Overview of resource discovery in libraries today. Presented at the CIG Scotland seminar 'Resource Discovery : from catalogues to discovery services' at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 21st March 2018
This document provides an overview of existing web archives and their use for research. It discusses several major web archives including the Internet Archive, Common Crawl, Pandora Archive, and national archives. For each, it describes their size and collection strategies, as well as positives and negatives for research use. The talk concludes with examples of how existing web archives in Australia are being used for research.
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.
10-15-13 “Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation” Presen...DuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series," Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 2: “Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation”
Presented by Declan Fleming, Chief Technology Strategist, Arwen Hutt, Metadata Librarian & Matt Critchlow, Manager of Development and Web ServicesUC, San Diego Library.
10-1-13 “Research Data Curation at UC San Diego: An Overview” Presentation Sl...DuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 1: “Research Data Curation at UC San Diego: An Overview”
Presented by David Minor & Declan Fleming, Chief Technology Strategist, UC San Diego Library
10-31-13 “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation” Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 3: “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation”
Presented by: David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library, Dick Norris, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Rick Wagner, Data Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Mobile access to digital collections is a developing area. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, as each organization should consider their unique user population and analytics. While mobile capabilities are expanding rapidly, development requires balancing added value, costs, and sustainability over time. Lessons from early adopters include focusing on usability and access above specific technologies or frameworks.
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.
Two day-long training on "DSpace" Institutional RepositoryNur Ahammad
The document discusses a two-day training on the digital repository system DSpace that was organized by BALID Institution of Information Management in Bangladesh. It provides an overview of DSpace, including what it is, its architecture and technology, software requirements, and comparisons to other repository systems. It also outlines the organizational hierarchy of communities, sub-communities, collections, and items in DSpace.
This document provides an overview of existing web archives and their use for research. It discusses several major web archives including the Internet Archive, Common Crawl, Pandora Archive, and national archives. For each, it describes their size and collection strategies, as well as positives and negatives for research use. The talk concludes with examples of how existing web archives in Australia are being used for research.
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.
10-15-13 “Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation” Presen...DuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series," Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 2: “Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation”
Presented by Declan Fleming, Chief Technology Strategist, Arwen Hutt, Metadata Librarian & Matt Critchlow, Manager of Development and Web ServicesUC, San Diego Library.
10-1-13 “Research Data Curation at UC San Diego: An Overview” Presentation Sl...DuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 1: “Research Data Curation at UC San Diego: An Overview”
Presented by David Minor & Declan Fleming, Chief Technology Strategist, UC San Diego Library
10-31-13 “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation” Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 3: “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation”
Presented by: David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library, Dick Norris, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Rick Wagner, Data Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Mobile access to digital collections is a developing area. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, as each organization should consider their unique user population and analytics. While mobile capabilities are expanding rapidly, development requires balancing added value, costs, and sustainability over time. Lessons from early adopters include focusing on usability and access above specific technologies or frameworks.
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.
Two day-long training on "DSpace" Institutional RepositoryNur Ahammad
The document discusses a two-day training on the digital repository system DSpace that was organized by BALID Institution of Information Management in Bangladesh. It provides an overview of DSpace, including what it is, its architecture and technology, software requirements, and comparisons to other repository systems. It also outlines the organizational hierarchy of communities, sub-communities, collections, and items in DSpace.
The document summarizes developments in Cambridge University Library's transition to more digital resources and services. It discusses how the library has shifted significant portions of its materials budget to online journals and databases. It also describes the library's implementation of a new "resource discovery" platform to help users more easily search and access the library's diverse digital collections, which had previously been scattered across different systems. Additionally, the document outlines the library's "COMET" project to publish a large portion of its metadata as open linked data on the semantic web.
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
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
The WSTIERIA Project aims to enable federated authentication for web services without requiring browser-based protocols. The initial "facade" approach uses an Apache proxy that redirects authenticated browser sessions to rewrite URLs in web service responses. However, this approach has limitations when applied to arbitrary protocols due to dependencies on URLs. The project is now exploring using Shibboleth's delegated authentication extension, which allows a portal application to transparently authenticate a user to a backend web service without further login.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Describing Theses and Dissertations Using Schema.orgOCLC
This document summarizes a project that developed an extension of the Schema.org vocabulary to better describe theses, dissertations, and other materials in institutional repositories. The project team modeled repository entities, academic departments, and relationships between classes. They published example RDF data and loaded all records from a university repository as RDF descriptions. Their work aims to make repository content more visible to search engines and help libraries demonstrate their value on the semantic web.
