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This type of interface requires controlled data values mapped to FRBR group 1 entities, which in many cases are not available in existing MARC bibliographic records. I will discuss ongoing work using the XC Metadata Services Toolkit ([http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/ http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/]) to extract and normalize data from existing MARC records for videos in order to populate a FRBRized, faceted discovery interface.
==Escaping the Black Box — Building a Platform to Foster Collaborative Innovation==
* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org
* Kathryn Harnish, OCLC harnishk@oclc.org
Exposed Web services offer an unprecedented opportunity for collaborative innovation — that’s one of the hallmarks of Web-based services like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. These environments are popular not only for their native feature sets, but also for the array of community-developed apps that can run in them. The creativity of the development communities that work in these systems brings new value to all types of users.
What if the library community could realize this same level of collaborative innovation around its systems? What kinds of support would be necessary to transform library systems from “black boxes” to more open, accessible environments in which value is created and multiple by the user community?
In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities OCLC faced in creating just that kind of environment. The recently-released OCLC “cooperative platform” provides improved access to a wide variety of OCLC’s data and services, allowing library developers and other interested partners to collaborate, innovate, and share new solutions with fellow libraries. We’ll describe the open standards and technologies we’ve put in play in as we:
* exposed robust Web services that provide access to both data and business logic;
* created an architecture for integrating community-built applications in OCLC (and other) products; and
* developed an infrastructure to support community development, collaboration, and app sharing
Learn how OCLC is helping to open the “black box” -- and give libraries the freedom to become true partners in the evolution of their library systems.
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