Transcript Collection and User Analysis

Sponsored by the
OCLC President’s
Inclusion Council
OCLC WorldMapTM:
Visualizing Information About
Collections and Libraries
Worldwide
Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Larry Olszewski
January 31, 2008
Materials Represented in OCLC WorldCat
• More than 86 million bibliographic records
• More than a billion holdings
• More than 10,000 contributing member libraries
Data Represented in WorldCat Records
• Title
• Authors and other contributors
• Publication information
• Subject
• Language
• Format
Some Global Aspects of WorldCat
Content Languages: 473
Materials w/non-US origins:
47% of WC non-English
47.8 million (65%)
Top 5 non-English:
Top 5:
German: 9.8 million
Germany:
8.8 million
French:
UK:
7.3 million
Spanish: 3.3 million
France:
3.6 million
Dutch:
Netherlands:
2.7 million
Canada:
2.6 million
5.4 million
2.5 million
Chinese: 2.0 million
Non-English Metadata Language:
16.5 million (36 languages)
Top 5:
German: 5.4 million
Dutch:
French:
Finnish: 0.7 million
1.7 million
Japanese: 0.7 million
4.9 million
OCLC WorldMap: Objectives
Research prototype
• Complement the AAU/ARL Global Resources Network
project
• Project of the Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR)
• Test geographical representation of WorldCat
• Titles and holdings by country of publication
• Support data mining research area
• Visually display mined data to ease review and analysis
• Internal use
• Sales and marketing
• External use
• Library collection assessment and comparison
OCLC WorldMap: Objectives
Geographically represent WorldCat data
• Holdings by country of publication
• Published languages
• Published titles
OCLC WorldMap: Decision-making Resource
Collection management
• Cooperative collection development
• Comparative collection analysis
• Collection assessment
• Mass digitization
• Off-site storage
• Preservation
OCLC WorldMap: Objectives
Geographically represent data from other sources
• Number of
• Libraries
• Volumes
• Librarians
• Registered users
• Publishers
• Cultural heritage institutions
• Dollars spent
• People
OCLC WorldMap: Data Collection
Decisions
• Independent vs. dependent
• Administrative units vs. service points
• Inconsistent data categories
• Unknown date for source data
OCLC WorldMap: Data Collection
Challenges
• Absence
• Currency
• Accuracy
OCLC WorldMap: Decision-making Resource
Comparative library data
• Funding
• Assess cultural differences
• Provide benchmarks
• Authoritative vetted reference resource
OCLC WorldMap: Technology
Flex and Flash
Flex is an open-source framework for developing
Rich Internet Applications
Converted to Flex
• Browser compatibility
• Plug-in compatibility (requires Flash 9)
For a details on Flex see:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
OCLC WorldMap: URL
http://worldmap.oclc.org
OCLC WorldMap:
Possible Future Enhancements
Subject information “aboutness”
Metadata language
Holdings by country of library
Other?
OCLC WorldMap:
Papers and Presentations
L. S. Connaway and L. Olszewski. 2006. "A Geographical Representation of WorldCat
Resources: A Decision-Making Tool for Acquisitions and Collection Management."
Presented at the XXVI Annual Charleston Conference, 10 November, Charleston,
South Carolina (USA).
http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/connaway/20061110-charlestonworldmap.pdf
M. E. Jackson, L. S. Connaway, E. T. O’Neill, and E. Loh. 2006. “Changing Global Book
Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries.” Report prepared for Global Resources
Network. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/grn_global_book.shtml
L. S. Connaway, C. Snyder, and L. Olszewski. 2005. "Geographical Representation of
Library Collections in WorldCat: A Prototype." Presented at the poster session at
the 2005 ASIS&T Conference, 1 November, Charlotte, North Carolina (USA).
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2005/connawayetal-asist05.pdf
L. Olszewski, L. S. Connaway, and C. Snyder. 2005. "What in the World: Leveraging
Corporate Assets for Internal and External Use." Proceedings of the Special
Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference, 5-8 June, Toronto, Ontario
(Canada). https://www.sla.org/Documents/conf/toronto/Olszewski.doc
OCLC WorldMap
Presentation will be available at
http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/default.htm
Prototype available at
http://worldmap.oclc.org
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge Jeremy
Browning, J.D. Shipengrover, Timothy J.
Dickey, Clifton Snyder, and the OCLC Library
staff for their contributions to this project.
Questions and Discussion
Lynn Silipigni Connaway
[email protected]
Larry Olszewski
[email protected]