Resource discovery Maximising access to curriculum resources Pru Mitchell Manager, SCIS
Collections Catalogue Community Catalogue records Australian Curriculum v 5.1, ACARA, CC-by-nc-sa
Curriculum is resourced through a collection of learning resources and equipment organised, accessed and circulated through a whole of school resource management system that includes all information services Learning for the future, 2001, p. 25
and also through... provision of access to human and material resources and information in the wider community, eg State Library, public libraries, community information agencies and electronic resources. Learning for the future, 2001, p. 25
What is a learning resource? Nothing more than the fact that somebody, at some time, considers it to be a resource. Stephen Downes 2003 Resource profiles
What is a collection? selected organised searchable = curated maintained marketed
Improving discovery search browse known item - know about precision recall federated integrated relevance sort - faceted results
Smart search for schools Valenza, J 2013 Making our OPACs more gracious hosts SLJ blog
School library systems catering for specific literacy and maturity levels catering for specific education content and diverse resource types schools not participating in interlibrary loan catering for limited budgets level of information leadership in the sector
Integration Students and staff expect to search in only one place to find school resources
School library catalogues provide access to learning resources which schools have purchased and selected
The principles and standards that have served well for physical resources can be applied to digital resources
SCIS catalogues e-books
SCIS records for e-books
E-books in your catalogue icentre.suzannecoryhs.vic.edu.au/oliver
Workflow URL (MARC tag 856) is specific to your catalogue SCIS cannot provide that link for you How do you keep your links safe?
Maximising access What are the search or discovery issues facing your teachers for resources - within your collections -and beyond? How would you like your catalogue to address these issues? 17
Collections Catalogue Community Catalogue records Australian Curriculum v 5.1, ACARA, CC-by-nc-sa
Why does SCIS exist? standards: international quality: standards-based & consistent scope: Australian/NZ K-12 education terminology: subject headings appropriate classification: relevant to schools efficiency: savings on cost and effort SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry 2013
Library catalogue as silo data caught within a library-specific record structure and library-specific database structure move beyond bibliographic and authority records Etranges silos@laura, 2009, by raguy, CC-by-nc-sa Oliver, C 2010, Introducing RDA: a guide to the basics, ALA
What is RDA?
Why change? What s changed since 1978? Changes in technology Changes in libraries Changes in education Changes in metadata
Technology
Libraries
Education
Metadata
AACR2 new and shiny in 1978 intended for card catalogues intended to be read by humans organised by format of resources not web-friendly
RDA promises RDA emphasises the importance of relationships RDA adds precision to access points RDA provides greater internationalisation RDA builds a display of results that conveys meaningful information to the user
Relating stuff www.library.illinois.edu/cam/rda/files/rda_for_the_no n-cataloger.pdf
OPAC Stage 2 trove.nla.gov.au
RDA focuses on users Principle #1 Convenience of the user Find Identify Select Obtain Statement of International Cataloguing Principles, 2009 IFLA www.ifla.org/publications/statement-of-international-cataloguing-principles
Work Expression Manifestation - Item Romeo WORK and Juliet is realised through Text; EXPRESSION Illustrations is embodied in Print run; Edition MANIFESTATION is exemplified by Library s copy ITEM Functional requirements for bibliographic records : final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, 2008, p. 14, Group 1 entities and primary relationships, Figure 3.1
FRBR and FRAD FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data library.illinois.edu/cam/rda/files/rda_for_the_non-cataloger.pdf
Examples of FRBR in action extensible Catalog http://www.extensiblecatalog.org Library Thing http://www.librarything.com Indiana University s Scherzo http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/scherzo Austlit http://www.austlit.edu.au Open Library http://openlibrary.org
The SCIS database 1.6 million+ catalogue records 530,000+ authority records 200,000+ records with ScOT terms 10,000+ educational websites records 10,000+ records for e-books 100 records for apps book cover images for 10,500+ subscribers who download 8 million+ catalogue records p.a. plus 1,000+ Z39.50 users 1 July 2013 statistics
ISBN 9780734412249 Title Example record Tom the outback mailman / written by Kristin Weidenbach ; illustrated by Timothy Ide Main author Weidenbach, Kristin Contributors Ide, Timothy Publisher Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2013 Description Subjects Call nos. 32 p. : col. ill. Postal services Australia - Biography. scisshl Outback life - Biography. scisshl Australian stories. scisshl Birdsville Track (S. Aust. and Qld.) scisshl Rural areas. scot Biographies. scot 383 KRU a15 383.492 KRU 23 Image used by permission
