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To better bibliographic services
Expose, expand, extend metadata using Web 2.0
The Web 2.0 philosophy points the way to a number of significant ways library services can and should change.
Library bibliographic services grew up at various points in time, each aimed at different purposes, and they do not interoperate effectively. Libraries offer local catalogs, union catalogs, e-resource management systems, abstracting and indexing databases, institutional repositories, and local digital library collections. Federated searching needs to pull data from all these separate silos and combine resources in new and valuable ways for users.
Package and push metadata Exposing our metadata to initiatives like the Open WorldCat Project can make resources discoverable in many more settings, well beyond local online catalogs that were the original destination for the metadata. Done thoughtfully, with the advocacy and coordination of a bibliographic utility, such as OCLC, we can avoid the duplication of records in search result displays that would occur if every consortium were acting individually. Through RSS feeds, libraries can package and push their content to users’ preferred working places. The data can be customized and offered for a wide variety of parameters, including classification ranges, allowing users to compile and subscribe to the sources they find most useful.
A discovery tool like the new Endeca-based NC State catalog enriches the user’s experience by offering the ability to choose from numerous ways to navigate, including the browsing of facets that are of interest to them. Tracking of bibliographic relationships through such means as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is another means of clustering results in ways that are immensely helpful to users.
Broaden relevance ranking Relevance ranking techniques should be driven by much more than the mere prevalence of keywords in the bibliographic record and be fed by a wider range of metadata, such as circulation activity, placement of materials on class reserve lists, sales data, and clicks to download, print, and capture citations.
Adopt Web features The features of Amazon and Google of interest to students and scholars ought to be incorporated into the services libraries make available. Libraries should welcome the submission of reviews, assignment of keywords (“tagging”), addition of scholarly commentary, and other forms of user participation.
Expand delivery The range of fulfillment options libraries present their users should extend beyond the options managed and under the control of individual institutions or consortiums. User-initiated services like renewal, recalls, and interlibrary loan requests should be complemented by views into the campus bookstore’s inventory, options to purchase from an online bookseller, displays of availability in any geographically proximate library, opportunities to see and select terms for expedited delivery, etc. User convenience warrants the provision of a comprehensive menu of choices in a single place.
Streamline metadata creation Libraries have a long history of collaborating on cataloging. This should be extended to coordinated multi-institutional activity, perhaps even beyond the library sector. The systematic sharing of bibliographic data across institutions can lead to the automatic sharing of enhancements and freeing up of resources to put more material under bibliographic control. If there is similarity in the uses made of bibliographic descriptions by publishers, vendors, and libraries for their inventories, and if there is significant overlap among needed data elements, then it makes a lot of sense to pursue a single metadata creation effort whose results we all can use.
Libraries should get much greater mileage out of the metadata they create. For example, if geographic names embedded in the middle of subject headings are mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates, it becomes possible to present users with graphical means of searching by place, new ways of easily asking for materials about nearby places, and hierarchical browsing by place.
Expanding and enriching metadata will give libraries a competitive advantage and will support the bibliographic services of the future.