This document discusses skills and competencies needed for 21st century librarians, including basic technology competencies, core competencies from Anythink Libraries, and factors affecting usage of ecollections in NSW public libraries. It lists technical skills like troubleshooting technologies, learning new technologies, and keeping up with ideas in technology. It also emphasizes soft skills like customer focus, collaboration, flexibility and embracing change, communication, problem solving, and continuous learning. Promoting and providing training on ecollections is seen as important for higher usage rates.
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Copac is a union catalogue of over 56 contributing institutions including national libraries, academic libraries, special collections, professional associations, government organizations, charities, public libraries, and museums. Recent and forthcoming developments include a new more flexible database, restructured website, and new interface with a revised look and feel. Work-level deduplication will bring together records relating to the same work that exists in different forms across various formats and institutions.
20130629 If you build it, will they visit [ala lita lightning talk]Frederick Zarndt
This document discusses why digital collections from libraries are rarely found in search engine results. It notes that large digital newspaper collections exist but receive little web traffic. A search on Google for articles on the Gallipoli campaign from 1915-1916 returned no results from libraries. This is because libraries focus on digitizing content but neglect search engine optimization like sitemaps and robots.txt files. Updating these files for two library sites led to increased organic search traffic and longer visitor sessions. The document argues libraries must improve search visibility of digital collections.
Linked Data for Libraries: Great progress, but what is the benefit?Richard Wallis
Richard Wallis of OCLC discusses the benefits of linked data for libraries. While great progress has been made in exposing library data as linked data, more work remains to fully integrate it into the web of data. Linking library data to outside resources using common schemas can help libraries make their collections more visible and discoverable online. This will allow users to more easily find and access library resources through web searches and other services.
The IRIS Consortium (Florence, Italy) and RDA-lite: a peaceful and profitable...CILIP MDG
The IRIS Consortium, an association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries, has taken a pragmatic approach to adopting RDA. While not fully transitioning to using RDA as their cataloging code, they have accommodated incoming RDA records to ensure coexistence with their legacy AACR2 records. Some positive changes they have made include avoiding abbreviations and adding new fields like 264. They will not edit RDA records back to AACR2. Only a few Italian institutions like the Berenson Library have fully adopted RDA so far. The speaker suggests a "Dutch solution" of a document providing a workflow layer could help the Italian cataloging community transition to RDA in a practical way.
This document summarizes Stockholm University Library's efforts to integrate open source library systems. It discusses the library's existing LIBRIS system and describes two open source systems - Koha and Viola - that the library is implementing. Viola is used for interlibrary loans and circulation functions. Koha is used as the local catalog and is being integrated with LIBRIS using protocols like OAI-PMH. The library is developing a new service layer architecture to facilitate connections between these systems and provide additional services like a link resolver and ERM system. Moving forward, the document discusses whether the library's open source components should be packaged together for broader collaboration or separated for more use cases.
This document is a resume for Anna Home that outlines her career history and qualifications for a career as a library and information professional. It details her experience in roles such as a school librarian, museum assistant, and volunteer positions at various libraries. She holds a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology from Reading University and has skills in organization, customer service, database management, and cataloguing.
This document discusses skills and competencies needed for 21st century librarians, including basic technology competencies, core competencies from Anythink Libraries, and factors affecting usage of ecollections in NSW public libraries. It lists technical skills like troubleshooting technologies, learning new technologies, and keeping up with ideas in technology. It also emphasizes soft skills like customer focus, collaboration, flexibility and embracing change, communication, problem solving, and continuous learning. Promoting and providing training on ecollections is seen as important for higher usage rates.
Copac: your union catalogue today and tomorrowLisa Jeskins
Copac is a union catalogue of over 56 contributing institutions including national libraries, academic libraries, special collections, professional associations, government organizations, charities, public libraries, and museums. Recent and forthcoming developments include a new more flexible database, restructured website, and new interface with a revised look and feel. Work-level deduplication will bring together records relating to the same work that exists in different forms across various formats and institutions.
