Brian Lavoie, Ph.D.

Complete list of publications

“The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation." 2008. D-Lib Magazine, 14,3/4 (March/April).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/lavoie/03lavoie.html

"An 'Artful' Analysis of the Rich Holdings of Four Museum Libraries." 2008. With Günter Waibel. NextSpace, 8 (February).
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/008/research.htm

"Mapping WorldCat's Digital Landscape." 2007. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O'Neill. Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), 51,2 (April): 106-115.
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/pubs/librestechsvc/freecontent/LRTS_51n2Lavoie.pdf (.pdf: 522K/10 pp.).

"The Costs of Digital Preservation." 2006. In Digital Preservation, ed. Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner. London: Facet.

"Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection." 2006. With Roger C. Schonfeld. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 9,2 (Summer).
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0009.208

"A Service Framework for Libraries." 2006. With Geneva Henry and Lorcan Dempsey. D-Lib Magazine, 12,7/8 (July/August).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/lavoie/07lavoie.html

"Making Data Work Harder." 2006. With Lorcan Dempsey and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. LibraryJournal.com, January 15, 2006.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6298444.html

"Preservation Metadata." 2005. With Richard Gartner. A joint report of OCLC, Oxford Library Services, and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), published electronically as a DPC Technology Watch Report (No. 05-01).
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/dpctw05-01.pdf. (PDF:209K/21pp.)

"Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries." 2005. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Lorcan Dempsey. D-Lib Magazine, 11,9 (September)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html.
Reprinted in Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 52,6 (2005): 299-310.

DLF Service Framework for Digital Libraries: A progress report for the DLF Steering Committee, 17 May 2005. 2005. Prepared with Lorcan Dempsey on behalf of the DLF Service Framework Working Group.
http://www.diglib.org/architectures/serviceframe/dlfserviceframe1.htm (HTML)
http://www.diglib.org/architectures/serviceframe/dlfserviceframe1.pdf (PDF:120K/14pp.).

"Mining for Digital Resources: Identification and Description of Digital Materials in WorldCat." 2005. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O'Neill. Forthcoming in Currents and Convergence - Navigating the Rivers of Change: Proceedings of the ACRL 12th national Conference, April 7-10, 2005, Minneapolis, Minn. Pre-print available online at:
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2005/connaway-acrl.pdf (PDF:110K/12pp.)

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at ... Digital Preservation." 2004. D-Lib Magazine, 10,7/8 (July/August).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html
Also published in The Whole Digital Library Handbook, ed. Diane Kresh, 345–358, Chicago: American Library Association, 2007. Available online (in part) at: http://books.google.com/books?id=fTGFBdalTV0C.

"Of Mice and Memory: Economically Sustainable Preservation for the Twenty-first Century." 2004. In Access in the Future Tense. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub126/pub126.pdf (PDF:1.1MB/82pp.)

"Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity." 2004. D-Lib Magazine 10,4 (April).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/lavoie/04lavoie.html

"The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide." 2004. Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Series Report 04-01 (report jointly sponsored by OCLC and the Digital preservation Coalition).
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf (PDF:373K/20pp.)

Real Options and the Management of R&D Investment: An Analysis of Comparative Advantage, Market Structure, and Industry Dynamics in Biotechnology. 2004. Ph.D. dissertation (The Ohio State University).
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi?osu1079743252 (PDF:3.1MB/215pp.)

"The Concept of a Work in WorldCat: An Application of FRBR." 2003. Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 27: 45-59. (with R. Bennett and E. O'Neill).

"Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998–2002." 2003. With R. Bennett and E. O'Neill. D-Lib Magazine 9,4.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/lavoie/04lavoie.html

The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-making. 2003. OCLC Research publication.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/incentives-dp.pdf (PDF:759K/51pp.)

Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. 2002. OCLC/RLG working group on preservation metadata. OCLC Research publication. Editor.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/pm_framework.pdf (PDF:697K/54pp.)

Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art. 2001. White paper by the OCLC/RLG working group on preservation metadata. OCLC Research publication. Editor.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/presmeta_wp.pdf (PDF:191K/50pp.)

"Metadata for Digital Preservation." 2001. With I.M. Sheldon. OCLC Newsletter 253 (September/October): 33-36.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000001757 (PDF:26MB/52pp.)

"Market Structure in Biotechnology: Implications for Long-run Comparative Advantage." 2001. With I.M. Sheldon. In Market Development for Genetically Modified Foods, ed. V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, and D. Zilberman, 291-300. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.

"Bibliographic Control for the Web." 2000. With E. O'Neill. The Serials Librarian 37: 53-69.

"How 'World Wide' is the Web? Trends in the Internationalization of Web Sites." 2000. With E. O'Neill. Annual Review of OCLC Research 1999.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?fileid=0000002655:000000059202&reqid=710

"Meeting the Challenges of Digital Preservation: The OAIS Reference Model." 2000. OCLC Newsletter 243 (January/February): 26-30.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000001747 (PDF:1.8MB/56pp.)

"The Comparative Advantage of Real Options: An Explanation for the US Specialization in Biotechnology." 2000. With I.M. Sheldon. AgBioForum 3,1.
http://www.agbioforum.org/v3n1/v3n1a07-lavoie.htm

"The Source of Comparative Advantage in the Biotechnology Industry: A Real Options Approach." 2000. With I.M. Sheldon. Agribusiness 16: 56-67.

"Web Characterization Project: An Analysis of Metadata Usage on the Web." 1999. With E. Neill and P. McClain. Annual Review of OCLC Research 1998.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?fileid=0000002653:000000058998&reqid=698

"Web Characterization Project Analyses Net Content." 1999. OCLC Newsletter 242(November/December): 22-23. (PDF:1012K/56pp.) http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000001724 (PDF:1.1MB/56pp.)

"A Methodology for Sampling the World Wide Web." 1998. With E. O'Neill and P. McClain. Annual Review of OCLC Research 1997.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?fileid=0000002652:000000058872&reqid=696

"Four-figure Cutter Tables." 1997. With E. O'Neill, P. McClain, and J. Young. Annual Review of OCLC Research 1996.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?fileid=0000003512:000000091454&reqid=693