challenges of large scale operations
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Challenges of large scale operations
The main challenges facing the British Library in building a large scale operational capability for handling digital content.
Challenges of large scale operations
publishing
Instead of being limited to a series of discrete printed events, journals are now increasingly regarded as prestige brands identified with a certain type of continually unfolding scholarly content, whenever the date of availability.
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Title
Volume
Issue
Articles
Issue
Articles
Issue
Articles
Articles
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Each book, journal, issue, journal article, research article etc.does not stand alone but is intrinsically embedded within a greater semantic world, a relational landscape of content
Meta-tagging and linking => research pathway
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Eng
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Data
Repos
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Informatio
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commons
Related
blogs
Listservs ForumsE-mail blasts
Facebook pages
YouTube
content
Tweets
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Increase in multimedia components and electronic supplemental materials.
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Deeply textured articles
Dynamic articles
Clinical and experimental procedures
Discourse transcripts
Data from individual
participants
Video and Audio
Enhances translation of
research
Enhances replication of
research
Research in Audiology
Speech-language pathology
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Growing interactivity and dialogue – virtual communities
Dynamic media e.g. Sophie and Commentpress
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wikis blogs MySpace Second Life
Facebook Forums Listservs Blogs
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Moving to Mobile
Preferred way to read and retrieve with individualization and mobility
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Kindle Nook iPad Droid iPhone
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“Scholarly presses should continue to publish the best work being produced. That is our job. We need, however, to deliver that scholarship to our readers in the format they find most useful, most supportive of their own work, while maintaining a workable financial model to support its publication. That means exploring new formats when they become available. New technology, used intelligently and effectively, offers the opportunity to provide scholars and their students with the material they need in a useful form, and it offers scholarly publishers one way to maintain their role as creative and skilled disseminators of that work. It is our job to figure out what is intelligent and effective in the digital/online format.” Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University
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Challenges of large scale operations
procurement
• Global sourcing instead of local
• Further elimination of non value added resellers and so shortening the supply chain.
• More focus on social justified entrepreneurship, "Green" procurement (environmental issues) and sustainable procurement
• Further power shift from sellers to buyers
• More REAL value added partnerships
• advanced supply management techniques:collaborative cost reduction (CPFR),End-to-End integration, tiered sourcing design-to-cost
• improved working capital
• increased quality of products and services
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Challenges of large scale operations
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Diversity of formats + repackaging, repurposing, bundling
Large Scale, huge data challenges, petabytes not terabytes, BANDWIDTH
Dynamic Data, Database publishing for multi-platform - mobile, tablet and online
Social Networking integration = community experience
Device Convergence e.g. e-Book+ readers
Interdisciplinary cooperation
Digital Rights, Open Access
Publisher systems outsourced
Low entry to electronic publishing e.g. Print on Demand
Challenges of large scale operations
How to
Agile business change
Adaptive Infrastructure
Adaptive enterprise solution requires infrastructure planning process
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Trends affecting Digital Processing
How to
Key Organizing Principles for Adaptive Infrastructure
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Trends affecting Digital Processing
How to
Goals of a Pattern-based Infrastructure
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Trends affecting Digital Processing
How to
Benefits of Adaptive Infrastructure
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Challenges of large scale operations
How to
Industry standard Best Practice: Code Re-use where appropriate Version Control on all source code Standardisation within the workflow as well as outside it Modular design Flexible architecture Extendable functionality Simplification first Incremental Implementation Tested with large datasets from the outset
Challenges of large scale operations
immediate actions
Daily incremental improvement
Measurable Change reviewed weekly and monthly
Workshops to notify and involve staff of Change
Kanban notice boards, wiki for dynamic communication
Elimination of waste
Concentrate on value-added internally and outsource run of the mill activity
Workplace shadowing to reduce mystique of digital
Use cloud services for non legal deposit projects
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