From RC to DB: Using CORCand SiteSearch to Create the

Digital Asia Library

Charles W. DeanLibrary Technology Group

UW-Madisoncdean@facstaff.wisc.edu

SSUGM, OCLC, May 8, 2001

http://digitalasia.library.wisc.edu

• DoE grant, 3 years, renewed annually

• multi-institutional participation/support (UWisc., UMinn., Ohio State)

• supports research in social sciences

• enhances access to foreign information: Web sites in Asia in English/vernacular

• dynamic subject guide (pathfinders, current awareness, recent additions)

Project Specs/Deliverables

• Dublin Core metadata• centralized database for record sharing• Web front-end for cataloging• up to 10,000 records• basic search interface for DAL staff• advanced search choices for end users• Unicode support for original/vernacular

titles? (WFP)

Work Flow• area/subject specialists find, evaluate, and select

resources

• specialists and students catalog resources (RB/CORC)

• records reviewed and enhanced by others

• cataloger adds LCSHs, checks record and use of fields (DC/MARC views)

• cataloger and PM approve the record (SaveFile to RC)

CORC vs. Record Builder

• state of DC standard: 2, 3, “DAL” DC, other qualified (modifiers/schemes)

• RB workform customization

• system speed (submit, view, edit, re-submit)

• data integrity (missing records, fields, field truncation, diacritic support)

• DC-MARC mapping (CORC)

• robust exporting (CORC)

Outcomes

• UW db BER uses MARC tags

• original cataloging (DC) in CORC

• periodic exports (MARC)

• testing DC-MARC crosswalks (546/Language, 651/Country, 655/Type)

• WebZ “portal” for DAL collection in CORC/WorldCAT

• canned searches (thematics, What’s New)

WebZ and Database Builder

• using nf obi and MarcCatalog ini’s (Format/Rules)

• obi format class (ORG.oclc.fmts.rules.Add856) in [ElectronicAccess] rule hotlinks URLs

• externalLink definition in [target] stanza in pagesNoFrame.ini opens new window

WebZ and DB (con’t)

• invokes external.js with onClick event for new window w/ pre-defined size and placement

• JS file called in nfbrief.html and nffull.html record display templates

• ssdot append/update tested 4/17 (replace/update our best practice to date)

Unresolved Technical Issues

• WFP -- UTF-8 support badly needed (and promised) for storing, indexing, searching

• RB “black box” -- MANTIS, dtd and xml templates, Unicode support (input and display other than workstation config)

• division of labor between server (Java) and client (JS) tasks -- record marking, screen re-painting, server file handles/threads?

(If There’s Time) Other Issues Outside SiteSearch

• ownership of records (project vs. institutional affiliation)

• extracts for OPACs

• “rogue” site archive (ephemera metadata)

• record “suppression” -- what’s required for record to “graduate” from SaveFile to public display?