Work agenda by theme and program

Scholarship in text aggregations

• Investigate user expectations for scholarly use of the outputs of mass digitization

Personal research collections

• Assess the level of interest among research institutions in providing services to support faculty and students building and preserving personal research collections
• Explore opportunities for collaborative sourcing of personal (research) collection-management tools
• Summarize outcomes of recent studies of disciplinary research behaviors to define high-level requirements for network-level services

• Discuss the future of the scholarly record as research and learning materials are created and shared in multiple forms
• Synthesize existing work on changing scholarly practice and the expectations on library services that result from those changes
• Hold a New Scholarly Record Forum

• Survey organizational/service relationship between libraries, archives, and museums among partners

Shared print collections

• Support ongoing efforts within the North American Storage Trust to created a network of offsite library storage facilities with shared commitments to acquiring, retaining, and providing access to low-use research collections
• Build consensus on the functional requirements for a system-wide approach to managing print collections in libraries, archives, and museums
• Engage partners in the SHARES network in projects to extend current models of resource sharing to include cooperative approaches to collection management
• Commission a report synthesizing the existing state of the art in offsite storage provision and organizational structure (.pdf: 227K/ 35pp.)

Harmonizing digitization

• Mass digitization and partnership agreements
• Bringing special collections into the large-scale digitization milieu

Data-mining for management intelligence and new services

• Identify unique holdings of books in WorldCat
• Analyze what has been digitized to help guide future selection of materials to digitize—whether by format or subject, to fill in gaps, build on strengths, or go in new directions
• Analyze compatible circulation data from large, collaborative sources of library transactions in order to better understand use and to support prototyping activities for recommender systems
• Prepare collection analysis of the art libraries at the Met, MOMA, Frick, and Brooklyn Museum as intelligence for collaborative agreements among NYC museums
• Examine the changing nature of preservation in the new library environment

• Support art and natural history museum implementation of new standards for sharing digital collections:
  • Resources Available in the Natural Sciences (RAVNS)
  • Museum collections sharing working group
• Support art museum implementation of OAI-PMH

Changing metadata creation processes

• Establish a baseline understanding of metadata practices
• Recommend principles for cross-domain descriptive metadata
• Identify the attributes lacking in bibliographic metadata required to provide better user access to the collective collection
• Support the Library of Congress Advisory Committee on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• Renovate and re-engineer the EAD Report Card
• Celebrate the EAD 10th Anniversary
• Assess the utility of a CDWA lite museum data aggregation

Deliver tools and services to support efficient metadata processes

• Offer a Partner Forum to showcase metadata tools
• Create and carry out a series of initiatives around state-of-the-art thinking and requirements for persistent identifiers, uniting internal OCLC and external perspectives
• Design a Web-based application to expedite creating metadata associated with existing works
• Prototype a "Publisher Name Server"

• Prototype an Identities Resource for users wherever they are
• Serve on Encoded Archival Context Working Group to influence the proposed EAC standard for usability and application in existing resources
• Lead an effort to upgrade the LC/NACO Authority File with non-Latin alternate names
• Write and publish a paper on the relationship(s) between folksonomies and structured vocabularies

• Build on the DLF service framework efforts and the internal OCLC strategy and service framework outcomes to articulate a library framework that can be widely communicated and discussed within relevant communities
• Investigate the usefulness of the library framework as a starting place for mapping similarities and differences across library, archive, and museum domains

• Identify and build consensus around an agreed definition of an ILS [Integrated Library Systems] service layer (an agreed set of services for an ILS to expose)
• Contribute to the development of a Registry of Copyright Evidence
• Promulgate use of the Registry architecture
• Explore RLG Programs Partner interests in terminologies services

• Develop tools for aggregating and syndicating third party data and/or user-generated content to enhance metadata and help form the recommendation of and foundation for additional services
• Enhance disclosure at the network level

• Engage partners in hypothesis formulation and testing hypotheses about their users' preferences for discovering, gathering, organizing, and sharing information
• Share results of user-based research, identifying what information seekers want, when and how they want it—and the implications for library collections and services

• Identify possible ways for libraries and OCLC to integrate services and collections into the larger academic environment
• Assist in user testing of ongoing Programs and Research activities

• Engage in standards and best technical practices