libraries australia cataloguing parallel session bemal rajapatirana
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Libraries AustraliaCataloguing
Parallel Session
Bemal Rajapatirana
Libraries Australia Cataloguing
• National Bibliographic Database round-up • Developments and enhancements
• NBD Strategic Directions
• 42 million holdings
• 16 million bibliographic records
• 3 million Australian items
• 800,000 contain non-Roman script
• 700,000 online resources
• 300 contributors
National Bibliographic Database
Enhancement: CBS 3.2 upgrade
• Automatic transliteration of script Single sign-on Sign-on
• Search and retrieval from Cataloguing Client Z39.50 targets
• Automated retrospective de-duplication of NBD records
• SRU update• October 2007 release CJK keyword indexing • Chinese transliteration
Enhancement: Authority data loading
Addition of new authority records Scope amendments to existing authorities
based on number matching Trial complex matching and merging Explore establishing Library of Congress
Authority database within Libraries Australia
Transliteration demonstration:
245 1#$602$7ba$a@Fu jie de xian dai "shang ren bu luo" :$bzou chu zhuan xing qi she hui chong jian de he fa hua wei ji = Modern 'businessmen tribe' in Fujie$cTao Qing zhu.
245 1#$602$7cjk$a@ 福街的现代 " 商人部落 " :$b 走出转型期社会重建的合法化危机 = Modern 'businessmen tribe' in Fujie$c 陶庆著 .
Enhancement: OCLC Implementation
OCLC search target open for all Batch exchange of NBD and OCLC data Seeking approval from Australian libraries Daily transfers via ftp WorldCat Identifiers SRU update Workset algorithms
OCLC Implementation
• Access to resources, research and development
• Exposure of Australian library resources• ANBD and OCLC batch data exchange• Daily synchronisation via ftp updates• WorldCat Identifiers and Workset
algorithms• SRU update
Authority data loading
• Pilot contribution of authority records
• Addition of new records
• Updates based on number matching
• Complex matching and merging
• Explore Library of Congress Authority database within Libraries Australia
Strategic directions
• Access to full text and e-resources
Sub-item level data Destra; album and tracks Arrow; scholarly publishing Journals: article level data
• Expanded scope and coverage
• Institution specific data
• Data syndication
Access to full-text
• Additional coverage of e-resources: Addition of URLs from digitization projectsOnline fulltext (partial or complete)Book reviews
• Electronic collections setsParliamentary papers
• Vendor supplied bibliographic records
Expanded scope and coverage
• New sources – Destra, Arrow, Journals• Sub-item records: articles, music tracks• Issues:
Search and presentationLinks between and across items Immediate access – get or buy
• NBD contribution survey
Institution Specific Data• Scope inclusion of ISD
• Shareable and non-shareable data
• Potential categories of ISDSubject headingsSeries headingsMARC holdings
• End user created content
• System development required
Data syndication• 1.6 M searches on LA Free Service
700,000 referrals from Search enginesReferrals represent 50% of WorldCat.Org
traffic
• Library web-sites have low prominence
• Links to library services above web average
• Web Page Rankings: …
Data syndication• Libraries Australia
Comprehensive and centralised aggregator
• Syndicate data to global services Expose Australian collectionsMore pathways: Google, Libraries Australia,
WorldCat.org, Open WorldCat
Discussion
• Over to you …
Thank you for participating!
Useful links
• http://demo.openlibrary.org/about
• http://www.librarything.com/
• http://worldcat.org/
• http://www.alexa.com/