VALA. Day 3. Afternoon plenary

Stuart Weibel , Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Programs and Research, USA Making identifiers concrete (so library places and spaces don't have to be)

Libraries are a trusted source of info.
Overwhelming branding image is books

Social networking Sites (SNS)

• Motivate people to participate
• tagging
• book reviews
• emergent relationships
• It isn't different, only the technical manifestation is
• delover library services to emerging social networks

Examples of SNS

• facebook
• myspace
• second life
• twitter

Libraries are an experience as well as a service

Can libraries compete in SNS?

• sns fuelled by $ entrepreneurship
• rate of innovation failure is rapid
• distinguish between trends and trendy

Library catalogues

• evolving to networks
• linked to global locations, people, concepts etc.
• fit into our patrons' workspaces and lives
• platform for past knowledge and future productivity

Resources

• coherence
• context
• durable environment
• emerging technologies

FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) entities

Social bibliographies (user generated content)

Characteristics of first class entities
persistent identity on the web
accessible to all
stand alone
curated


persistence

• universal accessibility
• cultural memory
• search engine optmisation
• canonical id
• library branding (URI)
• usability of URI's
• should be speakable
• should be as short as possible
• hackability & truncatable

GLIMIR (Global Library Manifestation ID)

• global in scope
• canonical
• business neutral
• provides URL equity
• fits within FRBR model

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From Wikipedia:

FRBR comprises groups of entities:
Group 1 entities are Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item, and represent the products of intellectual or artistic endeavour.
Group 2 entities are person and corporate body, responsible for the custodianship of Group 1’s intellectual or artistic endeavour.
Group 3 entities are subjects of Group 1 or Group 2’s intellectual endeavour, and include concepts, objects, events, places.
Group 1 entities are the foundation of the FRBR model:
Work is a “distinct intellectual or artistic creation.” (IFLA 1998)
Expression is “the specific intellectual or artistic form that a work takes each time it is ‘realized.’” (IFLA 1998)
Manifestation is “the physical embodiment of an expression of a work. As an entity, manifestation represents all the physical objects that bear the same characteristics, in respect to both intellectual content and physical form.” (IFLA 1998)
Item is “a single exemplar of a manifestation. The entity defined as item is a concrete entity.” (IFLA 1998)