This document summarizes how libraries use publisher-provided metadata to provide access to content. It describes how metadata is used in the library catalog, link resolvers, and discovery systems. Publisher metadata must be accurate and distributed to various library systems and standards to effectively support discovery and access for users.
Keynote presented at the International Association of University Libraries Conference (IATUL), 20 June 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.
Library metadata was created to describe objects and enable a reader to understand when they had the same or a different object in hand. Now linked data concepts and techniques are allowing us to recreate, merge, and link our metadata assets in new ways that better support discovery - both in our local systems and on the wider web. Tennant described this migration and the potential it has for solving key discovery problems.
Expanded presentation from 2012 Charleston Conference on how to complete missing metadata in certain EDS records by obtaining it from WorldCat to ensure linking to desired item held by local library.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
Discovery Systems: Connecting the 21st Century Academic User to ContentAthena Hoeppner
Describes three projects using Discovery to serve academic users: Bibliometric studies of discovery content for graduate and faculty papers; Exposing Open Access content in the Discovery service; Integrating Discovery into the course page editor in a Learning Management System.
Athena Hoeppner. "Discovery Systems: Connecting the 21st Century Academic User to Content." II Seminario Bibliotecas Universitarias del siglo XXI, Bogota, Columbia, 24 March 2015.
Resource DISCOvery Services: Beyond the Blurb. Opening Keynote by Athena Hoep...Athena Hoeppner
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Opening keynote for Resource DISCOvery Services conference hosted by University of Bath. Provides an overview of web scale discovery systems and illustrates common approaches to the central index and discovery layer.
Athena Hoeppner. “Beyond the Blurb.” Resource Discovery Conference, Bath, UK, 2 September 2013. Opening Keynote.
Out in the Open: Better Exposure for Open Access ContentAthena Hoeppner
Awareness of Open Access publishing options has increased greatly over the last several years. However, open access content remains nearly indistinguishable from paid content in library systems. The University of Central Florida initiated two projects to raise awareness of the variety, quality, and quantity of OA content. The presenter will describe creating a searchable OA Journals List and resolver in SFX, and a method for placing an icon next to OA articles in EBSCO Discovery Service.
Athena Hoeppner. “Out in the Open: Better Exposure for Open Access Content.” ALA Annual 2014, Las Vegas, NV, 28 June 2014.
Keynote presented at the International Association of University Libraries Conference (IATUL), 20 June 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.
Library metadata was created to describe objects and enable a reader to understand when they had the same or a different object in hand. Now linked data concepts and techniques are allowing us to recreate, merge, and link our metadata assets in new ways that better support discovery - both in our local systems and on the wider web. Tennant described this migration and the potential it has for solving key discovery problems.
Expanded presentation from 2012 Charleston Conference on how to complete missing metadata in certain EDS records by obtaining it from WorldCat to ensure linking to desired item held by local library.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
Discovery Systems: Connecting the 21st Century Academic User to ContentAthena Hoeppner
Describes three projects using Discovery to serve academic users: Bibliometric studies of discovery content for graduate and faculty papers; Exposing Open Access content in the Discovery service; Integrating Discovery into the course page editor in a Learning Management System.
Athena Hoeppner. "Discovery Systems: Connecting the 21st Century Academic User to Content." II Seminario Bibliotecas Universitarias del siglo XXI, Bogota, Columbia, 24 March 2015.
Resource DISCOvery Services: Beyond the Blurb. Opening Keynote by Athena Hoep...Athena Hoeppner
*For animations and correct fonts download the PPTX.*
Opening keynote for Resource DISCOvery Services conference hosted by University of Bath. Provides an overview of web scale discovery systems and illustrates common approaches to the central index and discovery layer.
Athena Hoeppner. “Beyond the Blurb.” Resource Discovery Conference, Bath, UK, 2 September 2013. Opening Keynote.
Out in the Open: Better Exposure for Open Access ContentAthena Hoeppner
Awareness of Open Access publishing options has increased greatly over the last several years. However, open access content remains nearly indistinguishable from paid content in library systems. The University of Central Florida initiated two projects to raise awareness of the variety, quality, and quantity of OA content. The presenter will describe creating a searchable OA Journals List and resolver in SFX, and a method for placing an icon next to OA articles in EBSCO Discovery Service.
Athena Hoeppner. “Out in the Open: Better Exposure for Open Access Content.” ALA Annual 2014, Las Vegas, NV, 28 June 2014.
This presentation was delivered by Gloria Gonzalez of Zepheira during the NISO Virtual Conference, BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Bibliographic Data, held on June 15, 2016.
