Product Developments and Other Matters

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Product Developments and Other Matters
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Sabinet Products
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Legal Products and Services
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Retrospective Government Gazettes
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Retrospective Government Gazettes

• Current service is from 1994 onwards
• Retrospective Gazettes will be in a different
  collection(s)
• 1910-1993
• Digitization already underway
• Will be separate a separate subscription
• Project will take approx 1-2 years to complete

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Customised Legal Portal
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Customised Legal Portal

• Legal website containing customised information
• Subsets of existing Sabinet information
• Based on your specific industry or interest
• Flexible
• Hosted solution or
• Content can be uploaded to a corporate intranet

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Customised Legal Portal

• Components
• Legislative programme
• Parliamentary programme
• Gazette index
• Policy documents from Parliament
• Draft bills and their status
• Bills and their status
• Acts, regulations and changes to them
• Weekly newsletter

• List of specific bills with links to full text
• List of specific acts with links to full text
• List of specific parliamentary committees and
  documents before them with links to full text
• Limited provision of news articles and commentary

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Weekly updated bills
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Draft bills
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Weekly policy documents
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Acts regulations
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Weekly gazette information
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Parliamentary Alerting
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Parliamentary monitoring/alerting

• Monitoring the legislative process
• Customized
• Daily alerting
• Archives
• Policy documents and draft bills
• Bills
• Impact on your business / industry / area of
  interest

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Parliamentary alerting
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Email
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Spotlight onProvincial Gazettes
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Provincial Gazettes

• Did you know?
• Standard searching facility
• Specific content
• Ordinances
• Bylaws

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Provincial Gazettes
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Ordinances
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Ordinances
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Bylaws
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Bylaws
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Data Structuring
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Data Structuring

• Restructure data to allow for better
  categorization and classification
• Will allow us ability to create subsets/views of
  content by subject / industry / specialist area
• Labour / Human Resources
• Gambling
• etc
• Subsets of data forms eg
• Deceased estates
• Liquidations
• etc

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Sabinet Legal Bookmarks
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Background social bookmarking

• Social bookmarking is
• an activity performed over a computer network
  that allows users to save and categorise a
  personal collection of bookmarks and share them
  with others. It is a personal knowledge
  management tool.

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List of items

• https//sabinet.cogenz.net/
• http//www.cogenz.com/

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Webpage opens in own window
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Zimbabwe Marriage Act

• https//sabinet.cogenz.net/
• http//www.cogenz.com/

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Library Products Services
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Library Products Services

• Sabinet partners with OCLC to integrate Sabinet
  and OCLC services to ensure state-ofthe-art
  leading edge products services to South Africa
  and Africa
• Benefits
• OCLC Research
• Global community
• World class products

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Sabinet OCLC

• Sabinet
• African Distributor of OCLC Products and Services
• Falls under the OCLC Europe, Middle East and
  Africa division of OCLC
• Provides support for all OCLC products in Africa

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OCLC

• 69,000 libraries in 112 countries and
  territories around the world
• Distribution structure

OCLC EMEA Distributors
OCLC Regional Service Providers
(SOLINET NELINET,etc)
OCLC Offices
OCLC Latin America
Sabinet
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OCLC Governance

• US nonprofit, membership organisation
• Structure consists of
• Governing Members
• Members Council
• Board of Trustees
• Due to Sabinet relationship with OCLC, Sabinet
  SabiCat clients qualify as governing members who
  can nominate and vote for Members Council
  Delegates
• Current South African Members Council Delegates
• Gwenda Thomas
• John Tsebe (alternate)
• Previous delegates
• Ellen Tise, Norma Read, Hennie Viljoen, Dianne
  Man

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Changes to OCLC Governance

• Existing Members Council will change a number of
  regional councils with a global council
• Global council will elect 6 members to (13 17
  member) Board of Trustees

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Online Reference
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Online Reference

• Most online reference databases now also
  available via FirstSearch

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Online Reference
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Online Reference
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Online Reference
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Online Reference
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Online Reference
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SA ePublications
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SA ePublications Alerting
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SA ePublications Alerting

• Email alert covering updates to all journals in
  the service
• RSS feeds for individual title alerting
• Table of contents for new issues

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SA ePublications Alerting
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Email Alerts
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Email Alerts
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RSS feeds
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African Journal Archive
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African Journal Archive

• Searchable archive of African Journals
• Project will be funded by
• the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• SABINET and
• Sabinet Online

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African Journal Archive

• 4 year project
• Scope
• approximately 250 journals for 10 years
• equivalent of 90,000 articles to be processed
• Project will have a positive impact on Africa and
  the World
• Preservation of African journal content

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African Journal Archive

• Similar model to JSTOR
• The latest content (3-5 years) will not form part
  of the archive
• Will use the moving wall principle
• JSTOR agreements
• JSTOR metadata standards
• JSTOR digitization standards
• Ensure integration

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African Journal Archive

• Will be using CONTENTdm
• Access to African Journal Archive
• Subscription-based
• Ensure sustainability of archive
• Reduced subscriptions for African Subscribers

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Sabinet Online Standards Committee
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Standards Committee

• Sabinet Online Standards Committee
• Formed in October 1999
• Ensure the ongoing quality of records in the
  SACat database
• Composition
• Consists of 18 specialists (cataloguing)
  Sabinet Staff
• Role
• Advise Sabinet on issues relating to Sabinet
  Standards, Procedures and Products

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Standards Committee

• Relook the current role and composition of the
  committee
• Suggestion
• Evolve into a User Advisory Committee
• Metadata Cataloguing
• Interlending
• Reference
• Systems
• Legal
• Plenary Session

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User Advisory Committee

• Role
• To advise Sabinet on products and services
• Representation
• Approximately 4-8 committee members per interest
  area
• From various constituencies eg academic, public,
  government, corporate etc
• Nominated

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User Advisory Committee

• Meetings
• 2 day meetings
• 1-2 meetings per year at the Sabinet Offices
• Call for nominations
• Suggestions?

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Standards Committee

• Current members
• Susan Battison, Jeanne Berger, Louise Cloete,
  Martha de Waal, Elra de Wet, Tienie de Klerk,
  Lettie Erasmus, Marianna Kritzinger, Hester
  Marais, Duduzile Mbaakanyi, Mandy Noble, Norma
  Read, Huldah Raubenheimer, Rika van der Walt,
  Welna van Eden, Louise van Heerden

• Thanks to all the past and present committee
  members for their vital contribution

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Questions?

• rosalind_at_sabinet.co.za

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