Stephen RhindTutt,

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• Stephen Rhind-Tutt,
• President, Alexander Street Press, L.L.C
• Content Proliferations Libraries and Publishers
• Digital Library Federation Forum, Pasadena, CA.
• April 23rd, 2007

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Key skills of publishers

• Creation of self sustaining content packages and
  services.
• Sales forces and ability to market materials
• Commissioning new material
• Editing material, ensuring quality
• Licensing material
• Librarians are increasingly doing all of the above

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Key skills of librarians

• Cataloging and preserving content
• Identifying and ensuring quality content
• Making the content accessible at low or no cost
  to patrons
• Assisting scholars in finding and discovery
• Publishers are increasingly doing all of the above

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• Surrendering control
• Loss of proprietary gateways to content
• Expensive, new technologies
• Most content not created by publishers/librarians
  
• Large new players with enormous network
  advantages
• Mission statements that are the same as
  publishers/librarians

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Nature of electronic publications
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• Pliable
• Constantly evolving
• Without place
• Practically unlimited in size

• Atomic
• Interconnected
• Interdependent
• Connection vs. the object

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Remixability

• No one site will contain all information
• Effective publication is a function of delivering
  the right content, in the right way to the right
  people.
• To do this we will need high quality access to
  content across different publishers, libraries
  and websites.

Permanent URLs - RSS OpenAPIs - Mashing
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www.inthefirstperson.com
Google
Materials free on the Web
OPAC
For-fee Alexander Street databases
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Links as the defining value added

• Links document intellectual pathways through data
• Basic traffic enhancer
• Allow independent annotation of scholarship
• Facilitate discovery
• Confer authority
• Prevent duplication of indexing, content and
  commentary
• Links are intrinsically bidirectional (Ted
  Nelson)

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Building the network

• Unhelpful
• Legal warnings not to link
• Changing links constantly
• Disabling links
• No permanent URLs
• No crawling
• Randomly changing URLs
• Insisting on one interface and one access point
• Unattached pages

• Helpful
• Citations visible to the outside world
• Permanent URLs
• RSS feeds
• OpenURL
• Design for multiple interfaces
• Open to crawling
• Published APIs
• Welcome linking
• Ask others to do the same

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The larger picture
Newspapers
Images
Search Tool
Personal Work Bench
Grants Memoirs
Films
Music
Reviews
Discipline Tool
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No silos!
OpenURL links directly to Alexander Street content
Search via Alexander Street interface
Search via library catalog (direct or federated)
e.g. RILM, Grove Music Online
OpenURL links directly to other databases
Search the library catalog
Search the web
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Result of an external search
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Traditional indexing and precision

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Traditional indexing and browsing

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Taxonomy Folksonomy
Effectiveness
Folksonomies
Taxonomies
Popularity
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Semantic Indexing
Resources Play Director Theater Production
Co. Character Scene Etc (45 fields)
Company Name Productions Performers Etc (14
fields)
Production Director Theater Cast of
Perfs.LightingCostumes Etc (47 fields)
Author Birth date Death date Birth Place Death
Place Nationality Occupation Awards (38 fields)
Theater District Location Capacity Style Etc (18
fields)
Texts KeywordAuthor Date WrittenDate
Published Production (67 fields)
Characters Plays Age Author Performer Etc (30
fields)
Scenes Where When Setting Subject Etc (41
fields)
Give me scenes about AIDS written by South
African authors in the past 5 years.
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Women and Social MovementsThe Second Wave and
Beyond

• A scholarly community that brings together
  feminist thinkers, scholars and activists to
• analyze compelling questions about feminist
  activism and theories
• define new directions for historical research
• publish traditional articles
• write and record this history in new ways
• Free to view
• Only authorized users can post
• Editors supervise the entire process
• Launched in April 2006 at the Organization of
  American Historians
• 350 members so far
• http//scholar.alexanderstreet.com

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Editorial Backing

Kathryn Sklar Tom Dublin General Editors
Judith Ezekiel, associate professor at the
Université de Toulouse le Mirail
Kimberly Springer, currently teaches US history,
gender studies, and media studies at King's
College London
Stephanie Gilmore, Ph.D. active independent
scholar, ex-managing editor of the Journal of
Women's History
Sherri Barnes, associate librarian for womens
studies, U.S. history at the University of
California-Santa Barbara
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Participation

• Complements rather than replaces published
  scholarship

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Images
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Summary

• For many users indexing and access via Google et
  al will be the norm.
• The most efficient ways of building value is to
  have Google and others to act as a search and
  retrieval clearinghouse
• Alongside this we build (discipline specific)
  value
• Indexing
• Unique and rare materials
• Quality Selection
• Editorial value added

• Community Tools
• Comprehensiveness
• Analytical Tools

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Some guidelines

• Create the best in a discipline
• Be of the community
• Dont duplicate or compete
• Add real value
• Be fast
• Be efficient