New statistics, new success...
I took an hour out today to refresh the "Analysis" pages on the Source home page - providing a bit more information, and replacing the graphs with our latest figures. Why don't you go and take a look?
Good, huh? The one facet that really stood out for me was the contrast between "before" and "after" - the transition from UnityWeb to Talis Source/Talis Platform, which occurred 10 weeks ago now. Historically, one of the limitations of the TCR (and this isn't a criticism, as it does bring some benefits) was the focus on "being in the club". This placed an artifical restriction on who was in, and who was out, thus meaning we only saw a gentle growth. With the change in philosophy that Talis is trying (and succeeding at) bringing to the resource sharing arena, we can see the dramatic change quite clearly - holdings increasing at a rate FIFTY times greater than previously, bibliographic records increasing at a rate EIGHTEEN time greater. As the barriers to participation start to crumble, as the difficulties to contributing start to be overcome, as we start to see both small and large-scale developers taking advantage of the open services the platform brings, we begin the journey into the new age of resource discovery.
PS: I just mentioned developers beginning to build on the Platform - if you are a developer (hacker?), have you visited the TDN community yet? And if you're not, you can still take advantage - Richard Wallis has developed a cracking plug-in for Library Thing which is getting some great reviews.