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CORCCORCCooperative OnlineResource Catalog

T. Hickey

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What are Libraries Doing? Creating Web portal sites

– Handcrafted pages– Access to library supported services– Links to interesting pages and services– Subject guides

Adding Web resources to local catalogs

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Libraries Need

Cheap and easy source for– Link selection– Link maintenance– Link descriptions– Subject oriented pages

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Our Strengths

OCLC name and history WorldCat, FirstSearch, Prism Dewey Decimal Classification NetFirst, InterCat Dublin Core, RDF leadership Mantis, SiteSearch Programming and Web expertise

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Cooperative Online Resource Catalog

Pilot project for Web based resource description

Providing– Automated selection, classification– Cooperative creation and maintenance– Standards and procedures for sharing

Needs to immediately benefit participants

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Approach

Build within the Mantis framework Use US-MARC and Dublin Core Allow mixing of local and shared Promote easy upgrades to records Develop standards as needed for sharing Emphasize automation, use by libraries

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Support and Organization

Grow to 100+ participants Hold meeting every 3-4 months Use a listserv for daily communication Emphasis on OCLC Members Require time or quantity commitment Training support from OCLC Institute?

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Outputs

Dynamically generated pathfinder pages Static pathfinder pages Metadata records for local systems

– RDF/BER/MARC/HTML Catalog of metadata records

– Z39.50 access– Web interface(s) for searching

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The Catalog

Seeded with– NetFirst and InterCat records– Harvested links– Other collections

Use standards as needed

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Cataloging Support

Rich set of files mounted– Thesauri, DDC, LCSH, LC NAF

Selection of resources Creation and editing of metadata TechPro on call

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What Can be Automated

Link, page, site selection Initial descriptions Classification Subject headings Page creation Link maintenance

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Selection

Sophisticated Harvesting– Subject based– Site based– Topology based– Profiling

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Standardization

US-MARC– Subject headings

– Classification

– Name authorities

– Site authorities

Dublin Core– Imported metadata

– Short descriptions

– Extend with controlled headings

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Site/Parent authority metadata

Encourage creation Automatic generation Optional submission to TechPro Extended set of fields

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What Needs Cataloging?

Too many interesting Web pages What are in the most need of cataloging?

– Sites– Navigational pages– Electronic Journals– Other substantial resources

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Other Features

Page Registry Page Archive

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Questions

How does local/shared metadata work? Who can change records? US-MARC/Dublin Core mixture How well will the classification work? Can we build useful pages? Can we work out standards in a reasonable

timeframe? How important to recruit non-libraries?

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End of Project

Catalog made available to participants Catalog kept online for one year Archived pages kept online for two years

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Some Tasks Classifier Database seeding Export modules File mounting Listserv administration Local/shared issues MARC module Metadata editors Page archive

Page registry Participant orientation Pathfinder builder Pears integration Search interfaces Standards development System administration Unicode support Update tracking