András Simon

1. Variousaspects of metadatastructuring, construction and the business logiccharacteristics of integratedlibrarysystems.The highest level of unification job of segmentation and integration data processes by an ILS application Qulto András Simon

2. Technicaltasks - customerdata • Segmented storage, ergonomic entry • Value lists form customer data (nationality, address, city, occupation, qualification etc.) for proper calculation. • Masked data entry for proper calculation • Possibilityfor import from institutional or official dictionaries • Standardized view points, in local, institutional, or state level • Possibility for archiving instead of erasing

3. Basic requirements towards the making of statistics or the use of statistics - customers • Age • Gender • Qualification • Residence • Social status (child, employee, retired, student, unemployed etc.) • Nationality • Mother tongue • Readers category (student, employee, retired) • Registration date

4. Basic requirements towards the making of statistics or the use of statistics - documents • Document type (book, ebook, periodical, audiovisual material, electronicor physical copy, map, note) • Belle lettres / professional material by Dewey or by other classification systems • Special collections • Language (Hungarian, English, German, other) • Acquisition date and type • Date of publishing • Author (loan fee, transaction fee) • Price, and value of document • Date and time of loan. (weekdays,weekend, holidays)

5. Authorities - types • Holder • Owner • Supervisoryauthority • State, local, institutional, other

6. Authoritiesdemands and aims • Useof library • Socialeffects • Expenditureefficiency • Utilization of holdings • Necessity of indexing • Use of externaldatasources • Commondatabasesfromlibraries and museums

7. Library – demands and aims • Utilization of holdings • Old unusedbooks • Oftenborrowedbooks • Changing of utilization • Acquisition policy • Changesof theproportionofcustomersegments

8. Problems of thedatacomingfromthe ILS • Open shelves – bookstacks (less used) • Work – level identification (language of book important) • Reading in foreign languages • Local use, how to measure? • Borrowing for others. • Renewing, how much to count? • Literature for students given by the teacher

9. Problemswiththeresults • Public debate in Hungary, „ half of the holdings are unused” • Aufklärism – should we do anything with it? • Changeof loan policy – liberal regulations • Change of copy service policy • Change of acquisition and finance policy • Human resources – less need • Preconceptions, manipulatingthe data by employees

10. Outputs - problems • Formatted reports • Results of calculations in graphs • Direct search on the interface • Direct search via SQL in the database • Too complicated data structure • Too big data tables • Searches should be prepared by the programmers on ad hocway

11. Evaluationmethods • Local experiences • Formal demands of authorities – L'art pour l'art • Own aims of libraries • Regularity – month, year, school year concerning to the lifecycles of the library • Usage of document concerning to price and value • Changing of the customers attitudes and demands especially by the youth • Highly polarized society in Hungaryby intellectual factor

12. Utilization of results • Acquisition policy • Marketing • Loan policy • Opening hours, holydays • Changing of financing • Increasing effectiveness of utilization • Usage of human resources

13. Qulto solutions • 300 customer in CentralEurope • MARC structure, complete segmentation • Reader Data complete segmentation • Archiving the information about deleted readers, users, bibliographical holding and loan data • Long time storage, data preservation

14. Technicaltasks – documentdata • Allbibliographicaldatain MARC • Every MARC tag and subfieldinseparatedatafieldforpropercalculation, andinordertoformthecontrolleddataentry • Unlimitedpossiblityformcombinationbycreating search masks • Possiblityfor entering sepcialdatacontent (date, timestamp, integer, decimal etc.) • Entering regularexpressions, and defaultvalues • Makingdatafieldsobligatory • Usage of value lists (language, classification etc.)

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