local and widely distributed
• not “selected” or “built”
• something grown or allowed to emerge
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Digital Collections
Interoperability
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Digital Collections
Encapsulated Content
Constrains or limitations imposed by:
• technology
• laws and/or contracts
• financial implications
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Digital Collections
Smart Content
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Information Finding People
Information (content) needs new qualities and characteristics
• content as transceivers
• beyond “deep linking” to “self aware” data
• the semantic web ….. on steroids
• metadata + web services + info agents
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Digital Collections
Digital Preservation
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Migration with Integrity
Digital collections are extraordinarily fragile
• significant technology challenge
• greater cultural challenge
• more than just backups and dark archives
• “ecological sustainability”
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Digital Collections
Corollary #1 & #2
Permanent beta.
Ignorance is bliss.
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Digital Collections
“Fail.Fail Again. Fail Better.”
Samuel Beckett
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Digital Collections
Northern Examples
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Scholars Portal
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Digital Collections
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
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Digital Collections
Ontario Council of University Libraries
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Digital Collections
“Culture eats strategy for lunch every day of the week.”
Elson Floyd, PresidentWashington State University
Reality Check
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Your Moment of Zen...
DavidPenniman
Executive Director Nylink
“To remain what it is, the library must change . . .
. . . if it does not change, it will not remain what it is.”
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Digital Collections
The demise of the Titanic
was brought about by the
As we invent the future of digital collections,
are we thinking about airplanes or icebergs?
In the final analysis the Titanic was not sunk
by an iceberg.
rise of commercial air travel.
A Cautionary Tale...
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Nurturing the Virtual Community
Digital Library Collections
Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian
University of Guelph
NELINET Annual Collections Services Conference Collections as Services
Mount Wachusett Community College March 18, 2008