subject headings for fiction in sweden a cooperative development harriet aagaard & elisabet...

Subject Headings for Fiction in Sweden

a Cooperative Development

Harriet Aagaard & Elisabet Viktorsson

IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond Libraries – Subject Metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web. 17-18 August 2012, Tallinn

The Swedish Library Association’s Fiction Indexing Committee

The Swedish Library Association’s Fiction Indexing Committee

BURK LIBRIS

• Public libraries• School libraries

• The National Library• Academic libraries

BURK LIBRIS

• Public libraries• School libraries

• The National Library• Academic libraries

Background

Lena Lundgren 2001-2004

Project funded by the Swedish Library Association.

The Swedish Subject Headings

• 2001-• A national system for subject headings used by

libraries i the union catalogue Libris• Based on the LCSH• The National Library of Sweden

2005-The Swedish Library Association’sSubject Headings for Fiction

The Swedish Library Association’s Fiction Indexing Committee

American record (LC)

I’ll be there by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Swedish record (BTJ)

Aldrig släppa taget av Holly Goldberg Sloan

Translation into English

Brothers (Juvenile fiction)

Dysfunctional families (Juvenile fiction.)

Fathers and sons (Juvenile fiction)

Selective mutism (Juvenile fiction)

Families (Juvenile fiction)

Mental illness (Juvenile fiction)

USA

Bröder

Psykiskt sjuka föräldrar

Schizofreni

Kriminella föräldrar

Far och son

Flytta

Autism

Stumhet

Barn som far illa

Självständiga barn

Musik

Kärlek

Ungdomsböcker

Unga vuxna

USA

Brothers

Mentally ill parents

Schizophrenia

Criminal parents

Father and son

To move

Autism

Muteness

Troubled children

Independent children

Music

Love

Books for youths

Young adults

- Flat- End-user oriented- Child’s perspective- Detailed- Spoilers allowed!!

- Structured- Library-oriented- Interoperability – one vocabulary

Separate lists

• Children• Adults

Tools

WordPdfExcel

We need better tools!

Usage

• UR The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

• Bokrondellen A company giving service to publishers and booksellers

• Barnens bibliotek The Children’s Library

• Tesaurus för skolanSchool thesaurus

• University libraries

UR – the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

Bokrondellen

Barnens bibliotek

Usage BTJ

BTJ is a supplier of media services to libraries in Finland and Sweden - Services that simplify things and help our clients to save money and resources. - Connecting physical or digital media to information about them, so that our clients can

find the right media, in the right amount of time, and for the right price. - Our clients are professional users, mainly knowledge and research-related businesses,

such as libraries, universities, companies and organisations.

Thrillers in Tigrinya

• New project • Genres• Names• Pragmatism: liberal use of controled headings• Expected outcomes:– Usability– Recycling– User-oriented catalogues

BTJ Förlag

Suggested reading for first-time parents Reading for young children - by themes

Btj.se

AdultBooks

FictionSubject heading:Divorces

Selection

Review services

Profile services

Editors make media selections based on criteria set by the customer

Recycling

Printrecord

E-bookrecord

Original records

Number ofpossiblematches

Future

• 2013 • The National Library

of Sweden• ???

Anne-Marie

40 years of experience as a children's librarian

• Stockholm Public Library• The Swedish Institute for

Children’s Books

LinksOfficial home page:http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/var-verksamhet/kommitteer/svensk-biblioteksforenings-redaktionskommitte-for-indexering/ Svenska ämnesord (Swedish Subject Headings, the Royal Library):http://www.kb.se/katalogisering/Svenska-amnesord/ BTJ: http://btj.se/skonamne

SBI (The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books):http://www.sbi.kb.se/en

UR (The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Companyhttp://www.ur.se/Webbar/Om-UR/About-UR

Bokrondellen:http://www.bokrondellen.se

Questions?

harriet.aagaard@kb.se elisabet.viktorsson@btj.se

IFLA Satellite Post-Conference Beyond Libraries – Subject Metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web. 17-18 August 2012, Tallinn