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.
The EBSCOhost CustomLinks feature offers certain advantages over OpenURL linking when used in conjunction with the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) Partner Databases as well as with OCLC's freely available WorldCat Local "quick start" service. The latter is customized and branded locally by Rice University and used as an intermediary to augment the metadata available for linking from EDS to the desired item when not enough metadata is available in the EDS record alone for OpenURL linking to work effectively.
The EBSCOhost CustomLinks feature offers certain advantages over OpenURL linking when used in conjunction with the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) Partner Databases as well as with OCLC's freely available WorldCat Local "quick start" service. The latter is customized and branded locally by Rice University and used as an intermediary to augment the metadata available for linking from EDS to the desired item when not enough metadata is available in the EDS record alone for OpenURL linking to work effectively.
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.
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?
Transparent Licenses: Making user rights clear (OLA Super Conference 2015)Hong (Jenny) Jing
Recent changes to Canada’s Copyright Act have propelled copyright and licensed use into the spotlight at colleges and universities in Canada. This session will look at Queen’s and University of Toronto libraries’ experience implementing a licensing permissions workflow using OCUL Usage Rights database (OUR). The systems will be covered are: 360 Link, Summon, Voyager OPAC, Endeca. We will explain how to implement the license links with and without using API.
About the Webinar
The library and cultural institution communities have generally accepted the vision of moving to a Linked Data environment that will align and integrate their resources with those of the greater Semantic Web. But moving from vision to implementation is not easy or well-understood. A number of institutions have begun the needed infrastructure and tools development with pilot projects to provide structured data in support of discovery and navigation services for their collections and resources.
Join NISO for this webinar where speakers will highlight actual Linked Data projects within their institutions—from envisioning the model to implementation and lessons learned—and present their thoughts on how linked data benefits research, scholarly communications, and publishing.
Speakers:
Jon Voss - Strategic Partnerships Director, We Are What We Do
LODLAM + Historypin: A Collaborative Global Community
Matt Miller - Front End Developer, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library
The Linked Jazz Project: Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community
Cory Lampert - Head, Digital Collections , UNLV University Libraries
Silvia Southwick - Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV University Libraries
Linked Data Demystified: The UNLV Linked Data Project
This presentation gives details on technologies and approaches towards exploiting Linked Data by building LD applications. In particular, it gives an overview of popular existing applications and introduces the main technologies that support implementation and development. Furthermore, it illustrates how data exposed through common Web APIs can be integrated with Linked Data in order to create mashups.
Introduces "Slug" a web crawler (or "Scutter") designed for harvesting semantic web content. Implemented in Java using the Jena API, Slug provides a configurable, modular framework that allows a great degree of flexibility in configuring the retrieval, processing and storage of harvested content. The framework provides an RDF vocabulary for describing crawler configurations and collects metadata concerning crawling activity. Crawler metadata allows for reporting and analysis of crawling progress, as well as more efficient retrieval through the storage of HTTP caching data.
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
Quantifying Orphaned Annotations in Hypothes.ismaturban
Web annotation has been receiving increased attention recently with the organization of the Open Annotation Collaboration and new tools for open annotation, such as Hypothes.is. In this paper, we investigate the prevalence of orphaned annotations, where a live Web page no longer contains the text that had previously been annotated in the
Hypothes.is annotation system (containing 20,953 highlighted text annotations).
These slides go with the paper "Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts" which is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2015-vandesompel
Slides were used for a presentation at the Fall 2015 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information.
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.
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?
Transparent Licenses: Making user rights clear (OLA Super Conference 2015)Hong (Jenny) Jing
Recent changes to Canada’s Copyright Act have propelled copyright and licensed use into the spotlight at colleges and universities in Canada. This session will look at Queen’s and University of Toronto libraries’ experience implementing a licensing permissions workflow using OCUL Usage Rights database (OUR). The systems will be covered are: 360 Link, Summon, Voyager OPAC, Endeca. We will explain how to implement the license links with and without using API.
About the Webinar
The library and cultural institution communities have generally accepted the vision of moving to a Linked Data environment that will align and integrate their resources with those of the greater Semantic Web. But moving from vision to implementation is not easy or well-understood. A number of institutions have begun the needed infrastructure and tools development with pilot projects to provide structured data in support of discovery and navigation services for their collections and resources.
