Enhancing Resource Discovery: DDC and Gaelic: The Portree Project

1. Enhancing Resource Discovery:DDC and Gaelic: The Portree Project Elaine Fulton Director SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

2. Overview • SLIC remit and objectives • Standards and Interoperability • Policy Context • Portree Project • Intended outcomes • Outcomes SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

3. SLIC Main objectives • To advise the First Minister and Scottish Executive on library and information matters • To develop, promote and monitor standards for library and information services in Scotland • To provide grant aid for library and information pilot projects SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

4. SLIC key priorities • Quality, standards and evaluation; • Innovation and Service Development; • Co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation • Workforce development. Through these activities we aim to deliver • Improved library and information provision in our schools, communities, universities and colleges. • Improved standards of literacy and digital skills in Scotland. • A robust evidence base to inform policy and support decision-making. • Improved services through joint and cross sectoral initiatives. • Innovative digital initiatives, promoting the role of library and information services in all sectors. • Improved co-operation and collaboration across all sectors of the library and information community and related organisations to encourage co-ordinated service development. • High quality flexible workforce. • Enhanced relations with emerging information professions and networks. SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

5. Standards and Interoperability • Devolved Government • SNP Administration • Gaelic Act SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

6. Policy Context • Enabling Seamless Access, 1999 • Organising Information, 2001 • Pilot Scottish Cultural Portal, 2002 • Digital Access Scotland 2010 • Shared Services and smartcards • Digital Strategy (ies) SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

7. About Gaelic • Gaelic is a Celtic Language, Continental Celtic – Gaulishetc, Related to Irish and Manx • 1881 – 250,000 speakers, 2001 – 58,000 speakers • Reasons for Decline, Education Act (Scotland) 1872, Emigration, First World War • Medieval Language - interesting translations in some cases the word is English as there is no other word SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

8. Portree project drivers influences • OCLC relationship – WorldCat/Scottish Cultural Portal, Ask Scotland • Meet requirements of the Gaelic Act • Seamless access to material • Global tourism and promotion access to the diaspora. • Almost no corner of the world is untouched by Scottish emigration, with over 28 million people worldwide descended from Scottish shores and ancestral connections. SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

9. Portree project • OCLC looking to make resources available in indigenous languages , following on from a project New York with Spanish using DDC and QR codes, power of linked data • Gaelic speaker to translate top 1000 terms in DDC • Needed to be robust and agreed by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and An Seotal • Needed a robust pilot project – Highland Council was obvious choice, Active Gaelic Speakers, catalogued Gaelic content • Transferable and sustainable • Timely Politically SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

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11. Portree project Seamless Access in Gaelic – the smart way • A user of a public library in the Highland Libraries service browses the non-fiction collection on the shelves. Each shelf stack has a poster giving the DDC Summary numbers for that stack (or a single poster covering all Summary numbers) with captions in Scottish Gaelic and English. Against each set of numbers and captions is a QR code. • The user scans the code with their mobile phone, using a suitable app. The code is used to carry out an automatic search of the library's catalogue and displays books and other resources which would usually be found in the stack. The user is able to identify resources which are in circulation or otherwise not currently shelved, and resources which are difficult to see on the shelf, such as those with no spines, or in boxes, etc. • A Gaelic-speaking user of the library is able to appreciate the way that topics are arranged on the shelves and the terminology and arrangement of technical topics in their own language. • An English-speaking user of the library sees Gaelic translations of broad subject topics on every stack during every visit, acquires a working knowledge of several hundred Gaelic words, and is encouraged to study the language further. SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

12. Portree project • Widening access -Mobile squared! • A poster or set of posters giving the DDC Summary numbers and captions in Scottish Gaelic and English with QR codes is displayed in the mobile libraries of Highland Libraries service. A user of the mobile library service is able to identify all the resources on a topic held by the service and arrange for specific resources to be included in the mobile browsing collection when the library next visits their location. • Highland-wide promotion of the library service • A poster or set of posters with the Summary numbers, captions, and QR codes is displayed on the notice boards of community centres, tourist information centres, and commercial premises throughout Highland region, with text promoting the use of the mobile and public libraries. SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

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14. DDC Summaries 530-540English-Gaelic SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

15. DDC shelfmarks + QR codes SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

16. Sharing the experienceLibrary Sign Generator

17. What Does it Do? • Automated creation of library sign artwork • QR code generation • Batch download • Creation of new colours and templates

19. Add / Edit • Reference number • English title • Gaelic title • Web address • Age group

20. QR Codes • Automatically generated from web URL • URL is shortened to allow creation of neat codes • QR code will regenerate if and when web URL changes

21. Download • Print ready PDF files • Available in all templates • Can be scaled up/down

22. Options • Background and text can be changed to suit colour scheme

23. The Benefits • Saves time • Saves money • Visual consistency

25. Promotion

26. Summary • Low cost • Wide impact • Meeting government objectives • Improving resource discovery • Good value SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886