The facilitated collection: collections and collecting in a network environmentlisld
We often think of collections as local – whether owned or licensed. Increasingly this picture is changing in several ways. Libraries are sharing responsibility for collections. Libraries are providing access to materials they do not own, but which are available to their users (freely available digital book collections for example). Demand driven acquisitions changes the view of local collections. Institutions are also thinking about how to manage locally produced materials (research data for example) and support access across institutions. This trend is supported by changes as discovery is peeled away from local collections. This presentation discusses these trends, and collections and discovery change in a network environment.
This was a presentation at the Libraries Australia Forum, Melbourne, 2015
Islandora Webinar: Highlighting CUHK Chinese Digital CollectionsErin Tripp
The webinar will feature a presentation and Q&A session with Jeff Liu, Digital Services Librarian and Louisa Lam, Head, Research Support and Digital Initiatives at the CUHK Library.
The CUHK Library has curated a collection of over five million digital objects in the past 20 years. It features Chinese literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion. Until recently, the collection was stored in a broad range of different systems, complicating the discovery of these precious digital assets.
In 2015, librarians at CUHK embarked on a project to find a permanent, single platform for digital content. Objectives of the project included enhanced discoverability, multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) and custom development capability to modify display and viewing features that would showcase Chinese literature in its true form.
Islandora met all the functional requirements and more, including support for digital humanities projects and access to a user-driven open source software community.
The CUHK library was also attracted to the vendor services and support available through discoverygarden. We provided advice, support and custom development assistance; contributing to the launch of the digital repository every step of the way.
The repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk) officially launched in February 2016, making the CUHK Library digital initiatives pioneers in Hong Kong.
Preseted at OR2017 - Brisbane
Panel Discussion: COAR Next Generation Repositories: Results and Recommendations
The presentation focus on the recommended technologies to implement in Repository platforms
The nearly ubiquitous deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication. However, repository platforms are still using technologies and protocols designed almost twenty years ago, before the boom of the Web and the dominance of Google, social networking, semantic web and ubiquitous mobile devices.
To that end, in April 2016, COAR launched a working group to identify the technologies and architectures of the next generation of repositories. There are two threads to our work: (1) increase the exposure by repositories of uniform behaviors that can be used by machine agents to fuel novel scholarly applications that reach beyond the scope of a single repository and that enable to smoothly embed repository content into mainstream web applications. (2) integrate with existing scholarly infrastructures, specifically those aimed at identification, as a means to solidly embed repositories in the overall scholarly communication landscape.
This panel will present the results of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group including our vision, design assumptions, use cases, architectural and technical recommendations, and next steps. The session will also include time for audience discussion and feedback.
How Libraries Use Publisher Metadata - Crossref Community WebinarCrossref
The document provides an overview of how libraries use publisher-provided metadata in library discovery systems. It discusses how libraries obtain MARC records and direct linking metadata from publishers and suppliers to incorporate content into library discovery services. It also describes how openURL linking and link resolvers allow libraries to provide access to publisher content through library discovery interfaces and services. Accurate metadata is important for successful linking to full text content.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Fuller Disclosure: Getting More Collections into the Network Flowkramsey
The document discusses how libraries can make more of their collections discoverable by being where users search for information online. It recommends focusing on collection-level descriptions rather than exhaustive item-level metadata. Libraries should digitize materials, share metadata across systems, and engage users to add descriptive information over time. The goal is to expose hidden collections and get them integrated into the online information landscape where discovery happens.
Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.
A presentation on Digital Library Software by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, India.
This document provides an overview of an advanced Wikipedia editing training session. The training covers topics such as templates and references, tables and categories, communication tools, data tools, and organized efforts like WikiProjects. The training includes demonstrations of citation templates, redirects, categorization, infoboxes, authority control, and more. Participants will learn how to effectively summarize documents, structure information, and communicate as expert editors on the Wikipedia platform.