Presented by Christa Burns
At NEBASE Annual Meeting - East (August 9, 2007, Lincoln, NE) and as a NEBASE Hour (September 5, 2007, online)
OCLC is piloting its new WorldCat Local service that will allow your library to customize WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services. WorldCat Local interoperates with locally maintained services like circulation, resource sharing and resolution to full text to present a locally branded interface to your patrons. Attend this session to learn how this new service works and to see the beta being run at the University of Washington Libraries.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata for Web ArchivingOCLC
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in late 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
The British Library was one of the first national libraries to create and offer linked data in 2011 as part of its wider open data strategy. Since that point the organisation has gained considerable experience of the issues involved in the development and maintenance of a sustained linked data service.
This presentation describes
- Why libraries are interested in offering linked data?
- What are some of the basic concepts involved in linked data?
- How can linked data be created from library MARC data?
This presentation was given by Tim Thompson of Princeton University during the NISO Virtual Conference, BIBFRAME & Real World Applications for Linked Bibliographic Data, held on June 15, 2016.
Keynote Speaker: Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC
Expanding Our Horizons: Reaching for the Limits[PowerPoint]
The future of the library OPAC as a destination information portal is shaky at best. To surface library collections in today's information environment, libraries will have to move toward exposing themselves in multiple locations and through multiple methods. Looking at some of the successful ways OCLC has been able to surface the library's full capacity can give libraries one way to consider their futures.
This presentation looks back at several efforts, conducted in the past fifteen years, aimed at establishing interoperability for web-based scholarly communication. It tries to characterize the perspectives/approaches taken by these efforts and, based upon that, proposes an HATEOS-based approach to interlink scholarly nodes on the web. This was first presented at the Research Data Alliance meeting in Paris, France, September 22 2015.
How serendipitous is discovery for users? Like many a teenager, OpenURL linking can behave inappropriately. What can we do to smooth out the bumps on the road and what other tools are available? This breakout session will walk swiftly through linking to discovery targets, from OpenURL 0.1/1.0, to Index-Enhanced Direct Linking, Link 2.0 and beyond …
Open Context and Publishing to the Web of Data: Eric Kansa's LAWDI Presentationekansa
This presentation discusses how a model of “data sharing as publishing” can contribute to developing Linked Open Data resources in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. The paper gives examples from Open Context’s developing approach to data editing, documentation and quality improvement processes. The goal of these efforts is to better align the professional interests of individual researchers with the needs of the larger community to access and use high-quality data in Linked Data scenarios.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
Finding Pages on the Unarchived Web (DL 2014)TimelessFuture
Presentation at the Digital Libraries conference 2014 (DL 2014), in London, UK. Nominated for Best Paper award. Full paper available via: humanities.uva.nl/~kamps/publications/2014/huur:find14.pdf
Join members of the NISO KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) Standing Committee as they guide you through the ins and outs of the KBART Phase II Recommended Practice. Through classroom instruction and hands-on experience, the workshop will provide in-depth coverage of all KBART data elements, with special focus on many of the most frequently asked questions about the recommended practice. The session will also outline the steps in the KBART adoption process and highlight the benefits of endorsement. Participants will also gain insight into how the provision of standardized metadata can increase exposure of their electronic content, ensure smoother interoperability with knowledge base and link resolver vendors, and ultimately improve end user access. Don’t be afraid to take the plunge and see what KBART can do for you!
Presenters: Marlene van Ballegooie, Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto; Sheri Meares, EBSCO; Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery, North Carolina State University Libraries
This presentation was delivered by Gloria Gonzalez of Zepheira during the NISO Virtual Conference, BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Bibliographic Data, held on June 15, 2016.
Presented by Christa Burns
At NEBASE Annual Meeting - East (August 9, 2007, Lincoln, NE) and as a NEBASE Hour (September 5, 2007, online)
OCLC is piloting its new WorldCat Local service that will allow your library to customize WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services. WorldCat Local interoperates with locally maintained services like circulation, resource sharing and resolution to full text to present a locally branded interface to your patrons. Attend this session to learn how this new service works and to see the beta being run at the University of Washington Libraries.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata for Web ArchivingOCLC
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in late 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
The British Library was one of the first national libraries to create and offer linked data in 2011 as part of its wider open data strategy. Since that point the organisation has gained considerable experience of the issues involved in the development and maintenance of a sustained linked data service.
This presentation describes
- Why libraries are interested in offering linked data?
- What are some of the basic concepts involved in linked data?
- How can linked data be created from library MARC data?
This presentation was given by Tim Thompson of Princeton University during the NISO Virtual Conference, BIBFRAME & Real World Applications for Linked Bibliographic Data, held on June 15, 2016.
