In this video we'll show you how to access, download, and work with Landsat imagery using ArcGIS Pro. We're starting out in GloViz, which is the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. GloViz is a wonderful online tool that allows you to search different USGS datasets, apply search criteria, and easily download these data so you can bring them into your GIS for further analysis. GloViz makes it really easy to access the data you want. You simply pan or zoom to the location, select the datasets, apply any search criteria you want, and then you can download that data directly from GloViz to your computer. I'm interested in obtaining a Landsat seen over the Presidential Range in New Hampshire, so I'm going to use the jump tool to enter the latitude and longitude coordinates, format Washington, which is New Hampshire's highest peak, and then just zoom in a little bit. Over on the left, for choose your datasets, I'm going to turn on the radio button for Landsat 8 OLI. As soon as I do this, GloViz begins displaying some Landsat scenes. I can browse through those scenes, but this would take a long time, and there's an awful lot of scenes with a tremendous amount of cloud cover. To improve my search, I'm going to go over to the metadata filter and constrain my search to only those scenes with 0-20% cloud cover and those acquired in the months of June, July, and August. Now I'm able to browse through the collection of Landsat 8 scenes that meet my search criteria. I have the ability to exclude certain scenes from my browse by clicking on the hide scene button. This is useful because I clearly have some Landsat scenes in this case that have extensive clouds over the Presidential Range. The whole scene may not be cloudy, but the area around the Presidential Range is, so I'm going to hide those scenes. If at any time I want to show those scenes again, I can go back to the choose your datasets and click on clear hidden scenes. For any scene, I can move over and click on the view metadata button to obtain all the information about that scene. This will include everything from the percent cloud cover, to the acquisition date, to even specific sensor parameters that I may want to use for calibration. Once I've found the Landsat scene that I'm interested in, I simply move over and click on download. Glovis will package up the Landsat scene. I want to make sure that I click the download button for the Level 1 GeoTiff product as this is the full Landsat 8 dataset. Once the download is ready, I'll save the tar.gz file to my computer where I can uncompress it and make use of the Landsat data. You may need a specialized zip utility to uncompress the tar.gz file that Glovis uses to package up your Landsat data. I recommend 7zip. Here I'm going to first uncompress the gz file, then unpack the tar file. Once the data are uncompressed, you'll see that each separate Landsat band is stored as its own individual GeoTiff file. In addition to the individual GeoTiff band files, I also have some metadata and calibration files that may be useful to me. The metadata is stored in the underscore mtl file. The opening it up will allow me to read through the metadata and access key information, particular things like the date the scene was acquired on, the path row, cloud cover, and calibration parameters. Although it's certainly possible to add each individual band and work with it separately within ArcGIS, what I really want to do is combine all these bands together into a single multi-spectral composite image. To make the bands that I'm interested in working with into a single multi-band raster data file, I'm going to use the Composite Bands Geoprocessing tool. The Composite Bands Geoprocessing tool will produce a new raster file containing all of the bands that I enter into the Composite Bands tool. My input rasters are going to be all the bands that I'm interested in. In my case, I'd like to load in bands 1 through 7. These are the 30 meter multi-spectral bands that are commonly used in a multi-band raster data stack. Once I have these rasters selected, it's imperative that I pay attention to their order in the Composite Bands tool. The order they're listed in the Composite Bands tool determines their band order within the multi-band raster output. In this case, you can see that band 1 is accidentally at the bottom, so I'm going to need to reorder the bands by moving band 1 up to the top so that it becomes layer 1 in the resulting output raster data set. I'm going to save my Composite Raster as a geotiff file by navigating to the directory that I want to store it and typing .tif at the end of the file extension. To store it as imagined format, I would replace the .tif with .img, or alternatively, I could save it inside a geodatabase. Running the Composite Bands tool stacks all of these rasters into a new single composite band raster file, and in my case, I've stored it in geotiff format. Once the Composite Bands tool is finished running, it's important to go into the properties of my new layer to confirm that the tool ran as expected. By going into the source tab and raster information, I can access the key source information about this data set. Specifically, I want to check the number of bands, which is 7. I see that the cell size is 30 by 30, which is the resolution of these particular Landsat 8 bands. The format is geotiff, and the pixel depth is 16-bit, just as I expected. The best way to adjust your symbology for imagery is to move over to the appearance tab and go to band combinations. You can see that ArcJS already has two defaults, natural color and color infrared. Unfortunately, these band combinations are for aerial imagery, not for Landsat 8 imagery. Under the appearance tab, I'm going to go to Custom, and I'm going to create custom band combination settings for some common Landsat 8 band combinations, 321, 432, etc., until I have all the band combinations set. This will allow me to quickly and easily symbolize my Landsat 8 multi-band composite image. Now that I have my band combinations set, I can make some other changes to the appearance of my imagery. Activating DRA, or Dynamic Range Adjust, automatically modifies the contrast stretch within my field of view as I pan around the image. You may find that certain stretch types help you pick out particular features of interest, but it's important to keep in mind that there may not be one single stretch type that's optimized for all of the features you're interested in on the landscape. Remote Sensing is an art and a science. Detoning the best symbology takes a bit of trial and error. To make it easier for me to compare the different band combinations, I'm going to copy and paste the raster layer in my table of contents, and adjust the band combination for each one of these layers, and then give each layer a meaningful name for quick reference. I'm interested in doing some vegetation analysis around the presidential range, so I'm going to use the Locate tool to find Mount Washington. Typing in Mount Washington will pull up a list of similar names, and then we'll display the list of those locations that match on the map. Now I'm going to compute in DVI the Raster Function Index. This is very easy to do using the raster function in DVI, so I'm opening up the Raster Functions tab, searching for NDVI, and clicking on it to launch the function. Any one of my layers can be entered as the input raster. It's imperative that I understand my bands. The visible band for this Landsat 8 composite is band 4, and the near infrared band is band 5. Entering the bands incorrectly here will produce invalid NDVI output. I want my NDVI values to have a range from negative 1 to 1, so I'm going to check the box for scientific output, and then when I'm ready to execute the NDVI tool, I'm going to click Create New Layer. The Raster Function NDVI creates a virtual layer pointing back to my original imagery so it executes almost instantaneously. After renaming my layer on the table of contents, I'm going to head over to the Symbology tab. I'm going to make sure I'm not displaying any background values of 0, and then I'm going to adjust the stretch type until I come up with something that I think displays the NDVI values the best. Finally, I'm going to tinker with the color scheme, choosing a ramp that goes from red, meaning no vegetation, to green, which means higher concentrations of vegetation. As I explore my NDVI layer, I can see that areas with high amounts of vegetation, such as the forested areas, have high NDVI values displayed as green, and features that are devoid of vegetation, such as roads, and water bodies, and mountain tops have much lower NDVI values, symbolized by the red color. Clicking on any individual pixel will display the NDVI value in the identify window. One of the advantages of NDVI is that it minimizes the effect that lighting has on my data. As we pan around the presidential range, we see that forested areas in shattered valleys are considerably darker than forested areas that are in unshattered regions. However, when we move over to the NDVI layer, we see that the effect of shadowing has been greatly reduced. This is because lighting has a similar effect on both the near infrared and red bands, and thus when we apply NDVI, which is a ratio between those bands, the effect is minimized. In this video, we showed you how to use GloViz to access the Landsat scene that you're interested in, create a multi-band raster composite within ArcGIS, display the multi-spectral imagery using different band combinations, and then finally compute NDVI.


