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SUNCAT UK Serials Union Catalogue

SUNCAT UK Serials Union Catalogue. Leah Halliday leah.halliday@ed.ac.uk. Overview. Introduction and background Functions How Schedule Progress. Sponsors. Joint Information Systems Committee of HE/FE Funding Councils (JISC) Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP)

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SUNCAT UK Serials Union Catalogue

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  1. SUNCATUK Serials Union Catalogue Leah Halliday leah.halliday@ed.ac.uk

  2. Overview • Introduction and background • Functions • How • Schedule • Progress

  3. Sponsors Joint Information Systems Committee of HE/FE Funding Councils (JISC) Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) SUNCAT Steering Committee Chair: Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) Secretary: Chris Awre (JISC) with representatives of the JISC, the RSLP, the British Library and the wider academic community

  4. Project partnership Project Partners: University of Edinburgh (Lead Partner; EDINA/EUL) Ex Libris Associate Partners: National Library of Scotland University of Glasgow Libraries at Oxford University Libraries at Cambridge University Contributing (Phase 1) Partners: The larger university & research libraries in the UK (22)

  5. Project Team • Project Director: Peter Burnhill • Project Manager: Leah Halliday • ALEPH/Systems: Noam Kaminer & Julia Goldshtein (Ex Libris) • User Requirements: Liz Stevenson (EUL) with Tony Kidd (GUL) • Bibliographic (50%): Nathalie Schulz* • Special Advisor: Slawek Rozenfeld  * Secretary to Revision Committee for AACR  Formerly Head of Computing at ISSN-IC

  6. Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group • Alason Roberts (EUL; Chair) • Hugh Taylor (Cambridge) • Susan Miles (Oxford) • John Nicklen (NLS) • Hugh Croll (EUL) • Slawek Rozenfeld • Nathalie Schulz (EDINA)

  7. Feasibility Study • RSLP focus groups: serials location and holdings info. • Priorities: comprehensive with user-friendly interfaces • Record quality variable – often poor • Improve standards • Facilitate m2m interaction

  8. CONSER • An international cooperative serials cataloguing programme • Began in early ’70s to convert manual records to machine-readable format • Now creates and maintain high-quality bibliographic records for serials • MARC 21, AACR2 • ~ 1M records • Profile of membership reflects content http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/about.html

  9. ISSN Register • Database of all bibliographic records for which ISSN numbers have been assigned • ISSN number, key title, publication frequency, language, other forms of title, place of publication, publisher • Links to related titles (former titles, other languages, other media) • 1000 records added/week • 835, 474 records • Current journal records with ISSN, 50—90% (Scoping Study) • All (current and dead) serials records with ISSN, 18—35% (SS) www.issn.org

  10. Scoping Study: Priorities • Location of holdings • Source of high-quality records for upgrading local catalogues • Rapidly include the wide-range of titles held in UK • Ensure geographical and subject-based coverage • Supports open standards and interoperates with related services

  11. SUNCAT Development schedule • Phase 1 (03/04) 22 large research libraries • Phase 2 (05/06) extending to 200 Contributing Partners • Phase 3 (07 --) Consolidation

  12. Development plan • Information content, scope and functionality • Critical mass in terms of serials coverage • high quality bibliographic records, including the ISSN • means for cost-effective upgrade of local records, inc ISSN • a technology platform that will scale • Prioritise data not software • Use Aleph 500 to build SUNCAT • Accept de facto definitions of serial

  13. The data • ISSN as spine for unique identification • CONSER as source of high-quality catalogue records in MARC21 format • Records from Contributing Library Partners: 22 in 03/04 • Multiple schemas for import MARC21, UKMARC, UNIMARC,…(other ISO 2709) • Online/batch conversion/fix routines e.g. UK-MARC->MARC21

  14. The Melvyl Search Screen

  15. DisplaysBrief Records for ‘Hits’

  16. Display of Full Record

  17. Phase 1 Development • CONSER and ISSN loaded and matched 06/03 • Records from 5 Associate partners loaded and matched by September 03 • Demonstrator at Online Information 12/03 • Second cluster of contributing libraries loaded by April 04 • Third cluster looks to Phase 2 • Upgrades available from Spring/summer 04 • Service launch September 04

  18. Scottish Dimension • Three of five Associate Partners Scottish • Value of NLS: • 110,000 records; 65,000 are high quality • Longstanding experience of MARC21 • Many Scottish publications not represented in academic collections

  19. Progress • CONSER and ISSN loaded • Specifying interface customisation wrt user requirements • Working with Associate Partners to: • Describe their data and identify required conversion on load • Specify nature and extent of work required from contributing libraries to maximise benefit to them and SUNCAT • Streamline contribution process

  20. Contacts www.edina.ac.uk/projects www.suncat.ac.uk to be website URL EDINA HelpDesk Email: edina@ed.ac.uk Tel: 0131 650 3302 Fax: 0131 650 3308 Nathalie Schulz (Project Officer - Bibliographic) Liz Stevenson (User Requirements) Leah Halliday (Project Manager) Peter Burnhill (Project Director) Chris Awre(JISC Contact) c.awre@kcl.ac.uk

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