Cataloguing element Changing 2013? What will RDA change? Description (AACR2) RDA Notes SCIS 1 July 2013 Stage 2 2014 ISBD Punctuation Some changes, not all RDA Classification (Dewey) Subject authorities (SCIS) X Future work for RDA Name authorities (SCIS) MARC21 X X New RDA fields SCIS standards not changing Bibframe in conceptual stage Library system/opac? Check with/test your system
Key differences from AACR2 100 1 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616,$e author 245 10 $a Romeo and Juliet /$c by William Shakespeare. 250 $a Green room edition. 264 1 $a New York ; $a Boston :$b H.M. Caldwell Company,$c [1900] 264 4 $c 1900 300 $a 1 online resource. 336 $a text $2 rdacontent 337 $a computer $2 rdamedia 338 $a online resource $2 rdacarrier
Covers new resource types From Renate Beilharz SCIS Asks 2012
Content, Media, Carrier types Material Content type Media type Carrier type book with text and pictures text; still image unmediated volume digital photograph still image computer computer disc? online resource? sheet music notated music unmediated volume globe cartographic threedimensional form unmediated object audio book spoken word audio audio disc? online resource? RDA toolkit text computer online resource
New type values 336 Content Type loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd336.html loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacontent.html 337 Media Type loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd337.html loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html 338 Carrier Type http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd338.html loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacarrier.html
Local policy core elements SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry updated for RDA May-June 2013 www.esa.edu.au/scis/help.html Further transition July 2014 scis.edublogs.org/tag/rda
RDA toolkit Screen image from the RDA Toolkit used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
Catalogue 2.0 Next generation catalogues Making search work for the library user Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene The mobile library catalogue FRBRizing your catalogue Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web Supporting digital scholarship Catalogue 2.0: the future of the library catalogue 2013, editor Sally Chambers, Facet Publishing, London. Dempsey, L 2012 Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalog, Educause Review, www.educause.edu/ero/article/thirteenways-looking-libraries-discovery-and-catalog-scale-workflow-attention
Semantic Web and Linked Data Internet = computers talking to each other Semantic Web = computers understanding what they are talking to each other about Intro to the semantic web (Manu Sporny) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogg8a2zfwkg What is Linked Data? (Manu Sporny) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzt5ef5q
Metadata standards Developed and maintained by cultural and computer science sectors ONIX Standard developed by publishing industry, used by publishers and booksellers
Education metadata standards Learning Object Metadata (LOM) ANZ-LOM ONIX www.ndlrn.edu.au/standards_for_digital_resources/meta data/metadata.html
Controlled vocabularies vocabulary.esa.edu.au
Virtual International Authority File http://viaf.org
Concepts This uri from the Library of Congress http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531 has now become the globally available, machine and human readable, reliable source for the description for the subject heading of Elephants containing links to its related terms in a way that both machines and humans can navigate Open Library is an open, editable library catalog building towards a web page for every book ever published. Project of the Internet Archive. Judy O Connell, 2012 Strategic directions for school libraries
Tagging the curriculum scot.curriculum.edu.au
scootle.edu.au
Future of metadata 1. Content-based information retrieval 2. Social metadata 3. Professional description 4. Hybrid approach Information Resource Description by Philip Hider, Facet Publishing London facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=6671
Questions and keeping in touch SCIS updates scis.edublogs.org @schoolscatinfo facebook.com/schoolscatinfo pru.mitchell@esa.edu.au
Acknowledgements Leonie Bourke, SCIS RDA consultant 2013 Renate Beilharz and Judy O Connell presentation slides used at the SCIS asks consultation in December 2012 National Library of Australia training materials Noel Carthew, SA SAERIS photographs RDA logos used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Screen images from the RDA Toolkit www.rdatoolkit.org used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA
References Australian RDA information and training materials www.nla.gov.au/acoc/resource-description-and-access-rda-inaustralia Downes, S 2003, Resource profiles, Stephen s Web, http://www.downes.ca/files/resource_profiles.htm Labore, L 2012, RDA for the non-cataloger www.library.illinois.edu/cam/rda/files/rda_for_the_non- Cataloger.pdf SCIS blog including SCIS asks consultation slides http://scis.edublogs.org/tag/rda