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# Commission a White Paper that Provides an Annotated Inventory of Library Data Sources Project ### Background The value leveraged from data mining is often directly proportional to the number of institutions, collections, individuals, etc., over which the data is collected; the larger the aggregation, the wider and richer the context against which decision-making can be placed; issues can be characterized and understood; and patterns can be discerned and extrapolated. Accordingly, work in the Management Intelligence Program will focus on aggregations of data. In this project, we will commission a white paper that provides an annotated inventory of library data sources, supplemented with commentary on current status of data aggregation, and/or challenges we face in aggregating; and list of questions that currently cannot be answered by existing data aggregations. |
For more information: Brian Lavoie Consulting Research Scientist brian_lavoie@oclc.org or Lynn Silipigni Connaway Consulting Research Scientist lynn_connaway@oclc.org