Why metadata matters for libraries...

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Why metadata matters for libraries...

• Rachel Heery
• UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information
• Networking, University of Bath
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/
• r.heery_at_ukoln.ac.uk

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UKOLN

• UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research
  and Innovation Centre (BLRIC), the Joint
  Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK
  Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by
  project funding from the JISCs Electronic
  Libraries (eLib) Programme and the European
  Union. UKOLN also receives support from the
  University of Bath, where it is based.
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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What libraries do

• Deliver services to users
• training, selection of services
• Manage access to services
• purchasing, negotiating licences
• Build collections
• selection, description
• Preserve content
• short term continuity of service
• long term preserve intellectual record

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How are libraries changing?

• Moving from places to spaces
• Buildings Digital spaces
• Hard copy Electronic resources
• Standalone Integrated services
• services

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Roles of libraries related to metadata

• To deliver services to users
• To provide integrated environments (learning,
  research, leisure ...)
• To exploit local collections

• Metadata describing
• services
• collections
• Interoperability of metadata
• Creation of metadata

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Metadata for collections

• allows users to discover collections of interest
  
• allows users to perform searches across multiple
  collections
• allows software to perform such tasks based on
  user preferences.

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Collections metadata in use

• California Digital Library
• http//www.cdlib.org/
• elib phase 3
• Hybrid libraries
• Large Scale Resource Discovery (Clumps)
  projects
• ROADS collection descriptions
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cld/wg-report/

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Integrated resource discovery

• Common metadata set
• Common syntax
• Consistency of content

• Dublin Core
• XML/RDF (Resource Description Framework)
• Rules for content
• Common approach
• ? Cataloguing rules ?

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Metadata creation

• OCLC
• CORC project
• Intercat
• Linking libraries and publishers
• BIBLINK
• Enhancing harvested metadata

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BIBLINK

• Aim
• Establish information flow between electronic
  publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies
• Achieved by
• Establishing workspace
• Management of database of records
• Searching and downloading of records

http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/BIBLINK/
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Description of BIBLINK Workspace
Publishers
BIBLINK Workspace A shared facility for storing
and manipulating BIBLINK workspace records
Third parties e.g. Identification agencies -
ISBN, ISSN, etc.
BIBLINK Workspace Administrator
National Bibliographic Agencies
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Metadata registries
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