Keynote Speaker: Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC
Expanding Our Horizons: Reaching for the Limits[PowerPoint]
The future of the library OPAC as a destination information portal is shaky at best. To surface library collections in today's information environment, libraries will have to move toward exposing themselves in multiple locations and through multiple methods. Looking at some of the successful ways OCLC has been able to surface the library's full capacity can give libraries one way to consider their futures.
This presentation looks back at several efforts, conducted in the past fifteen years, aimed at establishing interoperability for web-based scholarly communication. It tries to characterize the perspectives/approaches taken by these efforts and, based upon that, proposes an HATEOS-based approach to interlink scholarly nodes on the web. This was first presented at the Research Data Alliance meeting in Paris, France, September 22 2015.
How serendipitous is discovery for users? Like many a teenager, OpenURL linking can behave inappropriately. What can we do to smooth out the bumps on the road and what other tools are available? This breakout session will walk swiftly through linking to discovery targets, from OpenURL 0.1/1.0, to Index-Enhanced Direct Linking, Link 2.0 and beyond …
Open Context and Publishing to the Web of Data: Eric Kansa's LAWDI Presentationekansa
This presentation discusses how a model of “data sharing as publishing” can contribute to developing Linked Open Data resources in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. The paper gives examples from Open Context’s developing approach to data editing, documentation and quality improvement processes. The goal of these efforts is to better align the professional interests of individual researchers with the needs of the larger community to access and use high-quality data in Linked Data scenarios.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
Finding Pages on the Unarchived Web (DL 2014)TimelessFuture
Presentation at the Digital Libraries conference 2014 (DL 2014), in London, UK. Nominated for Best Paper award. Full paper available via: humanities.uva.nl/~kamps/publications/2014/huur:find14.pdf
Join members of the NISO KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) Standing Committee as they guide you through the ins and outs of the KBART Phase II Recommended Practice. Through classroom instruction and hands-on experience, the workshop will provide in-depth coverage of all KBART data elements, with special focus on many of the most frequently asked questions about the recommended practice. The session will also outline the steps in the KBART adoption process and highlight the benefits of endorsement. Participants will also gain insight into how the provision of standardized metadata can increase exposure of their electronic content, ensure smoother interoperability with knowledge base and link resolver vendors, and ultimately improve end user access. Don’t be afraid to take the plunge and see what KBART can do for you!
Presenters: Marlene van Ballegooie, Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto; Sheri Meares, EBSCO; Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery, North Carolina State University Libraries
"Will I always be not social?": Re-Conceptualizing Sociality in the Context o...Kate Ringland
We explore how a Minecraft community for children with autism and their allies experience sociality and suggest an expansion of the normative definition of what it means to be social.
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CSCW 2015 Presentation: Making "Safe": Community-Centered Practices in a Virt...Kate Ringland
The use of online games and virtual worlds is becoming increasingly prominent, particularly in children and young adults. Parents have concerns about risks their children might encounter in these online spaces. Parents dynamically manage the boundaries between safe and unsafe spaces online through both explicit and implicit means. In this work, we use empirical data gathered from a digital ethnography of a Minecraft server, Autcraft, to explore how parents of children with autism continually create a “safe” virtual world through both implicit and explicit means. In particular, we demonstrate how their actions in these spaces define and produce “safety,” shedding light on our theoretical understanding of child safety in online spaces.
Consumer protection laws are equally applicable when it comes to the services they avail from the Banking Institutions, therefore in order to protect their rights, Consumer Protection Act, 1986 is applicable to the services provided by the Banks.
The recent FDI policy will make India as the most open economy for FDI in the World. So, it is necessary to look at the sectors which has been brought under direct automatic route.
ESOP is a step ahead to encourage, motivate and retain the existing employees in the company. Human resource is the most valuable asset for any company, which makes it important to have a idea about the incentive plans. This presentation focuses on one such area i.e. issue of ESOPs by companies in India.
Descubrimiento, entrega de información y gestión: tendencias actuales de las ...innovatics
Explora el ámbito de los servicios de descubrimiento basados en índices, orientado al ámbito de las bibliotecas académicas, incluyendo Primo de Ex Libris, Summon de ProQuest, Discovery Service de Ebsco y Discovery Service de OCLC WorldCat.