20130629 If you build it, will they visit [ala lita lightning talk]Frederick Zarndt
This document discusses why digital collections from libraries are rarely found in search engine results. It notes that large digital newspaper collections exist but receive little web traffic. A search on Google for articles on the Gallipoli campaign from 1915-1916 returned no results from libraries. This is because libraries focus on digitizing content but neglect search engine optimization like sitemaps and robots.txt files. Updating these files for two library sites led to increased organic search traffic and longer visitor sessions. The document argues libraries must improve search visibility of digital collections.
Linked Data for Libraries: Great progress, but what is the benefit?Richard Wallis
Richard Wallis of OCLC discusses the benefits of linked data for libraries. While great progress has been made in exposing library data as linked data, more work remains to fully integrate it into the web of data. Linking library data to outside resources using common schemas can help libraries make their collections more visible and discoverable online. This will allow users to more easily find and access library resources through web searches and other services.
The IRIS Consortium (Florence, Italy) and RDA-lite: a peaceful and profitable...CILIP MDG
The IRIS Consortium, an association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries, has taken a pragmatic approach to adopting RDA. While not fully transitioning to using RDA as their cataloging code, they have accommodated incoming RDA records to ensure coexistence with their legacy AACR2 records. Some positive changes they have made include avoiding abbreviations and adding new fields like 264. They will not edit RDA records back to AACR2. Only a few Italian institutions like the Berenson Library have fully adopted RDA so far. The speaker suggests a "Dutch solution" of a document providing a workflow layer could help the Italian cataloging community transition to RDA in a practical way.
This document summarizes Stockholm University Library's efforts to integrate open source library systems. It discusses the library's existing LIBRIS system and describes two open source systems - Koha and Viola - that the library is implementing. Viola is used for interlibrary loans and circulation functions. Koha is used as the local catalog and is being integrated with LIBRIS using protocols like OAI-PMH. The library is developing a new service layer architecture to facilitate connections between these systems and provide additional services like a link resolver and ERM system. Moving forward, the document discusses whether the library's open source components should be packaged together for broader collaboration or separated for more use cases.
This document is a resume for Anna Home that outlines her career history and qualifications for a career as a library and information professional. It details her experience in roles such as a school librarian, museum assistant, and volunteer positions at various libraries. She holds a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology from Reading University and has skills in organization, customer service, database management, and cataloguing.
The document provides information about various fundraisers and charity drives to support Smile Train, Ronald McDonald House, and a school banquet, as well as opportunities to earn volunteer hours such as selling t-shirts. Contact information is given for student counselors who can answer questions. A recap lists the discussed charities, events, hour opportunities, and reminds students to see their counselor with any other questions.
This document discusses techniques for optimizing the performance of PeopleSoft applications. It covers tuning several aspects within a PeopleSoft environment, including server performance, web server performance, Tuxedo performance management, application performance, and database performance. Some key recommendations include implementing a methodology to monitor resource consumption without utilizing critical resources, ensuring load balancing strategies are sound, measuring historical patterns of server resource utilization, capturing key performance metrics for Tuxedo, and focusing on tuning high-resource consuming SQL statements and indexes.
This document lists 4 topics for a Year 12 Standard English assessment: The Simple Gift, Caitlin and the Key, Remember the Titans, and a comparison section. It appears students will be assessed on their understanding and analysis of at least two literary or film works, as well as their ability to compare and contrast elements between them.
The document provides information about various upcoming events and activities. It discusses Smile Train's mission to provide cleft surgery for children, a fundraising goal to help save lives, an opportunity to volunteer at Houston museums on September 17th, and a reminder for membership forms and dues.
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This document discusses the importance of ongoing, reciprocal communication between teachers and parents. It provides research showing that effective two-way communication strengthens family involvement and benefits students, parents, and teachers. When families and schools connect and share meaningful information, children do better. However, communication must be nonjudgmental and overcome any negative attitudes. The document provides examples of individual and institutional communication methods and emphasizes developing partnerships through warmth, empathy, and respect.
