ADLUG Roma (Italy) What is known must be shared Building on the insights from OCLC Research

CEO Ifnet Srl OCLC development partner Italy Gabriele Lunati

The OCLC Galaxy PAUL GABRIELE WESTON, La galassia OCLC, in La catalogazione derivata, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1993, p G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

BEHIND THE GALAXY

This presentation The OCLC Research Center –organisation, –people –current themes The «Galaxy» in numbers Conclusions G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

1967 OCLC «birthday» 1971 OCLC catalogue opening 1978 OCLC Research opening G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

OCLC RESEARCH

G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Advanced Development and Consultation Leading contributions to the development of mobile, "big data" infrastructure, bibliographic processing, linked data, analytics, data architecture and other areas. Sometimes Research prototypes or demos become production services. Main focus of expertise about archives in OCLC. To provide expertise to particular discussions within the organization. G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Member and Partner Engagement interconnected through personal and formal engagement with library and archival institutions and organizations an important contribution to enhancing our third role of engaging with members and mobilizing the community around shared concerns OCLC Research Library Partnership a global alliance of like-minded institutions that focuses on making operational processes more efficient and shaping new scholarly services G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

People page G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Reordering Ranganathan

Past activities G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Main areas of research:

Research Collections and Support Extending the reach and impact of special collections The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Understanding the system-wide library Analyzing the aggregate of library print collections Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print CollectionsUnderstanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Data Science Aggregating library-created data VIAF: Virtual International Authority File Person Entity Lookup Pilot (VIAF / ISNI / LCNAF /...) G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

User Studies Embedding the library in community workflows Engaging individuals in context G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

FROM PROJECT TO SERVICE

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) and OCLC international service (2012) designed to provide convenient access to the world's major name authority files G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Size of VIAF 37 active participants/files 29 million VIAF clusters 53 million source authority records –39 M personal –6 M corporate/conference –4 M geographic –4 M title 54 million links 111 million bibliographic records G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

QuestionPoint CDRS (a joint project LC / OCLC 2001) Provide high-quality reference services online and around the clock Increase coverage without increasing staff Share your know-how G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

QuestionPoint Available in various languages (including Italian) Fully customizable Usable in single installations (like the BNF) or in libraries networks G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

QuestionPoint G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

QuestionPoint G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

BACK TO THE GALAXY

339 million records 2.2 billion holdings 43 million digital items 16 million eBooks G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Books 261 million E-books 16 million Serials 12.4 million Visual materials 13 million Musical scores 7.6 million Maps 4.7 million Just a few of the dozens of types of content: Comprehensive and global G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

English: 131 million German: 44 million French: 31 million Spanish: 15 million Chinese: 10 million Italian: 8.2 million Dutch: 5.8 million Japanese: 9.7 million Russian: 4.5 million Some of the 484 languages represented… Comprehensive and global Polish: 4.1 million Danish: 3.1 million Latin: 4.4 million G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Investments 2014 $ 38,1 millions in R&D 19% for OCLC Research G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

The sources OCLC RESEARCH: VIAF: QUESTIONPOINT: STATISTICS: Advancing together : Annual report G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

CONCLUSIONS

“In this time of ‘information overload’ and fast changing technology I think that OCLC represents an increasingly important reference point. OCLC’s concept of cooperation on a global scale isn’t just about sharing data and documents but more importantly it is about sharing ideas and experiences which can be adopted and adapted to improve the activities and roles of every cultural institution: from Museums and archives to Libraries.” G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

A bizarre news 1° October 2015 G.Lunati (OCLC) – ADLUG – Roma 10/2015

Thank You ! Gabriele Lunati