Hello everyone, welcome to theCUBE's coverage of Compute, engineered for your hybrid world, sponsored by HPE and Intel. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. I'm pleased to be joined by Krista Satterwaith, SVP and General Manager for HPE, Mainstream Compute, and Lisa Spellman, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel Xeon Products. Here to discuss the major announcement. Thanks for joining us today. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having me here. How do you guys look at these, your core design principles around the ProLiant Gen 11 and how that helps solve the challenges for your customers that are living in this hybrid world today? Yeah, so we see how fast things are changing and we kept that in mind when we decided to design this generation. We talked already about distributed environments. We see the intensity of the requirements that are at the edge and that's part of what we're trying to address with the new platform that I mentioned. It's also part of what we're trying to address with our management, making sure that people can manage no matter where a server is and get a great experience. The other thing we're realizing when it comes to what's happening is customers are looking at how they operate. Many want to buy as a service and with HPE GreenLake, we see that becoming more and more popular. With HPE GreenLake, we can offer that to customers, which is really helpful, especially when they're trying to get new technology like this. Sometimes they don't have it in the budget with something like HPE GreenLake, there's no upfront costs. So they can enjoy this technology without having to come up with a big capital outlay for it. So that's great. Another one is around, I liked what Lisa said about security starting at the hardware and that's exactly, the foundation has to be secure or you're starting at the wrong place. So that's also something that we feel like we've advanced this time around. This secure route of trust that we started in Gen 10, we've extended that to additional partners. So we're excited about that as well. That's great, Krista. We're seeing and hearing a lot about customers' challenges at the edge. Lisa, I want to bring you back in on this one. What are the needs that you see at the edge from an Intel perspective? How is Intel addressing the edge? Yeah, thanks, John. You know, one of the best things about Xeon is that it can span workloads and environments all the way from the edge back to the core data center, all within the same software environment. Customers really love that portability. For the edge, we have seen an explosion of use cases coming from all industries. And I think Krista would say the same. Where we're focused on delivering is that performant enough compute that can fit into a constrained environment. And those constraints can be physical space. They can be the thermal environment. The network edge has been a big focus for us. Not only adding features and integrating acceleration, but investing deeply in that software environment so that more and more critical applications can be ported to Xeon and HPE industry standard servers versus requiring expensive proprietary systems that were quite frankly not designed for this explosion of use cases that we're seeing. Across a variety of edge to cloud use cases, we have identified ways to provide step function improvements in both performance and that power efficiency. For example, in this generation, we're delivering an up to 2.9x average improvement in performance per watt versus not using accelerators and up to 70 watt power savings per CPU opportunity with some unique power management features and improved total cost of ownership and just overall power consumption. What's the closing thoughts? What should people take away from this announcement around scalable processors for GenIntel and the Gen11 ProLiant? What's the walkaway? What's the main super thought here? So I can go first. I think the main thought is that obviously we have partnered with Intel for many, many years. We continue to partner. This generation was years in the making. In fact, we've been working on this for years so we're both very excited that it's finally here. But we're laser focused on making sure that customers get the most out of their workloads, the most out of their infrastructure and that they can meet those challenges that people are throwing at them. I think IT is under more pressure than ever before and the demands are there. They're critical to the business success with digital transformation. And our job is to make sure they have everything they need and they could do and meet the business needs as they come at them. Lisa, your thoughts on this inflection point we're in right now. Well, I agree with everything that Krista said. It's just a really exciting time right now. There's a ton of challenges in front of us, but the opportunity to bring technology solutions to our customers digital transformation is tremendous right now. I think I would also like our customers to take away that between the work that Intel and HPE have done together for generations, they have a community that they can trust. We are committed to delivering customer led solutions that do solve these business transformation challenges that we know are in front of everyone. And we're pretty excited for this launch. Yeah, I'm super enthusiastic right now. I think you guys are on the right track. This title Compute Engineered for Hybrid World really kind of highlights the word engineered. You're starting to see this distributed computing architecture take shape with the edge, cloud on premise, computing is everywhere. This is a real, real relevant to your customers and it's a great announcement. Thanks for taking the time and joining us today. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. This is the first episode of theCUBE's coverage of Compute Engineered for your Hybrid World. Please continue to check out thecube.net. Our site for the future episodes where we'll discuss how to build high performance AI applications, transforming compute management experiences and accelerating VDI at the edge. Also to learn more about the new HPE ProLiant servers with the fourth gen Intel Xeon processors, you can go to hpe.com and check out the URL below. Click on it. I'm John Furrier of theCUBE. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in high tech enterprise coverage.


Today, I'm making a Mexican recipe for you, and I even got my Mexican recipe shirt on. It's got to be hot to be good, and I'll tell you more about that a little bit later in the video. Anyway, we're making a butternut squash, black bean and corn enchilada casserole. This thing is delicious. It serves a good amount of people, so it's great for, you know, a small or recently small group of people, great for a potluck, and the flavors are outstanding. I'm Rockin' Robin, and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. Why did the tortilla chips start dancing? Because they put on the salsa. So before we get into the recipe, I wanted to talk to you about this t-shirt that I had made in honor of my dad when we used to have our restaurant. He would talk to the customers, and when they served their meal, he would say, it's got to be hot to be good. And he'd also throw in, it's delicious and nutritious, and it will make you ambitious. So I've got some merch here for you. If anybody's interested, I'll leave a link in the description. Thanks in advance for supporting my channel. Now back to our recipe. We're going to start off here with a butternut squash.  But here I'm going to show you how to do it. So in the butternut squash, you've got two areas. One has the seeds, one doesn't. So this bulge at the bottom here, you can tell by the little stem there. There's a stem here. This is the top. This is the bottom. This is the end that's going to have the seeds, just so you know. So I try and get mine that are, the least amount of curves in it makes it easier for me to cut because I use a knife when I peel it. So I cut off the ends, and again, this is the side that has the seed. So usually what I do is I cut it in half. And this side is pretty much a solid piece of butternut squash. And again, this is the side that has the seed. So I just set it down and then I peel it with my knife. You can use whatever you want. So I'll take my knife and we'll just peel off the skin. When you get to this point, you're going to cut it in half, and we'll take a spoon and I'm going to scrape that out. Then we'll cut the butternut squash into bite-sized chunks. Now you want to preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.  And then I'll place the butternut squash on the sheet. I'll drizzle some olive oil over the top. And then we'll add a little bit of salt to that. And then we'll massage it in and then pop it in the oven to roast for about 40 minutes. Make sure to spread out the butternut squash in a single layer. Like I said, be sure and check this at about 40 minutes. It might go a little longer. Now we're going to make our gluten-free enchilada sauce. So what I'm using here is some Guitard semi-sweet baking chocolate. And we just need a little bit here just to take the bitterness out of the sauce. I've got some chili powder, garlic powder, ground cumin, cinnamon, a little bit of sugar and a little bit of salt. We'll also need some chicken stock. And to thicken this sauce up, we're going to use some Bob's Red Mill one-to-one baking flour that is gluten-free. The great thing about this sauce is it only takes literally a few minutes to make. You're going to love it. So grab yourself a stockpot and place that chicken broth right into it. Place your temperature on medium-high. We want to get this nice and hot and we're going to add all those spices to the chicken broth. Just dump those right in and then we'll add the chocolate. Grab a whisk and when it comes to a simmer, we just want everything to dissolve. After this simmers for about five minutes, then we're going to mix up our thickening. So what I have here in this bowl is about eight tablespoons of cold water. And to that, I'm going to add six tablespoons of Bob's Red Mill flour. And I'm going to whisk in between each addition.  