LibraryCloud Use Cases

LibraryCloud is publicized on the Harvard Library Portal: http://library.harvard.edu/librarycloud

Title	Description	Audience	Example requirements	Technology Solution
Web UI for building digital collections	Staff user interface for Harvard curators to select metadata and links to digital objects for import into exhibition and digital collection platforms eg. Spotlight and Omeka	Creators (Harvard staff and vendors) of CURIOSity collections such as Catching the Wave and Divinity UUSC records, CNA, EDA, SuiteSpot, Charlie Hebdo, etc.	Collection Builder tool harvesting into select platforms	Collection Builder web application
Web UI for exploring Harvard metadata	Staff user interface to search, browse, and export all Harvard descriptive metadata and links to digital objects	Harvard curators, legal advisors and reviewers, library management and administrators, assessment staff	search on all metadata fields, eg.search for digital objects with full text for HathiTrust objects within a date range objects in multiple libraries report on search results Export of selected item level metadata and links LLT assessments Collection Reporting	Search, browse, report web application CSV exports
Harvesting for metadata aggregators	Enables metadata aggregators to harvest all Harvard Library descriptive metadata from a single feed	OCLC, DPLA, DLEM, etc	harvest all items harvest Harvard digital-only harvest public-access only harvest a defined collection	OAI-PMH for library cloud items and collections
New Harvard Digital Library	Feed a new discovery system for digital content in Harvard's DRS	Creators (Harvard staff and vendors) of a union collection of digital content from Harvard's DRS	Harvest metadata to enable search and browse of Harvard digital content	OAI-PMH
API for innovation labs	Enables software developers to re-purpose Harvard Library metadata	Law School Library Innovation Lab, Berkman-Klein Center, Metalab, CS-50, etc.	Find all public items Find all digital image items	RESTful item search API
API for library administrative app development	Enables library staff to re-purpose Harvard Library metadata	Programmers provided by collection development staff, ITS staff	Find all digital objects with full text for HathiTrust Find objects within a date range Find all objects in multiple libraries	Is an API needed or a Web application?
Enable creation of Linked Data	Enables up to date publication of library metadata as linked data	Search engines, LD4L collaborators, Library of Congress	Find Harvard items by a given author in Library of Congress Name Authority File (NAF)	Triple store SPARQL endpoint
Ingesting non-Harvard metadata	Build digital collections with metadata from non-Harvard sources	Curators of multi-institutional collections	Emily Dickinson Archive-like collections Beyond Words CANA