The Great Depression originated in the United States with the stock market crash of 1929 and became worldwide. Personal income, tax revenue, profits, and prices dropped sharply while unemployment rose to 25% in the US and 33% in some countries. Several factors contributed to the Great Depression, including the stock market crash, bank failures, reduction in purchasing, and American economic policies like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The worldwide collapse had devastating social and economic impacts, including widespread homelessness, disease, and unemployment.
1) Inflation occurs when prices rise overall in an economy. It can be caused by demand-pull factors like too much spending chasing too few goods, or cost-push factors like rising wages.
2) There are different rates of inflation including low inflation under 10%, galloping inflation in the double or triple digits, and hyperinflation over a million percent. High and unpredictable inflation distorts economies.
3) While low and predictable inflation may have little impact, unexpected inflation impoverishes some and enriches others by unexpectedly changing the value of assets and debts.
Unemployment and the foundations of aggregate supplyRizze
The document discusses aggregate supply and unemployment. It defines aggregate supply as the total output produced at different price levels. The aggregate supply curve is upward sloping in the short-run but vertical in the long-run. Unemployment decreases potential output and shifts the aggregate supply curve left. High unemployment represents wasted resources and causes social problems. There are different types of unemployment including frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment.
The document discusses the evolution of performance management theory over the last 150 years. It examines the work of several theorists including Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, Henri Fayol, Peter Drucker, and Elton Mayo. Taylor developed scientific management methods that broke jobs down into tasks while Fayol and Drucker contributed frameworks for the five elements and operations of management. Mayo's human relations approach emphasized the social aspects of work and motivation. Overall, the document traces the development of management theory and its focus on both organizational structures and human factors.
The document discusses supply and demand analysis and its key assumptions:
- It applies when competition exists among buyers and sellers.
- It analyzes the interaction of buyers and sellers across all prices and goods with markets.
- The interaction of supply and demand determines both the quantity sold and the price.
It then provides examples of how supply and demand shifts in specific contexts like typhoons, and discusses related concepts like price stabilization, labor supply and wages, population growth, output growth, and taxation.
Finally, it covers international exchange rates, defining terms like appreciation, depreciation, and devaluation, and how the supply of and demand for foreign currency interact in markets.
2011 JISC RDTF - The Women's Library (Teresa Doherty) RDTF-Discovery
The document discusses how smaller cultural heritage institutions can make their collections data available online. It notes that libraries mostly have their catalogs available digitally, but many smaller specialist libraries still rely on card catalogs. Archives have developed cataloging standards more recently and around 40% of archive catalogs are not digitized. Museums also lack a central data standard and their data is more interpretive. The document recommends that larger institutions help smaller ones by leading collaborative projects to increase skills and provide clear benefits to participating partners. Persistent URIs are important to allow search engines like Google to find and index digitized collection data.
The future of cataloging needs to be understood through its past. This presentation describes cataloging and catalogs from the book and card catalog to the present. It highlights the problems that arise when working with data that was designed over 100 years ago for the card catalog. This data no longer meets the needs of users. No, no solutions are provided, but it suggests that there is an urgency in finding some.
1. The document discusses the evolving nature of library catalogues as data is increasingly shared and consumed outside of traditional library systems. It explores how catalog data is being transformed, merged with other data sources, and used in new ways.
2. Key points addressed include the release of library catalogue data using open standards like RDF and Linked Data, as well as initiatives to make metadata more accessible to developers and the public. Challenges around aging data formats and the need for more community involvement in metadata standards are also covered.
3. The future may include greater programmatic access to catalog data through APIs, as well as new lightweight metadata schemas that better support open data practices and the needs of non-library users.
For the People: Digitizing Hearings from the 60s, 70s, and 80sSonnet Ireland
Presentation on the U.S. Hearings Digitization project at the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans. Presented at the Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference in Shreveport, LA on March 22, 2012 at 8:30am by Sonnet Ireland.
