OCLC WorldShare. Cooperating and Innovating at Webscale. Chris Thewlis. Regional Manager, Australia / New Zealand OCLC

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1 APAC Regional Council Meeting 4 th September 2012 OCLC WorldShare Cooperating and Innovating at Webscale Chris Thewlis Regional Manager, Australia / New Zealand OCLC

2 Shared data about the world s libraries. Find and get it. Shared infrastructure to manage and share resources across libraries and across communities.

3 The core infrastructure Strategic Initiative underlying to Collaboratively all OCLC applications. build Webscale with Libraries. Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a Webscale world Designed from Increase the ground efficiencies up for and Webscale reduce operations costs. Open to the community to enable Collective Innovation and sharing Webscale Data, Discovery and Syndication Services Web Services Webscale management of library services across Print, Licensed & Digital Collaboration & Innovation Support greater collaboration and innovation between libraries. Data Support library collaboration and innovation at scale, by providing an open, Webscale technical infrastructure. Infrastructure App Gallery Platform Management

4 Data Centers and Business Continuity Data Centers Today: US2 EMEA 1 App Gallery US1 Web Services Data 600Tb of online storage 4,000 virtual machines High resilience Infrastructure Geographically distributed for legal, data protection and performance reasons Platform Management

5 Infrastructure Data Centers and Business Continuity New Data Centers CAN 1 US2 EMEA 1 US1 EMEA 2 Additional data centers APAC 1

6 Infrastructure Privacy and Security Privacy and Security Policies available:

7 Highly shared data models Flexible, open platform for the Print community to share applications and innovation 264M+ Bib Records 1.8Bn+ Holdings 956M+ Articles App Gallery 13M+ ebooks Licensed Digital 10M Web KB Services Entries 40M Digital Items Data Platform Management Infrastructure

8 Data Highly shared data models Cooperative Management Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation Libraries 264M+ Bib Records 1.8Bn+ Holdings 956M Articles 13M+ ebooks 10M KB Entries 40M Digital Items Real-time Synchronization Local System Union Catalog Regional Metadata Hubs Supply Chains Publishers Database Providers Mass Digitization

9 Data Services & Business Logic Services WorldCat Web Services Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation Knowledge base Web Services WorldCat Registry Web Services Web Services Acquisitions Web Services App Circulation Gallery Web Services Vendor Information Web Services WorldCat Identities Web Services Identifier Web Services Web Data Services Infrastructure OpenURL Web Platform Services Management QuestionPoint knowledge base Web Services

10 WorldShare Platform: What is it really?

11 1. A toolbox for developers who want to use OCLC services and data to build new or enhance existing applications Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation App Gallery Web Services Data Platform Management Infrastructure

12 Platform Management 2. An App Gallery through which libraries can easily share apps created by the community.

13 Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation Platform Management 3. Support for collaboration and cooperation within the library community

14 This is potentially a game-changer in how libraries work with bibliographic data. It turns the Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation traditional approach of information processing inside out the data is in a superior position to the computer program. The WorldShare Platform is sort of like Facebook. Just as Facebook introduced ways for outside developers to integrate into the core Facebook experience, the WorldShare Platform enables external providers to supply applications that can use the data residing in the platform. Peter Murray, Lyrasis OCLC Introduces WorldShare blog post, December 22, Web Services Data Game-changer Infrastructure App Gallery Platform Management

15 WorldShare Platform + A New Model for Library Automation

16 BASIC PRINCIPLE: ANYONE can develop on the WorldShare Platform Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation OCLC creates an app A library developer creates an app OCLC-built Applications Library-built Applications App Gallery Partner-built Applications A third party creates an app Web Services Data Platform Management Many happy libraries will consume all three without ever having to do anything! Infrastructure

17 Library and Partner App Examples Acquisitions plug-in Apps

18 WorldShare Management Services An OCLC Developed app on the Platform

19 What s included Acquisitions for physical and electronic collections all available in one service Circulation and patron management for the 21st century handled centrally using a simple, web-based interface Discovery and delivery as users expect it with WorldCat Local s or alternative single search interface Cataloging tools for data creation and enrichment powered by WorldCat The WorldCat knowledge base combining data about your library s electronic resources and linking features WMS Reporting

20 What can be included Group / Consortial Functionality WorldShare License Manager management of license terms, integration with WMS Acquisitions, electronic resource management efficiencies Next-gen Analytics tools (currently under development) Peer and authoritative list comparisons Decision-making tools

21 WMS: Acquisitions

22 WMS: Circulation

23 License Manager: License Terms

24 License Manager: Knowledge base

25 WorldCat Local: Discovery

26 WorldCat Local: Patron Record

27 WorldCat Local: Course Reserves

28 Analytics

29 WorldShare Management Services Community (US and Canada)

30 OCLC in the ANZ Region ANZ presence: 22 Staff Nearly all with library backgrounds & qualifications Local Support National Cataloguing Agreements: Libraries Australia Te Puna

31 ANZ Region Product Offering Library Management Systems Amlib & CBS WorldCat Local (Discovery) Dewey Interlibrary Loan VDX WorldCat Resource Sharing Digital Repositories CONTENTdm Authentication services EZproxy

32 Australian presence OCLC WorldShare Management Services community

33 Controlled Role Out Identified Suitable partner libraries to work with Existing Amlib libraries New business Train Local Staff How to train libraries How to implement Datacentre in place Learn how to local data Bibliographic Holdings Transactional Train Operations Staff

34 We are ready!

35 Chris Thewlis Questions?