wednesday closing speakers: where are we headed? tools & technologies for the future
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presented by Andrew S. Nagy (Serials Solutions) and Ross Singer (TALIS)TRANSCRIPT
WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
Ross Singer, Talis Interoperability and Open Standards Champion Andrew Nagy, Serials SolutionsMarket Manager North America, Discovery Services
… I have no idea.Any Questions?
A brief intro
• both started as a software developer• both worked in libraries for many years• both established open source projects• both moved into corporate positions
So where are we headed?
• Software as a Service and Cloud Computing
• Web-scale Discovery• Linked Data
Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Vendor Hosted• Scalable Infrastructure• Blahty blahty blah
• Saves time and money• No servers to buy and replace every few
years• No updates to load
Very Centralized
Very Decentralized
Even Mix More Centralized
Very Centralized
Cloud Computing
• Infrastructure that grows with your needs • Amazon EC2• Google App Engine• OCLC QuickStart
Library Resource Discovery
• Web Search (Google, Yahoo, Etc.)• WorldCat• Next Generation Catalog (Discovery
Layers)oVuFind / BlackLightoAquaBrowser / Primo / Encore
Next Gen Catalog: Only Half the Solution
Web-scale Discovery
Simple, Easy, Fast
• We are not attracted to Google because of it’s name
• We use it because of its attributes
Linked Data
Tim Berners-Lee 4 Rules
1. Use URIs as names for things 2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. 3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information,
using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) 4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more
things. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde in RDF
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
sameas.org
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
http://purl.org/NET/lccn/75624382#i
Also available as RDF
http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007432731#i
http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007379628#i
Putting it together