Federated to Library Service Platforms
Nikesh Narayanan discusses the transition from individual library databases to integrated search platforms. He covers why integrated search is important, options like federated search and web-scale discovery, parameters for evaluating these systems, and recent advances like linked data and integration with knowledge graphs. Library service platforms are emerging as all-in-one solutions that manage collections, discovery, resource management and more. Major commercial providers and the open source FOLIO project are outlined.
An introduction to the background, history, scope, and activities of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. Part of the "Everyone's a player: Creation of standards in a fast-paced shared world" session.
Presenter: Marshall Breeding
The document summarizes developments in Cambridge University Library's transition to more digital resources and services. It discusses how the library has shifted significant portions of its materials budget to online journals and databases. It also describes the library's implementation of a new "resource discovery" platform to help users more easily search and access the library's diverse digital collections, which had previously been scattered across different systems. Additionally, the document outlines the library's "COMET" project to publish a large portion of its metadata as open linked data on the semantic web.
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
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
The WSTIERIA Project aims to enable federated authentication for web services without requiring browser-based protocols. The initial "facade" approach uses an Apache proxy that redirects authenticated browser sessions to rewrite URLs in web service responses. However, this approach has limitations when applied to arbitrary protocols due to dependencies on URLs. The project is now exploring using Shibboleth's delegated authentication extension, which allows a portal application to transparently authenticate a user to a backend web service without further login.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Describing Theses and Dissertations Using Schema.orgOCLC
This document summarizes a project that developed an extension of the Schema.org vocabulary to better describe theses, dissertations, and other materials in institutional repositories. The project team modeled repository entities, academic departments, and relationships between classes. They published example RDF data and loaded all records from a university repository as RDF descriptions. Their work aims to make repository content more visible to search engines and help libraries demonstrate their value on the semantic web.
The facilitated collection: collections and collecting in a network environmentlisld
We often think of collections as local – whether owned or licensed. Increasingly this picture is changing in several ways. Libraries are sharing responsibility for collections. Libraries are providing access to materials they do not own, but which are available to their users (freely available digital book collections for example). Demand driven acquisitions changes the view of local collections. Institutions are also thinking about how to manage locally produced materials (research data for example) and support access across institutions. This trend is supported by changes as discovery is peeled away from local collections. This presentation discusses these trends, and collections and discovery change in a network environment.
This was a presentation at the Libraries Australia Forum, Melbourne, 2015
Islandora Webinar: Highlighting CUHK Chinese Digital CollectionsErin Tripp
The webinar will feature a presentation and Q&A session with Jeff Liu, Digital Services Librarian and Louisa Lam, Head, Research Support and Digital Initiatives at the CUHK Library.
The CUHK Library has curated a collection of over five million digital objects in the past 20 years. It features Chinese literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion. Until recently, the collection was stored in a broad range of different systems, complicating the discovery of these precious digital assets.
In 2015, librarians at CUHK embarked on a project to find a permanent, single platform for digital content. Objectives of the project included enhanced discoverability, multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) and custom development capability to modify display and viewing features that would showcase Chinese literature in its true form.
Islandora met all the functional requirements and more, including support for digital humanities projects and access to a user-driven open source software community.
The CUHK library was also attracted to the vendor services and support available through discoverygarden. We provided advice, support and custom development assistance; contributing to the launch of the digital repository every step of the way.
The repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk) officially launched in February 2016, making the CUHK Library digital initiatives pioneers in Hong Kong.
Preseted at OR2017 - Brisbane
Panel Discussion: COAR Next Generation Repositories: Results and Recommendations
The presentation focus on the recommended technologies to implement in Repository platforms
The nearly ubiquitous deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication. However, repository platforms are still using technologies and protocols designed almost twenty years ago, before the boom of the Web and the dominance of Google, social networking, semantic web and ubiquitous mobile devices.