Se aborda la Iniciativa Open Discovery y la reciente tendencia hacia una mayor participación por parte de los proveedores de contenidos. Se discute acerca de las tecnologías más adecuadas para las bibliotecas que tienen mayor preocupación por la participación del usuario, sobre el acceso a los libros impresos y electrónicos, con menos restricciones para los artículos académicos que se encuentran en Descubrimiento. Se presenta el papel de las interfaces de descubrimiento de código abierto tales como VuFind y Blacklight. Se aborda el estado de la nueva generación de plataformas de servicios de la biblioteca. La presentación ofrecerá los aspectos más destacados de la industria de automatización de la biblioteca global, con especial atención a los protagonistas y tendencias en América Latina. Basado en el "Informe 2014 de los Sistemas de Bibliotecas" http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
Abstract
Discovery, delivery, and management: the current wave of new library technologies and industry trends
Explore the realm of index-based discovery services oriented more to academic libraries, including Ex Libris Primo, ProQuest Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, and OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service. An update on the Open Discovery Initiative and the recent movement toward more participation by content providers. Discuss technologies better suited for public libraries that have more concerns for customer engagement, access to print and electronic books, with less stringent requirements for article-level discovery of scholarly resources. The role of open source discovery interfaces such as VuFind and Blacklight. The status of the new generation of library services platforms. The presentation will provide highlights of global library automation industry, with a focus on the players and trends in Latin America Based on “Library Systems Report 2014” http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
This presentation was provided by Marshall Breeding, Independent Consultant and Founder of Library Technology Guides; Co-Chair, ODI Working Group, at the
2012 NISO Standards Update at ALA.
Towards OpenURL Quality Metrics: Initial Findingsalc28
Presentation on creating a method for benchmarking metadata consistency in OpenURL links. See also: <http: />. Delivered at the July 2009 American Library Association conference in Chicago.
This review demonstrates that using these websites can provide researchers with valuable sources of data and research, facilitating access to current literature and specialized scientific content. For optimal results, diversifying sources of research and using multiple search engines based on need and specialization is recommended
Transforming University Research - Mar 2006Jill Patrick
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Library as Place, Place as Library: Duality and the Power of CooperationKaren S Calhoun
This talk, delivered at the February 2010 OCLC Regional Council Seminar in Auckland NZ, explores the turbulent conditions in which libraries are evolving as both places and virtual spaces on the Web. How are these conditions driving change in library collections, catalogues, and cooperative systems? What are OCLC's strategies for helping today's libraries gain visibility and impact through cooperation and data sharing? If we were building a system for library cooperation today, what would it look like?
2014 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2014.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
A presentation on select international digital library initiatives by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
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How Libraries Use Publisher Metadata Redux (Steven Shadle)
1. How Libraries Use Publisher
Metadata
Steve Shadle
Serials Access Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
2. Purpose
Provide an overview of how libraries provide access to
publisher content using publisher-provided metadata
• Library Catalog
• OpenURL Link Resolver
• Library Discovery System
3. The University of Washington
Oldest public university on the West Coast (founded 1861)
Largest public university recipient of federal research
funding (nearly $1 billion)
Total enrollment: 54,670 students
16 colleges offering more than 1,800 undergraduate
courses each quarter across 3 campuses
Ranked 14th among the world’s top 500 universities
(USN&WR)
54 programs ranked Top 10 in the U.S. (USN&WR)
4. University of Washington Libraries
Digital Library
• 600,000 licensed electronic books and 100,000 online journals
• 700,000 locally digitized items in 300 collections
• 6 million licensed journal articles downloaded
• 9 million separate sessions on Libraries’ websites
• 3 million separate log-in sessions to 300 Libraries-licensed databases
Physical Library
• 16 libraries on three campuses with 5.2 million visits last year
• 8 million print volumes, 6 million microforms, 20K print serials
• 1.8 million check-outs
Reference Services
• 15,000 reference questions answered online
• 45,000 reference questions answered in person
5. Who Are UW Library Users?
• Brooke the Beginner
• Richard the Researcher
• Sharon the Scholar
• Paul the Professional
• Vincent the Visitor
6. I'd rather use an online article that ‘kinda works’ than
go to the hassle of finding a book in the library.
Currently Brooke is
taking lower-level
courses in English,
History and
Biology. She hasn’t
used the library website
much yet, but will need
to do research for many
different class papers
and projects over the
next couple of years.
7. Accessing full-text articles online is my primary use of
the library and is central to my research…but I still go
to the library for some reference materials that aren’t
online.
Richard’s dissertation research
is on computer modeling of
public transportation utilization
and incentives. Richard has
already completed a Master’s
in Civil Engineering and has
used academic libraries for
research at both his
undergraduate and masters’
institution.
9. Library Catalog
• Historically, the catalog was a record of what the library
physically “held”
• Beginning in the mid-90s, libraries started including online
licensed resources in the library catalog
• Does not include journal articles
• Most library catalogs are still MARC-based
14. OpenURL Link Resolver
A service that takes a citation formatted as
an OpenURL and provides the user with
library services related to that citation.
These library services can include:
• Accessing the online full-text
• Requesting the resource
• Searching a library catalog
• Finding related resources
15. OpenURL Knowledge Base
A database containing information about
electronic resources such as electronic
journals or eBooks and their availability
and accessibility.