Now we're ready to add the thickener, so I'm going to turn the temperature up to high. I want this to boil really well when I add it and stir constantly so we don't get too many lumps. Now when you add the flour mixture, add it very slowly. Drizzle in a little bit and whisk like crazy. What we're trying to do is just basically avoid the lumps. So just keep doing that a little bit at a time and just keep adding it and whisking. Once you get all the flour into the sauce, then you're going to notice it's thickening up quite a bit and you're going to stir it and let it cook, stirring occasionally here for about two to three minutes. Turn off the heat and now we'll go take our butternut squash out of the oven. Now we're about ready to start preparing our casserole. Let me show you my layout. I've got some mozzarella cheese here that I'm going to grate up and you can also use cheddar if you like. Both would work well. I also have some finely diced onion using some organic non-GMO corn which I'm going to drain and some canned black beans that I've drained. Now to make an enchilada casserole, we're going to have to fry up some of our corn tortillas. I am using hard healthy olive oil here. This is a small, say six inch, maybe seven inch pan here because we don't want to use too much oil. We'll end up throwing it away. Now we're going to let that oil get hot because we need it to be about 350 degrees Fahrenheit before we can start dipping and you'll see that the tortilla bubbles up right away. Now we're just dipping the tortillas in the oil. We want to coat them. We want to give them some flavor so this casserole tastes amazing. So that's why we do this. Flip the tortilla over and just leave it in for a couple more seconds and then take it right out. Use your tongs and place the tortilla on a paper towel-covered plate. This will help absorb any excess oil. Once you've made two whole tortillas, now we're going to make some that are cut in half. So I'm just breaking these off and we're going to fry up two more tortillas like this so they fit better in the casserole dish. Once our tortillas are prepped up, then we're going to take our enchilada sauce and put a nice thin layer on the bottom of our 9x13 dish. If you're enjoying this video, let me know by smashing the like button. And now we'll lay those corn tortillas on top of the sauce. Next we're going to add a layer of that butternut squash that's beautifully roasted. So we're going to use half of it because we're going to have two layers here. Now we're going to layer half of the black beans. Make sure to sprinkle it around so you get a little bit in every bite. And then half of the corn. Next we'll sprinkle in a little bit of onion and then we'll finish it off with some cheese. At this point you want to make sure that you're preheating your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit because this is going to go back in the oven. Now we're going to go back and repeat those layers once again starting here with the enchilada sauce. Now you don't want to put too much because then it gets too saucy so just drizzle some on all over like I'm doing here and just repeat those layers.  You are going to love the flavors. And as I always say it's the sauce that makes it. Now this is going in the oven at 375 for about 15 to 20 minutes depending on just how long it takes. You want it to look something like this where you've got everything nice and hot. The cheese is melted. It's bubbling all around. It is delicious this way. Now remember it's got to be hot to be good. Our casserole's in the oven so it must be time for Chef Joke number two. Alright why did the bean sell us car? Because his backseat didn't have enough legume. Now here's how we want to serve this up. Comes out of the oven nice and hot.  It goes beautifully here. And then I am going to chop up some parsley or you could use fresh cilantro either one. And just sprinkle some on top. Can you tell me in the comments if this doesn't just make you so hungry? This is an amazing dish and I hope you all try it. And if you know someone who is a Mexican food lover please share this with them. They are going to love it. And have I got the most refreshing drink to go along with this casserole? Try my pineapple mango lemonade. Click the link on the screen and it will take you right to that recipe. I hope you enjoyed today's video and if you did let me know by smashing the old like button and share the video. That way more people can try these great recipes. Alright we will see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Well, I have a statement here, a brief statement. First, I'm pleased that Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd and Republican Leader Bob Dole have agreed to take up consideration of the treaty to eliminate an entire class of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles. This treaty, which was signed last December, has placed U.S.-Soviet arms discussions on a path that goes beyond arms control and toward real nuclear arms reduction. I'm both hopeful and confident that after careful consideration the Senate will agree that this treaty is a diplomatic milestone and will give its consent to United States participation. Second, the March trade figures were good news. The best news on this front since March of 1985 with the trade deficit dropping $4.1 billion and with exports up $5.4 billion, this is clear evidence that the trade balance is improving as our economy continues to grow. Now, several days ago, I received a trade bill from Congress and my message to Congress on this matter is currently under review and I expect to issue it within a couple of days. But the day's news emphasizes what we've been saying all along that this is not the time to be imposing restrictions on trade or reducing incentives for free open markets or closing job opportunities. We want more jobs, not less, and we want a job market open to all working men and women in this country. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and go to work with the Congress once again in crafting a trade bill that will continue this trend of more job creation and greater economic growth. Why have you authorized the dropping of the drug indictment against General Norriega and doesn't that give the Democrats ammunition for the presidential campaign? Not if they'll wait until there's something to be announced. We're negotiating right now and therefore I can't comment on negotiations that are underway. It'd be foolish to do so. There's some things you have to keep to yourself when you're arguing with someone else. But we're not, as I said, those negotiations are underway. There has been no decision made on some of the things that are being discussed. And I have to say that I think that much of what many of you have been dealing with as a story is based on some kind of leaks or misinformation because there are no facts to sustain. If I could clear up that one point there. Haven't you authorized the dropping of the indictment in terms of something on Mr. Norriega's part? I have to say, when you're negotiating, and I did that for 25 years as a union officer in labor management relations, you don't go out and talk about what you're negotiating. President, now that the conservatives personified by the Washington Times have dropped ship on Attorney General Edwin Meese and the loss of morale in the department, the loss of respect for the justice department in the country and its integrity, are you still backing Meese and have total confidence in him or are you going to ease him out? No, I have complete confidence in him. And I know it because there have been a great many allegations made, but nothing has been proven and I've seen no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part of the kind that is inferred in the allegations that are being kicked around. And right now, on this particular thing, I think you'd have to talk to him about that. I think there's more than meets the eye with regard to this latest departure. What do you mean? What are you referring to? You mean that Eastland did something to undermine the Attorney General? No, he made a statement himself that there was no animus in anything that had happened, but I think that you should talk to the Attorney General about that and what happened. Is that the role of the press officer and the defense attorney? Well, once again, somebody speculated that that's what was the reason there and I think that you should talk to the Attorney General. President, if you can't discuss the negotiations with Noriega, I'd like to ask you, however, about your policy goal. You have said in the past that the goal was to see that Noriega stepped down from power and at various times you've talked about leaving the country at various times you haven't. Is your goal to see that not only Noriega leaves power, but that none of his cronies continue to exercise power in his name? I've said I wouldn't comment, but I'll make one comment, and then what we're interested in seeing is a restoration of democracy in Panama. It didn't start with this particular man, but sometime back under another one, the commanding officer of the National Guard in Panama suddenly began to take precedence over the president of Panama and dictate to the government. We feel that it's time that democracy return to Panama, and this is what we're negotiating to it. Sir, if someone controls the government ignoring and pulling strings behind the scenes, is that acceptable to you? Not if we have reinstituted democracy there in Panama, but again, I can't comment further on this. We are in the midst of real negotiations. Sir, the theory is that you are going to agree to a deal which has a big leap of some restoration of democracy, but in fact leaves Noriega in power. Oh, I know. I've been reading that