Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects Rachel Heery UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ [email protected].
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Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects Rachel Heery UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ [email protected] UKOLN and metadata ROADS • subject gateways • IAFA templates • collection descriptions BIBLINK • publishers and national libraries • Dublin Core (+ MARC) NEWSAGENT • current awareness • Dublin Core 2 PRIDE • user profiles • services descriptions • directory service protocol X500? LDAP?? DESIRE2 • resource discovery • WHOIS++, GILS, Dublin Core • Z39.50, WHOIS++, LDAP • metadata registry A metadata typology Simple Band O ne 3 Rich Band Tw o B a n d T h re e (fu ll te x t in d e x e s ) (s im p le s tru c tu re d g e n e ric fo rm a ts ) (m o re c o m p le x s tru c tu re , d o m a in s p e c ific ) (p a rt o f la rg e r s e m a n tic fra m e w o rk ) P ro p rie ta ry fo rm a ts P ro p rie ta ry fo rm a ts D u b lin C o re ROADS IA F A /W h o is + + te m p la te s FG DC MARC G IL S T E I h e a d e rs IC P S R EAD C IM I ROADS Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services Web based tools for Subject Services • SOSIG, ADAM, OMNI, … plus Manage and search Internet resource descriptions • ROADS templates (based on IAFA templates) • WHOIS++ directory service protocol 4 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/ Roads Template Types In original RFC: New types: SERVICE PROJECT EVENT DUBLIN CORE DOCUMENT SOFTWARE DATASET MAILING LIST …... 5 COLLECTION (under development) IAFA template Template-Type: SERVICE Title: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine URI-v1: http://units.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/safeperl/wuhminfo/p?home.html Publisher-Name-v1: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Publisher-Postal-v1: 45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE Publisher-City-v1: Oxford Description: The home page of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Language-v1: English Subject-Descriptor-v1: WZ40 History of Medicine Subject-Descriptor-Scheme-v1: NLM Handle: Record-Last-Modified-Date: Record-Last-Modified-Email: Record-Created-Date: Record-Created-Email: Admin-Email-v1: 6 71473886-23884 Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:09:16 +0000 [email protected] Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:09:16 +0000 [email protected] [email protected] ROADS registry RECCI Template Registry • Cataloguing Guidelines • Definitive lists of template types and elements • Interoperability guidelines • Template usage statistics • Recommendations for collaborative cataloguing 7 • Rules for content (schemes) • Change control ROADS and DC • Growing user base • Enables cross searching ( using Whois++), • Enables query routing (using CIP centroids or tagged index objects) • Offers Z39.50 gateway • Open Source software • DC Template …..legacy non-DC data 8 NewsAgent Current awareness service for LIS... Mixture of content streams • journals • news and briefing materials • e-mail lists and USENET news Variety of access methods • Web, e-mail and Z39.50 clients • user-configurable profiles http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/NewsAgent/ 9 Newsagent metadata 10 Dublin Core elements Extensions Title Subject Description Creator Type Format Identifier Language NewsAgent Topic NewsAgent Contact (by default name) email home page NewsAgent Date valid to NewsAgent Coverage geographic region BIBLINK Aim Establish information flow between electronic publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies Background research • Metadata • Identification • Format conversion • Transmission • Authentication 11 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/BIBLINK/ BIBLINK Publishers 12 Grey - Web publishers (10) Micronet PROEL Editions VIGDOR SURFnet b.v. Erasmus Universiteit Official Documentation and Information in Norway University Bergen Library Lillehammer College Library Arts and Humanities Data Service The British Council Nationality France The Netherlands Norway Spain United Kingdom 5 4 4 7 6 Description of BIBLINK Workspace Publishers BIBLINK Workspace A shared facility for storing and manipulating BIBLINK workspace records Third parties BIBLINK Workspace Administrator e.g. Identification agencies - ISBN, ISSN, etc. National Bibliographic Agencies 13 BIBLINK requirements Carry out conversions using USEMARCON • from DC or SGML input format to UNIMARC • from UNIMARC to national MARC formats • from national MARC formats back to UNIMARC and BC Management of the flow of events (updates, enhancements) Management of the database of records Allow searching and downloading of records 14 BIBLINK Workspace Interfaces 15 Email or HTTP (Web) user interface Input formats: • BIBLINK Core in HTML • two SGML DTDs Export views • BIBLINK Core in HTML • two SGML DTDs • MARC (various flavours) Administrator Web interface • user registration, access control, mapping tables, configuration, ... BIBLINK - demonstrator Publishers Dublin Core • Cataloguing in Publication(CIP) type records E-mail Dublin Core UNIMARC UKMARC NBAs/National Libraries 16 • Conversion on to national MARC format using USEMARCON • Enhanced records optionally returned to publishers BIBLINK Core metadata Principles • Minimum data set (Cataloguing in Print level) • Type should refine elements • BIBLINK extensions used to extend semantics • Conversions require intermediate format Issues • Time of change for MARC formats • Need to describe journals at article level • Mapping from simple to richer format 17 USMARC 245 00 Wordnews online $h [computer file]. 246 3 World news online 256 Computer online service. 260 Washington, D.C. : $b Worldnews Online, $c [1995538 Mode of access: Internet. 500 Title from title frame. 520 “WorldNews OnLine is a service … “ 650 0 Newspapers $x Databases. 856 7 $u http://worldnews.net $2 http Extract from: Nancy B. Olson, ed., Cataloguing Internet resources: a manual and practical guide, 2nd ed. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1997. http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet 18 DESIRE 2 • Provision of quality ratings • subject gateways as label bureaux • ranking results • collaborative reviews • Establishing metadata registry • Subject Gateway Handbook • Demonstrators of enhancements to searching subject services and EWI • Presenting existing software as a ‘toolkit’ 19 http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/desire.html Metadata registries R E G IS T R Y F R A M E W O R K S yn ta x M eta d a ta typ es O b jectives U sers D efin itio n H u m an C an o n ical sch em as fo r: IS O 1 1 1 7 9 R O A D S tem p late s R D F sch em a R D F A p p licatio n P ro files (to b e in v en ted ) D E S IR E Q u ality v o cab u laries R ev isio n co n tro l (ev o lu tio n) A lig n m en t In tero p erab ility R O A D S tem p late reg istry R A P s: M ap p in g C o m b in e L in k to B S R 20 D u b lin C o re (as u sed in U K , E u ro p e?) P ro m o tio n R O A D S to G IL S m ap p in g ? In fo rm atio n (B IB L IN K C o re) T o o l creatio n M ach in e: G en erato rs E d ito rs B ro k ers UKOLN UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC’s Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath, where it is based. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ 21