pintiniblog - opac

"Présence web" des bibs: un exemple

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:25:39 +0200

Celle de la Bibliothèque de l'université de Laval est tout simplement impressionnante: à (re)voir, à (re)découvrir absolument.

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OLE: rapport final

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:02:57 +0200

Le projet OLE a débuté il y a un an. Le rapport final a été rendu public fin juillet (en version draft, soumise à commentaires).

"The goal of the Open Library Environment Project (OLE Project) was to design a next-generation library system that breaks away from print-based workflows, reflects the changing nature of ibrary materials and new approaches to scholarly work, integrates well with other enterprise systems and can be easily modified to suit the needs of different institutions. The project planners went beyond designing for incremental improvement of current Integrated Library Systems (ILS’s). They also viewed the role of library business technology systems to bemore than purchasing and providing access to collected materials. The project planners chose to define a system that supports libraries as a central player in the research process. [...]"

"OLE is both more and less than a traditional ILS. OLE goes beyond an ILS through its ability to utilize other systems and deliver valuable new services. At the same time, OLE allows institutions to avoid redundancy of data, and reduce purchase and integration of add-on components to their current ILS in order to carry out library business. Finally, OLE places the library’s business in context within the fabric of the institution and the research process, rather than keeping it a separate, siloed operation. [...]"

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Wikipédia dans l'Opac?

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:23:14 +0200

Wikipedia in the catalogue?

L'université d'Etat du Kansas (E.-U.) a intégré des articles provenant de Wikipedia dans son Opac.

"[...] We have cataloged about 1,000 Wikipedia articles analytically at the State Library providing links via the Kansas Library Catalog, WorldCat/OCLC and the State Library’s consortium OPAC, ATLAS. Most all of the Wikipedia articles we’ve cataloged are concerned with Kansas, Kansans or current topics with few resources initially available via standard library resources. [...]"

(source: The Distant Librarian, 02/07/09)

[Projet d'étude] DI / OPAC

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:48:34 +0200

OCRIS Project (UK): Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study:

Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there;
Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information;
List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories;
Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration;
Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits of such links to various stakeholder groups.

(source: JISC, 02/07/09)

Catalo, etc. (01/07/09)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:06:05 +0200

- RDA Online: demo screenshots available

(source: Cataloging Futures, 25/06/09) | lire aussi

- Google and FRBR

(source: The FRBR Blog, 25/06/09)

- Journée de réflexion sur l’avenir du catalogue dans les bibliothèques

(source: BiblioFusion, 25/06/09)

- Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community

(source: The Cataloguing Librarian, 25/06/09)

Library Hi Tech: spécial VRE

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:02:49 +0200

Virtual research environments: issues and opportunities for librarians next generation OPACs: n° spécial de la revue Library Hi Tech (vol. 27, n° 2, 2009 / sur abonnement). A voir, notamment:

Virtual research environments in scholarly work and communications

Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science

Dealing with the complexity deluge: VREs in the arts and humanities

VRE library services: Learning from supporting VLE users

On-demand virtual research environments and the changing roles of librarians

From OPAC to CMS: Drupal as an extensible library platform

Discovering discovery tools: Evaluating vendors and implementing Web 2.0 environments

The Code4Lib Journal (n° 7)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:23:15 +0200

Au menu du n°7 du Code4Lib Journal:

How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source

In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world’s first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.

Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC

This paper discusses the analysis of Apache web server logs from a faceted catalog interface (OPAC) at North Carolina State University. By grouping individual HTTP requests into user sessions and analyzing in that context, requests can be understood as particular user actions, with more specificity as to purpose and effect of an action. Client IP address and time are used as a sufficient proxy for determining user sessions from logs. Some initial exploratory findings of user behavior in the NCSU OPAC are provided, including that users make use of facets less than of text searching, and that some facet groups are used significantly more than others. Links are provided to the scripts used to make this session-based analysis, which could be modified for use with other facetted OPACs which use an Apache front-end.

Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I

The UW-Madison Libraries Library Course Page system is used to deliver electronic reserves materials and course-focused library instruction webpages to students. As part of a rewrite of our system we broke the application into three component pieces: a file repository, a course timetable data service, and an interface application for building and viewing individual course pages. The new three-piece system was written with an inward facing service-oriented architecture that allowed us to choose the best technologies to solve each of the tasks the entire system needs to accomplish.

Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr

JAbbr is an online tool developed at Cornell University to help users decipher journal title abbreviations. This article discusses why these abbreviations are so problematic, and how traditional tools are often insufficient, and then describes the novel approach used by JAbbr. Given an abbreviation, JAbbr creates a regular expression for fuzzy matching, tests it against a list of serial titles extracted from the library catalog, and returns a list of possible matches to the user. JAbbr is available as a web site and as a web service.

Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository

This article describes the workflow used by the University of Iowa Libraries to populate their institutional repository and their catalog with the data collected by ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing during the submission of students’ theses and dissertations. Re-purposing the metadata from ProQuest allowed the University of Iowa Libraries to streamline the process for ingesting theses and dissertations into their institutional repository The article includes a discussion of the benefits and limitations of the workflow described.

Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from Theses

This article presents the application of part-of-speech (POS) based statistical text analysis to the task of bibliographic metadata extraction from electronic dissertations. By using the approach described here it is possible to detect the title of a Ph.D. paper with an accuracy of about 80%. The accuracy measurements are done using a conceptually simple approach and implementation.

Opac: interrogation automatique

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:07:00 +0200

Sur le blog bibli.othequ.es: Outil d'interopérabilité avec les OPAC:

"[...] Mon activité de ces dernières semaines s’est portée sur le (re)développement d’un outil permettant d’interroger un OPAC de façon automatique. En gros du screen scraping, pour des recherches basées sur le critère ISBN. Avec pour objectif d’en extraire du MARC tout ce qu’il y a de plus exploitable. [...]"

Màj 29/06/09: lire également ce billet d'Encore un biblioblog...

Des nouvelles du projet eXtensible Catalog

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:09:32 +0200

Preliminary Report on User Research for eXtensible Catalog

"Use this URL for a report that summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings from the data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project. A full analysis and interpretation of the data is not included in the present report and will be provided at the conclusion of the project. This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions and a list of the features that emerged from the analysis of those results. (See the eXtensible Catalog website for more information about the overall project.)"

(source: Catalogablog, 17/06/09)

Opac/Google: service ajouté

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:14:18 +0200

Lutter contre le silence des catalogues des bibliothèques grâce aux suggestions de google

"Croisé lors de la récente journée d’étude organisée par le CNFPT, j’ai remarqué une innovation très intéressante de la bibliothèque de Saint-Herblain. Sur le très chouette site proposé par Quentin Chevillon, notre bibliothécaire-développeur national, auteur de Moccam-en-ligne et de Moccam. Quentin a eu la très bonne idée d’utiliser l’API de google pour le correcteur de requêtes dans le catalogue."

(source: Bibliobsession 2.0, 13/05/09)