in the part and hearing it in the newscast. When you want to comment, sir. No, I'm not going to back away from what we're trying to do. Mr. President, there have been charges also that this government was aware of drug running involved with the Contra Supply, possibly illegal Contra Supply operation. Can you tell us in the congressional committees they've been investigating that there was no involvement by this government, the CIA or any other agencies of this government in running drugs on the same airplanes that were bringing weapons to the Contras, and are you investigating, if you didn't know about it, to see whether there are any, is any truth? All that I knew about any of this until the indictment came down with evidently evidence enough to get to an indictment that previously there had been some rumors. He was providing information on the situation in Central America, I think to our intelligence people of the CIA. Some rumors came up about possible drug, but no one ever received or could get any evidence to substantiate those rumors, and then this latest thing happened, and I don't know whether that was whether he just had started, or whether there was anything really going on. But sir, there are other charges that there was other involvement by this government in drugs on the same airplanes that were delivering weapons to the Contras beyond Noriega. Did you know anything about that? No, the only thing I knew was when we operated a sting operation in the Andanistas were shipping our out-drugs, and unfortunately the pilot of that plane in that in that particular skin operation was shot down in the streets of an American city shortly after the the ticket to the Contras. Are you checking into these latest allegations? Yes, we are. Mr. President, how can you given the hard line that you took at the very beginning in the situation in Panama saying that Noriega had to leave the country saying once that the Dominican Republic wasn't far enough and our recognition of Mr. Del Valle as the President how can you do anything in the way of a compromise without appearing to back down from your original policy goals? Again, you're asking me that would lead into what's being talked about, and I can only tell you that we're not going to just whitewash anyone. Mr. President, Mr. President, I suggested two more, so three in many of them. You have repeatedly denied that astrology played any role in the setting of policy, but you have ducked the question as to whether or not it played a role in the setting of schedule. A number of days besides Mr. Regan have indicated that astrology did play a role in the setting of schedule including the timing of the signing of the INF Treaty. Why did you allow that to go on, sir? Well, I didn't go on, and this whole thing is built around an incident in which it is it was printed that this had to do with the scheduling of one of my operations. But it didn't happen that way at all, and you know something else? It didn't have anything to do with me being sworn in as Governor, taking the oath of office at midnight, or one minute after midnight, back when I first became Governor. What I was doing that time was because once I became Governor-elect, the incumbent Governor, when I was defeated, started filling up the ranks of term appointments and judges to the place where I would have had a government all set up before I got in, but I couldn't do much about it. He was still in office till I was signed in. I asked the people who had been in charge of my campaign, and I said, when was the earliest that I could become Governor? And he said, well, the minute after midnight, the night before the inaugural ceremonies, and I said, I'm going to get sworn in a minute after midnight, and I got sworn in and at least it headed off a half a day's appointments that he wouldn't have time because the next afternoon I was inaugurated. You're talking about a couple of specific incidents. Are you denying that either you or Mrs. Reagan would have done the same thing during your time here at the White House to help set the schedule for trips or the signing of the INF Treaty? I must say this goes against what a lot of aides are telling us, sir. Well, no, I'm only going to tell you that one thing, and that is that after I had been shot, which was quite a traumatic experience for my wife, and it was not a, no, I think they, no, I was confident I was going to be all right. I can't know that, but a friend, she was getting a great many friend calls from friends, and a friend called and said that I wished that he'd known what I was going to do that day and so forth because of, you mentioned someone that all the signs were bad and everything else, and NASA was, it was a trauma that didn't go away easily. And when suddenly things of the same kind, just for a short period there, when I was booked for something of the same kind where the accident occurred, why she would ask what does it look like now, and no changes were ever made on the basis of whether I did or did not conduct this. Why something like the signing of an INF Treaty, sir? No, it wasn't, nothing, nothing of that kind was going on. This was all, once again, smoke and mirrors. And we made no decisions on it, and we're not binding our lives to this and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it or engages in it, sir. Do you believe in it? I don't guide my life by it, but I won't answer the question the other way because I don't know enough about it to say is there something to it or not. Do you think the attempt on your life could have been prevented? No, this friend thought that had I been told that that was supposed to be a horrendous time for me that I might have done something well. We didn't. Mr. President, you often spoke of your belief in the integrity and honesty of your attorney general. I'd like to ask you another question which is, don't you think that all of these resignations and the difficulty of filling the job and the attacks in so many directions are even if he is a man of integrity and ability, don't you think this is getting in the way of the Justice Department doing its job and isn't that a reason for him to step aside on those grounds? No, because I think that there's been a wave for quite a long time and not just with him but with others in which accusation or allegation is taken to mean conviction and there's been too much of that. In this land of ours you are innocent until you are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and nothing has been proven. These allegations continue to be made. This has been true of others. This was true of Ray Donovan and he's his poignant line I think fit the situation when he was declared totally innocent of any wrongdoing at all. He said, where do I go to get back my reputation? This also applies to Beggs who finally stood up and resigned from NASA and because of things he was supposed to have done before he came into government and was found innocent of every there wasn't an iota of any kind of support for any of the accusations. Are you saying then so that unless Mr. Meese would be indicted that he should remain in office or can it be a lesser allegations that don't require an indictment that would be grounds for him stepping aside? I think that for him to step aside would be what he himself once said that he would then live for the rest of his life under this cloud with nothing that had ever been proven. Thank you, sir. What about the report? You're the last one. Thank you, sir. One more about Noriega. The combination of sanctions and negotiations have been going on for an awfully long time and it seems as if the United States looks progressively weaker. Aren't you a little angry that Noriega has managed to humiliate and embarrass the United States? Well, we had hoped that they would maybe make it possible for the people of Panama themselves to exert some pressure and do something and I guess having run into their own armed troops willing to shoot and shooting kind of cooled that down. So we're continuing to negotiate and our goal remains the same. But sir, are you not angry about the fact that the United States has been looking so weak when it's gone off against this man? Whether I'm angry or not doesn't count on the situation in Panama. I will not comment on the negotiations that are going on in Panama and at the appropriate time I expect to have a full statement and make it to the American people. Will that be shown? I wish I knew. Thank you all. Mr. President, how badly have you been marginalized? Do you have a message for Don Regan? Do you have anything you want to say to Don Regan? If the trade bill were to veto or to be overridden by Congress the effect of the trade bill would be similar to smooth holly. Why is it that the administration now is basically saying that it's only the plant closings provision that's wrong with the trade bill and otherwise you would support it? Don't be nervous. Well that is the main one, the main thing. There are other things in there that I don't think are helpful or belong there. There's been a habit of adding pork items to almost everything that's up on the hill and that's true there. But this is the main one. And when all of my colleagues at the economic summit from the other countries the heads of state of the countries with which we trade, when they call what we have seen here in the last five, five and a half years called the American miracle and when I have talked to them they've asked me for questions about what are some of the things that we have done I found out in answering their questions that they themselves deplore the fact that in their countries the rules and regulations imposed on government including things like this and rules about hiring and firing are part of what they say is holding them back and keeping them from having the kind of economic recovery working. Ready for garbage talk? Mr. President, how bad was- Has Regan hurt your reputation? Has Regan damaged your reputation Mr. President? I was worried about him. Thank you.