To that end, in April 2016, COAR launched a working group to identify the technologies and architectures of the next generation of repositories. There are two threads to our work: (1) increase the exposure by repositories of uniform behaviors that can be used by machine agents to fuel novel scholarly applications that reach beyond the scope of a single repository and that enable to smoothly embed repository content into mainstream web applications. (2) integrate with existing scholarly infrastructures, specifically those aimed at identification, as a means to solidly embed repositories in the overall scholarly communication landscape.
This panel will present the results of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group including our vision, design assumptions, use cases, architectural and technical recommendations, and next steps. The session will also include time for audience discussion and feedback.
How Libraries Use Publisher Metadata - Crossref Community WebinarCrossref
The document provides an overview of how libraries use publisher-provided metadata in library discovery systems. It discusses how libraries obtain MARC records and direct linking metadata from publishers and suppliers to incorporate content into library discovery services. It also describes how openURL linking and link resolvers allow libraries to provide access to publisher content through library discovery interfaces and services. Accurate metadata is important for successful linking to full text content.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Fuller Disclosure: Getting More Collections into the Network Flowkramsey
The document discusses how libraries can make more of their collections discoverable by being where users search for information online. It recommends focusing on collection-level descriptions rather than exhaustive item-level metadata. Libraries should digitize materials, share metadata across systems, and engage users to add descriptive information over time. The goal is to expose hidden collections and get them integrated into the online information landscape where discovery happens.
Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.
A presentation on Digital Library Software by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, India.
This document provides an overview of an advanced Wikipedia editing training session. The training covers topics such as templates and references, tables and categories, communication tools, data tools, and organized efforts like WikiProjects. The training includes demonstrations of citation templates, redirects, categorization, infoboxes, authority control, and more. Participants will learn how to effectively summarize documents, structure information, and communicate as expert editors on the Wikipedia platform.
Federated to Library Service Platforms
Nikesh Narayanan discusses the transition from individual library databases to integrated search platforms. He covers why integrated search is important, options like federated search and web-scale discovery, parameters for evaluating these systems, and recent advances like linked data and integration with knowledge graphs. Library service platforms are emerging as all-in-one solutions that manage collections, discovery, resource management and more. Major commercial providers and the open source FOLIO project are outlined.
An introduction to the background, history, scope, and activities of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. Part of the "Everyone's a player: Creation of standards in a fast-paced shared world" session.
Presenter: Marshall Breeding
The document discusses several resource discovery tools that can be used to search for scholarly materials across different types of content. It provides information on tools such as Google Scholar, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest, SirsiDynix, Scopus, and WorldCat. Each tool is summarized, outlining its key features and functions in allowing users to discover resources for research and learning.
Presentació de Lluís M. Anglada, director de l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, a l'International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), que va tenir lloc del 20 al 22 d'octubre de 2014 a la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
En aquesta presentació, que formava part del bloc dedicat a noves eines, Anglada presenta el nou sistema integrat de biblioteques i eines de descobriment com a oportunitats per als consorcis.
Everything you always wanted to know about WorldCat (but were afraid to ask) ...CILIP MDG
1) The document provides an introduction to WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database maintained by OCLC, including its structure, contributing methods, cataloguing clients, formats and standards, quality control processes, and tools.
2) It discusses how matching and merging of records is done in WorldCat, focusing on factors like title, publisher, and extent that are considered to determine if records should be merged.
3) The presentation concludes by answering questions from attendees about issues like retaining records without holdings, data standards for integrating museum library collections, and searching capabilities in WorldCat.
1. The document introduces digital libraries, which organize digital objects like text, images, video and audio along with methods for access, retrieval, selection, organization and maintenance.
2. Key components of a digital library include converting physical content to digital, extracting metadata, storing content and metadata in a repository, and providing client services for browsing and delivering content.
3. A digital library manages digital objects which can have complex structures and relationships, and groups of objects represent the information in the digital library.
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.
Transforming University Research - Mar 2006Jill Patrick
The document discusses Scholars Portal, a consortium of Ontario university libraries that provides access to digital scholarly resources and services. It aims to create a single point of access for integrated searching, as well as long-term archiving of content. Services described include article searching, access to ejournals and databases, interlibrary loans, and a digital repository. Future plans include expanding content and developing a shared infrastructure to ensure sustainability. The goal is to transform research, teaching and learning through a centralized portal for high-quality scholarly materials.
