The Disintegrated Library System of the Future

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The Dis-integrated Library System of the Future

• Kristin Antelman
• NCSU Libraries
• October 28, 2005

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ILS failures

• Manage and display electronic resources
• Catalog search

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Dis-integrated Library System

• Licensing Files
• Collection development records
• Use statistics

Library catalog
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Electronic resources

• DLF Electronic Resources Management Initiative
  and subsequent ERM modules
• Why build an ERM outside the ILS?
• control data elements, interfaces
• flexibility reporting, evolution of ERMs role
• collection management focus

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titles, licensing, pricing, bundles, access,
holdings, usage stats, etc.
E-Matrix
relationships, local subject terms,
keywords,descriptions, etc.
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Sustainability and data quality

• Migrate legacy applications into E-Matrix
• Define a single authoritative data source for
  each data element
• Query existing data sources in real time wherever
  possible

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Finding journals

• Finding journals in the catalog is hard
• (understanding the records can be hard)

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Finding journals

• Finding journals in the catalog is hard
• (understanding the records can be hard)

• Users like lists

• (but the ones we make are not that great)

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where isSciencemagazine??
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The dream journal list
includes print
manifestations collapsed into work
links to related titles
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Serial work

• Which entity represents the work- the entity we
  catalog (a segment of a run of issues identified
  by one title or name-title) or the entire run of
  issues associated through time?
• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, An Approach
  to Serials with FRBR in Mind

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Superwork (super-record)
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SUPER WORK
super_work_id 123
WORK
super_work_id 123 Resource_id 13147 Title
College Research Libraries Succeeding title
College Research Libraries News
super_work_id 123 Resource_id 13148 Title
College Research Libraries News Preceding title
College Research Libraries
EXPRESSION/MANIFESTATION
Online Copy Resource_id 13147 Provider_id
518 Full text yes
Online Copy Resource_id 13148 Provider_id
518 Full text yes
Print Copy Resource_id 13147 Provider_id
1 Full text yes
Online Copy Resource_id 13147 Provider_id
362 Full text some
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Identifiers that systems can use

• In the serial universe, direct links by means of
  control numbers could collocate the component
  records both in the local catalog and in the
  utilities far more efficiently and economically
  than uniform titles or other approaches based on
  text matching.
• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, An Approach
  to Serials with FRBR in Mind

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Karen Coyle, Future considerations the
functional library systems record, Library Hi
Tech 222 (2004)
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Catalogs

• Current catalogs are finding lists
• Martha Yee, ITAL 6/05
• Most catalogs default search is keyword
• no relevancy ranking of results
• but users assume there is relevancy ranking
• so they add specific terms to improve result
  set
• and quickly get zero results
• and learn to go to Amazon first and then back to
  the library catalog when they know what they want

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Potential solutions

• Wait for ILS vendors to enhance the catalog
• This wont happen. Why?
• mature market maintenance payments for existing
  products are small
• vendors are stuck with legacy products

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OCLC scoped WorldCat

• OCLC knows what you have
• They are developing their interface and search
• FRBR and FAST are in development and will likely
  show up in WorldCat sooner than our ILSs
• (OCLC mostly knows what you have)

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Build a new front end

• Getting your records is easy
• Building search and display is hard
• Ecommerce search sites are user friendly

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Endeca ProFind

• What is it?
• How do you get it?
• How does it work?
• dimensions (facets)
• relevancy ranking
• spell check, stemming dictionary, synonyms

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Endeca-powered library catalog
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Browse
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Google lessons

• GooglePrint is one giant electronic card
  catalog
• Google searches will take users to your catalog
• Can we make our contribution to resource
  discovery useful to everybody?
• our data wants to be found and used

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Mashups
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References

• Karen Coyle, Catalogs, Card--and Other
  Anachronisms, Journal of Academic Librarianship
  311 (2005)
• Karen Coyle, Future considerations the
  functional library systems record, Library Hi
  Tech 222 (2004),www.kcoyle.net/functional.pdf
• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, An Approach
  to Serials with FRBR in Mind,www.lib.unc.edu/cat
  /mfh/serials_approach_frbr.pdf
• Kathy Fescemyer, Serials Clutter in Online
  Catalogs, Serials Review 311 (2005)
• David Mimno and Gregory Crane, Hierarchical
  Catalog Records, D-Lib Magazine (October
  2005),www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/crane/10crane.h
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