All right. Hello, everyone. Hi, some enthusiasm. We're back in person. This is amazing. So, hi, everyone. My name is Todd Carpenter. I'm the Executive Director of NISO, the National Information Standards Organization. We are going to be spending the next 40-ish minutes talking about a developing idea for a project. This hasn't been formally launched as a NISO initiative. We've been spending roughly the last two years in conversations with a large number of people, and we're just at the moment trying to get momentum and interest around this idea and this project. So, we are looking at collaborative collections and how do we develop a project that enhances the sharing of collections across institutions. So, joining me is Sebastian Hemmer, who is Founder and CEO of INDEX Data. Boa's Net of Menace at Lehigh University. And Cornelia Tchenchev, who is Dean at the University of Pittsburgh, is also going to be not even virtually joining us, but she did provide some written remarks, which Boa is going to be sharing with you all. So, libraries have sought for a very long time to collaborate on collections sharing, interlibrary loan. There's a variety of initiatives that have taken place to share the collections that institutions have. The part of the problem is that we lack an infrastructure to do this kind of resource sharing at scale across multiple institutions, such that we're not simply exchanging items, loaning things from one institution to another, but how do we get institutions to deeply collaborate on building shared collections, circulating shared collections, and analyzing what we have, what we need to serve our patrons, and do it efficiently and effectively across institutions. To draw something of an analogy with a very imperfect analogy, say my own local public library network has 28 branches, those branches don't individually buy collections, they all as a group buy collections, and they share them. There is one single circulation system that runs across all of the branches. Collections decisions are based on how many copies of the Hunger Games are needed across the entire network. Now, this is an imperfect analogy in what we're thinking is we want to have many different types of institutions working in that sort of collective collaborative environment. We don't want to have everyone running the same infrastructure system, not everyone is going to be purchasing the same ILS system. How do we get those institutions working together, and how do we build a social infrastructure to support those decision-making processes, etc. There have been a number of pilots and attempts at working together in this collaborative way. The Big Ten Academic Alliance, there's RECAP, Hathi Trust, if you think about it, is sort of this shared collection. The Too Cool Initiative between Cornell and Columbia is another example. East Boston Library Consortium has a similar kind of collaborative collections development project across the entire institution. How do we scale this? How do we make this something that every institution, every network, every community can put into place, regardless of the technology stack that they're using? And how do we get agreement about some of the best practices for working some of these things forward at scale? So, Boaz came up with the idea of the Avengers. When we started this conversation about 2020, we had representatives from about 25 institutions who've been involved in some of these conversations over the years, and how do we kind of push this idea forward? So, over those two years, we had conversations about scope in terms of development needs. We talked about personas who are involved in this process. We surveyed the landscape in terms of some of the projects that have been underway, and what could we learn from them? And that's where we get to this point, which is we submitted a grant last week for funding this through the IMLS National Leadership Grants Program. We have a partnership of 31 institutions. A number of consortium have signed on board for this project, the Greater Western Library Alliance, CRL, Colorado Alliance, CARL, the Big Ten, Academic Alliance, the Canadian Research and Knowledge Network, Orbis Cascade. A number of large consortium are interested in this. A number of content providers, Duke University Press, JSTOR, Project Muse, are interested in this as well. Some technology providers, Paratex, Index Data, as well as a number of individual institutions have signed on board, Cornell, Columbia, Hopkins, Tulane, Rutgers, NYU, Duke, Pittsburgh. And we've pulled together this large group to see where we can take this. What we're trying to do is create a middleware infrastructure that can communicate holdings information, circulation information, acquisitions information, and share that across institutions, regardless of the ILS stack that the institution is using. But we also want to focus a lot, probably primarily, on the social infrastructure of the decision-making. How do we get institutions to share, this is how we're going to collect, and how are we going to share these materials across institutions in a collaborative way? So, I'm going to pass it over to Boaz. He's going to give you a little bit more from his perspective and some more ideas about where this project is headed, Boaz. Hi, everybody. So, this project is quite big. But at the same time, we can make it happen. I think this is what Todd just said. There are so many organizations that are interested in improvement, getting to a better place where right now we are, and there are so many challenges to building a thing like this, but there are many more challenges to actually collaborate and do collaborative collection development. It's very hard. So, at this point, and I think you know as much as I do, there is no infrastructure. So, no best practices, no tool, no even a way to facilitate communication. I think one of the presenters yesterday talked about we use all those new tools now to communicate remotely, but where is it going to be? That stuff that we tell each other, you know? So, we use at Lea's Slack and Gira, and you know the great, but you know we want to make sure that the data about our collaborative ventures is somewhere and it's registered. There are lots of attempts, you know, there were lots of attempts that Todd talked about, but and I've been part of those for a while, too cool just to give you an example. We hired a person together. I used to be at Cornell at the time. We hired one selector to do selection across institutions, but they had no infrastructure, so everybody that we hired had to contact shift and move between Gobi and Oasis and other Casalini, and you name it. So, when it comes to the work, it's hard to do as a selector anyway, and then when you start to think about the economy of scale, kind of moving from one institution to another, thinking about the expertise, you know, we want to hire the best people we can to actually push the envelope on our collection building, they don't have the way to do that. So, beside that there is, we do lots of retrospective analysis. We have some great tools to look back at our holdings, to look back who owns what, but we don't have a way to translate that data into daily operation. This is where it counts, you know, like we want to make sure that people across institutions can work with each other on a daily basis, and I've been part of those things as well, that high-level agreements, you know, like we decide that we're going to have a joint approval plan, or a joint selector or something. On the high level, maybe we're successful for a while, but then when it comes to the daily operation, you know, I want to order this book, is it, do we have it? Does the other library have it? Do we know enough about the partner, the other libraries that we're working with, and, you know, maybe? But quite often those people move, the knowledge that they have is deleted, disappeared, and then we need to hire somebody that is even tougher to get. So, just think about all those challenges, and we think it can be done. So, you know, those organizations, so this is not just libraries, right, as you saw. There is a tool that I was kind of happily developing at Cornell called Poof, that did some of this work. Basically, what it did was to look at the other libraries holding, and on, you know, you search ICBN, or ISSN, and you know if the other library owns something, already an improvement. So, but what is mostly important is to build trust. So, to make sure that we are aware, even if we decide not to unnecessarily collaborate deeply, but to know what is going on across our institutions is easier to do. So, if we have data, we believe that selectors and decision makers are going to do the right thing. They'll know more about resource sharing, they'll know more about interlibrary loan activities on availability, on price, then they can choose to partner or to work locally. And we think there is market value there. So, if we want to build bigger collections, more relevant collections, then we need to shift the resources from spending the money on the same, which we do all the time, to spending the money on new, unique things that we need. So, you know, beyond, you know, trying to do the infrastructure that takes a little while to build best practices, standards, and all of that, but we need to start somewhere. So, let's do that. Community ownership and community driven is very important for this project because, as you can imagine, you know, we want to make sure that the governance of like a big project like that is very library driven, and that we know where the project is going to be going. There's a lot that we would like to do. Reinvestment in diversity and inclusion collections, for example, you know, like at this point, we are reinvesting by taking some money from things we need anyway to spend it on and put it in other places because we believe that that's the right thing to do. But if we had an infrastructure like this, then we could push the envelope and actually collect more in areas of need. Another aspect of it is the diversity and diversifying of collections. So, kind of when you're thinking about who's going to be working, you know, like people in tech services, people, selectors, you know, we have people come from many different places, and you know, like you want to make sure that whatever it is is really aligned with the way they work. So, instead of it being, you know, something that we're going to be doing kind of high level here is like the infrastructure for you. The idea is to work with whoever is partnering here and to say you have your own community of practice.  