Transcript BRINGING ONLINE SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN …

BRINGING ONLINE SLAVIC
AND EAST EUROPEAN
RESOURCES IN-HOUSE:
strategies for the small to
mid-size library
Marta Deyrup
Seton Hall University
email: [email protected]
SO WHAT IF YOU’RE NOT A
RESEARCH INSTITUTION?
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Limited budget for “specialty” print and electronic
resources.
• No direct access to regional consortia, library
exchanges, or foreign vendors.
• No perceived administrative need for non-course
related materials.
• Inability to compete for grants to digitize existing
print collections.
WHAT CAN MINING THE
WEB DO FOR YOU?
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Levels the playing field. An investment of time,
subject expertise, and creativity--NOT buying
power.
• Strengthens existing print resources and generic
electronic databases.
• In the case of no library funding, permits the
development of new collections from scratch.
• Resources are free and often vetted by experts.
HARVESTING RESOURCES
• Subscribe to relevant list serves. Seelangs
([email protected]) Reesweb
(http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/List/rslist.html)
Diglib [email protected] Slavlibs
([email protected])
• Read online web guides, web reviews and journals.
Scout Report. Choice.
• Use multiple search engines to mine the web, both
metasearch engines and subject indexes.
HARVESTING RESOURCES
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• Follow the lead of the big institutions. Pick and
choose from the offerings of online subject guides
created by Slavic and East European specialists. For
example, Sher’s Russian Index.
• Consider all resources found in traditional formats.
Reference tools, e.g., dictionaries, concordances,
bibliographies, maps, atlases. Electronic books and
online texts. Scientific preprints. Electronic journals
and newspapers, many of which are free.
Photographic and fine art collections. Music and
film resources.
WHY NOT PATHFINDERS?
• Academic institutions are migrating to Web OPACS.
Too much currently invested in MARC to abandon
the traditional OPAC.
• One web portal for ALL information.
• Students and faculty can perform cross-platform,
fully integrated searches.
• Patron can search by subject heading, call number,
keyword or other familiar terminology.
• Technically not difficult to integrate multimedia
electronic resources into a web catalog.
SOME CAVEATS
• Remember! The bib record is no longer merely a
surrogate.
• The user’s browser must have the required
software to view full-text documents or multimedia
files: PDF, HTML, SGML documents, MP3 files, etc.
• The Library must have a way of keeping track of
catalogued sites, e.g., an internal web checker,
otherwise outdated, dead links will result.
OCLC AND THE CORC
PROJECT
• Although MARC records will remain dominant in the
near future, their preeminence is being challenged
by OCLC’s CORC project.
• CORC--freestanding database, allowing the
cataloging and display of records in multiple
formats. Automatic mapping to both MARC and
Dublin Core.
• Web interface. Searches by URL, keyword, subject
heading, title, etc. Boolean logic. Unique features:
practice area. Cloning and exporting of records. Web
Dewey. Pathfinder page creation.
OCLC AND THE CORC
PROJECT (continued)
• Examples of catalogued records: a bib record of a
print monograph with a hyperlink to full-text eversion or table of contents; a print serial with
hyperlink access to an online version; an
independently cataloged e-resource.
• Two databases will be merged after July 1st.
Currently free, with planned charge for the
maintenance of records, including updating and
hyperlink verification.
COPYRIGHT ISSUES
• For our purposes: the reproduction of print material
in an electronic format; the distribution, adaptation,
or modification of existing web material; the caching
of material (storing on a server) of online material;
the creation of new material on the Web.
• Different countries, different laws. In the U.S.,
consult the United States Copyright Office
http://lc.loc.gov/copyright and Guidelines to Public
domain access http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/publicd.htm
DEVELOPING INHOUSE
RESOURCES
• Develop faculty-librarian partnerships. Library
provides technological know-how, subject expertise,
and information-retrieval skills.
