Pattern Recognition in Action for Cataloging and Metadata

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Pattern Recognition in Action for Cataloging and
Metadata

• 2006 OLC Technical Services Retreat
• Chris Grabenstatter
• April 25, 2006

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Agenda

• OCLC Cataloging/Metadata strategic directions
• Architecture to support strategy
• Examples of projects

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Cataloging Environment

• Fewer catalogers, reduced budgets
• Little growth in print materials acquisitions
• E-resources increasing cataloged?

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Deliver more automatically

• Build on PromptCat, Cataloging Partners program
  success
• Partner with major materials providers
• Cataloging tied to selection possible new
  service

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More Scripts/Language Support

• Growing WorldCat
• Supporting libraries diverse collections
• Easier to get materials cataloged
• Growing membership
• One stop shopping
• Both US and global libraries

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Metadata support for e-content

• Support automated metadata generation for
  e-resources
• Facilitate storage and discovery of digital
  content
• Support new metadata schemes - crosswalks
• Enrich WorldCat with e-serials records and
  holdings

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Continue to deliver value

• Ongoing Connexion maintenance
• Standards
• Simplify pricing

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Lego Era

• The Internet is entering its Lego era. Indeed,
  blocks of interchangeable software components are
  proliferating and developers are joining them
  together to create a potentially infinite array
  of useful new programs.
• --John Markoff, The New York Times, April 5, 2006

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Library 2.0

• Library 2.0 is about small pieces of software
  loosely joined, requires business models where
  multiple vendors bring value to consumers
  together to reduce duplication of effort and
  reduce barriers to innovation
• --Paul Miller, Library 2.0 the challenge of
  disruptive innovation.
• http//www.talis.com/resources/documents/447_Libr
  ary_2_prf1.pdf

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OCLC Metadata Management Service
Connexion Digital Archive Content Coop
ILS PICA NetLibrary Material Vendors
Publishers
OAI Repositories Local DBs
Web Services/Portal/API Layer
Local Holdings (MFHD)
OAI Harvest
Validate
DA Ingest
DA Extract
DA Access
Format Crosswalks
Metadata Creation
Acquisitions/ Selection
Z39.50 (authorities Non-roman
Terminologies
Pan/Zoom
Language Service
Reports Stats
SRW/Zing Update
Shelf Ready
Profiling
Metadata Capture
Profiling Data
Usage Stats
Digital Archive
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Projects Metadata support for e-content

• Extraction/Creation Web Service
• Crosswalk Web service
• OCLC Terminologies Service
• Content Cooperative Pilot
• OCLC eSerials Holdings Service

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Extraction/Creation Web Service

• Extract metadata from Web sites, PDF files, and
  Word files
• Re-implementing and enhancing functionality
  currently available in Connexion browser
• Connexion browser May 2006
• Connexion client 1.60 June 2006

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Connexion extract metadata

• Enter URL or path to extract metadata
• Supported file types .htm, .doc, .pdf
• Create multiple records from Web sites linked to
  the parent URL
• Specify to display or save created workforms,
  apply default constant data, and define My Status
  value
• Future add tools to create metadata

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Crosswalk Web Service

• Batchload/PromptCat
• ONIX to MARC
• OAI harvesting Dublin Core to MARC
• Future
• Import and export Dublin Core data from Connexion
  client
• Support for other metadata schemes both browser
  and client interfaces

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OCLC Terminologies service

• Introduction, June 2006
• Add more access points using other controlled
  vocabularies, e.g., MeSH, GSAFD
• Available to all OCLC Cataloging subscribers
• Subscriptions available for non-Cataloging users
• Use with a variety of metadata editors, e.g.,
  Connexion browser and client

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List of Terminologies in initial release

• aat - Art Architecture Thesaurus (J. Paul Getty
  Trust)
• dct - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Type
  Vocabulary (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)
• gmgpc - Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, TGM I
  (Library of Congress)
• gsafd - Guidelines On Subject Access To
  Individual Works Of Fiction, Drama, Etc.
  (American Library Association)
• lctgm - Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, TGM II
  (Library of Congress)
• mesh - Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (National
  Library of Medicine)
• ngl - Newspaper Genre List (University of
  Washington)
• tgn - Thesaurus of Geographic Names (J. Paul
  Getty Trust)
• ulan - Union List of Artists' Names (J. Paul
  Getty Trust

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Terminology Pane
A separate application
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Content Cooperative Pilot

• Upload content objects to the OCLC Digital
  Archive from Connexion browser and client
  interfaces
• Digital image, thesis dissertation, oral
  history, e-book, video, etc.
• Replace WorldCat records to automatically add a
  URL pointing to the content object
• Access digital content from FirstSearch, Group
  Catalogs, and OpenWorldCat

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Planned Open WorldCat Page for Digital Image
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Planned Zoom Pan
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OCLC eSerials Holdings service

• Automatically updates eSerials holdings in
  WorldCat
• Access to eSerials via WorldCat Resource Sharing
• Access to eSerials through OCLC discovery
  platform
• Compare electronic and print serials collections
• No additional work for the library!

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Pilot Partners

• 35 Pilot libraries
• EBSCO
• Ex Libris
• Serials Solutions
• TDNet
• More to come

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Benefits to the library

• Increased operational efficiencies in ILL
• Filling where possible
• A revenue opportunity for some
• You control requests via automatic deflection
• Increased visibility at the point of need
• Leverages investment in services

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Progress

• Initial production system available late June
  2006
• Web-based registration form
• No charge to participate in the eSerials holdings
  service
• Future enhancements projected to include options
  for local holdings data, MARC record update
  service, and additional deflection choices

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ProjectsDeliver more automatically

• Improve shelf-ready cataloging
• PromptCat/Cataloging Partners 100 goal
• Partner with major vendors
• Selection
• Possible future service
• OCLC partnering with materials vendors to help
  with notification slip selection process
• Cataloging a by product of selection
• Watch for more information in the future!

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Projects More Scripts/Language support

• New scripts support
• Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew July 2005
• Thai and Tamil scripts for use with Connexion
  client 1.50 (investigating Devanagari, Sinhala,
  and Bengali next)
• Connexion interface translations
• Client
• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) and Japanese
  July 2005
• German and Korean Nov. 2005
• CatExpress French (Nov. 2006)
• Unicode export Nov. 2005
• Automatic transliteration Web service June 2006

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Questions, Answers Sharing
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Cataloging future directionsContact us

• Eric Childress eric_childress_at_oclc.org
• Chris Grabenstatter c_grabenstatter_at_oclc.org