Collecting the 1980s: some thoughts on how to present 2.9 million publicationsCILIPScotland
The National Library of Scotland collects over 2.9 million publications from the 1980s decade. Presenting this large collection raises questions about how to capture the diversity of topics, genres, and cultural influences present. While the collection reflects the publications added during the 1980s, not all items are necessarily about that decade. Analyzing the collection as a large dataset using text mining and natural language processing techniques may provide new insights into the period and help understand the social and technological changes that defined the 1980s.
Culture Grid is a service that aggregates collection records from cultural heritage institutions across the UK. It currently contains over 1.65 million item records, 10,000 collection records, and 8,000 institution records covering all subjects and regions. Culture Grid aims to increase access to and use of collections by connecting people with collections through a variety of search and development tools. Institutions can contribute data to expand coverage and engage more users. The process involves mapping records to Culture Grid formats and providing sample records to be added.
Chasing the Fifth Star - Open Data at the National Library of NZmlascarides
The document summarizes the open data initiatives of the National Library of New Zealand. It discusses how the Library organizes its digital collections and makes metadata and digital objects available through services like DigitalNZ and Papers Past. It aims to release data in open formats and licenses to encourage reuse and collaboration. Specific datasets mentioned include metadata for over 30 million items and bulk newspaper article text up to 1878. Future goals include better connecting data to other institutions and understanding how data is being used.
The document provides information about various fundraisers and charity drives to support Smile Train, Ronald McDonald House, and a school banquet, as well as opportunities to earn volunteer hours such as selling t-shirts. Contact information is given for student counselors who can answer questions. A recap lists the discussed charities, events, hour opportunities, and reminds students to see their counselor with any other questions.
This document discusses techniques for optimizing the performance of PeopleSoft applications. It covers tuning several aspects within a PeopleSoft environment, including server performance, web server performance, Tuxedo performance management, application performance, and database performance. Some key recommendations include implementing a methodology to monitor resource consumption without utilizing critical resources, ensuring load balancing strategies are sound, measuring historical patterns of server resource utilization, capturing key performance metrics for Tuxedo, and focusing on tuning high-resource consuming SQL statements and indexes.
This document lists 4 topics for a Year 12 Standard English assessment: The Simple Gift, Caitlin and the Key, Remember the Titans, and a comparison section. It appears students will be assessed on their understanding and analysis of at least two literary or film works, as well as their ability to compare and contrast elements between them.
The document provides information about various upcoming events and activities. It discusses Smile Train's mission to provide cleft surgery for children, a fundraising goal to help save lives, an opportunity to volunteer at Houston museums on September 17th, and a reminder for membership forms and dues.
Communication Professional Development Workshopjudilaten
This document discusses the importance of ongoing, reciprocal communication between teachers and parents. It provides research showing that effective two-way communication strengthens family involvement and benefits students, parents, and teachers. When families and schools connect and share meaningful information, children do better. However, communication must be nonjudgmental and overcome any negative attitudes. The document provides examples of individual and institutional communication methods and emphasizes developing partnerships through warmth, empathy, and respect.
The Great Depression originated in the United States with the stock market crash of 1929 and became worldwide. Personal income, tax revenue, profits, and prices dropped sharply while unemployment rose to 25% in the US and 33% in some countries. Several factors contributed to the Great Depression, including the stock market crash, bank failures, reduction in purchasing, and American economic policies like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The worldwide collapse had devastating social and economic impacts, including widespread homelessness, disease, and unemployment.
1) Inflation occurs when prices rise overall in an economy. It can be caused by demand-pull factors like too much spending chasing too few goods, or cost-push factors like rising wages.
2) There are different rates of inflation including low inflation under 10%, galloping inflation in the double or triple digits, and hyperinflation over a million percent. High and unpredictable inflation distorts economies.
3) While low and predictable inflation may have little impact, unexpected inflation impoverishes some and enriches others by unexpectedly changing the value of assets and debts.
