New from BookNet Canada for 2022: BNC CataList - Tech Forum 2022
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Join BookNet Canada Project Manager Carol Gordon for this short presentation all about what’s new with BNC CataList over the last year. Discover our integration project with BTLF (Banque de titres de langue française) in Quebec and how that has lead to many feature improvements, including new search capabilities. Other news covered in this update are new stock and price availability features, ONIX & Thema news, and more. Watch to the end to see what’s ahead in 2022 for CataList. Link to presentation video: https://youtu.be/iQQ5Hm4_3mY Presented by BookNet Canada on April 7, 2022 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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- 3. New features for CataList Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
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- 5. Column customization Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 6. Saved Searches Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 7. Stock Availability Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 8. Accessibility details Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 9. Book industry standards in Québec Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 10. Québec is fully converted to ONIX 3.0 Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 11. Thema is the primary subject coding system Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca BISAC-to-Thema converter: https://bit.ly/3CHlHwP
- 12. Dewey Decimal Code is a data point that libraries expect in provided data Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 13. On the horizon Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 14. Order notification emails Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 15. Collaborative custom catalogues Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 16. F&G integration tool Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
- 17. Carol Gordon cgordon@booknetcanada.ca catalist@booknetcanada.ca Tech Forum 2022 #TechForum catalist@booknetcanada.ca
Editor's Notes
- Hello, I’m Carol Gordon, Project Manager for the CataList project at BookNet Canada. Thanks for joining me today for the 2022 update on what the CataList team has been up to for the past year, and a look at what’s on the roadmap ahead. I can say it’s been another busy year, so I’m going to jump right into the update on the largest piece of development work we took on in the last year.
- Well, the CataList team has been largely focused this part year on bringing our integration project with BTLF in Quebec to a launch-ready point. For those not familiar with this integration project, or what Memento is, Memento is a product that BTLF has managed previously with Electre in France, and it has two key parts: The first is bibliographic data for French-language titles – Like Bowker in the US, the BTLF manages and standardizes collected bibliographic data and makes it available to subscribers for a fee. And the second part is various data access points, primarily by web interface and API. And so through this partnership, BTLF will be moving the data access points from Electre’s platform in France, to the BNC CataList platform here in Canada – giving us a unique opportunity to house both French and English titles in a single location for system users, and consolidate resources for continued feature development that serves the Canadian market. Memento will be available via its own domain for subscriber access, but all Memento users will automatically also have access to any French or English publisher data in CataList as well, and orders can be submitted from the Memento site direct to reps on the CataList side.
- Of course, the features that we’ve been working on for the Memento integration also have value and application in the English market in Canada, and as development of those additions and improvements in the system have been completed, we’ve been rolling them out on the CataList platform throughout the past year.
- Many of the improvements have been focused around the site search functionality. Quick search, which is the search box in the main navigation bar, has had tweaks to include series titles in the index for ease of searching for items by series. The Advanced Search form has been updated to allow search by availability and other new criteria, and results can be refined by more data points including availability, Thema subject, and the products form detail – for example, mass market or tall rack paperback.
- We’ve also added grid column customization at the individual user level, on catalogue grid views as well as search results grid – for both the online views and Excel or CSV export options.
- You can also now save your searches, by subject category, ISBN list, ISBN prefix, titles added in the last number of days, or any other combination of available search parameters. Any search can be saved, a quick search, a catalogue search, or an advanced search. Saved searches can be easily run by clicking the Saved Search link below the quick search, and run, edited, copied or deleted on the Manage Saved Searches page.
- We’ve also moved ahead some CataList-only features this year, including pulling in stock availability and current prices from distributor position files. For the moment, this data shows Canadian sources and available on the title detail page only. We’ll show all the sources and details we have available, including prices and discount codes where we have them in the publisher data. Over 90% of titles in the CataList system are from suppliers that provide position files, and we’re now talking to system users about the usefulness of this data and other workflows where it might be valuable to make this data viewable.