You're comfortable doing that in this way. So, we are going to work with you on emulating what it is that you're comfortable with and we'll figure it out by doing it, which is going to be better than us coming up with the new tool that is given to somebody to kind of, and we believe that it's a value on its own right. So, we want to facilitate the reinvestment of collection monies, and I think that makes sense, but also we want to think about the workforce and how do we reinvest that workforce across institutions in doing other things. We have a lot that we need to cover with fewer resources. So, you can think about metadata operations, for example, you know, supporting open access, open science, all the things that, you know, our catalogers would be able to do if we were able to work together on some of those things. So, I think I'm running out of time, but this is an ongoing project. If you are part of it already, awesome, thank you. If you are not, we'd love you to join. So, the IMLS piece is done, but, you know, we really, it is going to be based on the community and on you feeling comfortable with what we're doing. So, please talk with us. Thank you. Hello, everybody. It is nice to be back in person, and also a little disconcerting. So, I'm Sebastian. I am one of the co-founders of index data. We're celebrating our 28th birthday this summer, which feels like a long time. We make for background, we make software for libraries, we provide services for libraries, hosting and consulting, and so on. But, most of all, we collaborate with libraries. That's been really central to our work for all the time that we've been in operation. Over the past five, seven years, a lot of that collaboration has taken place. Some of it has taken place over decades with NISO in working to develop standards and tools in support of standards. But, over the past five, seven years, a lot of it has taken place in the context of the Folio project, the Folio library service platform that we've helped develop and project reshare and open source resource sharing platform and a library data platform. And, I want to share some ideas that have come out of that work that have informed kind of what I've brought to the table and some of the conversations about CCLP so far. But, before that, I want to dive slightly deeper into the conversations we've had about functionality and what this thing will actually do to try to put some meat on the bones. The broad vision is to support collective acquisitions, collective lifecycle management for collaboratively maintained collections. That unfolds, Todd talked about some of the work we've done unfolding personas and models of different types of stakeholders than their needs in this space. And, it's resulted in this sort of initial overview of high-level functional apex, if you will, that we think that this platform will exhibit along the way. So, part of it is library directory to enable libraries to find collaborators, to enable people within libraries to find collaborators, individual and organizational. It's an aggregation of metadata, of holding data and availability data for materials that can be purchased and materials that are held by libraries. It involves discovery tools for acquisition librarians and others to look across this data set to do analysis, to make choices. It involves a lot of communication, enabling new types of collaboration around selection processes and subsets of collections. And, it involves tools to support collaborative purchasing and negotiation. So, actually, kind of looking behind the different platforms that people might use to actually deliver us or acquire material and providing unified interfaces and unified tools to acquire materials irrespective of who the suppliers are. Those are the goals. When we look across these different functional areas, you start to realize that a ton of it is about data. It's about getting a lot of diverse types of data into one place and enabling people to build business logic and functionality and user experiences on top of that data. But before you can do anything else, there's an ecosystem of data out there that we need access to. So, some of that data is already being aggregated by different projects and we want to lean into those and collaborate with those projects. Things like CC Plus for aggregating counter data, Gold Rush, different types of platforms for different types of data. Other types of data sits today inside of silos, inside of proprietary platforms owned by vendors, and there may be negotiation or nudging that needs to take place. There may be a code that has to be written to map data out of closed systems and into some open representation. There may be work to be done standardizing exchange formats and data models and advocating for more of this data to be freely portable between platforms. So there's a huge part of this project that involves trying to look at this ecosystem of library data that's needed to support collaborative collection management and trying to make sure that that data is freely available and portable. So that's really central. So, I want to talk next about a couple of ideas that have informed how we've talked about the technology that we want to build and how we want to govern that technology together. Again, these are notions that have come out of, in my case, in my work on folio and project reshare, and really a different way to think about collaboration around software and the role of open source software. Open source software has been around for a very, very long time. It's been a stable of academic collaboration for decades. I came to it back around 35 years ago when I was studying computer science. It took some years before it became part of the conversation around library automation that really kind of began in the early 2000s from my perspective. And since then, we've kind of come to a place where lots of people depend on one or more open source tools and people engage in these projects. But it feels to me that there are some nuances in terms of how we talk about open source software that goes beyond just saying, hey, what are the risk factors? Is there somebody to sue if it doesn't work? Is it actually free light beer? Is it free light kittens that you have to feed for the rest of your life? I want to talk about open source, kind of the next step beyond that and thinking about open source as an enabler of a different type of collaboration. So, the first thing I want to talk about is the notion of open platforms. So, platforms is a hideously overused term that is used to describe just about anything. But there's been, the whole marketplace within libraries and outside of libraries over the past 20 years has been kind of characterized by a little bit of a gold rush or a land grab where the platform economy has become synonymous with trying to grab the most users and the most content into your platform and then profit from that.  We see that in Facebook. We see that in the transportation platforms in Uber. We've seen it in the consolidation of library automation platforms, which to my mind ultimately probably isn't the end goal but is part of a larger move towards consolidation and monopolization of scholarly communication. Things that are not necessarily desirable. But these types of platforms have also shown us what can be accomplished when data can flow freely between components and services within platforms. And my approach to working our approach is to working with platforms has been to be inspired by these but to then say let's reclaim them. Let's have those platforms actually belong to us as a community rather than to some commercial capital backed organization. Let's take the best elements of these platforms in terms of what you can expect expectations of services and functionality but make that part of the software that we build. So that informs how we design platforms in terms of having units of functionality be replaceable. So you have a base of technology that you can add functions to over time without having to throw everything away. It means kind of component based approaches to architecture, microservices and leveraging standards based APIs against to make things replaceable and to enable different teams to collaborate loosely. And on a wider stage I also see it as sort of increasing the level of ambition for what we can ask for this from the standards community. So let's kind of let's try to raise the bar in terms of what we require of library management systems or vendors in terms of open interfaces and ask for high levels of functionality, high degrees of interoperability between systems and look essentially at the whole network of systems as a platform be that the goal we're striving for. And the last bit before I hand back to Boas and Cornelia is the idea of managing a technology roadmap as a collaborative exercise itself. One of the things that characterized the folio project and project reshare was the idea that the community and the governance model preceded the development of technology itself. The technology was there to serve the community and it was there to serve the strategic vision and the needs of that community and in a sense the structure that we put together, the social structures that we put together to manage the life cycle of technology became more important than the technology itself. That's a really powerful way to approach technology development and in a sense that the fact that these things happen to be open source is not that important. The open sourcing of these projects are there to enable that kind of collaboration, that kind of sharing of the roadmap and the product management of the thing and that's an idea that I'd love to see unfold in this type of project too. So it means having a conversation within the project that allows place for all types of stakeholders within organizations to feel a sense of ownership and participation from strategy and leadership over subject matter experts that actually need to use the software to develop us that'll be working on it and also an opportunity for different types of organizational stakeholders to come together on the same table to make room for consortia for different types of libraries for software developers and for service providers to sit around the same table and strategize about where they think the marketplace is heading, where they think the libraries are headed and how we can meet those challenges with technology and have the technology development inform those strategies and improve them and make them better over time. That to me is the key to creating technology that doesn't just solve the problems we thought we had five years ago but actually to engage in the process of developing some technology that can respond to future needs and future challenges. So that's how I come at this and think of this and I will give it back to Boas now. Thanks guys. So imagine that Cornelia is here. Just to expand also, part of what we were working on in the last two years really was to think, Pristona, what is it that we as Deans directors are going to be interested in? What is it that catalogers may be interested in? What is it that selectors may be interested in? What is it that publishers may be interested in? What is it that system providers