Join NISO for this webinar where speakers will highlight actual Linked Data projects within their institutions—from envisioning the model to implementation and lessons learned—and present their thoughts on how linked data benefits research, scholarly communications, and publishing.
Speakers:
Jon Voss - Strategic Partnerships Director, We Are What We Do
LODLAM + Historypin: A Collaborative Global Community
Matt Miller - Front End Developer, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library
The Linked Jazz Project: Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community
Cory Lampert - Head, Digital Collections , UNLV University Libraries
Silvia Southwick - Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV University Libraries
Linked Data Demystified: The UNLV Linked Data Project
This presentation gives details on technologies and approaches towards exploiting Linked Data by building LD applications. In particular, it gives an overview of popular existing applications and introduces the main technologies that support implementation and development. Furthermore, it illustrates how data exposed through common Web APIs can be integrated with Linked Data in order to create mashups.
Introduces "Slug" a web crawler (or "Scutter") designed for harvesting semantic web content. Implemented in Java using the Jena API, Slug provides a configurable, modular framework that allows a great degree of flexibility in configuring the retrieval, processing and storage of harvested content. The framework provides an RDF vocabulary for describing crawler configurations and collects metadata concerning crawling activity. Crawler metadata allows for reporting and analysis of crawling progress, as well as more efficient retrieval through the storage of HTTP caching data.
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
Quantifying Orphaned Annotations in Hypothes.ismaturban
Web annotation has been receiving increased attention recently with the organization of the Open Annotation Collaboration and new tools for open annotation, such as Hypothes.is. In this paper, we investigate the prevalence of orphaned annotations, where a live Web page no longer contains the text that had previously been annotated in the
Hypothes.is annotation system (containing 20,953 highlighted text annotations).
These slides go with the paper "Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts" which is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2015-vandesompel
Slides were used for a presentation at the Fall 2015 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information.
Usage of Linked Data: Introduction and Application ScenariosEUCLID project
This presentation introduces the main principles of Linked Data, the underlying technologies and background standards. It provides basic knowledge for how data can be published over the Web, how it can be queried, and what are the possible use cases and benefits. As an example, we use the development of a music portal (based on the MusicBrainz dataset), which facilitates access to a wide range of information and multimedia resources relating to music.
Repositories are systems to safely store and publish digital objects and their descriptive metadata. Repositories mainly serve their data by using web interfaces which are primarily oriented towards human consumption. They either hide their data behind non-generic interfaces or do not publish them at all in a way a computer can process easily. At the same time the data stored in repositories are particularly suited to be used in the Semantic Web as metadata are already available. They do not have to be generated or entered manually for publication as Linked Data. In my talk I will present a concept of how metadata and digital objects stored in repositories can be woven into the Linked (Open) Data Cloud and which characteristics of repositories have to be considered while doing so. One problem it targets is the use of existing metadata to present Linked Data. The concept can be applied to almost every repository software. At the end of my talk I will present an implementation for DSpace, one of the software solutions for repositories most widely used. With this implementation every institution using DSpace should become able to export their repository content as Linked Data.
The University of Illinois uses a locally developed metasearch service, "Easy Search". We have recently added the ability to query the metasearch program as RESTful web service, allowing library content to be promoted to external web pages such as departmental web presences or courseware.
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.
ER&L 2019 - Forming a More Perfect Knowledgebase: A Tale of Publisher, Vendor...Matthew Ragucci
This session examines how publishers and vendors collaborate to make a more seamless knowledgebase experience for librarians. Representatives from Wiley and OCLC will discuss KBART file creation, representation, and more. A representative from OhioLINK will explain how the state of the knowledgebase affects workflows at the consortium and library levels.