Unemployment and the foundations of aggregate supplyRizze
The document discusses aggregate supply and unemployment. It defines aggregate supply as the total output produced at different price levels. The aggregate supply curve is upward sloping in the short-run but vertical in the long-run. Unemployment decreases potential output and shifts the aggregate supply curve left. High unemployment represents wasted resources and causes social problems. There are different types of unemployment including frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment.
The document discusses the evolution of performance management theory over the last 150 years. It examines the work of several theorists including Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, Henri Fayol, Peter Drucker, and Elton Mayo. Taylor developed scientific management methods that broke jobs down into tasks while Fayol and Drucker contributed frameworks for the five elements and operations of management. Mayo's human relations approach emphasized the social aspects of work and motivation. Overall, the document traces the development of management theory and its focus on both organizational structures and human factors.
The document discusses supply and demand analysis and its key assumptions:
- It applies when competition exists among buyers and sellers.
- It analyzes the interaction of buyers and sellers across all prices and goods with markets.
- The interaction of supply and demand determines both the quantity sold and the price.
It then provides examples of how supply and demand shifts in specific contexts like typhoons, and discusses related concepts like price stabilization, labor supply and wages, population growth, output growth, and taxation.
Finally, it covers international exchange rates, defining terms like appreciation, depreciation, and devaluation, and how the supply of and demand for foreign currency interact in markets.
2011 JISC RDTF - The Women's Library (Teresa Doherty) RDTF-Discovery
The document discusses how smaller cultural heritage institutions can make their collections data available online. It notes that libraries mostly have their catalogs available digitally, but many smaller specialist libraries still rely on card catalogs. Archives have developed cataloging standards more recently and around 40% of archive catalogs are not digitized. Museums also lack a central data standard and their data is more interpretive. The document recommends that larger institutions help smaller ones by leading collaborative projects to increase skills and provide clear benefits to participating partners. Persistent URIs are important to allow search engines like Google to find and index digitized collection data.
The future of cataloging needs to be understood through its past. This presentation describes cataloging and catalogs from the book and card catalog to the present. It highlights the problems that arise when working with data that was designed over 100 years ago for the card catalog. This data no longer meets the needs of users. No, no solutions are provided, but it suggests that there is an urgency in finding some.
1. The document discusses the evolving nature of library catalogues as data is increasingly shared and consumed outside of traditional library systems. It explores how catalog data is being transformed, merged with other data sources, and used in new ways.
2. Key points addressed include the release of library catalogue data using open standards like RDF and Linked Data, as well as initiatives to make metadata more accessible to developers and the public. Challenges around aging data formats and the need for more community involvement in metadata standards are also covered.
3. The future may include greater programmatic access to catalog data through APIs, as well as new lightweight metadata schemas that better support open data practices and the needs of non-library users.
For the People: Digitizing Hearings from the 60s, 70s, and 80sSonnet Ireland
Presentation on the U.S. Hearings Digitization project at the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans. Presented at the Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference in Shreveport, LA on March 22, 2012 at 8:30am by Sonnet Ireland.
Collecting the 1980s: some thoughts on how to present 2.9 million publicationsCILIPScotland
The National Library of Scotland collects over 2.9 million publications from the 1980s decade. Presenting this large collection raises questions about how to capture the diversity of topics, genres, and cultural influences present. While the collection reflects the publications added during the 1980s, not all items are necessarily about that decade. Analyzing the collection as a large dataset using text mining and natural language processing techniques may provide new insights into the period and help understand the social and technological changes that defined the 1980s.
Culture Grid is a service that aggregates collection records from cultural heritage institutions across the UK. It currently contains over 1.65 million item records, 10,000 collection records, and 8,000 institution records covering all subjects and regions. Culture Grid aims to increase access to and use of collections by connecting people with collections through a variety of search and development tools. Institutions can contribute data to expand coverage and engage more users. The process involves mapping records to Culture Grid formats and providing sample records to be added.
Chasing the Fifth Star - Open Data at the National Library of NZmlascarides
The document summarizes the open data initiatives of the National Library of New Zealand. It discusses how the Library organizes its digital collections and makes metadata and digital objects available through services like DigitalNZ and Papers Past. It aims to release data in open formats and licenses to encourage reuse and collaboration. Specific datasets mentioned include metadata for over 30 million items and bulk newspaper article text up to 1878. Future goals include better connecting data to other institutions and understanding how data is being used.
