The Dis-integrated Library System of the

Future

Kristin AntelmanNCSU LibrariesOctober 28, 2005

ILS failures Manage and display electronic

resources Catalog search

Dis-integrated Library System

• Licensing Files

• Collection development records

• Use statistics

Library cataloge-journal

list3rd party data feed

database lists

homegrown backendor metasearch software

Electronic resources DLF Electronic Resources

Management Initiative and subsequent ERM modules

Why build an ERM outside the ILS? control: data elements, interfaces flexibility: reporting, evolution of ERM’s

role collection management focus

catalog

E-Matrix

licensingdatabase

evaluative data

acquisition “shepherding” form

journal bundle

constraints

use statistics

SFX Knowledgebase

titles, licensing, pricing, bundles, access, holdings, usage

stats, etc.

relationships, local subject terms, keywords,descriptions, etc.

local subjectterms,

keywords, descriptions

Sustainability and data quality Migrate legacy applications into E-

Matrix Define a single authoritative data

source for each data element Query existing data sources in real

time wherever possible

E-MATRIX TITLE TYPE ID TITLE TYPE NAME

1 title

2 alternate title

3 abbreviated title

4 uniform title

5 sort title

6 sfx title

7 preceding title

8 succeeding title

9 public display title

MARC 780 - PRECEDING ENTRY

0 continues

1 continues in part

2 supersedes

3 supersedes in part

4 formed by the union of… and…

5 absorbed

6 absorbed in part

7 separated from

Finding journals Finding journals in the catalog is

hard (understanding the records can be

hard)

Finding journals Finding journals in the catalog is hard (understanding the records can be hard)

Users like lists (but the ones we make are not that great)

where isScience

magazine??

The dream journal list…

includes print

manifestations collapsed into “work”

links to related titles

Serial work “Which entity represents the

work- the entity we catalog (a segment of a run of issues identified by one title or name-title) or the entire run of issues associated through time?”

• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind”

Superwork (super-record)

super_work_id = 123

[super_work_id = 123]

Resource_id = 13147

Title = College & Research Libraries

Succeeding title = College & Research Libraries News

[super_work_id = 123]

Resource_id = 13148

Title = College & Research Libraries News

Preceding title = College & Research Libraries

Online CopyResource_id = 13147

Provider_id = 362Full text = some

Print CopyResource_id = 13147

Provider_id = 1Full text = yes

Online CopyResource_id = 13147

Provider_id = 518Full text = yes

Online CopyResource_id = 13148

Provider_id = 518Full text = yes

SUPER WORK

WORK

EXPRESSION/MANIFESTATION

Identifiers that systems can use “In the serial universe, direct links by

means of control numbers could collocate the component records both in the local catalog and in the utilities far more efficiently and economically than uniform titles or other approaches based on text matching.”

• Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind”

Karen Coyle, “Future considerations: the functional library systems record,” Library Hi Tech 22:2 (2004)

Catalogs Current catalogs are “finding lists”

• Martha Yee, ITAL 6/05

Most catalogs’ default search is keyword no relevancy ranking of results but users assume there is relevancy ranking … … so they add specific terms to improve result set … and quickly get zero results and learn to go to Amazon first and then back to

the library catalog when they know what they want

Potential solutions Wait for ILS vendors to enhance

the catalog This won’t happen. Why?

mature market: maintenance payments for existing products are small

vendors are stuck with legacy products

OCLC scoped WorldCat OCLC knows what you have They are developing their interface

and search FRBR and FAST are in development

and will likely show up in WorldCat sooner than our ILS’s

(OCLC mostly knows what you have)

Build a new front end Getting your records is easy Building search and display is hard Ecommerce search sites are user

friendly

Endeca ProFind What is it? How do you get it? How does it work?

dimensions (facets) relevancy ranking spell check, stemming dictionary,

synonyms

Endeca-powered library catalog

Endeca

Sirsi

Browse

Google lessons GooglePrint is “one giant electronic

card catalog” Google searches will take users to

your catalog Can we make our contribution to

resource discovery useful to everybody? our data wants to be found and used

Mashups

References Karen Coyle, “Catalogs, Card--and Other

Anachronisms, Journal of Academic Librarianship 31:1 (2005)

Karen Coyle, “Future considerations: the functional library systems record,” Library Hi Tech 22:2 (2004),www.kcoyle.net/functional.pdf

Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind,”www.lib.unc.edu/cat/mfh/serials_approach_frbr.pdf

Kathy Fescemyer, “Serials Clutter in Online Catalogs,” Serials Review 31:1 (2005)

David Mimno and Gregory Crane, “Hierarchical Catalog Records,” D-Lib Magazine (October 2005),www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/crane/10crane.html