[Wactclc-primo] FW: Webinar Recording: Age of Automation - How We Make Sure Content Stays Current

Guidry, Wade WadeG at bigbend.edu
Thu Dec 12 09:31:25 PST 2019 

Here is a recording of yesterday’s ExL webinar on content management (links below).

The webinar was presented by the team (in Seattle) responsible for the Alma CZ. The PCI / CDI was not discussed, as that platform is handled by a different team.

The biggest take-away for me is the fact that the team currently works to manage data from over 7,000 providers. That’s a lot of relationships to manage and maintain. The only competitor to the Alma CZ / Summon right now is probably Ebsco, with EDS. If you want access to a managed metadata set representing large chunks of the subscription content universe, those are your choices.

The presenters discussed “then vs now”, where “then” represents the manual management of metadata by their team. And the “now” represents the move toward more automated workflows, first through simple scripts and use of other low-end technology. And more recently through large scale submission of data by providers via designed-for-purpose platforms on the ExL side. This transition from “then” to “now” started taking place in the late 2000’s.

Another take-away was a cornerstone white paper, written at Oxford in 2007. This white paper, “Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain”, set the stage for the challenges in the area of metadata and link resolver manager, and suggests some paths for moving forward.

https://www.uksg.org/sites/uksg.org/files/uksg_link_resolvers_final_report.pdf

The summary of findings, the first pages of the white paper, is worth a read. Even more than a decade later, it still feels pretty relevant. I do think that some steps have been taken toward improving the electronic resource experience since 2007. However, the exponential growth in the amount of metadata continues to outpace available solutions. One proposal by the white paper is the development of a centralized metadata repository, something like WorldCat, but for electronic resource metadata. The white paper posits the development as an NGO-oriented project. However, to my knowledge, the only place where large metadata repositories are being developed are at for-profit organizations like ExL and Ebsco. (OCLC did several years ago begin putting effort toward metadata for electronic resources, including a full-text component like we have with the PCI. But I don’t hear people talking about OCLC in that context, so it doesn’t feel like they’ve put a lot of focus in that area.)


Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
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From: Scott Schuetze [mailto:Scott.Schuetze at proquest.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:34 PM
To: Scott Schuetze <Scott.Schuetze at proquest.com>
Subject: Webinar Recording: Age of Automation - How We Make Sure Content Stays Current

ATTENTION: This email contains links. Please follow best practices before clicking on links
Thank you for registering to one of this week’s Age of Automation: How We Make Sure Content Stays Current sessions. It’s now available for you to view as either a YouTube video<https://youtu.be/IibQt4IM7nk>, WebEx recording<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/lsr.php?RCID=e4b6d9f15b7f8f7e97354520395b1ed0>, or PDF file<https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/77988/Age_of_Automation_-_How_We_Make_Sure_Content_Stays_Current.pdf?revision=1>. It's also accessible on the following webinar program pages: Content,<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?PRID=30c494be01d8607fec24fd3383bb327a> Primo<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?PRID=d65ecea443a3eae6c434fd89c9d6e2d2>, and Summon<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?PRID=18827bd53d2d7f9b5e7b1b896bcc9820>.

We hope that you and others in your library will find the information contained in this 40-minute session useful. Below is a session outline.


  *   Introduction (0:00)

     *   Meeting the Presenters (2:15)
     *   Meet the Team (4:00)

  *   Knowledgebase v. Discovery: A Note on the Distinction (5:00)
  *   Dark Ages of the Manual Past (6:34)
  *   The Journey of Knowledgebase Automation (17:32)

     *   Building an Automation Tool (17:46)
     *   Quality and Speed: The Magical Intersection (21:18)
     *   Auto Loader for the KB (22:35)
     *   Auto-Update Process (25:03)
     *   Ensured Quality (30:12)
     *   Operational Cycle (32:46)
     *   Then – Now: Updates and New Collections (33:46)

  *   KB Automation Focus Areas (35:53)
  *   Conclusion (39:37)

Please take note that in January and February, we'll be hosting Quarterly Update and Roadmap Overview Sessions for both Summon and Primo. Please review dates/times and register for any of the sessions on our Primo webinar program page<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?PRID=d65ecea443a3eae6c434fd89c9d6e2d2> or Summon webinar program page<https://proquestmeetings.webex.com/proquestmeetings/onstage/g.php?PRID=18827bd53d2d7f9b5e7b1b896bcc9820>.


  *   Summon Update and Q&A – January 8 and January 9
  *   Primo Quarterly Update – January 22 and January 23
  *   2020 Summon Roadmap Overview – January 29 and January 30
  *   2020 Primo Roadmap Overview – February 4

We look forward to your attendance at any of the upcoming sessions. We also look forward to scheduling additional webinars moving into 2020. Please send me an email<mailto:scott.schuetze at proquest.com?subject=Discovery%20or%20Content%20webinar%20idea>, or reply to this one, if you would like to see a particular topic featured in a future webinar.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Scott



Scott Schuetze
Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Discovery
Scott.Schuetze at exlibrisgroup.com<mailto:Scott.Schuetze at exlibrisgroup.com>
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