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Moving Libraries to the Cloud

Moving Libraries to the Cloud. Roy Tennant. What Are You Talking About?. A cloud is a common metaphor for the Internet:. Cloud Computing. “A style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet” - Wikipedia

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Moving Libraries to the Cloud

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  1. Moving Libraries to the Cloud Roy Tennant

  2. What Are You Talking About? • A cloud is a common metaphor for the Internet:

  3. Cloud Computing • “A style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet” - Wikipedia • Incorporates the concepts of: • Infrastructure as a Service (hardware capacity) • Platform as a Service (OS, “solution stacks”) • Software as a Service (applications)

  4. Moving to the Cloud • Moving “to the cloud” means moving computing tasks from in-house hardware and software to resources on the net • Therefore, “moving libraries to the cloud” means moving library data and applications to the network level

  5. Potential Benefits • Low barriers to entry • Pay as you go instead of capital investment • No need to have local server capacity • Software upgrades are automatic • Saves staff

  6. Potential Drawbacks • Lack of complete control • Reliance on network connectivity and speed

  7. The Cloud From a Business Perspective

  8. So What About Libraries?

  9. An Example: Cataloging Catalogers Carddistributionservice Bibliographicrecords Local card catalog Added value

  10. An Example: Cataloging Catalogers Bibliographicutility Bibliographicrecords Local catalog Added value

  11. An Example: Cataloging Catalogers Bibliographicrecords Union catalog, Locally tailored and skinned Added value Benefits accrue to all!

  12. OCLC’s “Expert Community” Experiment • Allowing “wiki-like” editing of WorldCat records • “I’m very excited about the experiment and have already "updated" more records in the past month than I have in months previous to this” – Nathan Putnam

  13. Machine Services for Libraries in the Cloud

  14. Typical Application Data Layer Application Layer Presentation Layer Diagrams from David Walker

  15. API-based Application Data Layer Application Layer XML layer

  16. API-Based Application Data Layer Application Layer XML layer Custom Presentation Layer

  17. Sent to anothersource to retrieve

  18. worldcat.org/devnet/

  19. Mashed Libraries UK 2008

  20. WorldCatHackathon2008

  21. OCLC Bootcamp, Code4Lib 2009

  22. Ways Libraries Are Benefitting from Moving Data to the Cloud

  23. WorldCat Search API and Facebook http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/

  24. WorldCat Citations in Facebook http://apps.facebook.com/citemeapp/

  25. Terminology Services for smarter searches http://webapp2.dlib.indiana.edu/search/

  26. Visualizing WorldCat Holdings http://thesecretmirror.com/code/api-fun-visualizing-holdings-locations

  27. WorldCat WordPress Widget http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/218/worldcat-wordpress-widget/

  28. Mobile Web Applications http://mobileworldcat.org

  29. Mobile Web Applications

  30. Android Application: CompareEverywhere http://compare-everywhere.com

  31. CompareEverywhere Splash Page

  32. CompareEverywhere Searching

  33. CompareEverywhere Search Results

  34. CompareEverywhere Library Links

  35. CompareEverywhere Library Information

  36. A Library Catalog on an AndroidPhone

  37. A Library Catalog on an AndroidPhone

  38. CompareEverywhere API TrafficSpike CompareEverywhere, Day 1

  39. For more details … worldcat.org/devnet

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