are going to be interested in? So Cornelia representing Pitt things and now I'm going to go to her notes. So here, and I'm sorry that I'm reading it like this. So first of all let me apologize for not being a C&I in person to participate in this panel and thank the colleagues who have generously agreed to do this panel. I'm Cornelia Tynceva and I'm the Hillman University Librarian and Director of the University Library System at University of Pittsburgh. You might have noticed that Pitt Library is one of the partners in this project and here I would like to address why. I will be speaking as a library director and hopefully address the advantages I see in a way that may interest other academic libraries to join. If you have specific questions that you like to ask me please do not hesitate to send me an email. She's saying what I will not dwell on are the things that I hope everyone is already aware of. The project embodies some of the longest held and dearest library values, resource sharing of collective collections, diversity and equity of access, interoperable standards, community on the infrastructure. To be sure it will attempt to enhance all this further and build upon past models in this respect. What I would like to focus on are the rather less lofty and yet important practical considerations and I will start with a story from the last two years that may be familiar to many of my colleagues. In the wake of the first wave of COVID many universities went into furloughs or layoffs. At Pitt we were fortunate enough that none of these came to pass. However similar to many other higher education institutions Pitt offered a retirement incentive program because of the aging workforce especially in technical services. We lost people's expertise as well as just disproportionate number of people in tech services. That two years later we're still trying to rebuild. Combine this with the fact that in general demand for collection management including and perhaps particularly electronic resources is much greater than the supply that we're generally in a job applicants rather than job provider market. For example the latest vacancy we have in tech services is because a wonderful metadata laburn was recruited as a data analyst for an AI company. Lehigh has similar pressures and you won't be surprised that perhaps the most attractive feature of the project for me is sharing people expertise. We have been talking about building collective collections for a very long time and we have had many or some successes but we've also been saying that the most valuable capital of libraries are people and their expertise. Being able to share this most valuable resource is only next logical step in our resource sharing enterprise and that's one of the main reasons why the project is attractive to me. If we were to start using a product like that tomorrow I envision us being able to partner around shared selection, shared metadata, shared acquisitions processing in policy and in any of our resource sharing networks. In case we are left with the impression that budget constraints and efficiencies are the only concern driving our commitment to the project let me quickly enumerate other features of the project that are particularly attractive. The proposed middleware is vendor neutral which translates among other things to increasing access to small presses and international publications. It will serve as a registry of collective decisions that's ensuring a more comprehensive preservation of cultural heritage. It will also contain collective usage data which hopefully will finally move us significantly toward the network collection. It is cross industry collaboration which among other things seems to me to hold the promise of a greater chance of success and finally it builds its governance structure model pre not post delivery which suggests that it has a greater chance of responding to real needs and use cases. I know that all of this can be seen as adding to the overarching concern of efficiency but I did want to make sure that I called them out separately because of the more nuanced dimensions they add. Thank you very much. Okay Todd do you want to finish? Yeah bring us home. So as we've talked about this has been an ongoing conversation for a couple years. We've spent a lot of the time in the last several months working towards pulling together the community that can advance this project. NISO as a community pushes forward a variety of projects similar to this without funding. This is going to be slightly different in that we are going to be trying to build infrastructure. We're going to try and build some software and some middleware tools which is in part why we need some funding but even without the you know IMLS grants are competitive there's no guarantee that we will get that money but within the 30 partners we've already got commitments for hundreds several hundred thousand dollars worth of development resources to advance this project even if it isn't doesn't receive the funding. Fingers crossed we will. We're also seeking funding from other sources as well. We are in the first phase of this which is to get the community interested and engaged in it through the consortia partners the individual institutions the technology partners the publishing community the vendor community as well. We will be pushing forward a new work item proposal to launch this project this year hopefully we'll also see some development resources pitched towards this project later this year as well. We'll then get into the standards process as well as the technology development process happening simultaneously as we push this project forward once it's approved. That'll include more detailed understanding of workflows more detailed understanding of the past successes and challenges that the different pilots and different initiatives in this space that have undertaken what can we learn from them. Then developing some of the wireframe models and some prototypes for the user experience and how the technology is actually going to function. It's possible that some of the vendors in this community might step up and help you know retool their their services to support this model as well. We're thinking that there should be some open source middleware tools to push the community forward but that's not necessarily a requirement. Then we will move towards an implementation phase to get the standards and technologies as well as the social infrastructure in place to support this type of library activity. Once we've got those models in place we'll certainly bring them out to the community for public feedback the way NISO processes always work get community feedback on where we're headed whether or not it works user you know kind of iterative agile development and then push this project out. This is by no means a small initiative. We're talking you know significant seven figure investment over several you know probably five or six years before we get to a place where maybe we'll see an eye in 2030 we'll be like yeah this worked but this is a very ambitious idea and it's very ambitious project. We need as many partners as we can get so if you're not involved in in the project we certainly want more institutions involved. Through the network of consortium who are participating there's hundreds probably maybe even pushing thousands of institutions that are represented through the various consortium who've already agreed to participate. So you know work through your consortial partners as well to to push this project forward and with that or happy to take any questions comments we'd love your feedback. Also if you're part of the project and you want to say something about why do you think it's good please do. I know Michael has some good ideas do you want to say something Michael? I guess I'm on the spot. Michael Levine Clark University of Denver and also I should add that representing in a way Gwilla and the Colorado Alliance because Trevor might also want to say something but Trevor and I are on the Gwilla board and and brought this idea to Gwilla. This I think has the potential to to to allow us to build collections the way we've we've been talking about building collections since since we all were in library school right the idea of a truly shared collection integrated into our workflow from the beginning right all of the collaborative collection development projects that I've been part of have been something that you do on the side and often using using tools that are on the side. So we developed Gold Rush and the Colorado Alliance as a tool to allow us to compare collections at scale but it's something that you have to do outside of the the workflow that you do for everything else. Imagine being able to all in one place make a decision about what book you're going to buy or what other item you're going to acquire knowing that another institution within your consortium has made a different decision about that item it allows you to potentially buy the print book because you know that your partner in the consortium has already acquired the e-book and so on right so so there's a tremendous amount of potential to do the things that I know we've all been talking about for a very long time but have never actually had the the systems that allow us to do it and using Colorado again as an example we've got libraries that are Alma libraries we've got libraries that are Sierra we've got one library that is is moving toward Folio we can't work together in those systems unless we have something that allows us to work together and then we're also you know Gobi and and Coots again being able to sort of pull together libraries with with different systems so I it's really exciting and and this is why University of Denver joined it and why the two consortia that I have influence in also joined and I and I really do hope that you're excited about this and want to want to join as well thank you that was a really exciting presentation I apologize in advance this question is somewhat out of left field it is what it is I'm I'm wondering if you have considered or if you can maybe speculate on potential sort of overflow benefits of a project like this and I'll just offer an example of what I'm thinking of really this is geared toward efficiencies in collection development but I'm thinking about collaborative collections through the lens of a subject librarian and I'm really deeply engaged in collections as data project with other marine science librarians who are embedded at field stations we have thousands and thousands and thousands of items in our collections that there is no way to search across in one location but if you're a researcher who wanted to look at the distribution of some animal from Washington down to San Diego you'd have to search each of our catalogs individually and I see this project as a way to enable my projects and my researchers a way to access all of that material so am I misreading the potential