The Scottish Collections Network: landscaping the Scottish common information environment. Gordon Dunsire

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1 The Scottish Collections Network: landscaping the Scottish common information environment Gordon Dunsire Presented at the International Seminar on Collection Mapping, Helsinki, 2005

2 Overview Background and history Scottish Common Information Environment Research Collections Online Online demonstrations

3 : CAIRNS Cooperative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland project A clump in the electronic Libraries (e-lib) programme Develop distributed union catalogue of Higher Education libraries using Z39.50

4 : CAIRNS An embryonic cross-sectoral, crossdomain national networked information service for Scotland? final report 20 catalogues of 13 research libraries, including the National Library of Scotland Primitive descriptions of collections required > 1 catalogue available for some libraries

5 : SCONE Scottish Collections Network Extension project Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) Extend collaborative collection management in research libraries Develop CAIRNS collection selection using Research Collections Online (RCO)

6 : SCONE Other RSLP projects using collection-level metadata Model and schema developed by UKOLN Entity-relationship analysis by Michael Heaney Local schema created by projects developing collection description for access in Wales and Northern Ireland SCONE develops own schema based on Heaney s analysis

7 : SCONE SCONE schema tested with a range of existing collection-level descriptions CAIRNS (20) Scottish Working Group on Official Publications directory (1000) 6 levels of hierarchy (sub-collection) Scottish Library and Information Resources (SLIR) directory (1400) All library sectors: public, school, special, etc. Exploring Scottish history directory (350)

8 : SCONE SLIR metadata updated annually by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) Covers locations and administrators of every library in Scotland Most volatile attributes of collection descriptions Acts as a spine of institutional collections All other physical library collections are subcollections Scottish Collections Network service

9 : cc-interop COPAC/Clumps Continuing Technical Cooperation Project Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) development programme Investigate issues in cross-searching physical and virtual (distributed) union catalogues Work package B focussed on the application of collection-level description

10 : cc-interop SCONE metadata compared with other UK schemas RSLP projects, JISC, COPAC Also tested with content from RIDING Z39.50 clump SCONE schema made compatible Created mappings from SCONE RSLP; JISC Information Environment Services Registry, Dublin Core, MARC21

11 : cc-interop SCONE integrated with CAIRNS Low-granularity collection descriptions used to identify and select CAIRNS catalogues Follows functional model of JISC Information Environment Standalone online finding aids augment meta-search of union catalogues Embryonic Scottish Information Environment

12 : SPEIR Scottish Portals for Education, Information and Research SLIC project associated with Scotland s Culture, a pilot portal for cultural information Develop Scottish Information Environment Extend SCONE to archive and museum domains Extend CAIRNS beyond HE and research libraries People s Network funding for public libraries Extend interaction with local information services

13 : SPEIR Scottish Museum Council directory metadata added to SCONE High-level links from SCONE to Scottish Archives Network 20 public library catalogues added to CAIRNS OpenURL interface developed for SCONE Tested with local public library services

14 : HaIRST Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed project JISC Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) programme Investigate metadata issues in union catalogues based on OAI-PMH Collection descriptions for Scottish OAI repositories added to SCONE

15 Today collection-level descriptions in SCONE Archives, libraries, museums Digital and physical 50 catalogues in CAIRNS a nascent common information environment an interoperability framework and collection of common services and data Digital media services report to the Scottish Executive

16 JISC IE Functional Model 1: Enter Initial landscape: presentation of collections & services for local service or user profile 2: Survey Modify set of collections & services 3: Discover Item-level searching using distributed (z39.50) or physical (OAI harvested; FTP) union catalogue 4: Detail Further information about items

17 CIE for Scotland (A) Entry Initial landscape [Scottish Cultural Portal; SCONE] Survey Collection descriptions service [SCONE] Landscaper Collection-level descriptions

18 CIE for Scotland (B) Discover Distributed union catalogue [CAIRNS] Harvested union catalogue [HaIRST] Union catalogue [COPAC] Detail Item metadata Item metadata Item metadata Item metadata

19 RCO Research Collections Online Supported by Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) Universities and Higher Education Institutions, National Library, Edinburgh and Glasgow public library services Analysis of subject strength of institutional collections using Conspectus Subjects modified to suit Scottish needs

20 RCO 1987: Original project Conspectus levels 3 (instructional support), 4 (research support), and 5 (comprehensive) assigned SCURL membership pre- new universities Excluded public libraries : SEED project Funded by Scottish Executive Education Department Convert data to electronic format Extend coverage to new members of SCURL Develop online maintenance interface

21 RCO : SCONE project Integrate RCO with SCONE and CAIRNS Allow collections and catalogues to be selected by Conspectus subject and level SEED updates not fully applied Staffing problem at National Library of Scotland Investigate alternative approaches to collection strength indicators Recommended continuing with Conspectus by self-assessment No significant further progress to date

22 Online demonstrations Research Collections Online (RCO) Scottish Collections Network (SCONE)

23 Thank you Gordon Dunsire Centre for Digital Library Research