POD answers the need for libraries to quickly, cost-effectively, and sustainably undertake strategic initiatives that depend increasingly on the frictionless aggregation, analysis, use and dissemination of data.
POD’s mission is to:
Aggregate and facilitate the use of library data
Reducing friction
Enabling innovation
Delivering valuable services
…through collaboration
Gather data from IPLC institutions
Pool the data for easy reuse
Enrich the aggregated data
Deploy to support varying needs
and do this in a way that...
Enables innovation by reducing friction
Builds capacity within IPLC
Recognizes data as a reusable asset
Resource Discovery, Access & Sharing
ReShare/BorrowDirect
Duke Catalog Demo Integrating POD data from IPLC libraries into the Duke Catalog
Collections Analysis & Decision Support
View on collective holdings to inform local action
Data Innovation & Enrichment
Data mining
Linked data
AI
Hahn, J. (2021), Publisher References in Bibliographic Entity Descriptions. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58: 461-465. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.479
Brainstorming of more potential use of POD
Melissa Skinnell, Brown University
Simeon Warner, Cornell University
Tim McGeary, Duke University
Suzanne Wones, Harvard University
Stu Snydman, Harvard University
Elisabeth Long, University of Chicago
Emily Morton-Owens, University of Pennsylvania
Joe Zucca, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Cramer, Stanford University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth
Duke University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
