Seeding the Cloud Library课件.ppt

‘Seeding’ the Cloud Library;Vision; ;Registry;CLOUD SEEDING is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. ;Case Study;Current Context: NYU;Plan of Work (proposed);Some early observations;1.5M;Calculating Benefit;Managing Risk . . .;Much greater opportunities for space/cost savings for in-copyright titles -- and much greater reliance on robust physical delivery networks. Success of shared digital repositories [Hathi] in creating operational efficiencies for academic libraries is highly dependent upon reciprocal service agreements with shared physical repositories [ReCAP] and the emergence of joint business agreements with institutional consumers [NYU]. ;N=2.3M;In-copyright content is critical;Cost Factors;Supply Factors;Service Level Factors;. . . not without peril;Registry;“…the patient art of ‘growing infrastructures’ will depend less on the Herculean figure of the master engineer, and more on a series of pragmatic, modest and strategically informed interventions, undertaken on the basis of imperfect knowledge and limited control.” P. Edwards et al, Understanding Infrastructure (2007), p. 39