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‘Everything Available’– a vision for the developmentof the British Library servicesfor research
Dr Torsten ReimerHead of Research Serviceshttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-9422
RLUK conference, London, 09 March 2017
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Living Knowledge
• Our mission is to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment.
• Living Knowledge articulates the vision of the British Library in 2023 as the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind in the world.
• Roly Keating: ‘These are times of historic disruption in the whole global system of information and publication, and it seems right that the great knowledge institutions – with their historic remit to think and act with a view far into the future – should play a full part in shaping the changes that lie ahead.’
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Disruption 1: new ways of working
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Disruption 2: discovery, access, user expectations
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Disruption 2: discovery, access, user expectations
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/researchers-of-tomorrow
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Disruption 2: discovery, access, user expectations
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Disruption 3: Budgets, subscriptions, VfM
£
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Disruption 4: open science & scholarly communication
• Access• Data• Source• Science• …
Open
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How to respond?
• Add value, be a partner in content creation and research
• Bring content to the user (even if the ‘user’ is a machine)
• Collections in a global world (preserve locally, discover globally)
• Grow capability for discovery and access services
• Focus on user experience, usability and value proposition
• Tailored content provision
• Move to platform / infrastructure provision
• Replace/update all core library systems
• Deliver more in partnership
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The five major change portfolios
Everyone Engaged
St Pancras Transformed
Boston Spa Renewed
Heritage Made Digital
Everything Available
BL’s most important and/or at-risk heritage collections fully digitised
All digitised content on a common platform
Interoperable with other great digitised heritage collections around the world
At-risk collections from other countries digitised with EAP/BL support
BL’s London campus completed and successfully serving 3m+ visitors per year
Improved and extended facilities for exhibitions, learning, research and business support
Alan Turing Institute fully established and integrated on campus
BL understood, valued and supported by people right across the UK
50,000 people paying membership fees at different levels
BL at the heart of a thriving professional network of major UK libraries and knowledge quarters
BSP established as international centre of excellence in collection management, physical and digital
Multiple partners from cultural and research sectors
New generation digital skills, diverse workforce
Attractive, high-quality campus facilities, buildings and landscape design
Comprehensive and immediate on-site access to the latest research content
Sustainable models for remote access
Common access and discovery tools for all content in BL collections – and beyond
Supporting scholarly communications nationally / globally
BL recognised as offering the best national research library service in the world
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Improving discovery
short• UX study and UI changes• Trial new approaches
mid• Review and possibly
replace current discovery
long• Take a lead in researching
& delivering new solutions
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ATI, AI and data driven library
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Access & use
• From just-in-case to just-in-time provision
• Tailored delivery, feature OA content
• Open up collections:– BL API platform– universal viewer
• Supporting research: BL Labs, data analytics,plans for Digital Research and AV Suite
• Reconsider infrastructure for access and preservation
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Replacing the Digital Library System
• Primary driver: enhance BL capacity
• Opportunity to offer preservation and access services to others
Current system Replacement
Developed in-house ten years ago Dramatic increase in scalability
750 TB, replicated over four sites Multi-tenancy enabled
Preservation-focused system Preservation and access
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Repository services and questions
• EThOS, widely used BL repository service for theses,to be replatformed (with preservation capability?)
• BL needs own repository function
• Discussion with partners abouta shared repository service
• Open access preservation?
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BL data strategy
‘Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today.’
Data Archiving and Preservation
Data Discovery, Access and Reuse
Data CreationData Management
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Service layers
Institutions
(Inter)national infrastructure
On-site & on-line
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(Start of a) roadmap
Short-termImprove discovery solutions
User registration andremote access
Tailored delivery and just-in-time-provision of content
API platform(starting with EThOS)
Improve user experience
Develop open accessstrategy and policy
Lay groundwork to implement the BL data policy
Scope services for proposed Digital Reading Room
Medium-termImproved whole discovery
architecture
Enhanced identifier and digital preservation services
Shared services model and national infrastructure
Make Library collections accessible through external
tools/infrastructures
Appropriate on-site support for data-driven research and
digital/AV materials
BL as custodian for culturally relevant business data
Long-termNew approaches to discovery,
including AI-based systems
Exceptional increase in TDM capacity for heritage content
and BL collections more
Provide support for digital research lifecycle, working
with partners
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Making everything available means working together
• No single institution can crack this
• Time for more coordination at national level and beyond
• Collect jointly, preserve nationally, discover internationally
Two concrete things:
• Skills: work shadowing and placements
• Repository / preservation workshop this spring