The document summarizes the efforts of the University of New Orleans to digitize congressional hearings from the 1960s-1980s held in its federal depository collection. It describes the multi-step process used to select, scan, upload and back-up the digitized hearings. The goal is to make these historically significant materials more accessible online by adding them to the Louisiana Digital Library where they are freely available for public use. Over 200 hearings have been digitized so far, with the project expected to continue as staff and resources allow.
1) The document discusses the importance of preserving digital scholarly content as more becomes available online. It notes that currently around 75% of e-journals are at risk of being lost without preservation efforts.
2) The Keepers Registry is highlighted as a tool that tracks which archiving organizations are preserving which e-journals. The goal is for near 100% of content to be preserved by 2020.
3) Actions are discussed that libraries, publishers, and archiving organizations can take to improve preservation efforts and reduce the amount of content at risk, such as developing archive clauses for licensing agreements.
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The document discusses how Danish archives are using social media and other digital technologies. It notes that most archives have a Facebook presence but with fewer than 500 likes. Archives are also experimenting with Flickr, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms. Crowdsourcing projects have indexed over 15 million records. Emerging areas include augmented reality, mobile apps, and opening up archives through APIs and web services. Overall archives are still learning how best to engage online audiences and connect digital and physical resources.
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) migrated their library catalog from a custom system to the open-source Koha system with the help of internal staff, external IT support, and the Koha user community. The goals of the migration were to enable more accurate and flexible searches, display search results more quickly, and make the catalog more user-friendly. The migration process from fall 2009 to spring 2010 involved addressing initial problems with data conversion and customizing Koha to accommodate the ANS library's needs, such as indexing articles and displaying publication information.
Signposts to archives : making archives visible within the main library disco...CILIP MDG
How can we bring together the disparate discovery systems within libraries? How can we enhance the discoverability of archival collections which use metadata schema that are not compatible with a traditional library discovery system? This was the challenge faced by the speaker of this Lightning Talk when colleagues working in Special Collections and Archives approached her about adding records describing the library’s archives to the discovery layer.
The archives are physical collections only available for consultation upon request, and metadata describing the archives were stored in various spreadsheets. Archives staff had created a webpage for each collection, with a link to a request form, and a link to the archive’s record in Jisc Archives Hub, which functioned as a finding aid. The library needed to retain the rich EAD metadata, but also needed to enhance the archives’ discoverability and reduce the need for researchers to start their search for archives either on the library website or on Archives Hub. The library wanted to unify archive discovery with that of traditional library resources, but as Newcastle’s LMS is only compatible with MARCXML, a workaround was needed.
As well as enhancing the archives’ discoverability, the library wanted to bring the descriptive and instructional information – the Excel metadata, webpages, and links to Archives Hub and the request form – together. The speaker will describe how she decided that the best approach would be to create ‘signposts’ that pointed users to the webpages about the collections, which in turn would link them to the Archives Hub record and the request form. Firstly, an in-house schema was created within Excel for the archives team to use to transfer the existing Excel metadata into a format that could be represented by MARC tags. Once the metadata was standardised in Excel, a MARC template could be created in MarcEdit, translating the column headers in the spreadsheet into MARC tags, before converting the output into MARCXML.
As each archive record in Alma would need to display a link in the Primo record to the archive’s webpage, the records would need electronic inventory. An import profile was therefore set up to convert the URLs in the 856 fields of the MARCXML file into a portfolio record. To ensure it was clear that the links were not pointing directly to digitised versions of the archives, the links display as ‘Further collection information and request form’. The result is that physical archives, with their own webpages, finding aids via Jisc Archives Hub and privately stored metadata, are now represented within the library’s main discovery system, with users able to discover the collections and request archival material without needing to leave Primo.
Lightning Talk presented at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) Conference & UKCoR RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham).
