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talk/ rant about Marc21 derived metadata
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Text to data
MashCat 2012
Ed Chamberlain
+Me
Librarian (systems)
Data ‘munger’
Data consumer?
+The way it used to be …
Control over record consumption
Control over record environment
Control over technology
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+Competition …
No longer the single authority for content and description
Commercial, social and academic discovery mechanisms
Explosion of digital content
Illusion of ‘all on the web’
+Fit for purpose?
Studies into Google Generation / ‘Generation Y’ 1
Cambridge Arcadia IRIS report 2009 2
Preference for search engine over catalogue
Online over in-building
Trust tutors and peers over Librarian
Still respect the library ‘brand’
1) ”The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future”Aslib Proceedings, V60, issue 4 10.1108/00012530810887953
2) Arcadia IRIS Project report - http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/Report_IRIS_final.pdf
+ Keyword based discovery services
New ways to exploit old data
Relevancy ranking
Rich faceting
Greater linking
Search is the new browse
Repositories and archives
Is the OPAC dead?
Improve catalogues
+Different but the same?
Catalogue data is now:
Consumed as keywords (not left anchored access points)
Faceted (not browsed) Supplemented Transformed Merged Amalgamated
+Prepare for the future …
‘Use case you’ve not yet thought of’
‘Consumer as producer’
‘Pro-Am’
‘Free from silo’
Developers as well as readers
Preference for data over text
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Library data
Our local catalogues
National / international aggregations
Joe Public
Teenage software developer / hacker
Booksellers
Web start-ups
Search engines
Wikipedia
Other libraries
Research group website
+Libraries have a lot to offer
Bibliographic data linked to many aspects of successful teaching and research Citation lists – measure output
Shared bibliography – core of research group work
Reading lists – backbone of undergraduate teaching
High quality data needed for re-use
Not all possible whilst data resides in the library ‘silo’
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'Open metadata creates the opportunity for enhancing impact through the release of descriptive data about library, archival and museum resources. It allows such data to be made freely available and innovatively reused to serve researchers, teachers, students, service providers and the wider community in the UK and internationally.'
http://discovery.ac.uk
+Open data releases …
+But …
Is Marc21 the right format for developers (or libraries?)
Is it easy to convert into something more palatable?
+What can we do with an ISBN?
Build Union catalogues
Find existing or alternative records (copy catalogue)
Find related works (XISBN, ISBNThing)
Match and mash with resources on the web: Images Reviews Citations and references
+020 - ISBN
What cataloguer record users want:
Accuracy
Contextualization
Access point
Something legible to read
What data consumers want:
– Accuracy
– Contextualization
– Access point
– Reusability
– Granularity
+So …
Take ISBN from an 020$a my $isbn = $record->field('020')->as_string("a"); 0123456789(pbk)
(pbk) ?
Is it the same as (.pbk) I noticed earlier?
I’m a developer – I can solve this …
Regex /^[0-9]+$/ - just gets numbers …
Oh hang on, don’t some ISBNS end in X?
And all that information on hardback /paperback is lost …
+Non Marc …
<identifier type=“isbn” relation=“hardback”>0123456789x</isbn>
identifier: {"id": "0123456789", "type": "isbn”, “rel”:”hardback”}
<http://data.lib.cam.ac.uk/id/entry/cambrdgedb_100045> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier >"urn:isbn:2853990060" .<http://data.lib.cam.ac.uk/id/type/46657eb180382684090fda2b5670335d> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Book.
+Advantages
Self describing (if you read English)
Granular
Data NOT text for display (although this can be easily generated)
+$100 …
"author" : [
{
"birthDate" : "1832",
"firstname" : " James",
"deathDate" : "1929",
"name" : "Greenwood, James",
"lastname" : "Greenwood"
}
]
• 1001_ |a Greenwood, James, |d 1832-1929.
• Greenwood, James, 1832-1929.
+ my @exportAuthors=(); my @authors =(); my $eachAuthor =''; if ($record->field('100')) { @authors = $record->field('100'); foreach $eachAuthor(@authors) { my %exportAuthor =(); my $authorFull = trim($eachAuthor->subfield('a')); $exportAuthor{'name'} = $authorFull; my @parsed_author=split(/,/, $authorFull); $exportAuthor{'lastname'} = $parsed_author[0]; $exportAuthor{'firstname'} = $parsed_author[1]; my $dates = $eachAuthor->subfield('d'); my ($birthDate,$deathDate); # The glorious 100$d disassembled ... if ($dates) { #first of all, get rid of ca. and fl. which aren't real birth or death dates if ($dates=~/fl\.|ca\./){ #do nothing } #otherwise, if date contains a hyphen, assume range #but fix also works for unterminated dates? elsif ($dates=~/\-/) { my @dates=split(/\-/,$dates); $exportAuthor{'birthDate'} = trim($dates[0]); if ($dates[1]) { $exportAuthor{'deathDate'} = trim($dates[1]); } #No Hyphen - assume single date - look for definitive birth event with a 'd' ... } elsif ($dates=~/\b\./) { $exportAuthor{'birthDate'} = trim($dates[0]); # - look for definitive death event with a 'd' ... } elsif ($dates=~/\d\./) { $exportAuthor{'deathDate'} = trim($dates[0]); # Final assumption for authors with recorded dates but with single date no hyphen. Assume its a birthdate? } else { $exportAuthor{'birthDate'} = trim($dates[0]); } # produce output for dates ... } # Assemble author object push(@exportAuthors,\%exportAuthor); # End author loop } # Add list of authors to export object $exportRecord{'author'} = \@exportAuthors; }
+How is this being solved?
Fix it at the source: RDA Marc transition initiative Other initiatives – BL, OCLC linked data releases Onyx Mods
+Pragmatism: the end of big standards
Adoption of one new standard (or several) for its own sake is pointless
Fit in around changing needs of libraries and systems
Data needs to be flexible and re-purposable
No standard to ‘rule them all’ in the post Marc21 world
+If we do nothing?