This document summarizes the highs and lows of library linked data projects. It discusses two UK projects that exposed library catalog and archive data as linked open data (LOD), including modeling the data as RDF, transforming it, and loading it into a triplestore. It highlights the benefits of LOD like easier data integration and discovery. However, it also notes challenges like steep learning curves, complexity of archival data, issues of scalability, provenance and licensing.
Web-Scale Discovery: Post ImplementationRachel Vacek
Discovery services provide users a single
search box to access a library’s entire prei-ndexed collection. Representatives from
two academic libraries serving different
user populations will discuss marketing,
instructing users, evaluating the product,
and maintaining the resource after a
discovery service is implemented
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.
The Future of Finding at the University of Oxford: CNI Fall 2016Christine Madsen
Catriona Cannon
Deputy Librarian & Keeper of Collections
University of Oxford
Christine Madsen
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Athenaeum21
Good resource discovery tools are not simply about making research easier and faster, but about facilitating the creation, preservation and discovery of knowledge by enabling new modes of research, especially across disciplines. In 2014 the University of Oxford began a robust and unique program of activities to improve discovery of and access to its intellectual assets: garden, museum and library collections, open educational resources and research outputs and data. With over 100 libraries, five museums, botanic gardens and an arboretum at the University, Oxford has been working to find world-leading solutions for connecting students and researchers at Oxford (and abroad) with the collections that are available to them. The University also aimed to make its resources more findable by the wider community, to increase engagement with its world-class collections and research. A year-long research study revealed the nuances of why incoming researchers and students struggle to find relevant collections and found that simply providing better search tools across existing metadata will not improve the situation. Therefore, the University has set out to scope entirely new approaches discovery, exploring new tools and approaches to enable students and researchers at Oxford and abroad to understand the scope of collections held by the University and to find them quickly and efficiently. A current project seeks to create an innovative working prototype that balances users’ needs for cognitive maps against wide-ranging types, and robustness, of data.
Role of libraries in research and scholarly communicationNikesh Narayanan
Libraries play an important role in supporting research through facilitating literature searches, providing information literacy and reference services, and guiding researchers in publishing and managing their research profiles. Libraries can help researchers efficiently search across disjointed information sources through federated search software or web-scale discovery tools which provide a single search interface. Libraries also help connect researchers to open access resources and guide them on where and how to publish their research findings.
Come Together: Interdepartmental Collaboration to Connect the IR and Library ...NASIG
Presenter: Amanda Makula, University Of San Diego
While institutional repositories (IRs) often include a built-in searching mechanism and/or are indexed by web search engines, what about our patrons who go straight to the library catalog with their information need? Rather than hope that users will stumble upon the IR from the library website or assume that they will start their research with a Google search, librarians can facilitate greater IR discoverability and usage by integrating its content into the library catalog. With strong teamwork, good communication, and a shared vision, this endeavor helps transform the IR and library catalog from separate, siloed platforms into a more cohesive collections package.
At the University of San Diego, librarians and administrators across three departments -- Technical Services, Systems, and Archives / Special Collections / Digital Initiatives --recognized this opportunity and came together to share information and work in concert to explore and enact the benefits of auto-harvesting IR content into the library catalog. Driven by a vision of providing enhanced discoverability and access, as well as promoting the IR as a whole and enriching the catalog, the team members worked cooperatively to identify specific IR collections appropriate for harvest, investigate technical logistics, consult outside vendors (including Innovative and bepress), and experiment with implementation.
Digital libraries are collections of documents available electronically over the internet or CD-ROM. This document discusses digital libraries, their components and applications. It summarizes three research papers on digital libraries: 1) A new framework for building digital library collections that redesigns the Greenstone digital library system. 2) Rich interactions in digital libraries that aims to increase interaction between users and information. 3) Comprehensive personalized information access in an educational digital library that utilizes techniques like information retrieval, filtering, browsing and visualization.
Leslie Johnston: Library Big Data Repository Services, Open Repositories 2012lljohnston
Big Data challenges in developing repositories include:
- Collections like web archives and historic newspapers contain billions of files and grow quickly, requiring constant processing and large-scale infrastructure.