Using the knowledge base, an OpenURL
link resolver can determine if an item
(article, book, etc.) is available
electronically and identify the appropriate
copy for a user.
16. OpenURL Linking
Title ISSN eISSN StartDate EndDate Resource URL
Group decision and
SpringerLINK Archive - Humanities,
negotiation 0926-2644 1572-9907 4/1/1992 12/31/1996
Social Sciences and Law
http://www.springerlink.com/openur
l.asp?genre=journal&issn=0926-2644
Group decision and
negotiation 0926-2644 1572-9907 1/1/1997
SpringerLink Contemporary - Orbis
Cascade Alliance
http://www.springerlink.com/openur
l.asp?genre=journal&issn=0926-2644
Group decision and
negotiation 0926-2644 1572-9907 1/1/1997 12/31/2009
SpringerLink Contemporary - Orbis
Cascade Alliance (Perpetual Access)
http://www.springerlink.com/openur
l.asp?genre=journal&issn=0926-2644
Group decision and
negotiation 0926-2644 1572-9907 11/1/2004 1 year ago Business Source Complete
http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.a
sp?db=bth&jid=OFY&scope=site
http://resolver.lib.washington.edu/?&
rft.date=2011&rft.issn=0926-2644
&id=doi:10.1007/s10726-011-9233-y&…
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=
article&id=doi:10.1007/s10726-011-9233-y
Resolver
17. Link Resolver
• Parses the citation elements from the source
OpenURL
• Tests those elements against a library’s
knowledge base
• Identifies targets based on test results
• Creates and offers links based on linking
logic
18. OpenURL and Citation Data
Ferreira, Antonio, Pedro Antunes, and Valeria Herskovic. 2011.
"Improving Group Attention: An Experiment with Synchronous
Brainstorming". Group Decision and Negotiation. 20 (5): 643-666.
http://resolver.lib.washington.edu/?&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
&rft.atitle=Improving%20Group%20Attention%3A%20An%20Experiment%20with%20Synchronous%20Brai
http://resolver.lib.washington.edu/?&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&
nstorming
&url_rft.aufirst=ctx_fmt=Antonio
info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.atitl
&e=rft.aulast=Improving%Ferreira
20Group%20Attention%3A%20An%20Experiment%20with%20Syn
&chronous%rft.date=2011
20Brainstorming&rft.aufirst=Antonio&rft.aulast=Ferreira&rft.date=2011
&rft.spage=643
&&rft.rft.epage=epage=666
666&rft.genre=article&rft.issn=0926-2644&rft.issue=5&
&rft.genre=jtitle=article
GROUP%20DECISION%20AND%20NEGOTIATION&rft.pages=643-
&666&rft.issn=rft.0926-part=2644
SI&rft.spage=643&rft.stitle=GROUP%20DECIS%20NEGOT&rft.volu
&rft.issue=5
me=20&rfr_id=info:sid/www.isinet.com:WoK:UA&rft.au=Antunes%2C%20Pedro&rf
&rft.jtitle=GROUP%20DECISION%20AND%20NEGOTIATION
&t.rft.au=pages=Herskovic%643-666
2C%20Valeria&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007%2Fs10726-011-9233-y
&rft.stitle=GROUP%20DECIS%20NEGOT
&rft.volume=20
&rfr_id=info:sid/www.isinet.com:WoK:UA
&rft.au=Antunes%2C%20Pedro
&rft.au=Herskovic%2C%20Valeria
&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007%2Fs10726-011-9233-y
19. Why Use a Link Resolver?
• Navigating library systems is time consuming
Regent, D., et al. 1999. "Place actuelle de l'imagerie radiologique
dans l'exploration des MICI". Acta Endoscopica. 29 (3): 189-202.
20. Why Use a Link Resolver?
• Gets the User to the Appropriate Copy
Ryerson, D. (January 01, 2010). Postgay drama: sexuality,
narration and history in the plays of Mark Ravenhill.
Textual Practice, 24, 5, 863-882.
21. Why Use a Link Resolver?
• Provides alternative services if full-text not licensed
Cooperation pattern and coordination mechanism between Hong Kong Disneyland and
tour operator. Dong, J. ; Zhang, J. ; Liang, L. ; Guo, Q. Journal of China Tourism
Research, July 2011, Vol.7(3), pp.310-325
22. Library Discovery Service
A search interface to pre-indexed
metadata and/or full text documents
made available by a library.
– Simple Search
– Comprehensive (Good Starting Point)
– Fast Response Time
– Can Include Local Collections in Addition
to Licensed Resources
– Supports “Get” as well as “Find”
23. Library Discovery Service
13M eBooks
OCLC
WorldCat
30M digital items
Google Books
Hathi Trust
OAIster
681M article citations
225M books
27. Library Discovery Metadata
• Typically comes from many sources
• Must be mapped to an underlying set of data
elements in order to be indexed
• Data element set must be rich enough to
provide robust search
• Data must be accurate!!
