Music in …
IAML Public Library Horizons: Flanders developments
Johan Mijs, Emerging
Technologies

Flanders

CDR
75%
MARC21
local library
systems
analytical!

Medialab ‘disclaimer’:
Please note that the Flemish Libraries have a very clean catalog and
most US Library catalogs will not even come close to its quality.
This has the important implication that no algorithm is going to do
the grouping as perfectly as it’s done in the Flemish catalog unless
the data in the catalog is as clean as theirs.

• FRBR: dynamic grouping of search results
• Webservices
• Web 2.0 features
• Future

Stabat mater, RV. 621

work 240 + 100$a/110$a (= uniform title + primary author)
<frbr_key>StabatMaterRV621VivaldiAntonio</frbr_key>

work
expression
expression
expression
expression

manifestation
work
expression
work
work

245 + 100$a/110$a (= publication title + primary author)
<frbr_key>SThrillerJacksonMichael</frbr_key>
differentiate between part (track) and whole (cd)
245 + 100$a/110$a (= publication title + primary author)
<frbr_key>MThrillerJacksonMichael</frbr_key>

245 + 100$a/110$a (= publication title + primary author)
<frbr_key>DeOntdekkingVanDeHemelMulischHarry</frbr_key>

Webservices
to enrich our search environment
from other websites’ API’s
(Application Programming Interface)
• Wikipedia
• DigiLeen
• Covers
• Last.fm

music and non-music materials make
interesting combinations

Digital lending platform developed by CDR
Windows only software client
WMA DRM encrypted files (7 days available)
11.000 cd’s: Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, ECM, Munich, …
since Oct. 2008: 9.000 users, 600.000 downloads (Flanders)

Web 2.0 features
• My Discoveries module for Aquabrowser
• tag, review, list and rate on manifestation level
• share tags, reviews and ratings can be shared between
Aquabrowsers!
• Addthis-widget
• RSS on every search result!

Future projects
• Dynamic author visualisations (2009): a dynamic page for
every author in the catalog
• DigiLeen new release? (2010, CDR?): streaming
• Bib.fm pilot (2010): innovative listen and discovery tool for
your music library collection on Aquabrowser
• Zoeken.bibliotheek.be library portals for all 300 public
libraries in Flanders (2012)

Future of music in public libraries?
• music shows the way
for all library materials
• the library as a democratic
guide for search and discovery
of both physical and online
collections (everywhere)
• bring the outside in
and bring the inside out
• metadata is King
(keep control)
• better than free Digitale bibliotheek, nr. 3 2009
(librariansmatter.com)

The end
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