CC-interop and SCONE extending collection-level description

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CC-interop and SCONE extending collection-level
description

• Gordon Dunsire Dennis Nicholson
• Presented to Mapping the information landscape
  a showcase of collection description projects and
  services, British Library, London, 25 March 2003

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CC-interop project

• "COPAC/Clumps interoperability"
• Continuing technical cooperation
• Lead site London School of Economics and
  Political Science
• 2 work packages
• A Cross-searching COPAC and clumps
• B Enhance the role of clumps (in the JISC IE)

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Work package B

• Using CAIRNS (CDLR) and RIDING clumps with SCONE
  CLD service for
• Investigating and specifying collection
  description standards requirements ?
• Enhancing the coverage of clumps ?
• Compiling cataloguing and indexing standards in
  clumps
• Landscaping of mini-clumps

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CLD schemes compared

• Survey of clumps, collection description
  services, and draft schemas
• InforM25, JISC, MIMAS, Mapping Wales, RASCAL,
  RIDING, SCONE.
• Report
• "Extending the SCONE collection descriptions
  database for cc-interop"
• Includes a comparative data dictionary for the
  schemes
• Schemes compared against the entity-relationship
  analysis of collection description by Michael
  Heaney

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CLD schemes

• High degree of structural compatibility
• Heaney analysis and RSLP implementation
• Less compatibility in content standards
• Functional granularity different purposes of CLD
  services
• Legacy Clumps before RSLP
• Report extends Heaney's analysis, and identifies
  content interoperability issues

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Interoperability issues

• Collection identifiers
• Name headings Personal name data elements
• Physical location data elements
• Date ranges (3 different meanings)
• Service level description (at embryonic stage)
• (via HILT II project) Collection-description
  (catalogue) subject schemes

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Collection identifiers

• No common or interoperable scheme of assigning
  identifiers
• Usually database driven
• Functional granularity will proliferate CLDs for
  sub-collections
• Local and service (global) views
• Service emphasis landscaping criteria
• Severe impairment of cross-linking, recycling,
  harvesting, minimising duplication

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Cross-searching CLD services

• Importance of personal and corporate names
• Owners, Collectors, Subjects, Administrators,
  etc.
• Geographic locations towns
• Access to physical collections still necessary
• Support for collaborative, cross-sectoral
  collection policies
• C-D subject schemes
• From subject landscaping to item-level discovery

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Extending SCONE

• Additional attributes and data elements
  identified in report
• Agent Administrator Corporate body Logo
• Collection Content Sound material Language
• Collection Content Text Language
• Collection Educational level
• Collection Classification/Subject scheme
• And others
• Important for resource discovery, landscaping and
  portals in Scotland and beyond

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CLDs Distributed Content

• 1994 CATRIONA Model
• It is likely that internet opacs will be
  categorised according to their subject strengths
  and that users will be able to search for
  records of other opacs strong on a particular
  subject category
• 1995 RCO Conspectus-based collection strength
  measures distributed subject collections web
  and telnet catalogues
• 1999 CAIRNS RCO and dynamic landscaping
  cross-searching distributed subject collections

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CLDs Distributed Content

• 2000/02 SCONE and SEED SCONE collections
  service - Conspectus alternatives embryonic
  SCAMP collection management portal DDC CS
  indices? Institution specific landscapes?
• 2002/05 HILT (collections and subjects),
  CC-Interop (landscaping beyond CAIRNS, Riding
  Clone), HaIRST (collaborative collecting)
• 2003 SPEIR SCI - key role of CLD in
  collaborative collection management, resource
  discovery, portal management recognised

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Projected Scottish Co-operative Infrastructure
Feb. 03
Various user nodes
Global links Cross domain Scone
SCAN Museums Resource JISC IE LOOK CERL
COSMIC co-ordination
Portal Support
Support Services
CAIRNS
CoSMiC Task Group
Interoperability Standards
Cultural Portal
SCONE
Connexion
HaIRST
Regional, Sectoral, SI Groups
GDL-like Portals
SDDL
SCAMP(2)
Pub-Lib Portals
Landscaper
Online LIS Support via SLAINTE/BUBL Mini-clump
Joint RD Plan
SCAMP(1)
Scotslink WIDWISAWN
Other Portals
NLS
etc Sapiens Authentication Terminologies
SLIC
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Why?

• Users increasingly use/need distributed
  resources, finding tools so co-operation now
  essential as well as desirable
• Users/organisations need own portals
• Distributed networked collections need
  collaborative management
• Coherent distributed virtual libraries wont
  just happen we must co-operate to manage
  retrieval/user environments
• Institutional and other boundaries are becoming a
  barrier to providing what users need

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Thank you

• Gordon Dunsire
• g.dunsire_at_strath.ac.uk
• Dennis Nicholson
• d.m.nicholson_at_strath.ac.uk
• CC-interop project homepage
• http//ccinterop.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
• Extending SCONE report
• http//ccinterop.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Documents/PDF-
  WordDocs/ExtendSCONEReport.pdf
• SCONE service
• http//scone.strath.ac.uk/service/index.cfm