- Researchers want to analyze entire collections using algorithms and computational methods rather than accessing individual items.
- Repository services need to support self-serve access, full-text search of entire collections, and APIs to enable computational research methods.
- Ingesting and providing access to collections measured in petabytes and containing highly diverse content and metadata requires normalization and standardization.
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What do you want to discover today? / Janet Aucock, University of St Andrews
1. What do you want to
discover today?
Resource Discovery: from catalogues to discovery services
CIGS Seminar
21 March 2018
National Library of Scotland
Janet Aucock
Senior Manager, Cataloguing, Acquisitions and
E-Resources
University of St Andrews
2. Overview and introduction of the
issues around discovery
services and catalogues
St Andrews LMS project
Discovery by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 ImageCreator
3. “With the advent of next
generation web scale
discovery layers
supplementing or replacing
traditional and in-house
catalogues, institutional
resource discovery
environments are changing
beyond recognition”.
Discovery service
Discovery
service (classic
catalogue in
the
background)
Online
catalogue
4.
5.
6. Kortekaas, S., & Kramer, B. (2014).
Thinking the unthinkable – doing away
with the library catalogue. Insights,
27(3), 244–248. DOI:
http://doi.org/10.1629/2048-7754.174
“At Utrecht University we strongly
believe that academic libraries have lost
their role in the discovery of scientific
information and should focus on delivery
instead. Without your own discovery tool
you might feel stark naked. However, we
have to admit that others can do a better
job on discovery, so don’t spend too
much time on this. Make a priority of
your delivery task and rethink the way
you can provide value for your users.”
“Our next challenge will be to phase out
our catalogue as an end-user discovery
tool, because we believe that the OPAC
is dead. In the world we live in today, you
should not encourage your users to start
their search in a local library catalogue”
Web discovery
“… most searches were started in
Google Scholar.”
National aggregations
Institutional Discovery
service
Discovery
service (classic
catalogue in
the
background)
Online
catalogue
7.
8. By Makizox (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
13. • Useful and relevant content for teaching and
research
• Quality content ie peer reviewed, authoritative
• Effective searching which produces results in an
acceptable timeframe
• Ability to refine searches and get a manageable
set of results
• Understand and interpret the results
• Get enough information to easily
locate/access/request the full text of resources,
whether they be physical items on the open shelf/
in the store or the electronic full text of articles, e-
books and local collections/digital collections
• Use and discovery of all our collections
1. Physical collections/print use
2. Value for money for purchased electronic
resources
3. Access to open access resources.
• Serve a variety of users. Undergraduates,
researchers and academics in a variety of subject
disciplines
• Good statistics on searching behaviour and
results
• And more…………….
Service
providers?
Users?
Find the right stuff
at the right time
14. Content
• Physical print and multimedia collections.
Monographs and journals. Modern collections
and special collections (Catalogue)
• Electronic journals, title level records
(Catalogue)
• Electronic books (Catalogue)
• Article and chapter level resources, electronic
full text (DS)
• Electronic journals, title level records (DS)
• Electronic books (DS)
• Electronic databases (DS)
• Electronic journal packages (DS)
• Duplication?
• Crossover and maintenance?
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under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA
2.0)
15. Content
Electronic content and management
• Subscribed and non subscribed electronic
content and metadata
• Activation of databases in your discovery
service. Configuration decisions to make.
• Do you include non subscribed resources
or supplementary indexes of content?
• Do you include Open access digital
resources and profile these?
• Knowledge base for print and electronic
journal holdings and for electronic books
• Keeping journal holdings and e-resource
holdings up to date
• Open URL resolver
• Authentication to access resources on and
off campus
• Maintain other lists of e-resources eg A-Z
lists of journals and databases? Or use
services such as Browzine?
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under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA
2.0)
16. Content
Local content pots
• Institutional repository
• CRIS
• Manuscripts
• Special collections
• Rare books
• Image databases
• Museum object databases
• Digital collections
• Reading lists including digitised material
• Harvested resources into the Discovery
service
• Links back to native interfaces
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under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA
2.0)
17. Searching
• Keyword(s) (Catalogue + DS)
• Browse searching (Catalogue
+ DS)
• Browse indexes and displays
(Catalogue + DS)
• Full text searching (DS)
• Pre and post search limiting?
