Post on 30-Mar-2015
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Moving Libraries to the Cloud
Roy Tennant
What Are You Talking About?
• A cloud is a common metaphor for the Internet:
Cloud Computing
• “A style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet” - Wikipedia
• Incorporates the concepts of:– Infrastructure as a Service (hardware capacity)– Platform as a Service (OS, “solution stacks”)– Software as a Service (applications)
Moving to the Cloud
• Moving “to the cloud” means moving computing tasks from in-house hardware and software to resources on the net
• Therefore, “moving libraries to the cloud” means moving library data and applications to the network level
Potential Benefits
• Low barriers to entry• Pay as you go instead of capital investment• No need to have local server capacity• Software upgrades are automatic• Saves staff
Potential Drawbacks
• Lack of complete control• Reliance on network connectivity and speed
The Cloud From a Business Perspective
So What About Libraries?
An Example: Cataloging
Carddistributionservice
Local card catalog
Catalogers
Bibliographicrecords
Added value
An Example: Cataloging
Bibliographicutility
Bibliographicrecords
Local catalog
Catalogers
Added value
An Example: Cataloging
Union catalog,Locally tailored and skinned
Bibliographicrecords
Catalogers
Added value
Benefits accrue to all!
OCLC’s “Expert Community” Experiment
• Allowing “wiki-like” editing of WorldCat records• “I’m very excited about the experiment and have
already "updated" more records in the past month than I have in months previous to this” – Nathan Putnam
Machine Services for Libraries in the Cloud
Data Layer
Application Layer
Presentation Layer
Typical Application
Diagrams from David Walker
Data Layer
Application Layer
XML layer
API-based Application
Data Layer
Application Layer
XML layer
Custom Presentation Layer
API-Based Application
Sent to anothersource to retrieve
worldcat.org/devnet/
Mashed Libraries UK 2008
WorldCat Hackathon 2008
OCLC Bootcamp, Code4Lib 2009
Ways Libraries Are Benefitting from Moving Data to the Cloud
WorldCat Search API and Facebook
http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/
WorldCat Citations in Facebook
http://apps.facebook.com/citemeapp/
Terminology Services for smarter searches
http://webapp2.dlib.indiana.edu/search/
http://thesecretmirror.com/code/api-fun-visualizing-holdings-locations
Visualizing WorldCat Holdings
WorldCat WordPress Widget
http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/218/worldcat-wordpress-widget/
Mobile Web Applications
http://mobileworldcat.org
Mobile Web Applications
Android Application: CompareEverywhere
http://compare-everywhere.com
CompareEverywhere Splash Page
CompareEverywhere Searching
CompareEverywhere Search Results
CompareEverywhere Library Links
CompareEverywhere Library Information
A Library Catalog on an Android Phone
A Library Catalog on an Android Phone
CompareEverywhere API Traffic Spike
CompareEverywhere, Day 1
For more details …
worldcat.org/devnet