trends affecting digital processing

Trends affecting Digital Processing

What are the key trends in national and international publishing, scholarly communications and procurement that you think will affect the implementation of the British Library’s digital processing operations


Business Context: Multiple varying inputs…

e.g. Off-shore keying (APEX), Aggregators (Ingenta, MetaPress etc.), Out-sourcing, Publishers at different levels of automation and complexity, legal deposit and purchased (EStar)

Fragmented publisher marketplace different maturity, approaches, sizes and systems

On-going Publisher engagement both technical and administrative

Different levels of published granularity and supplied packages Very large volumes of data Changing standards

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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


Peer-Reviewing

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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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Data

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Related

blogs

Listservs ForumsE-mail blasts

Facebook pages

YouTube

content

Tweets


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


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


Moving to Mobile

Preferred way to read and retrieve with individualization and mobility

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Kindle Nook iPad Droid iPhone


“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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Diversity of formats + repackaging, repurposing, bundling

Large Scale, huge data challenges, petabytes not terabytes

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


• 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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Agile business change

Adaptive Infrastructure

Adaptive enterprise solution requires infrastructure planning process

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Key Organizing Principles for Adaptive Infrastructure

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Goals of a Pattern-based Infrastructure

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Benefits of Adaptive Infrastructure

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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

trends affecting digital processing

Business

social justified

prestige brands

collaborative

key organizing

discrete printed

digital processing

dynamic media

increasingly