Evaluates the environment for data sharing in the information industry, with special emphasis on library metadata

1. Some Rights Reserved: The Environment for Data Sharing Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services 13 August 2008 Libraries and Web 2.0 Discussion Group

2. Context for Data Sharing: A “Seamless” User Workflow from Discovery to Delivery Library user studies suggest that users expect finding and getting information they want, when and where they want it, to be easy and convenient. These users’ tolerance for barriers to easy and convenient discovery and delivery is limited. “ A colleague … sang the praises of the digital world to us. He can now, he told us, get direct access to information … His enthusiasm had screened out an enormous array of people, organizations, and institutions involved in this “direct” touch. The university, the library, publishers, editors, referees, authors, the computer and infrastructure designers, the cataloguers and library collection managers, right down to the students working their way through college by [working in the library] had no place in his story.” Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. 2000. The social life of information . Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

5. OCLC’s critics … “ OCLC is trapped in an increasingly inappropriate business model—a model based upon the value in the creation and control of data. Increasingly, in this interconnected world, the value is in making data openly available and building services upon it. When people get charged for one thing, but gain value from another, they will become increasingly uncomfortable with the old status quo.” Wallis, Richard. “OCLC and ROI.” Panlibus Blog (Talis), December 11, 2007. http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/12/oclc_and_roi.php

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13. The Three Sectors of an Economy in a Market System: And One More? Source of Income COLLECTED EARNED Purpose MAXIMIZE SOCIAL BENEFIT MAXIMIZE BENEFIT TO OWNERS Government PUBLIC SECTOR Non-Profits/NGOs/HE SOCIAL SECTOR For-Profits PRIVATE SECTOR Web Start-Ups Sherpa/ RoMEO Wiki- pedia OCLC Amazon Pro- Quest Twitter AllMusic

18. Thank You Merci Gracias Shukran Xie xie Danke Spasibo Karen Calhoun [email_address] http://community.oclc.org/metalogue