The document discusses the Danish Digital Library (DDL), a collaboration between Denmark's public libraries, state libraries, and local governments to provide citizens access to digital media content. Key points:
- DDL aims to empower citizens' access to knowledge by facilitating a shared digital infrastructure and content between libraries.
- It coordinates buying consortia, funding, and the development of shared services like a digital platform, catalog, and apps to bridge physical and digital libraries.
- Examples discussed include curating e-books and audiobooks, a library operating system, and tools for libraries to collaboratively produce and share content.
The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL: a new building for a new vision in collect...Thomas Guignard
The new Rolex Learning Center at EPFL provides a new vision for collection development and library services. It includes 15,000 square meters of work spaces, group study rooms, cafes, and other amenities to serve as a hub for learning, research, and collaboration. The building reflects evolving teaching models, libraries, and acquisition models toward more digital resources and on-demand access. It aims to provide a seamless experience for patrons across physical and digital collections.
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GlobalLogic Java Community Webinar #18 “How to Improve Web Application Perfor...GlobalLogic Ukraine
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Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during Migration
2011 jisc rdtf teresa the womens library
1. JISC rdtf Jan-08 I gave a verbal presentation – This ppt is from my notes so it could be shared. Hence some of the type is a bit small. I’ve also included some off piste comments from the day as well as stuff I think I said. If anything doesn’t make sense please email me – contact details at the end
2. Jan-08 The Women’s Library (TWL) is the oldest and most extensive collection of women's history in the Europe. We are a cross-domain cultural resource providing a single point of access to: * Printed collections containing 60,000+ books and pamphlets dating from 1592; 3,500+ periodicals dating from 1745; * Archives 550+ Personal and Organisational archives dating from 1770 * Museum over 11,000 objects dating from 1786
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4. Jan-08 For the heritage sector ‘data’ usually means the catalogue This data, aimed at the public, is usually part of a wider Collections Management System (deposit info, location info, enquiry info, as well as the catalogue)
5. Jan-08 Libraries mostly h ave their catalogues available online. This causes issues in reusing data with contemporary catalogues which are commercially created. Libraries are also (too?!) well served with cataloguing standards and conventions. Libraries already do a lot of aggregation through union catalogues However as you move into the world of smaller specialist or rare books libraries the number of card catalogues increases substantially. E.g. as well as its online catalogue of holdings, Trade Union Congress Library has a large number of card indices waiting for retro conversion. The Women’s Library has a current project to box- list rare pamphlets (in the archive./museum catalogue) ahead of funding applications for full ‘library’ cataloguing : ‘ http://tinyurl.com/3wtrq4p If cataloguing is not sexy, retro conversion is deeply unsexy to funders.
6. Jan-08 Archives only came up with their first internationally agreed data / cataloguing standards in the 1990s with the introduction of ISAD(g) and ISAAR(cpf) along with indexing standards such as the NCA rules. The data exchange protocol for ISAD(g) – EAD has been in use in the UK since c.1998, but EAC only became available earlier this year. Aggregation of catalogues through Aim25, Archives Hub and the women’s history resource www.genesis.ac.uk all included high levels of collaboration. – often with larger institutions taking the lead on behalf of smaller ones (A2A esp) The speed at which the aggregates grew in the late 90s/early 2000s show the willingness of the archive sector to skill up – But a lot more skilling up needs to be done. Archives has a high proportion of “one man and his dog” (or woman and cat). @For them new, jargon-led movements is just too much . The day to day work of enquiries, accessioning, cataloguing is more than enough to get on with. Remember, approx 40% of archive catalogues are not available in an e-formats. Of the 60% available a high proportion are not structured catalogue data, but pdfs or simple web pages.
