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Arricchimento dell’OPAC per le biblioteche italiane Ian Pattenden - Bowker. Overview. The concept of OPAC enrichment and why it’s important The challenge facing libraries Our solution – Syndetic Solutions Characteristics and benefits of the service What’s new Summary. Syndetic Solutions.
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Arricchimento dell’OPAC per le biblioteche italiane Ian Pattenden - Bowker
Overview • The concept of OPAC enrichment and why it’s important • The challenge facing libraries • Our solution – Syndetic Solutions • Characteristics and benefits of the service • What’s new • Summary
Syndetic Solutions • 17 English language data elements • Information relevant to more than 4 million book titles… and growing all the time • Hosted service • ISBN linking • Variety of integration options (HTML/XML) • Weekly updates
Cover Images 2.6 million
First Chapters & Excerpts 149,000
Tables of Contents 955,000
Summaries & Annotations 1.9 million
Reviews / Author Notes 750,000 / 160,000
Awards 69,000
Series 58,000
Italian module • Bowker has entered into an agreement with Informazioni Editoriali for the use of certain data from the Alice database via Syndetic Solutions… • 156,000 cover images – immagini delle copertine • 127,000 summaries - riassunti • 90,000 ISBNs have both data elements • Data being loaded now, module due for release May 2007
More new content • German – 300,000 cover images and summaries (Libri) • Spanish – 9,000 summaries and review excerpts (Promo Latino) • Swedish – coming soon (BTJ) • AV data… cover images and summaries for almost 1 million video and music titles (Mid West Tape & AMG) • Core English language content growing… we have added 700,000 cover images between October 2006 and February 2007!
Coming soon… ICE Indexed – Content – Enrichment • Libraries who have a search and discovery platform (such as Aquabrowser or Primo) will be able to upgrade their Syndetic Solutions subscription to make the enrichments searchable • Allows library users to find previously hidden relevant resources by letting them query our summaries/TOCs in their searches • ICE is an economical alternative to enriching MARC records and involves little initial work and no ongoing maintenance… automatic ISBN linking
No match on Subjects Match on TOC keywords
Some examples… • Aalborg University, Denmark: http://aleph.aub.auc.dk/F/-/?func=option-update-lng&file_name=find-b&F2=pc-latin&P_CON_LNG=ENG&local_base=AUBALT (e.g. Physics or Water) • Napier University, UK: http://nuin.napier.ac.uk/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000223559&local_base=NAP01 • Southern Adventist University, USA: http://lib-catalog.southern.edu?F (e.g. search for "The End of Poverty" 1594200459) • Philadelphia University, USA: http://ipac.philau.edu/uPortal/Initialize?uP_reload_layout=true&uP_tparam=props (e.g. search for “xml”) • Middle East Technical University, Turkey: http://library.metu.edu.tr/ (e.g. search for “nanotechnology” • Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain: http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~ (e.g. search for “Feuds”) • Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy: http://millennium.unicatt.it/search*ita/
Benefits & Summary • Easy to implement and no ongoing work required • Relevant rich content delivered directly into your OPAC • No need for users to learn a new system • Improved and more inspiring online service • Supports OPAC as central to research • Encourages users to make best use of your collection
For further information • Visit www.syndetics.com • Email ian.pattenden@bowker.co.uk • Please contact Bowker/Cenfor to receive: • Quotation • ISBN match report • Free trial access for your library