Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester
Jennifer presented of the eXtensible catalog's metadata services toolkit which is now available for release in modules.
The project is completely open source and a non-profit eXtensible Cataloging Organization is being created to support the products. The project has a new interface that is FRBR-ized, faceted browse, totally customizable and based on a Drupal framework.
The eXtensible Catalog has three pieces:
- User interface
- Metadata management
- Connectivity (allows metadata harvesting with OAI-PMH and NCIP for circulation). Most current ILS are not OAI harvestable.
The metadata management software can work with an ILS and IR metadta. It can provide a means to integrate metadata from independent sources. The design pulls a copy of the metadata from the respective original systems. One is able to have multiple interfaces from the harvested data. The XC metadata services toolkit is not a metadata editor like MARC Edit, but rather a tool for identifying database errors. Transformation services are automatic and not a manual batch. An authority control service for the interface is currently in the planning stages. The potential here is for an authority file that serves both the catalog and the IR and contains data from both.
Roy Tennant, OCLC
Roy presented on a massive metadata mashup experiment. I had not heard of the Hathi Trust before, but the name appeared multiple times over the course of this conference. The Hathi Trust is a digital repository which allows a number of the nation's largest libraries share their digital library content. The Hathi Trust was founded by Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the University of California system. The Hathi Trust contains over 5 million volumes and captures the Google digital books output. All digitized content that is in the public domain is freely available (75% of the total content). Items still under copyright are so marked. From a cataloging perspective, the prospect of MARC records for books and journals digitized and in the Hathi Trust is intriguing.
Roy's metadata mashup experimented with various ways to provide OCLC control numbers to Hathi Trust metadata records. At this point, the project was just an experiment. OCLC is not creating a new service at this juncture.
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