• Anything or something?
• Known item
• FRBR
• Works and editions presented
together?
• Advanced search offered?
Boolean, “starts with”,
combination of fields
Search by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/wooden-tile/s/search.html
18.
19. Searching
• Large results sets
• Filtering/facets.
Understanding the choices
and what they mean
• Results order and relevance
• Content of brief record
display
• Content and labelling of full
record display
• Dead ends eg from
supplementary indexes
• Which index does the result
come from. Meaningful?
• Understanding the links
offered
Results by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
http://www.picserver.org/r/results.html
20. Metadata
• MARC (Catalogue)
• RDA/AACR (Catalogue)
• Classification schemes
(Catalogue)
• LCSH (Catalogue)
• LC authorities for names and
subjects (Catalogue)
• Familiar standards
• Quality control
• Manageable amount of
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ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
21. Metadata
• Metadata from varied sources,
catalogues, local collections,
publisher metadata
• Multiple schemas and
standards. MARC, MARC XML,
Dublin Core, XML, ONIX
• Quality control on records?
• Coverage accuracy of records?
• Metadata is mapped and
harvested
• Is the metadata up to date?
• Flow of data from publishers?
• Real time updating?
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22. Branding/
customisation/added value
• Name of service?
• Institutional branding
• Browse shelf
• Cover art and contents
• Stack maps
Branding by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
23. Customer expectations
• Real time availability?
• Includes items on order?
• Offers requests/recalls/ILL?
• Borrowing record?
• Search history?
• Citations?
• Permalinks?
• Social media features?
• Searches to other services
• Same functionality available in mobile
versions?
Are these services offered directly in the
discovery layer or does a user get redirected to
an online catalogue interface?
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24. St Andrews LMS project
• Currently have an Innovative
LMS and Library catalogue
(SAULCAT)
• Currently have an EBSCO
Discovery Service (SEEKER)
• LMS project includes new
system and new user
interface(s)
• Mini tender in 2017
• Awarded to Innovative for a
Sierra LMS and an
EncoreDuet discovery service
• Implementation in 2018
25. St Andrews LMS project
• Sierra offers a Library online
catalogue
• EncoreDuet is the Innovative
Encore discovery interface
which uses an API to connect
to content from the EBSCO
discovery service
26. St Andrews LMS project
• Need for closer integration
between catalogue database
and discovery service
• Removal of need for daily ftp of
updates/data refresh and time
lags in updating
• More customer features in the
discovery interface eg
Requests/availability
• Extra features/real time updating
means we can promote the
discovery interface more
• Meeting user needs in Arts and
Sciences
• Still an emphasis on print in
some disciplines
27. St Andrews LMS project
Including local collections in the discovery
pot with links back to the native databases
Phase 1
• OAI harvesting from St Andrews Digital
Repository (OA full text publications and
theses)
• OAI harvesting from CALM manuscripts
database (metadata records/hierarchies)
• OAI harvesting from KEmu photographic
database (digital images and metadata)
• OAI harvesting from AdLib museums
database digital images and metadata)
• Thumbnails
• Metadata mapping and integration
• User expectations
Phase 2
• OAI harvesting from PURE CRIS
(Publications and research data)
28.
29.
30. St Andrews LMS project
• We can retain a catalogue
with specialist and browse
indexes and searches for our
rare books
• We can retain this as a native
interface to offer specialist
searching
• We can continue to offer
detailed displays of complex
records
• Gives us options
• Buys time until this
functionality is more
integrated into Discovery
interfaces
31.
32.
33. • Single search boxes and keywords
will get you so far…
• You have to meet the needs of a
variety of users for simple and
complex searches
• The user may need to do some
work and make an effort to refine
their search and results
• The user may need some
professional help
• Metadata standards and quality
will always be valuable, especially
when large aggregations of varied
content are part of the service
Discovery by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 ImageCreator
Are discovery services turning into catalogues?
Are catalogues turning into discovery services?
Does it matter as long the result is one sophisticated and
flexible discovery layer to lead to all the right stuff?