• Text files: use scanner with OCR recognition, import
of non-ASCII text files in web document often
requires experimentation. Try using Text or Word
Pad for conversion to HTML, products like Accent
Composer, Microsoft bundled packages for
multilingual support.
DEVELOPING INHOUSE
RESOURCES (continued)
• Graphic images: make sure file size does not
exceed communication bandwidth. In past, limit of
35K per HTML page thought to be appropriate in
environment in which modem speed ranged from
14.4 to 28K. Now bandwidths are expanding.
• Audio and video files: 2 types, downloadable, then
stored on a server (slow but can be saved to disk);
streaming media which is buffered, then delivered
as needed (no long wait time but can not be
redistributed).
DEVELOPING INHOUSE
RESOURCES (continued)
• Files can be digital or analog, BUT need a computer
with capture capability.
• Software possibilities: Abode premiere. Hardware:
Pinnacle Systems.
• Sites to explore: Real Broadcast network
http://www.realnetworks.com/rbn/index.html
Real.com http://www.realplayer.com/
Apple quicktime http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
CHARACTER SET ISSUES
• Not a problem when simply linking to an existing
web resources.
• Problem instead is for the user who relies on an
older browser.
• In developing in-house projects, consider using
UNICODE as character set of choice.
• Suggestion: Take advantage of university computing
facilities and personnel to facilitate projects.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE
SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN
CATALOGER/BIBLIOGRAPHER
• Librarians can act as both content developers and
technical specialists.
• Opportunities to establish cataloging protocols,
create standards for Web OPAC display, develop inhouse e-reserves or similar projects.
• Take advantage of a challenging and changing
environment by doing what librarians do best:
select, classify and instruct.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ONLINE SUBJECT, WEB GUIDES AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
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AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages). URL:
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/aatseel/
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Choice Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Chicago, IL. American Library Association. URL: http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/home.html
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Croatan E-text Project URL: http://www.hrvatska.org/etext/index.htm
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Curricular Development Initiative at Seton Hall URL: http://www.cat.shu.edu/Initiatives/cdihome.html
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D-lib Magazine URL: http://www.dlib.org
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Real Broadcast Network URL: http://www.realnetworks.com/rbn/index.html
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Real.com URL: http://www.realplayer.com/
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REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources URL:
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
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Scout Report Madison, WI: Internet Scout Project. URL: http://www.signpost.org/signpost/
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Sher’s Russian Web URL: http://www.websher.net/
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Slavophilia URL: http://www.slavophilia.net/
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Unicode Consortium URL: http://www.unicode.org
BIBLIOGRAPHY (continued)
CATALOGING RESOURCES
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Cataloging Internet Resources: a Manual and Practical Guide. 2nd Ed. Nancy Olson. Dublin, OH : OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1997. URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/cover.htm
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CONSER Cataloging Manual, Module 31: Remote Access Computer File Serials. Melissa Beck with the
assistance of Bill Anderson, Les Hawkins, and Regina Reynolds. Rev. 99. Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress. URL : http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq.conser/module31.html
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CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog) URL: http://corc.oclc.org/
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Dublin Core Metadata Initiative URL: http://purl.oclc.org/dc/#
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Guidelines for Coding Internet Resources in Voyager CPCC Task Force for Cataloging Electronic
Resources; prepared by Allison Zhang August 1999. Updated March 2, 2000. Rochester, NY : University
of Rochester Libraries, 2000. URL: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/cat/marc.htm
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Guidelines for the Use of Field 856. Prepared by the Library of Congress, Network Development and
MARC Standards Office. Rev. August 1999. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999. URL:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/856guide.htm
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OCLC (Online Cooperative Library Center) URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/home1.htm
BIBLIOGRAPHY (continued)
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
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United States Copyright Office URL: http://lc.loc.gov/copyright
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act Guide URL: http://www.ala.org/washoff.dmguide.html
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When Works Pass into the Public Domain URL:http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm