CoSMiC

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CoSMiC

• Human level of our vision of a developing
  Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure, based on
  CAIRNS, SLAINTE, SCONE, SEED, Regional, Sectoral,
  and Domain-based Co-operation, CoSMiC itself, A
  Scottish Portal (HILT, CORC), and The Scottish
  Portals Initiative
• Dennis Nicholson,
• Centre for Digital Library Research

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Elements of the Vision

• Scottish distributed union catalogue
• Cross-sectoral and cross-domain
• Hard-copy and electronic resources
• Dynamic clumper based navigation
• Associated CCM same database
• Every kind of user, adaptively
• User Landscape Control for staff
• Interoperability standards, CoSMiC

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Key Elements 1. CAIRNS

• Embryonic distributed catalogue service single
  user interface subject-based dynamic-clumping
• Includes Universities, SLAINTE, NLS, BUBL LINK,
  GDL,
• Work with NGfL, SCRAN, SCAN
• Collections database expansion needed Zservers,
  collections only

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Key Elements, 2

• SCONE, SEED the focus for this expansion of
  collections database
• Will also provide tools to support CCM, landscape
  control SCAMP
• SCONE HE and FE
• SEED Public Libraries
• Both linking CCM, user navigation, and staff
  landscape control

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Key Elements, 3

• CoSMiC The Confederation of Scottish Mini-Clumps
  (Founders ALF, SESLIN, TAFLIN, GDL, others)
• A standards-based Scotland-wide co-operative
  catalogue and collaborative collection management
  programme needs co-ordination at human level
• Hope is that CoSMiC will provide it

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Scottish Portal Project

• Small start up project, SLIC
• Begin to build a Scottish Portal from CAIRNS and
  SLAINTE
• Focus particularly on requirements for bringing
  in FE, Public Libraries
• Look at a co-operative approach to cataloguing
  electronic resources (CORC)

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A Scottish Portal?

• Easy user access to all Scottish networked
  information, learning and research services
• Ability to see and cross-search selective views
  of these e.g. just those catalogues strong in
  history, in Ayrshire, covering electronic
  services, FE, HE, public libraries, for secondary
  school pupils, etc

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A Scottish Portal

• A terminologies mapping service to facilitate
  cross searching by subject where different
  schemes are in use (HILT Project)
• Different interface views for different user,
  educational levels
• Staff control of these information landscapes
  via a staff portal to the collection description
  database

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And, of course...

• Human and organisation level co-ordination,
  co-operation and control through CoSMiC

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Joining up is easy ...

• Services can join portal by
• Adding Collection level information
• Or that plus telnet or webpac
• Or becoming cross-searchable needs MARC, AACR2,
  CAIRNS Cataloguing and Indexing Standards, Z39.50
• Organisations can join by working within CoSMiC

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But...

• Because of a range of potential problems in areas
  like
• Cataloguing and indexing problems, Different
  record formats, Collection description standards,
  Different subject schemes, Varied Z39.50
  implementations, Categorising users
• .getting it right is hard
• At least, it is...

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Unless we can

• Agree a joint approach
• Work together
• Build on our successes
• Pool our resources
• Jointly make the case for future development
• Promote the relevant standards
• In short, unless we work together

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Scottish Portals Initiative

• If you want to build your own portal, you can
  still benefit from the co-operative
  infrastructure, either
• Let us generate your portal dynamically
• Or build your own but dont duplicate effort Z
  addresses, collections database etc.
• Work within CoSMiC

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CoSMiC Reminder

• The Confederation of Scottish Mini-Clumps(CoSMiC)
  initiative (Founders ALF, SESLIN, TAFLIN etc.)
• A standards-based Scotland-wide co-operative
  catalogue and collaborative collection management
  programme needs co-ordination at human level
• Hope is that CoSMiC will provide it

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CoSMiC

• .by co-ordinating activities at regional,
  sectoral, domain and national level
• .allowing a different vision for each sector or
  domain or region or whatever (electronic
  resources?)
• facilitating collaborative collecting, user
  landscape control through the SCONE staff portal

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Where to next?

• Task Group list of issues
• CoSMiC workshop in September
• SPI leaflet
• CORC and the Scottish Portal are coming
• Information for Scotland
• Scotslink_at_jiscmail.ac.uk

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Further Information

• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
• http//cairns.lib.strath.ac.uk/
• http//scone.strath.ac.uk/
• d.m.nicholson_at_strath.ac.uk