The Dis-integrated Library System of the Future Kristin Antelman NCSU Libraries October 28, 2005

ILS failures Manage and display electronic resources Catalog search

Dis-integrated Library System Licensing Files Collection development records Use statistics Library catalog e-journal list 3rd party data feed database lists homegrown backend or 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 licensing database 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 subject terms, 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 IDTITLE TYPE NAME 1title 2alternate title 3abbreviated title 4uniform title 5sort title 6sfx title 7preceding title 8succeeding title 9public display title MARC PRECEDING ENTRY 0continues 1continues in part 2supersedes 3supersedes in part 4formed by the union of… and… 5absorbed 6absorbed in part 7separated 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 is Science 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 = Title = College & Research Libraries Succeeding title = College & Research Libraries News [super_work_id = 123] Resource_id = Title = College & Research Libraries News Preceding title = College & Research Libraries Online Copy Resource_id = Provider_id = 362 Full text = some Print Copy Resource_id = Provider_id = 1 Full text = yes Online Copy Resource_id = Provider_id = 518 Full text = yes Online Copy Resource_id = Provider_id = 518 Full 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), Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillman, “An Approach to Serials with FRBR in Mind,” 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),