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SUNCAT UK Serials Union Catalogue Leah Halliday [email protected] Overview Introduction and background Functions How Schedule Progress Sponsors Joint Information Systems Committee of HE/FE Funding Councils (JISC) Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) SUNCAT Steering Committee Chair: Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) Secretary: Chris Awre (JISC) with representatives of the JISC, the RSLP, the British Library and the wider academic community Project partnership Project Partners: University of Edinburgh (Lead Partner; EDINA/EUL) Ex Libris Associate Partners: National Library of Scotland University of Glasgow Libraries at Oxford University Libraries at Cambridge University Contributing (Phase 1) Partners: The larger university & research libraries in the UK (22) Project Team • Project Director: Peter Burnhill • Project Manager: Leah Halliday • ALEPH/Systems: Noam Kaminer & Julia Goldshtein (Ex Libris) • User Requirements: Liz Stevenson (EUL) with Tony Kidd (GUL) • Bibliographic (50%): Nathalie Schulz* • Special Advisor: Slawek Rozenfeld * Secretary to Revision Committee for AACR Formerly Head of Computing at ISSN-IC Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group • • • • • • • Alason Roberts (EUL; Chair) Hugh Taylor (Cambridge) Susan Miles (Oxford) John Nicklen (NLS) Hugh Croll (EUL) Slawek Rozenfeld Nathalie Schulz (EDINA) Feasibility Study • RSLP focus groups: serials location and holdings info. • Priorities: comprehensive with userfriendly interfaces • Record quality variable – often poor • Improve standards • Facilitate m2m interaction CONSER An international cooperative serials cataloguing programme Began in early ’70s to convert manual records to machine-readable format Now creates and maintain high-quality bibliographic records for serials MARC 21, AACR2 ~ 1M records Profile of membership reflects content http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/about.html ISSN Register Database of all bibliographic records for which ISSN numbers have been assigned ISSN number, key title, publication frequency, language, other forms of title, place of publication, publisher Links to related titles (former titles, other languages, other media) 1000 records added/week 835, 474 records Current journal records with ISSN, 50—90% (Scoping Study) All (current and dead) serials records with ISSN, 18—35% (SS) www.issn.org Scoping Study: Priorities Location of holdings Source of high-quality records for upgrading local catalogues Rapidly include the wide-range of titles held in UK Ensure geographical and subject-based coverage Supports open standards and interoperates with related services SUNCAT Development schedule Phase 1 (03/04) 22 large research libraries Phase 2 (05/06) extending to 200 Contributing Partners Phase 3 (07 --) Consolidation Development plan • Information content, scope and functionality 1. 2. 3. 4. Critical mass in terms of serials coverage high quality bibliographic records, including the ISSN means for cost-effective upgrade of local records, inc ISSN a technology platform that will scale Prioritise data not software Use Aleph 500 to build SUNCAT Accept de facto definitions of serial The data ISSN as spine for unique identification CONSER as source of high-quality catalogue records in MARC21 format Records from Contributing Library Partners: 22 in 03/04 Multiple schemas for import MARC21, UKMARC, UNIMARC,…(other ISO 2709) Online/batch conversion/fix routines e.g. UK-MARC->MARC21 The Melvyl Search Screen Displays Brief Records for ‘Hits’ Display of Full Record Phase 1 Development CONSER and ISSN loaded and matched 06/03 Records from 5 Associate partners loaded and matched by September 03 Demonstrator at Online Information 12/03 Second cluster of contributing libraries loaded by April 04 Third cluster looks to Phase 2 Upgrades available from Spring/summer 04 Service launch September 04 Scottish Dimension Three of five Associate Partners Scottish Value of NLS: • • • 110,000 records; 65,000 are high quality Longstanding experience of MARC21 Many Scottish publications not represented in academic collections Progress CONSER and ISSN loaded Specifying interface customisation wrt user requirements Working with Associate Partners to: • • • Describe their data and identify required conversion on load Specify nature and extent of work required from contributing libraries to maximise benefit to them and SUNCAT Streamline contribution process Contacts www.edina.ac.uk/projects www.suncat.ac.uk to be website URL EDINA HelpDesk Email: [email protected] Tel: 0131 650 3302 Fax: 0131 650 3308 Nathalie Schulz (Project Officer - Bibliographic) Liz Stevenson (User Requirements) Leah Halliday (Project Manager) Peter Burnhill (Project Director) Chris Awre (JISC Contact) [email protected]