for that kind of activity or okay so it's not just for acquisition yeah thank you yeah no uh that's exactly what we'd like this to do so to avoid some of the overhead that selectors are facing all the time every day trying to figure out what we actually own and then to crosswalk between different systems so you know it kind of depends you know what what systems are being used and I think you know the Michael example you know like think about small libraries big libraries they're beyond you know the size at Lehigh is not obviously as big as Cornell or Columbia but we have fewer people needing to do a lot more sometimes and you know like when you just think about that and think about you know like the kind of overflow also just one other opposition possibly like I thought that you may be going there is to say we are we love high level arrangements and we are worried that there's gonna be too much detailed one-offs and then we're gonna be having you know lots of people doing a lot of collaborative work that is not in the mission uh or something like that the idea is to incorporate the high level agreements into the infrastructure because at this point you know like there's no way that you know that there is like a joint approval plan between the two libraries let's say and you don't know that it affects your decision right now to choose something so there is a gap between you know those high level arrangements and the way that they translate into daily operation and think about the community driven many of the use cases that you're talking about you know they will be driving the way that the infrastructure is going to be created so we'd like to avoid situations that are ongoing you know like every time I'm dealing with this and maybe just one more thing trust is so important you know like this is this is what's great about coming here because you know like we we do work we have another opportunity to actually connect dots between different people doing different things but there is a gap that is very familiar probably to people who do selection uh you do selection and then in the end of the day uh metadata operation preservation expensive operations that are attached to those items they are invisible they're very expensive you know we are so so kind of think if there was a way to actually make those visible on your point of decision it would be good because then you can make a call for the university if this is really an expense that is worth it and and if this is something that you know like your university librarian or your head of collections or you know there is a conversation on data and not about perceptions or you know like this is kind of why is it that we're not doing more this stuff like you know a new research direction that we would like to emphasize so that's what I want to say I just wanted to pick up as well and emphasize I really love the question because as much as we talk about efficiencies and scale overall the vision here is to lower the friction of collaboration and lower the bar of collaboration to right to make it easier for a group of libraries to collaborate not necessarily about their entire collection but not necessarily to create one single virtual collection but to create many different collections across different combinations of libraries in in different areas and with different approaches and focal points so that's definitely part of the vision I'd say so I think we are at time I think we might be a minute or two over time if anybody has any questions want to talk with us further we're around happy to engage anybody in further conversations about this thank you so much for joining us


Good motion, thank you very much. Thanks for coming guys. We're going to do everything in English. I would agree that with the local journalists. If you do need anything translated, just say it and we have a translator on that. Start us off, Richard. I hope. Of course, when he spoke to me about this and that he had a talk to the national coach and he made his decision because he thinks he's the best for Everton and there's always the decision by the player and of course I respect that and okay, that's what came out this morning. Of course, if we reach the group stage of the Europa League and international duty, that's a really tough problem but he's on really good fitness at the moment and it's always up to the player the feeling of the player what he thinks is the best to do and I respect that I respect if he makes a different decision about his future as an international player but I think it's a good decision for him and it's a good decision for Everton because that means that in international duty you will have some days off for the family in your own sense it's a big problem you cannot play with the people without you to listen to them and you feel the benefits but you can't compare every situation every decision it's all about your feeling it's also about you need to stop football one is stopping by 32 other is stopping by 36 and Gerrit very likes to move on his age to play still every weekend football I think your body is the main reason to say stop for football and finally it's always the decision by the player what is the point of time I don't know, that's the question for Wayne I think what he did for the national team was good enough there's a time to come and a time to go and he made that decision except it's your advice I don't have Wayne's advice because I'm not that person in his decision the same if he like to continue playing for the national team it can be a good decision because he's still on that fitness that he can deal with a tough program that he can deal with national team football and football forever how do you focus tomorrow night? I think if you go in on the pitch defensively attitude to keep the result defending now our way to play is to control the game to score goals of course we have a good advantage but it's still 1995 minutes to play we know it will be difficult it's a tough week after last Monday city we travel today but ok we will be strong tomorrow we need to be strong tomorrow to get in the group stage now it's difficult to give competition to the strongest team in the Premier League with or without European football we know European football makes it even tougher but that's what we like to have it's no reason to play different or to prepare different for tomorrow I think Everton was the history of the club it's important to be part of Europe but we know it's even more difficult but ok we have enough players of course we have some injuries and that makes it tough this week but ok we will fight and we will do the maximum to get in Europe no but I think it's normal it's the ambition of the club it's ambition of the menacing it's the ambition of the players that they like to be part of Europe to play European football I'm watching European football for the last three years and that's really nice the Tuesday, the Wednesday, the Thursday but you like to be involved for us now in the Thursday and of course that makes it difficult because Sunday 1.30 we get the next whistle by the referee against Chelsea but we win and we go one by one and we do the maximum to get the best result out of every single game yeah maybe yes maybe maybe they don't care enough for European football I was totally agreeing to Joe say about last season what happened to Man United the same is now in this week but we know the television the money decide a lot and that's even more difficult to play tomorrow night here and we played on last Monday and not the Saturday or another weekend but the Sunday story Saturday wasn't possible but the Sunday is but it's the commercial side of football and that makes it even more difficult no Sunday was not traveling David Claasen is not traveling and then Malcolm is feet will be out for I think for at least one week but it will be fit after the international break and Sunday will be out for Sunday so now we working on that we know we have ten days to go but it's not more updates about that today you I don't hope that it happened again tomorrow night I think it's we know about the fans of Hajou they will support the team they will try to intimidate Everton but they are not very close to the pitch it's understands and it's no problem because that's really atmosphere what you like to play football and we have enough experienced players that can deal with that kind of ambience no but ok it's always difficult to knock on his knee and I think it's normally after the international duty here I think he will be afraid he gets criticized is that surprising but I don't know this I think you make this decision clear this morning and ok nothing came already responding a lot of questions about that leave it and please questions about tomorrow tomorrow the cold story what is your game plan my game plan is to win the game at least to qualify for the group stage we know we have we had a difficult top match last Monday but the lineup will be very strong and we know we have competition players but the lineup will be a strong one and of course if there is any player who is not 100% fit then he will he will not start but I expect everybody available for tomorrow now the decision I need to make you got this game time last Monday the decision is or he will start tomorrow or he will come in the game during the game we have one training now and that decision will be made tomorrow morning now we know they can be strong I think we had a really good first 45 minutes against Hajouk at home I think they did well in the second half about two reasons they did the job better than they did it in the first half we dropped the intensity in the game in the second half they had some two, three good chances to score one goal it's really a good reshelf but we are halfway another game to play tomorrow night it will be tough what did you learn for the first match in Liverpool because you were dangerous in the first half but then in the other half you were completely different how you could give you easily one goal it looked like like that you didn't have such a great goalkeeper we know we did a good first half but it's always normal if you tune up in half time that the opponent reacts that's normal I think it's a good result for tomorrow to start but we know they have qualities they create some good chances they have some players back some good young players we need to be at our best tomorrow to get in the group stage of the Europa League any more questions I don't know it's all about the game and I don't speak about losing games I think more about winning games every player can be a question for Thursday I think the fitness level of the players is really good still in the beginning of the season and it's not my job to it's not mine I would need to to say that I'm not in some position we can do rotations but I believe more in the group of players when we are doing well that means that I will not change a lot ok guys thanks very much