smoothing choppy waters: collection integration at nls using aquabrowser

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National Library of Scotland has implemented Medialabs Aquabrowser resource discovery solution to assist with the integration of the many and varied collections and catalogues in the Library. In this presentation Gill Hamilton, Systems Librarian at National Library of Scotland, explores the issues that Aquabrowser addresses in improving resource discover for Library customers and also some of the issues and challenges of integrating such as solution.

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smoothing choppy waters NLS - san

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main-cat.nls.uk

www.nls.uk/mqs/

but gillian, what about the other stuff?

what’s needed?

• intuitive

• unified

• relevant

• modern

• engaging

• blue

sorted then?

intuitive

unification

relevant

modern

engaging

blue

dirty!

missing!

the A word!

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lcnaf

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home grown na

lcnaf .. kind of

none of these

sam, the ugliest dog in the world© www.samugliestdog.com

metadata policy

watch this space

not only … but also

ranking

rdadeduplication

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the uncatalogued

weighting

gill hamiltong.hamilton@nls.uk

www.nls.ukdiscover.nls.

uk

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