29. You Can’t Rewrite History
American Journal of
Reproductive Immunology
ISSN 1046-7408
American Journal of
Reproductive Immunology
ISSN 0271-6352
1980-1984
American Journal of
Reproductive Immunology and
Microbiology
ISSN 8755-8920
1985-1988
American Journal of
Reproductive Immunology
ISSN 1046-7408
1989- 1980-
32. Summary
• Libraries use more than just MARC records in
providing access to publisher content
• Libraries use more than just the library catalog in
providing access to publisher content
• Metadata created by publishers is distributed to
various systems, not just to libraries
• Any source that supports OpenURL can potentially
provide access to publisher content
• Metadata accuracy is about more than correct
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33. Support for the Publisher
KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools)
UKSG & NISO joint initiative
Recommends best practices for formatting and distributing
title lists
Everything can be found at
http://www.uksg.org/kbart/endorsement
Register your organization on the KBART registry website:
http://bit.ly.kbartregistry
Open Discovery Initiative
NISO initiative
Establishes a recommended practice for the ways that content
is represented in discovery services and for the interactions
between the creators of these services and the information
providers whose resources they represent
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
34. Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks
• Includes a certification program for content providers
• http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/knowledgeworks/
Project Transfer
UKSG Code of Practice http://www.uksg.org/transfer
Help publishers ensure that journal content remains easily accessible by
librarians and readers when there is a transfer between parties, and to
ensure that the transfer process occurs with minimum disruption.
Addresses responsibilities for both transferring and receiving publisher
Includes guidelines addressing title access, digital files, subscription lists,
URL changes, communication and DOI ownership
PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals)
• Primarily discusses presentation but also has recommendations
regarding metadata
• http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej /
35. MARC Metadata
MARC Record Guide for Monograph
Aggregator Vendors
http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/sca/documents/FinalVendorGuide.pdf
• Developed by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
• Provides detailed MARC data specifications for eBooks in packages
and aggregations
MarcEdit
http://marcedit.reeset.net/
• An open source MARC editing utility developed by Terry Reese
• Easy-to-use tool that can crosswalk data between MARC and other
formats
It’s not just about the catalog. Libraries provide access to resources through additional systems.
LINE BY LINE ANIMATION. CLICK AT THE END TO KEEP THIS SLIDE ON. DON’T READ EACH BULLET...JUST THERE FOR BACKGROUND
ANIMATION. CLICK FOR EACH SECTION. It’s not possible to provide this amount of service without the systems we’ll talk about today.
In 2009, UW Libraries had a small group work on developing user ‘personas’ which serve as surrogate and help us with designing user services.
We’ll discuss two of these personas (Brooke and Richard) who account for nearly 90% of our users.
Richard has been told by one of his advisors that he should review some of the work being done by World Bank on passenger transportation pricing incentives. Richard’s advisor remembers there was a relatively recent study done in Mexico City that was published in a World Bank series.
The full-text is not available from the conference website. Richard is an experienced researcher that knows the library frequently has conference proceedings so Richard searches the library catalog to see if the library can provide him with any recent proceedings.
Richard enters the name of the conference in a Keyword search. Note that “Keyword” is the default but there are many other search options available.
The first two results appears to be the conference proceedings from the 2010 and 2011 conference.
Perfect! Exactly what Richard was looking for. Recent proceedings so he can read about current research on the topic.
Richard clicks on the link for the second record (the 2011 proceedings).
Clicking on the “SpringerLink Connect to this title online” link gets Richard to the full-text of the proceedings on the Springer website. From here he can review the table of contents and read any individual papers he is interested in. He is also able to save a PDF of the proceedings that he can use later.
The library catalog was able to provide access to the conference proceedings because Springer made a catalog record available for the library to download and add to the catalog.
The library can directly download MARC records from this Springer website and load them into their local catalog.
The citation is often referred to as the “source” and the individual services or referred to as “targets”
Not to be confused with the computer science/expert system definition of a knowledge base.
A knowledgebase is typically presented in the form of a spreadsheet that lists information about all of the electronic resources a library licenses on behalf of their customers. Generally includes:
title (either journal or book)
book author
identifiers (ISBN, ISSN)
journal coverage
resource provider (ie, online publisher or content provider)
URL
HEAVY ANIMATION
User starts in Web of Science, identifies an article they’re interested in. In this case, the user is in Web of Sciences and finds an article with the title “Improving Group Attention” which is published in the Sept 2011 issue of “Group Decision and Negotiation” (a Springer Journal)
User click on purple “Check for Full-Text” button. This sends an OpenURL from Web of Science to the link resolver (resolver.lib). This is part of the OpenURL that is sent by WoS. Notice the citation elements in the URL (including date, ISSN, article DOI). We will look at a complete OpenURL in a minute.
