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Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects

Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects. Rachel Heery UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ r.heery@ukoln.ac.uk. ROADS subject gateways IAFA templates collection descriptions BIBLINK

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Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects

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  1. Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects Rachel Heery UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ r.heery@ukoln.ac.uk

  2. ROADS subject gateways IAFA templates collection descriptions BIBLINK publishers and national libraries Dublin Core (+ MARC) NEWSAGENT current awareness Dublin Core PRIDE user profiles services descriptions directory service protocol X500? LDAP?? DESIRE2 resource discovery WHOIS++, GILS, Dublin Core Z39.50, WHOIS++, LDAP metadata registry UKOLN and metadata

  3. A metadata typology • Simple Rich

  4. ROADS • Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services • Web based tools for Subject Services • SOSIG, ADAM, OMNI, … plus • Manage and search Internet resource descriptions • ROADS templates (based on IAFA templates) • WHOIS++ directory service protocol http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/

  5. In original RFC: SERVICE DOCUMENT SOFTWARE DATASET MAILING LIST …... New types: PROJECT EVENT DUBLIN CORE COLLECTION (under development) Roads Template Types

  6. IAFA template • Template-Type: SERVICE • Title: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine • URI-v1: http://units.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/safeperl/wuhminfo/p?home.html • Publisher-Name-v1: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine • Publisher-Postal-v1: 45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE • Publisher-City-v1: Oxford • Description: The home page of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine • Language-v1: English • Subject-Descriptor-v1: WZ40 History of Medicine • Subject-Descriptor-Scheme-v1: NLM • Handle: 71473886-23884 • Record-Last-Modified-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:09:16 +0000 • Record-Last-Modified-Email: cataloguer@omni.ac.uk • Record-Created-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:09:16 +0000 • Record-Created-Email: cataloguer@omni.ac.uk • Admin-Email-v1: wuhmo@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk

  7. RECCI Cataloguing Guidelines Interoperability guidelines Template usage statistics Recommendations for collaborative cataloguing Template Registry Definitive lists of template types and elements Rules for content (schemes) Change control ROADS registry

  8. ROADS and DC • Growing user base • Enables cross searching ( using Whois++), • Enables query routing (using CIP centroids or tagged index objects) • Offers Z39.50 gateway • Open Source software • DC Template • …..legacy non-DC data

  9. NewsAgent • Current awareness service for LIS... • Mixture of content streams • journals • news and briefing materials • e-mail lists and USENET news • Variety of access methods • Web, e-mail and Z39.50 clients • user-configurable profiles http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/NewsAgent/

  10. Dublin Core elements Title Subject Description Creator Type Format Identifier Language Extensions NewsAgent Topic NewsAgent Contact (by default name) email home page NewsAgent Date valid to NewsAgent Coverage geographic region Newsagent metadata

  11. BIBLINK • Aim • Establish information flow between electronic publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies • Background research • Metadata • Identification • Format conversion • Transmission • Authentication http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/BIBLINK/

  12. BIBLINK Publishers • Grey - Web publishers (10) • Micronet • PROEL • Editions VIGDOR • SURFnet b.v. • Erasmus Universiteit • Official Documentation and Information in Norway • University Bergen Library • Lillehammer College Library • Arts and Humanities Data Service • The British Council • Nationality • France 5 • The Netherlands 4 • Norway 4 • Spain 7 • United Kingdom 6

  13. Description of BIBLINK Workspace Publishers BIBLINK Workspace A shared facility for storing and manipulating BIBLINK workspace records Third parties e.g. Identification agencies - ISBN, ISSN, etc. BIBLINK Workspace Administrator National Bibliographic Agencies

  14. BIBLINK requirements • Carry out conversions using USEMARCON • from DC or SGML input format to UNIMARC • from UNIMARC to national MARC formats • from national MARC formats back to UNIMARC and BC • Management of the flow of events (updates, enhancements) • Management of the database of records • Allow searching and downloading of records

  15. BIBLINK Workspace Interfaces • Email or HTTP (Web) user interface • Input formats: • BIBLINK Core in HTML • two SGML DTDs • Export views • BIBLINK Core in HTML • two SGML DTDs • MARC (various flavours) • Administrator Web interface • user registration, access control, mapping tables, configuration, ...

  16. BIBLINK - demonstrator Publishers • Cataloguing in Publication(CIP) type records Dublin Core E-mail NBAs/National Libraries • Conversion on to national MARC format using USEMARCON Dublin Core UNIMARC • Enhanced records optionally returned to publishers UKMARC

  17. BIBLINK Core metadata • Principles • Minimum data set (Cataloguing in Print level) • Type should refine elements • BIBLINK extensions used to extend semantics • Conversions require intermediate format • Issues • Time of change for MARC formats • Need to describe journals at article level • Mapping from simple to richer format

  18. USMARC 245 00 Wordnews online $h [computer file]. 246 3 World news online 256 Computer online service. 260 Washington, D.C. : $b Worldnews Online, $c [1995- 538 Mode of access: Internet. 500 Title from title frame. 520 “WorldNews OnLine is a service … “ 650 0 Newspapers $x Databases. 856 7 $u http://worldnews.net $2 http • Extract from: Nancy B. Olson, ed., Cataloguing Internet resources: a manual and practical guide, 2nd ed. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1997. • http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet

  19. DESIRE 2 • Provision of quality ratings • subject gateways as label bureaux • ranking results • collaborative reviews • Establishing metadata registry • Subject Gateway Handbook • Demonstrators of enhancements to searching subject services and EWI • Presenting existing software as a ‘toolkit’ http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/desire.html

  20. Metadata registries

  21. UKOLN • UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC’s Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath, where it is based. • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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