Making resources discoverable

Présentation faite lors de mon recrutement à l'université York St John. La demande de l'université était la suivante pour cette session de recrutement :

Presentation – you are to give a presentation lasting 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions to a separate panel of approximately 6 Chaired by XXX (Deputy Librarian - Special Projects) on the following: ‘The challenge of making resource discoverable: the role of the library Systems Manager’

Transcript

1. The challenge of making resources discoverable
   –
   The role of the library systems manager
   Sylvain Machefert – 05/12/2014 – York St John University
   

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2. Libraries
   IT
   About the speaker
   Sylvain Machefert
   Systems librarian
   Working with Libraries for 10 years
   

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3. Gateway function of our
   tools over time …
   

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4. Our main problem …
   Users
   Users coming to the
   library
   Users talking with us
   

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5. Dedicated
   traffic statistics
   tools
   Log analysis
   Focus groups
   Usability testing
   Interviews
   First challenge : get to know our users
   

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6. Second challenge : seamless workflow
   Create Find Manipulate Enrich
   

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7. Biggest challenge : making resources discoverable
   OUTSIDE
   our tools
   INSIDE
   our tools
   

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8. The challenge of making resources discoverable
   OUTSIDE
   our tools
   INSIDE
   our tools
   

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9. OPAC Metasearch
   Discovery
   tools
   Our tools
   Attention
   Information resources
   

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10. Mixed metadata
    ILS Licensed content Freely available
    Full range of metadata granularity and quality
    Digital library e-prints
    

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11. 11
    The Importance of Page-one Visibility, icrossing.com, February 2010
    How do people search on the web ?
    OTHERS
    

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12. 12
    And it's almost the same in libraries
    Does anyone use it ? / Bill Bueber, University of Michigan
    1st result 44 %
    2nd
    3rd
    14 %
    7 %
    4 5 %
    5 3 %
    Record clicked, Myrlin Catalog, 1.5 millions searches
    

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13. 13
    Relevancy
    ●
    Relevancy algorithm tuning
    ●
    Social data
    ●
    Altmetrics
    ●
    Recommendations
    

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14. 14
    And
    because
    we are in
    2014 …
    

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15. INTEGRATION
    Learning and
    research material
    ILS Digital library
    Academic repository
    Research data
    Authentification
    

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16. The challenge of making resources discoverable
    INSIDE
    our tools
    OUTSIDE
    our tools
    

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17. “Discovery happens elsewhere”
    Lorcan dempsey, 2007
    

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18. Resolver in Worldcat registry
    How-to set the resolver
    Expose holdings
    Where should we start ?
    

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19. Search engine
    optimization
    Schema.org Sitemap
    Make our tools web-friendly
    

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20. Which data do we want to
    expose / spread ?
    [question not limited to the library systems manager]
    

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21. Which data do we want to
    expose / spread ?
    [question not limited to the library systems manager]
    And where ?
    

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22. Ease of access
    Performance
    Used by our
    audience
    Ease of
    contribution
    Choosing platforms
    

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23. Well-described
    Standardized
    and
    Interoperable
    Accessible and
    perennial
    –
    URI
    Rights clearance
    Requirements
    

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24. Be part of the new
    web revolution
    

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25. Browser extension
    

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26. Another
    “be-where-they-are”
    solution
    

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27. The challenge of making resources discoverable
    Many things to do,
    hope to do them with you !
    –
    Thanks for your attention
    

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