OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Strategic Strategic Partnerships: Partnerships:

An International An International View View 30 October 2003

OCLC will be the leading global library

cooperative helping libraries serve

people by providing economical access

to knowledge through innovation

and collaboration.

VisionVision

OCLC’s public OCLC’s public

purposespurposesFurther access to the world’s informationFurther access to the world’s information

Reduce the rate of rise of per-unit library costsReduce the rate of rise

of per-unit library costs

650

3,000

678

4,10036,524

450

The CooperativeThe Cooperative45,000 libraries

8,878 in 83 countries outside U.S.

45,000 libraries

8,878 in 83 countries outside U.S.

SABINET OnlineSABINET Online

Gerhard Kemp

OCLCOCLC PICAPICA

Rein van Charldorp

Nick RawsonJanet Lees

OCLC PICAOCLC PICA

Members Council Members Council delegatesdelegates

Christine Bailey University of Glasgow

Wim van Drimmelin Royal Library of the Netherlands

Diane Man University of the Witwatersrand

Norma Read University of Cape Town

CanadaCanada

Latin America & the Latin America & the

CaribbeanCaribbean

Asia PacificAsia PacificAustralia

China

Hong Kong

Japan

Korea

Singapore

Taiwan

Cataloging QuestionPoint netLibrary FirstSearch E-journals ILLiad

WorldCatWorldCat53 million records

888 million location listings

40 million books

2.4 million serials

1.4 million visual materials

Trends: Internet search & Trends: Internet search &

answeranswer

Trends: information Trends: information

formatsformats

scholarly resources

2003

five-year forecast

traditional materials

“e” materials

printed scholarly journals

Trends: research & Trends: research &

learninglearningReduced funding

Proliferation of e-learning

Institutional repositories

New flows of scholarly materials

Lifelong learning

Trends: library Trends: library

landscapelandscapeMany librarians retiring

Technical and economic challenges of digital preservation

Managing digital content

Mainstream special collections

Increased integration

No pattern of involvement with research and learning materials

E-learningE-learning “Libraries and the Enhancement of E-

learning”

“Libraries and the Enhancement of E-

learning”

CollectionsCollectionshigh low

low

hig

h

stewardship

un

iqu

en

ess

booksjournals

special collections

research and learning

materials

freely-accessible web resources

OCLC ResearchOCLC Research...to expand knowledge that advances OCLC’s public purpose of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs.

OCLC ResearchOCLC Researchsubject classification

name authority

citation analysis

e-print archives

user view

ePrints UK

OCLC ResearchOCLC Research“A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects”

“A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects”

Functional Requirements for Functional Requirements for

Bibliographic RecordsBibliographic Records (FRBR) (FRBR)

Work | expression | manifestation | item

FRBR work-set algorithm

WebJunctionWebJunction

netLibrarynetLibrary

60,000 titles

8,670 libraries

385 publishers

60,000 titles

8,670 libraries

385 publishers

QuestionPointQuestionPoint

Netherlands

CanadaUK

China

GreeceSweden Denmark

NorwayJapan

GermanySwitzerland

AustraliaTaiwan

SloveniaBelgium

Non-US libraries

Al@dinAl@din

Digital ArchiveDigital Archive

3,000 objects3,000 objects

CONTENTdmCONTENTdm

Dutch example goes here, OCLC PICA to provide a URL..THIS IS FROM A MUNCIPAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN THE NETHERLANDS (SEE LIBER SPEECH).

Olive software Olive software Historical newspaper digitization & delivery

WorldCat tomorrowtomorrowWorldCat tomorrowtomorrow

graphics, sound and motiongraphics, sound and motion

new contributorsnew contributors

UNICODEUNICODE

linkslinks

full text

MARC, Dublin Core, IFLA FRBRMARC, Dublin Core, IFLA FRBR

OCLC PICA Dutch OCLC PICA Dutch

Catalog GGCCatalog GGC

Virtual international Virtual international

authorities fileauthorities file

Open WorldCat PilotOpen WorldCat Pilot

A global cooperativeA global cooperative

Links in the co-opLinks in the co-op

Knowledge mapKnowledge mapphysical digital

ab

ou

tb

y

manuscripts

articles

video clips

e-contentarticles

books

artdocumentaries

images websites

eBooks

sound recordings

Who pays the Who pays the

ferryman?ferryman?Differential pricing

cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly)

share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community

Who pays the Who pays the

ferryman?ferryman?Differential pricing

cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly)

share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community

Who pays the Who pays the

ferryman?ferryman?Differential pricing

cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly)

share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community

Who pays the Who pays the

ferryman?ferryman?Differential pricing

cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly)

share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community

Who pays the Who pays the

ferryman?ferryman?Differential pricing

cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly)

share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community