A presentation from Leading Edge Libraries Conference, September 22, 2017, hosted by the Florida-Caribbean Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. This presentation covers web-scale discovery solutions and discovery layers,
and summarizes the top five discovery products on the market. The second half presents a case study of implementing EBSCO Discovery Service at Schaff Library at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
A Comparative Overview of Journal Discovery Systems: Library Users Offer Thei...Charleston Conference
Speakers: George Machovec –Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; Rebecca Lenzini –The Charleston Company; Dennis Brunning - Arizona State University; Ronda Rowe - University of Texas at Austin; Martha Whittaker – George Washington University Libraries; Amanda Price – Mississippi State University
Summon (Serials Solutions), EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), OCLC WorldCat Local, Encore Synergy (III) and PrimoCentral (ExLibris) all represent a new class of discovery systems for libraries. Based on the success of Google Scholar, each of these solutions combines journal literature, MARC record data and digital repository metadata under a single umbrella. This program will bring together librarians to discuss what they are doing in regard to enhancing their next generation interface. This program will look at how different services have been integrated and used at local libraries. What differentiates these offerings and what solution(s) might work best for your library?
1. Discover EDS:
Tales of Implementation and Use
Implementing and
Customizing the User Experience
Assessment, Usability and Customization
Rafal Kasprowski
Electronic Resources Librarian,
Rice University
Expanded Charleston Presentation:
Augmenting Record Metadata with EBSCO Discovery System CustomLinks
and OCLC’s WorldCat Local "quick start"
2012 Charleston Conference, November 7-10
2. Agenda
• Custom Links
− Increase successful linking to desired items, online & print
− Offer versatility and granularity
Presentation limited to Custom Links
− Pre-coded by EBSCO
− Created with the help of EBSCO Support
• Related Enhancements
− WorldCat Local “quick start”
• FREE locally branded & customized version of Worldcat.org
− Serials Solutions OpenURL resolver menu
• graphically enhanced with JavaScript coding from jQuery library
3. Overview: Full-Text Linking in EDS
Full texts native to discovery platform (HTML, PDF, Smart Links)
• Discovery service vendor is also content provider.
• Discovery service vendor’s content is available directly through discovery
platform.
Proprietary external links (Custom Links)
• Discovery service vendor establishes linking protocol with individual content
providers
• Static linking is predictable, works as long as links remain unchanged
• Links created one provider at a time: limited, but growing in scale
OpenURL links
• Link resolver checks library’s A-Z list and links to matching full text
• Existing standard: scales across most providers
• Dynamic linking can be problem if no holdings, or if source & target formats differ
4. Custom Links w/ EDS Partner Databases
• Use EDS Content Questionnaire (Excel sheet) to indicate which links to setup, e.g.,
− JSTOR
− Web of Science
− American Psychological Association
− Lexis Nexis
− Alexander Street Press
− NewsBank
− OAIster
− arXiv
− OUP: Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online
− ScienceDirect, etc.
• Possible to set up some Custom Links to show up only for certain collections.
• New Custom Links are being created by EBSCO – follow the EDS Partners listserv for
additions.
• Ask EBSCO to create Custom Links, by outlining parameters and it will be put in a
development queue, e.g. Oxford Art – Music – Reference Online.
• Some libraries are creating their own EDS Custom Links using the EBSCOhost admin
module, see CustomLinks – Best Practices Guide.
5. Advantages of Custom Links
to EDS Partner Databases
• As explained by EBSCO in EDS Questionnaire Help:
− Using a CustomLink direct to the publisher's content will often
result in a reduced number of clicks for end users - since some link
resolvers may require several clicks before end users reach the full
text.
− Using a CustomLink direct to the publisher's content may be more
reliable, since using a link resolver results in adding another layer
in the process.
− Using a CustomLink direct to the publisher's content allows you to
promote your external content, since the link text will use the
publisher's name by default. It also becomes more transparent to
end users where the link will take them because the link text is
contextual.
6. Problem situation
• Users are presented with EDS records from third-party databases
(i.e. not local catalog or IR).
− Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
− Government Printing Office Catalog, etc.
• A number of these third-party EDS records may be duplicates of local catalog
records.
• Certain third-party records have insufficient metadata for link resolver to work,
preventing resolver from reaching item or resolver service page, e.g.:
− Books
− Audiobooks
− Audio
− Music Scores
− Video, etc.
• Custom Links from EDS Partner Databases are not available.
7. Questionable Solutions
• OpenURL links – insufficient metadata in EDS records; user will not
even reach ILL form on resolver menu page: dead end
• ILL links – if local catalog has full text, ILL request will be denied
• No links – dead end; user has to search citation in other resources
• Remove the duplicate third-party databases
− All-or-nothing approach: Potential loss of valuable records and data
− Parsing through good and bad databases: time-consuming
− EBSCO may rearrange databases: risk of removing databases that will
need to be put back later & potential waste of effort
8. Why Retain All Third-Party Databases?
• If not duplicates to local content, they broaden discovery.