7. Jan-08 Museums data is rather different. Museums tend to have a lot of exhibition led / interpreted data (exhibition text / online exhibitions). Museum documentation does not have a central data standard to compare to MARC/ISAD. UK SPECTRUM’1 st Edition was in 1977, pre digital data. It is a holistic best practice approach to managing collections – from accessioning to handling, to loans in/out and exhibitions procedures – not a data standard though moving towards this the new edition out imminently will be an interesting read. The lack of convergence by the UK national/large museums has led to a lack of union catalogues, though aggregations such as VADS and now Culture Grid are changing the landscape. But is the lack of catalogue data a problem? Curators’ methodology and approach often rests on mediated /interpreted data. My 2 curators asked “Why put it [our museum catalogue] online?” If there is sufficient useful plain English data in the form on online exhibitions maybe this isn’t a problem......?
8. Jan-08 The Women’s Library Online Aggregation: CALM and Millennium are our prime data sets for our archive ,museum and printed catalogues This data is exported to a variety of aggregates, including the following (brackets indicate re-use of data) A2A; Aim25, Archives Hub (& Genesis), National Register of Archives, Artists Papers Register, Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts (& Archive Grid), Copac, Suncat, VADs (& Culture Grid & Europeana), 24 Hour Museum.... and probably others! Following on from our increased online presence and new building (2002) the 2000s have shown a clear increase in awareness and use of our collections. Statistics for web hits, enquiries and collection retrievals in our reading room. We appreciate Aggregates that feed back repository-focused statistics re online use, particularly Aim25 which gives us at TWL statistics on how our data on Aim25 is performing!
9. Jan-08 Notes from a small island / repository For small specialist collections, staff rarely have the capacity to get their heads around new ‘movements’ – or the time/capacity to bid for funding for specialist projects . (Jisc) Funding rounds are often for projects where the minimum spend is larger than the annual cost of the department applying. This results in self-selection patterns which lead to a non-inclusive data landscape Collaborations where a larger partner takes a lead and provides clear benefits to the smaller partners is much better way to get buy in – it may also be more cost effective. E.g. The peripatetic archivists that worked on Aim25 went on to jobs in the sector with a high skill set – as a sector we are still feeling the benefit 10 years on!
10. Jan-08 CALM and Google Answer to tweeted question (1/3): The short answer appears to be Persistent URIs ! CALM is a collections management system (relational database) which does not actively expose it's data to Google – A lot of the data we would not want online (e.g. personal depositor data or work in progress). To put the data on the web you use an add on - either DServe or the newly released CALMView. If you set this up with a bit of thought these can create persistent URIs for searches - I've been assured that in moving from DServe to CALMView we keep our URIs The Women's Library was the pilot for the National Register of Archives linking to individual repository databases (rather than aggregators such as AIM25 and the Hub). There are now over 100 repositories linking in this way. NRA has approx 900 links to our catalogue E.g. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp Search for Personal Name = sheila rowbotham
11. Jan-08 CALM and Google Answer to tweeted question (2/3): We also link from Wikipedia. For example Sheila Rowbotham (see the ‘Archives Reference’) This has given us another 800 or so links We also link from our Source Notes http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/aboutthecollections/source-notes/sources-liberation.cfm Other people link to us - when they're blogging etc. So with persistent URIs in place since 2006 Google has a lot of links to play with. If you search Google for sheila rowbotham you'll see a result at around No7 from calmarchive.londonmet.ac.uk/ These results appear to be cached results - so consistent with the bookmarks being picked up by Google.
12. Jan-08 CALM and Google Answer to tweeted question (3/3): We first noticed that Google results about a year after our catalogue went online. This was also around the same time we started linking. So chicken/egg clouds the answer. Wellcome's CALM archive catalogue was having a similar 'life of it's own'. We emailed the CALM email list but nobody had a definitive answer – CALM’s company, Axiell , didn't really know why either - it wasn't something they had set out to do. Other things probably come into play - such as having an ac.uk address. ......but perhaps as the chap said Persistent URIs are the most important thing in a Linked Data world
13. Jan-08 [email_address] www.genesis.ac.uk a women’s history discovery resource. re-using Archives Hub data via SRU, new in 2011! This shows what can be done with aggregated data, little money, but friendly capable university web developers (thanks Dave Slater and the gang at MIMAS)