Batchload User Group Meeting Ted Fons, Director, WorldCat Global Metadata Network Pam Harper, Product Manager, Batchload services Tony Chirakos, Consulting Batchload Specialist Joanne Gullo, Senior Consulting Database Specialist September 28, 2010

WorldCat Growth & Quality: Vision and Practice Ted Fons Director WorldCat Global Metadata Network Batchload User Group Meeting September 28, 2010

OCLC The world’s libraries. Connected. More collaboration More institutions More Web-scale More synchronization More innovation Local Group Global More Better

WorldCat Growth – Growing WorldCat Faster

WorldCat Growth since 1998 Create system-wide efficiencies in library management WorldCat Growth since 1998 Millions of records

How WorldCat Grows 2009

How WorldCat Grows 2009

How WorldCat Grows 2009

WorldCat Growth – Is It Working? Local Group Global

Create system-wide efficiencies in library management WorldCat Today 202 million records 1.6+ billion holdings September 2010

150 million bib records 3.6 million digital items 1.5 billion holdings 425 million items electronic database & journal records, ebooks 30 million items – eBooks, Institutional Repositories, Archives (Google, HathiTrust, OAIster) Physical holdings in WorldCat Licensed electronic content in library collections Local library content being digitized 1.9 billion items and growing!

Files loaded or pending for WorldCat Create system-wide efficiencies in library management Files loaded or pending for WorldCat ABES (France) Bavarian State Library Bibliothek Alexandrina (Egypt) Bibliothekszentrum Baden Württemberg (Germany) British Library DANBIB (Denmark) GBV (Germany) HeBIS (Germany) IDS Informationsverbund Deutsch-Schweiz (Switzerland) Lebanese American University LIBRIS (Sweden) Qatar University UnityUK Zayed University Consortium (UAE)

National files loaded or pending for WorldCat Create system-wide efficiencies in library management National files loaded or pending for WorldCat Bibliothèque nationale de France German National Library Libraries Australia National Central Library, Taiwan National Library Board, Singapore National Library of Barbados National Library of China National Library of Finland National Library of Israel National Library of Mexico National Library of New Zealand National Library of Scotland National Library of Spain National Library of Sweden National Library of Wales Swiss National Library

% % Percentage of Non-English Records Total Records English French German Spanish Japanese Russian Chinese Italian Latin Portuguese Dutch Hebrew m records 23.9 m 2.3 m 2.2 m 1.6 m.8 m.7 m.3 m.2 m m records 64.3 m 8.5 m 17.9 m 4.5 m 2.8 m 2.3 m 4.3 m 2.1 m 1.9 m 1.1 m 2.9 m 1.2 m Multilingual WorldCat Create system-wide efficiencies in library management Multilingual WorldCat

WorldCat Growth – The Value of the Cooperative Local Group Global

Record Supply: Where do WorldCat records come from? The cooperative provides the content. The cooperative activity provides the value.

WorldCat: Key to All OCLC Services WorldCat Find & Get Items Discovery Holdings & Availability Resource Sharing Bibliographic Descriptions Cataloging & Metadata Services Library Descriptions WorldCat Registry

OCLC The world’s libraries. Connected. More collaboration More institutions More Web-scale More synchronization More innovation Local Group Global More Better

Improving OCLC Batchload services Pam Harper Product Manager OCLC Batchload services Batchload User Group Meeting September 28, 2010

Improving Batchload We are c ontinually striving to make improvements to the process of updating WorldCat including: Improving batchload reporting Decreasing the total time for processing batchload requests Requesting a batchload

Upcoming Batchload Changes Requesting A Batchload Beginning Sunday, November 16, 2010 all batchload requests will be placed through the Online Service Center (OSC). A checklist is available to assist with identifying the information necessary to place a batchload request. Checklist will be updated to support all types of batchload requests. Updates to Local Holdings records continue to go through the OSC on a unique request form.

Current Methods of Synchronizing With WorldCat On-Line Via Connexion Catalog in ILS, then batch files ftp

Synchronizing With WorldCat In response to the needs of our member libraries, OCLC is currently piloting a new tool to assist libraries with synchronizing their ILS with WorldCat.

Challenges of Synchronizing With WorldCat Challenges of updating WorldCat Competing priorities Detecting edits Detecting deletes Complexity of local system exports

Gateway to Sync Your ILS With WorldCat Responding to the challenges: Create a tool to automatically detect and elicit changed bib records from ILS and sync with WorldCat. “Sync Gateway”

ILS Synchronization Gateway Sync Gateway Library Control Access WorldCat SRU ILS WorldCat Access ILS Aleph Unicorn Voyager Innovative Horizon … Access Aleph Access Unicorn Access Voyager Access Innovative Access Horizon … OCLC developed component, freely shared via OCLC download WCIRU ILS Plugin

ILS Synchronization Gateway Pilot Aleph Innovative University of New South Wales (UNSW) Innovative University of Washington (UW) Australian National University (ANU) Pilot currently includes 3 Universities and 2 ILS vendors

ILS Synchronization Gateway Aleph Unicorn Voyager Horizon Expanding pilot to include additional institutions and ILS vendors

ILS Synchronization Gateway Reduced Challenges Keeps you in sync with WorldCat You set the schedule for updating WorldCat Improved accuracy of other WorldCat services Included with Cataloging Subscription “Sync Gateway”

Batchload User Group Tony Chirakos Consulting Batchload Specialist OCLC Batchload services Batchload User Group Meeting September 28, 2010

Batchload User Group Purpose: To contribute to the building of an OCLC Batchload user community that shares ideas, networks with other Batchload users, and has access to information about Batchload at OCLC. Meeting’s at least twice a year Suggested topics Details of batchload technology The Batchload business process – (Ordering, data delivery, data processing, reporting) Data processing capabilities Batchload development efforts Suggestions for Enhancements Presentations from the community about Batchload project experiences

Batchload Support Channels – General support questions and consultation about the Batchload service. Batchload-L – Discussion List for community support. (Sign up at Batchload specialist – For active projects, contact your assigned Batchload specialist. - 2 nd level operational support issues, potential software processing problems, product enhancements requests, feature requests.

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