VisualCat: Cataloguing with XML, RDF, FRBR & Z39.50 NORD I&D 2001 Poul Henrik Jørgensen,
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Background Danish national bibliography maintained and operated by Danish Bibliographic Centre VisualCat system developed by Portia British Library and Italian National Libraries use VisualCat in ONE-2 project
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Stand-alone cataloguing system supporting Z39.50 union catalogue profile Simple to use for occasional cataloguers and effective tool for experienced staff Easy customisation of user-interface, record formats and validation rules Full UNICODE support Based on open standards Utilise windows/NT infrastructure tools Requirements
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Features Z39.50 configured by ExplainLite XML data MARC formats handled by XML schemas MARC editing handled with DHTML and CSS MARC validation by XML schemas and XSL Context sensitive help via URL & web Editing arbitrary scripts in UNICODE Z39.50 search, retrieval & update Authority control managed by RDF schemas for IFLA FRBR – or any other ontology
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Information Flow Z-Server Search VisualCat XML/RDF Database Z-Server Update Z39.50 MS RDS/ADO
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May XML Schemas for MARC Separate XML Element types for each combination of MARC Field & Sub field danMARC2 XML Schema by DBC & Portia 164 MARC fields and 1189 sub fields XSL Style sheets for semantic validation MARC21 Schema by British Library & Portia Derived from MARC21 DTD from LC UNIMARC Schema by Italian National Library & Portia Based on Italian SBN specifications
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May MARC21 XML Schema
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Z39.50 Configuration Dynamic configuration by ExplainLite XML structure from ONE-2 Project Target URL, Databases, Search attributes including names, Element Sets, Record syntaxes Search, Retrieve, Scan & Update
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May ExplainLite in VisualCat
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Search & Retrieval
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Editing functions Insert fields and sub fields directly Edit fields and sub fields directly Required fields are added to imported records automatically Empty fields are trimmed automatically Lists of permitted fields, sub fields and values Links to context-sensitive help via Web Records validated for syntax and structure
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Forms based Editing
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Line-format Editing
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Authority Control RDF schema defines the semantic relationships between classes and properties Authority control data can be described in terms of FRBR entities and relations VisualCat represents authority data and relations by means of general RDF structures in a database Other metadata standards, e.G. Dublin core, may also be used
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May RDF Schema for FRBR
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May FRBR RDF graph
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Select FRBR Object type
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Search Attribute values
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Attributes & Relations
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Related Objects
Nord I&D VisualCatPoul Henrik Jørgensen May Summary XML schemas used to validate different MARC formats Internally all MARC data are XML & RDF Z39.50 configuration by ExplainLite XML Z39.50 search, retrieval, scan & update User interface by CSS and DHTML Different metadata including IFLA FRBR & DC handled by RDF authority database,