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Content Creation at the NHM

or

The evolving catalogue!

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NHM Libraries

• 1 million items in 4 LibrariesGeneral & ZoologyEarth Sciences BotanyEntomology

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Cataloguing Aims & Standards

AIMS Maintain & develop a

catalogue of the Collections.

Achieve an accurate catalogue record on Unicorn for every item the Libraries hold.

STANDARDS AACR2 MARC21 OCLC AUTHORITY

FILES

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Current Cataloguing

• Team of 2.5 cataloguers.

• Downloading records from OCLC carried out by Assistant Librarians in the different subject libraries.

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Material catalogued

Monographs Manuscripts Maps Drawings Electronic resources

Serials Map series Serial parts catalogued

as analyticals Serial parts catalogued

as monographs

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Formats created

CATALOGUING Monograph Map Manuscript Graphic Serial Analytical Audio-Visual

AUTHORITY Personal name Corporate name Series Subject Uniform title

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Authority control

• Names checked against OCLC and authorized.

• Subjects – no authority control as yet. Library of Congress headings not consistent or specific enough for taxonomic purposes. Considering a mix of LC & ITIS (International Taxonomic Information System).

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SmartPORT

• Based on the Z39.50 technology

• Z39.50 is a protocol that translates commands back and forth between the local system and the external database provider.

• Local Unicorn user friendly interface that enables the user to capture records directly into Unicorn.

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SmartPORT at NHM

• Use to capture a complete cataloguing record and replace an existing brief record.

• External databases used – OCLC & RLIN.

• Not used yet at NHM for acquisition purposes or for new authorities.

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Configuration of SmartPORT

• Requires OPAC manager training.

• Needs gateway elements and destinations to the relevant databases.

• Necessary to have agreements with required databases.

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SmartPORT settings

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Connection to SmartPORT

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Successful search

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Record found?

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Load record

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First Fleet Project

• First eleven convict ships to sail to Australia in 1787 are known as “The First Fleet”

• Three collections of drawings from that voyage held in NHM.

• Thomas Watling• George Raper• Port Jackson Painter

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Project aims

• Digitise all the drawings

• Catalogue each drawing in Unicorn

• Export Unicorn entries to website

• Combine text and image on website

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Creating the entries

• Graphic format needed modification – extra descriptive MARC fields added.

• Original drawings studied.

• Descriptive catalogue entry produced.

• Subject indexing of people, places, concepts, subjects and taxonomy.

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Subject Indexing

• Subject heading schemes choosen:-LCSHThesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN)Union List of Artists’ Names (ULAN)Intergrated Taxonomic Information System

(ITIS)

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Raper drawing no. 66

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Raper drawing no. 66

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Raper drawing no. 66

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Raper drawing no. 66

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Raper drawing no.66

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On-going projects

• Collection Level Description Project.

• Linnaeus Link Project.

• For more information contact:-

Diane Tough

D.Tough@nhm.ac.uk