The last of the ISO activities forwarded to us by the busy Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, is an ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 26162, Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems. NISO has forwarded the following about this draft standard: “This is a ballot for the draft standard, ISO/DIS 26162, Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content – Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems. This ballot is from TC37 / SC3 (Terminology and other language and content resources / Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content).“ “ISO/DIS 26162 is one of a family of standards to facilitate the exchange of terminological data. This standard gives guidance on choosing the relevant data categories, designing and implementing a data model and a user interface of a terminology management system (TMS) with a view to the intended user group. The phases described…
Category: 2007
Annette Smith – 2007 LITA Forum Travel Grant Winner
Ms. Annette Smith from Barbados, West Indies, was the winner of the 2007 LITA-IRC Travel Grant to the 2007 LITA Forum. Ms. Smith is the Director of the National Library Service, Bridgetown, Barbados, WI. In her candidate’s report, she gives her impressions of the 2007 LITA Forum in Denver, Colorado. ————————————————————————— 2007 LITA Forum Phew! The flight was touching down in Denver, I had made it. I hadn’t dared to say this before; it wasn’t unheard of to have an aircraft turn back for one reason or other. I arrived in Denver on October 5 late at night, too late even to buy a toothbrush. I didn’t care; I had made it. I was the lucky recipient of the 2007 LITA Travel Grant and I had made it to the main conference of the National Forum. I had registered in August to catch the “early bird special.†My plan was…
Integrating Information Resources: The tale of the Primo development partnership at Vanderbilt
PROGRAM BLURB: Vanderbilt formed a partnership with Ex Libris to develop Primo, a new search and retrieval platform for library and university resources. The session will cover: · Project management experience from the project · Working with staff that are not confident with the product · Shifting time schedules · What happens when the deliverables change · Staffing needs · Technical development · How to integrate two different ILS philosophies · Creating a GetIT system · Extracting information Speakers: Dale Poulter and Jody Combs, Vanderbilt University Saturday 10:50am; about 50 in audience NOTES: Explanation of link between strategic plan & partnership was used to develop a good support base Environment: – Users were searching for articles in opac – i.e. looking in the wrong place – documented by log files – Vanderbilt library also manages blackboard system for campus – In terms of staff – you can work with the…
It's Up and Running, Now What? Strategies for Building Content in an Institutional Repository
Speaker: Catherine M. Jannik, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Program blurb: In August 2004, Georgia Tech Library launched SMARTech with approximately 2,500 legacy items. In the beginning, we focused on authors self-archiving pre-prints and postprints, research and technical reports, and electronic theses and dissertations. As interest in archiving other materials increased and we realized that our faculty was not properly motivated to submit their own work, we changed our approach to collecting materials for our institutional repository and added a dark archive for strictly archival material. We have launched an electronic publishing service, Epage @ Tech, to support the creation and capture of e-journals, conferences, and lecture series to facilitate scholarly communication. As we provide these tools to faculty to accomplish their goals and they in turn become more aware of the need for repositories, we are more likely to convince them to deposit their personal materials….
Creating Your First Topic Map
Friday Oct. 5, 4:20 Edward Iglesias, Central Connecticut State University Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vanderbilt University We were commended to check out the Topic Maps LITA interest group also. Edward and Suellen had an infectious enthusiasm for topic maps, and this session was super! They want to make progress together as a library community, creating and merging topic maps. Topic maps are a way of describing knowledge structures and associating resources related to them.The topic map paradigm came about in old days of sgml people wanted to combine data with back of the book indexes. There’s a topic map standard: xtm standard derived from sgml. A topic map consists of topics associations and occurances.Topic maps are graphs not lines of details.They showed several examples of topic maps, and then took the audience step by step through the creation of a topic map. Examples of existing topic maps: Australian Literature gateway http://www.austlit.edu.au/ ****************…
Building a Large-Scale Open Source Repository at OhioLINK
Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK Or: “A cautionary tale in three acts†At OhioLink they decided that the repository should be “A place for our stuffâ€, including: art collections high quality/high resolution – multiple tens of thousands of images art and architecture slides from U Cincinnati paintings and drawings from U Cinn collection items from Works Progress from Cleveland State Akron art museum history : historical photos e.g. Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk digs of Mayan architecture historical photographs from lake erie national underground railroad freedom center items OSU geology collection forestry research ctr items dolphin embryos images digital video – documentaries, etc. Kent State oral histories of shootings 100 level undergrad physics experiments OSU lab that has phenomenal archive of bird calls with thorough metadata Text site: 9.1M articles of dissertations center 7500 electronic books THE PLAN They want a unified repository architecture with open source tools. They chose open source software:…
Peaks and Pitfalls: Designing a Large-Scale Repository Workflow for Quality Assurance
LITA Forum Saturday October 6, 3:20 Frances Knudsen, Beth Goldsmith – Los Alamos National Laboratory Our speaker discussed the experiences that they have had working with The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library’s aDORe Repository. She spoke about philosophical side versus real world side of QA . They run a repository on a home made system by Herbert von der Somple, and they ingest using batch mode in this repository of approximately 80 million metadata records, 1.5 million fulltext tems, and several million other complex digital objects from multiple data providers, internal publications, and OAI harvests. She revealed the details of their QA efforts, discussing their successes and failures and decision making processes. She gave several instances of human error that quality assurance may not find. And she also passed along several tidbits based on their experience, such as: one of the things they did was to give a style…
Libx: Connecting Users and Libraries
Annette Bailey – Virginia Tech The room was over-filled showing that a lot of people are interested in the project. In 2005 the working group thought they’d like to produce a tool that would be a virtual librarian – could they do it wihtout becoming an MS paperclip? Annette reviewed the decision making process through which they decided on a client side solution rather than server side and the result is the Libx browser plugin. Libx Editions provide a local, branded editions of Libx, and are created by using the edition builder on the Libx site. Annette demonstrated building an edition in a few minutes – wow. See details about Libx and the Libx edition builder at “Libx: a Browser Plugin for Libraries” http://libx.org/
Five Months With WorldCat Local
Jennifer Ward, Head of Web Services at the University of Washington discussed how her library has implemented a pilot project-WorldCat Local (WCL). WCL at UW searches the local catalog, World Cat, and four article databases. Not all resources are included in WCL. Early English Books Online and Eighteen Century Collections Online are excluded from WCL due to 3rd party license agreement restrictions. Local records that have not been contributed to Summit, and other serials have also been excluded from WCL. Why Test World Cat Local? After several internal discussions about NexGen catalogs and conducting literature reviews in this area, the UW staff made the decision to implement WCL. Some of the key issues they considered were how to work at the higher network level and how to facilitate discovery to delivery. Meeting the User’s Needs The UW implementation team realized that users are diverse with a diverse set of needs….
Finding, Using, and Sharing Scholarly Content
The speakers for this session were Beth LaPensee of JSTOR and Alice Preston from Ithaka. JSTOR is currently in the process of doing a major site redesign, and Beth LaPensee gave an overview of some of the changes that might (emphasis on the word might; this is still a work in progress) be included in the final version, which will be released sometime next year. Some of the more notable changes that she mentioned include: The ability to limit searches to journals within a specific discipline from the basic search page. The option to rerun previous searches within a session. An auto-complete feature when searching by journal title. The ability to search at any point while browsing; i.e., there will be a box on all of the browse pages that will allow you to search within a specific journal or issue of a journal that you have browsed to, without…