- The last feature I wanted to draw attention to today is the accessibility data. This primarily affects ebook listings in CataList, but in general, it’s a great way to communicate in your ONIX data the efforts we’re seeing publishers put into accessibility features in their ebooks. If you’re doing the work of making your ebooks accessible – whether they are listed in CataList or not, - tell people about it in your metadata! Again, there are some great blog posts on the BookNet Canada website with information on how to structure this in ONIX 2.1 and ONIX 3.0.
- Moving beyond system features, we’ve also learned a lot this year, in our work with BTLF, about some differences in standards between the English and French markets in Canada, and I wanted to take a moment today to share some of those details.
- Firstly, the Québec book market runs fully on ONIX 3.0 data, ONIX 2.1 is no longer supported. This isn’t unexpected, with the strong ties in the market to France, which has also embraced the ONIX 3.0 standard. This ONIX 3.0 requirement has also been a launch-point for the long-planned CataList system upgrades to also begin supporting incoming ONIX 3.0 fully, which we intend to complete this coming year, though CataList will continue to also support ONIX 2.1 incoming files for the foreseeable future as well.
- While BISAC remains the preeminent subject classification code system in English North America, Thema is the primary subject classification in Quebec. We’ve seen Thema adoption ramping up over the past year in the English data in Canada, and I’d expect to see that trend continue, but if publishers are looking at selling into Quebec, you’ll want to look into supporting Thema codes to support those efforts. If you’re new to Thema, BookNet offers lots of entry points to learn about how to use Thema codes and provide them in your data. There are blog posts and standards documentation available online, we regularly work with EDitEUR in the UK (they are the organization that manages the Thema standard) to offer training courses for Canadians, and we also worked with BISG in the US to build a converter between BISAC and Thema to help ease adoption challenges. You can find information on the BISAC-to-Thema converter at the link on the screen.
- Lastly, Dewey is an expected data point. Libraries in Quebec are still mainly using MARC21 for data exchanges, but increasingly they are getting that data via crosswalks to MARC format from publisher ONIX data. Even on the English Canada side, we are hearing more demand for Dewey Decimal support in our own products, as usage of BookNet services by libraries continues to increase. SalesData and LibraryData are in the process of adding Dewey display from Bowker’s data in those systems, based on feedback from librarians using those system. CataList has already added support for an optional Dewey column in grid views and exports – and we’d love to have publisher data to populate into those columns for the English market as well as the French, as feedback through our CataList user group has indicated that librarians find value in that data for English books as well.
- So, a bit about what’s ahead for CataList in the coming year. I mentioned our fully ONIX 3.0 transition plans already, but looking ahead at a few upcoming planned features
- We’re also looking at building on the work this past year on order features, particularly with regard to improving the automated communications around orders placed or shared in the system. We completed work on in-system notifications for orders set to reps in January, and have moved on to setting functionality in paces to automate some email communications when orders are sent to reps. We are completing requirements gathering now, and expect to begin work on this feature soon.
- Another new feature, requested by CataList users, on both the French and English sides, is the ability to collaborate on custom catalogues. Currently a custom catalogue can be created by one person, and can be viewed only by the speciifed recipients – there is no way for multiple people in an account to collaborate on a custom catalogue. The feature we are working on here will allow people to keep their custom catalogue private, the way they work now, or open up editorial access on custom catalogues to everyone in their account. We are also including in this feature some tools for account managers to access and edit all custom catalogues within their own account to help with management of catalogues posted to publisher pages, or when staff turnover occurs.
- The last major item we have selected for development this year is the addition of a tool to add and manage F&G’s. We already handle several sample type files and interior images – this feature will be a little more complex in terms of permission management and access restrictions, and will also likely require some upload functionality and expiry date management in CataList directly. This feature is still in the planning stages, so if you have thoughts about your own company’s needs relating to this feature, we’re happy to take any comments or feedback you might have.
- When I say the F&G was the ‘last’, to clarify, this list is not exclusive. We’ll be continuing to work with our user group and direct feedback from other clients to identify and prioritize other features and improvements that may be able to be worked into our plans for the remainder of the year, or prioritized for coming years. We’re always happy to hear from our clients and system users about what working well for you in CataList and what the system could do to make your tasks easier. Thanks for joining me today, and don’t hesitate to get in touch with me, or the support team at catalist@booknetcanada.ca.