Here There be Dragons: Complex EResources and Implementing an ERM System

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Here There be Dragons Complex E-Resources and
Implementing an ERM System

• Kimberly Parker
• Head, Electronic Collections
• Yale University Library
• 19 May 2006

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RoadMap
And, as you journey on your ways Serves as a
road-map in your chaise George Keate. The
Distressed Poet. 1787

• Preparation
• Timeline and Sequencing
• Ongoing Flexibility

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Preparation
Consider well, and every place Offers a ready
Road Thomas Flatman. Poems and Songs. 1686

• Reviewing Workflow
• Reviewing Functional Specifications
• Reviewing Data Elements

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Your Library Your Workflow
that self-tormenting Wit attain Of
understanding its own Joseph Beaumont. The
complete poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont. 1880

• How many people?
• How much communication?
• How much at once?

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Your Librarys Functional Needs
waking to a better sense Of her grand functions
Frederick William Faber. Poems. 1857

• What other tools?
• What information MUST be controlled?
• What facts are getting lost?

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Which Facts to Track
the truth, and matter of fact, upon enquiry and
reflection Henry Brooke. The Poetical Works of
Henry Brooke. 1792

• Reality check
• What needs to be shared?
• What needs to be tracked?
• What can be ignored?

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Timeline Sequencing
What thought or deed may best belong to time
Philip James Bailey. Festus A poem. 1877

• What first?
• What last?
• Migration sequences
• External pressures

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First Things First
.. thou shalt still, Begin at first, and as thou
dost begin Robert Armin. Qvips vpon qvestions.
1600

• Understanding the software
• Seeking staff adoption
• Establishing a base

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Last Things Last
Is the end come at last? William Allingham.
Poems. 1850

• What is being in production?
• What is the minimum to go on with?
• Who carries the support onwards?

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Migration Data Gathering
On, therefore, I must move forthwith, transfer
Robert Browning. The Poetical Works of Robert
Browning. 1888-1894

• What data from where?
• Mapping data
• Importation, exportation, data-entry

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Sequencing Timing
I should by my first Method next proceed Robert
Aylett. Divine, And Moral Speculations in
Metrical Numbers, Upon Various Subjects. 1654

• Documentation
• Training
• Data
• Which E-resource format? Module?

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Prepare to Adjust
the Truth as ever, Flexible, changeable, vague
Arthur Hugh Clough. The poems and prose remains
of Arthur Hugh Clough. 1869

• New information arises
• Software updates
• Staff needs change

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Questions?
Seeking truths as yet unknown Bernard Barton.
Poetic Vigils. 1824
kimberly.parker_at_yale.edu