Resolver parses the citation elements, checks the ISSN and date against the KB and identifies the Springer version as having the full-text. The data about Springer journal titles are provided by Springer to Serials Solutions (actually Serials Solutions grabs the metadata (title/ISSN/dates/links) from the Springer download site on a monthly basis (see note below). UW Libraries staff then profile their specific subscriptions against the Serials Solutions KB.
Link resolver knows the rules to create a target URL and sends user session to the full-text of that article
NOTE FROM LEE DEITESFELD/SERSOL: For journals, we go to the SpringerLINK platform (http://www.springerlink.com/journals/all/a/?target=export), and download a CSV file. For ebooks/book series, we go to the Springer “downloader tool” (http://www.springer.com/?referer=springer.com&SGWID=1-148802-3020-0-0), and download an Excel file. And, in the rare case with SpringerOpen (http://www.springeropen.com/journals), we actually have software that scrapes the SpringerOpen website for title-level metadata.
Overview of the link resolver steps we just walked through
ANIMATION. This is the openURL sent by Web of Science (note sid/www.isinet.com:WoK).
Looks like a lot of complication until you format it to see that the OpenURL essentially consists of two elements:
Link resolver address (in this case, ql3dq7xx6q.search.serialssolutions.com)
Citation elements
In order for link resolvers to function properly, citation metadata coming from a source must be accurate. In most cases, this data is originally coming from you, the publisher.
The next three slides are examples illustrating why libraries use link resolvers. In general they provide better or additional access to a resource than what the library is able to supply through the traditional library catalog or from it’s physical collection.
ANIMATION.
Without the link resolver, the user has drill down through the library catalog and then through the journal website to get to the article full-text.
Click through the drill-down process. SEVEN clicks to get to the full-text article through the library catalog.
On a side note, there are still some library staff who attempt to show users this method for getting to a full-text article. In cases where link resolution fails, this may be what the user has to do.
ANIMATION.
The library may get access to electronic full-text through a source besides directly from the publisher. In this example, the user goes directly to the Springer website and can’t get to the article because the the library doesn’t subscribe to the content. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science is a Springer journal and this specific article is available from the Springer website but the UW doesn’t subscribe to it from Springer. Instead KB indicates that the issue in question is available from an EBSCOHost database. The Link Resolver works with the KB to identify which source is the most appropriate source for the full text.
ANIMATION.
Get the user to a service that will get the content if the library doesn’t license it. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science is a Springer journal and this specific article is available from the Springer website but the UW doesn’t subscribe to it. However, the UW may have the journal in print or may have a reciprocal borrowing relationship with another library for print. So if the link resolver, can’t find an online version, the user is giving options to find another version (or to fill out a request to have it scanned). Every library customizes the services offered depending on it’s own borrowing arrangements, library catalog, etc. Some libraries provide links to related full-text databases (with the idea that if the library doesn’t subscribe to *this* article, there may be other articles in XYZ database which would serve the user’s purpose.
The final access method we will talk about is the library discovery service. From the user perspective, it is similar to the Google search experience. These are some of the reasons that libraries use a discovery service.
Discovery services differ from federated search applications in that discovery services don’t search live sources. By searching pre-indexed data discovery services return search results very quickly. Discovery services are touted as an evolution beyond federated search and in some ways they are. Some discovery services either provide integration with federated search or provide an API for others to do the integration
Each library discovery service has a different mix of content and can often be customized to include local content.
However, most library discovery services consist primarily of the content that has been historically available from libraries (books, journals, articles).
DON’T MENTION OTHER OCLC FUNCTIONALITIES/COMPONENTS. EUROPEANS GENERALLY DON’T USE AS CATALOGING SOURCE/RESOURCE SHARING/ETC.
HEAVY ANIMATION
In Brooke’s ENGL 210 (English Medieval and Early Modern Literature), she learns about the Anglo-Saxon literary practice of Opus geminatum (twinned work; a work consisting of a pair of texts, one in prose and one in verse). Her professor also mentions that paraphrase was often used as a literary device in this time period. Brooke is required to write a research paper on a topic of her choice and because of other commitments, she wants to get as much done as she can early on.