• Not all duplicate records have identical metadata – searches
may yield records from third-party databases, but not from
corresponding local catalog
− E.g., book chapter information in a book record: in third-party
database record, but not in local catalog record
• Third-party duplicates of catalog records are in EDS before
local catalog records because the latter are subject to upload
delays (days, weeks, months)
− CustomLink from third-party duplicates to catalog would offer
access in real time regardless of how often local records are
uploaded to EDS.
9. Linking EDS outliers to local catalog
• “Outsourcing” metadata
− Linking to outside resource that has proper metadata
− Customizing outside resource to display local holdings
− If local holdings cannot be displayed directly in outside
resource, using OpenURL to link to local holdings in library
catalog
• OCLC’s Worldcat.org
− Many records in many different formats
− Most records have relatively complete metadata
− Locally branded version (i.e. WorldCat Local “quick start”)
directly displays local catalog holdings
• in real time if library holdings are updated in OCLC Connexion every time a
new item is ordered or cataloged
− Platform is OpenURL-compatible
• If no OCLC# match is established between local catalog and WorldCat to
display holdings, then OpenURL button is generated, which leads to service
page with links to catalog, ILL, etc.
10. OpenURL Service Page
(Sample page, enhanced w/ JScript*)
*Contributors at Rice U.: Mang Sun, Jeff Koffler, Rafal Kasprowski, Denis Galvin
Coding reference: Matthew Reidsma, “Rethinking Stock User Interfaces", http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/11
11. Preparing institutional version of
WorldCat Local “quick start”
• Creating local rice.worldcat.org account - FREE
• Institutional branding
• OpenURL setup
• Link positioning & personalization for best user
experience
• Selecting link options
− e.g., only display OpenURL link if local holdings cannot be
displayed directly in WorldCat.
12. Linking from EDS to rice.worldcat.org
• If the following formats are not in our catalog or institutional
repository
− “Publication type” or “Document Type”:
• Audio, Book, Book Article, Book Chapter, Book Collection, Motion picture,
Music Score, Videorecording
• then use Custom Link labeled “Check for availability” and run
Title + Author search in a WorldCat keyword query:
http://rice.worldcat.org/search?q=title+author
• Rank “Check for availability” as last Custom Link in order of
preference
• Note: Book chapter queries yield corresponding book titles in
WorldCat
13. Linking process in rice.worldcat.org
1) If item IS available in local catalog
A. OCLC# match between local catalog & WorldCat
Library holdings display in detailed WorldCat record
B. No OCLC# match between local catalog & WorldCat
OpenURL link is displayed in detailed record
User reaches resolver service page
User links to record in local catalog
14. Linking process in rice.worldcat.org
2) If item IS NOT available in local catalog
− OpenURL link is displayed in detailed WorldCat
record
− User reaches OpenURL resolver service page
− User selects ILL request option on service page
End result the same whether (1) or (2):
− No dead ends
− User obtains desired item
− No manual data entry
15. Linking issues
(1) Linking to WorldCat
http://rice.worldcat.org/search?q=title+author
• title contains extraneous information that prevents linking
e.g., editor: “… / edited by …”; format: “… [sound recording]…”
• author may interfere with search for book chapter titles
e.g., OCLC record does not have author info for book chapters
• Query within keyword structure is too broad at times –
top results are unrelated to item searched
Partial solution: keep tweaking at metadata level,
e.g., reinstate OpenURL links for book chapter records with DOIs
(2) Linking to local catalog
• May require multiple clicks
17. Finding EDS items in local holdings using
WorldCat Local “quick start”
• Holdings match in rice.worldcat.org
− E.g., Maria [sound recording]. By: Bartoli, Cecilia. London,
England : Decca, p2007. 01/01/2007 1 sound disc (79 min.,
47 sec.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. Language: Italian
• No holdings match in rice.worldcat.org
− E.g., Nature and love in the late Middle Ages. By: Scaglione,
Aldo D.. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1963.
01/01/1963 x, 250 p. illus. 24 cm. Language: English