the dis-integrated library system of the future kristin antelman ncsu libraries october 28, 2005
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The Dis-integrated Library System of the
Future
Kristin AntelmanNCSU LibrariesOctober 28, 2005
ILS failures Manage and display electronic
resources Catalog search
Dis-integrated Library System
• Licensing Files
• Collection development records
• Use statistics
Library cataloge-journal
list3rd party data feed
database lists
homegrown backendor metasearch software
Electronic resources DLF Electronic Resources
Management Initiative and subsequent ERM modules
Why build an ERM outside the ILS? control: data elements, interfaces flexibility: reporting, evolution of ERM’s
role collection management focus
catalog
E-Matrix
licensingdatabase
evaluative data
acquisition “shepherding” form
journal bundle
constraints
use statistics
SFX Knowledgebase
titles, licensing, pricing, bundles, access, holdings, usage
stats, etc.
relationships, local subject terms, keywords,descriptions, etc.
local subjectterms,
keywords, descriptions
Sustainability and data quality Migrate legacy applications into E-
Matrix Define a single authoritative data
source for each data element Query existing data sources in real
time wherever possible
E-MATRIX TITLE TYPE ID TITLE TYPE NAME
1 title
2 alternate title
3 abbreviated title
4 uniform title
5 sort title
6 sfx title
7 preceding title
8 succeeding title
9 public display title
MARC 780 - PRECEDING ENTRY
0 continues
1 continues in part
2 supersedes
3 supersedes in part
4 formed by the union of… and…
5 absorbed
6 absorbed in part
7 separated from
Finding journals Finding journals in the catalog is
hard (understanding the records can be
hard)
Finding journals Finding journals in the catalog is hard (understanding the records can be hard)
Users like lists (but the ones we make are not that great)
where isScience
magazine??
The dream journal list…
includes print
manifestations collapsed into “work”
links to related titles
Serial work “Which entity represents the
work- the entity we catalog (a segment of a run of issues identified by one title or name-title) or the entire run of issues associated through time?”
• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind”
Superwork (super-record)
super_work_id = 123
[super_work_id = 123]
Resource_id = 13147
Title = College & Research Libraries
Succeeding title = College & Research Libraries News
[super_work_id = 123]
Resource_id = 13148
Title = College & Research Libraries News
Preceding title = College & Research Libraries
Online CopyResource_id = 13147
Provider_id = 362Full text = some
Print CopyResource_id = 13147
Provider_id = 1Full text = yes
Online CopyResource_id = 13147
Provider_id = 518Full text = yes
Online CopyResource_id = 13148
Provider_id = 518Full text = yes
SUPER WORK
WORK
EXPRESSION/MANIFESTATION
Identifiers that systems can use “In the serial universe, direct links by
means of control numbers could collocate the component records both in the local catalog and in the utilities far more efficiently and economically than uniform titles or other approaches based on text matching.”
• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind”
Karen Coyle, “Future considerations: the functional library systems record,” Library Hi Tech 22:2 (2004)
Catalogs Current catalogs are “finding lists”
• Martha Yee, ITAL 6/05
Most catalogs’ default search is keyword no relevancy ranking of results but users assume there is relevancy ranking … … so they add specific terms to improve result set … and quickly get zero results and learn to go to Amazon first and then back to
the library catalog when they know what they want
Potential solutions Wait for ILS vendors to enhance
the catalog This won’t happen. Why?
mature market: maintenance payments for existing products are small
vendors are stuck with legacy products
OCLC scoped WorldCat OCLC knows what you have They are developing their interface
and search FRBR and FAST are in development
and will likely show up in WorldCat sooner than our ILS’s
(OCLC mostly knows what you have)
Build a new front end Getting your records is easy Building search and display is hard Ecommerce search sites are user
friendly
Endeca ProFind What is it? How do you get it? How does it work?
dimensions (facets) relevancy ranking spell check, stemming dictionary,
synonyms
Endeca-powered library catalog
Endeca
Sirsi
Browse
Google lessons GooglePrint is “one giant electronic
card catalog” Google searches will take users to
your catalog Can we make our contribution to
resource discovery useful to everybody? our data wants to be found and used
Mashups
References Karen Coyle, “Catalogs, Card--and Other
Anachronisms, Journal of Academic Librarianship 31:1 (2005)
Karen Coyle, “Future considerations: the functional library systems record,” Library Hi Tech 22:2 (2004),www.kcoyle.net/functional.pdf
Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind,”www.lib.unc.edu/cat/mfh/serials_approach_frbr.pdf
Kathy Fescemyer, “Serials Clutter in Online Catalogs,” Serials Review 31:1 (2005)
David Mimno and Gregory Crane, “Hierarchical Catalog Records,” D-Lib Magazine (October 2005),www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/crane/10crane.html