Brooke doesn’t take note of the latin phrase, but she does remember the concept so she inputs the words “paraphrase anglo saxon literature” into UW WorldCat (the UW Libraries’ discovery system). #3 includes the latin phrase in the article title (which she remembers as soon as she sees it). Because it has that phrase and because it’s held by the UW, she clicks on the link for that citation. Clicking the first “View full text” link gets Brooke to the article on the Springer website. Brooke gets from the discovery service to the full-text through link resolution (just like the Web of Science example we looked at earlier...the purple button). But unlike a traditional A&I database, a discovery service includes metadata from dozens of sources describing millions of resources (and not just journal articles).
Note that most of the information in the WorldCat entry is the same data that appears in the Springer website. Also note that the “Database” referenced in the WorldCat entry is “ArticleFirst.” The Springer indexer provides describes the citation for Springer’s system. That data is sent to OCLC (and to many other database providers, I assume) where it used as the basis for resource discovery in any number of systems. The metadata provided by Springer staff (and in some cases originally created by authors) is recycled into any number of database and systems that library use. So an error in the original metadata can be propagated across any number of systems and services.
Now that Brooke remembers the phrase “Opus Geminatum” she searches in Google using that phrase.
The results are useful results including a Wikipedia entry for a specific instance of an opus geminaum “Candidus of Fulda” and it also uses the phrase “twinned work” to describe the literature style. There are other resource (mostly articles and books) that might be useful for additional research. But note the second entry is for the Springer-published article that she found earlier. Clicking on the Google link gets her to the full-text just as it does when she’s going from a citation database or the discovery service using link resolution.
This works because
the library has profiled it’s IP ranges with Google, so that Google can pass along IP information to the link target. As long as Brooke is on a campus workstation or has proxied her session, Google will recognize her as a University of Washington user
Google has the article metadata necessary to create the link to the full-text (likely an article DOI)
So if you create article or journal metadata, it will most likely appear in Google and be used to support Google Search
One of the benefits of a library discovery system is the integration of previously silo’d discovery systems/services. A good discovery system will be scoped to provide access to a majority of the resources that can be provided by the library. As our head of reference put it, WorldCat Local is a good place to start research and should provide for the needs of most undergraduates.
Brooke’s search for “paraphrase anglo saxon literature’ in WorldCat Local resulted in 28 resources. Of those, the eBooks, CDs and computer files may or may not have been in the traditional library catalog. The peer-reviewed articles definitely would not have been in the library catalog (so Brooke would need to search a separate database to find journal articles).
Here is a more illustrative case of the potential breadth of a discovery service. Looking down the format facet, one sees a search for Jesus Christ Superstar brings up video, soundtracks (cd/lp), musical score, books about the opera and on related topics, etc. Looking at the format facet, one sees the huge variety of resource types indexed in WorldCat (including 36 book chapters, 26 encyclopedia articles and even a toy!). The metadata for these resources is coming from various sources following encoding and content standards. it’s the job of the discovery service provider to manage, integrate and provide quality control over this wealth of metadata.
WorldCat Local article citations come from dozens of sources, MARC records come from thousands of libraries. Because the discovery service indexes these all in one central index, there must be an underlying set of data elements that all the incoming data must be mapped to.
These data elements must be rich enough to provide for robust search (so more than just keywords, must be able to search by author, title as well as limit by format, etc.)
If incoming data is miscoded or (more likely) the mapping between the datasets is incorrect, bad results will occur. We’ll take a look at some of those in a minute.
ANIMATIONS (ONE FOR EACH EXAMPLE) - Here’s the list of formats from the format facet from the Jesus Christ Superstar search. Included are examples of where the metadata is miscoded (or mapped incorrectly) and the resource appears under the incorrect format facet.
Microform Book. This is a microfilm, but it is a set of office files from the NAACP office (and thus should appear under the “Archival Material” facet. University Publications of America generally does microfilm books and had their default coding set up provide book metadata elements.
Article Chapter. All 36 entries under this category are sound files provided by Alexander Street Press. These should be appearing under the eMusic facet, but somewhere along the way, a coding detail got lost and they were coded as “Article Chapters.”
Computer File. Technically it is, but this is actually a master’s thesis and should have appeared under the “Thesis/Dissertation” facet. In WorldCat, “Computer file” is reserved for resources inherently computer-like such as software. This record was created by OAI harvesting from Bowling Green State University’s electronic thesis and dissertation collection. The element that describes this as a thesis was not included in the template used to create these records and thus was not included in the records that were loaded into WorldCat.
In these examples, non-MARC metadata was used to create a record which then was converted into a MARC record which was loaded into WorldCat. Problems like the ones illustrated here can result from difference in encoding standards, content standards or in coding errors. In a discovery service, it is the responsibility of those contributing and managing metadata (and metadata crosswalks) to confirm that the metadata being contributed conforms to the discovery service standards.
Working in cooperative systems, library catalogers could do it all when the only records we created were for books (not articles) physically held in the library. Those days are long gone.