Linking data in the ALM world - The Culture Information Portal

The library world is on the verve on building web interfaces where Web 2.0 end user interactivity and mash up technology is combined with discovery tools.  Included possible functionality is end user interaction like comments, tags, forums, mash ups with extracted xml data, automated linked searches to external sites, fuzzy search , whole CMS functionality, FRBRisation, articles searchable with catalogue, cross portal baskets, the choice of interaction with social media like Facebook and Twitter, centralized data for cooperative use and so on.
These new web platforms, if built with adequate technologies, could be expanded to be used for other institutions metadata as well. Like metadata from Museums and Archives. 
This is an alternative way for libraries using their competence and abilities that, in cooperation with Museums and Archives, change the scope of their work but not the role. In search for the maximum benefit for the end user there are interesting possibilities in a framework built for technical cooperation while maintaining the individual institutions integrity down to each presented service and page. This could overcome the challenges with for example separate responsible boards for the different entities.
One web portal could cover the whole town or a regions public web services in the Archive Library Museum area. High expectations could be fulfilled with one explorative end user interface to all these institutions. These services should also be possible to expose on mobile platforms like smart phones (iPhones, Androids etc) and tablet pc:s (iPads etc).
Key factors are the linking, indexing and presenting of the metadata. The Library world normally use different “dialects” of Marc21 and it is relatively easy to build exchange templates. It is another story with Museums and Archives that cope with totally different metadata sets. Here lies an exciting challenge when data sets from all these institutions, Archives-Libraries-Museums, are poured down in to one “well”. Through agreements with the metadata providers we can define what data is to be interpreted as for example “subject”.  
To accomplish this we were in the need of transforming different metadata sets like Marc21, BTJMARC1, DanMARC2, SPECTRUM, ISAD (G), EAD in to one common xml schema. In the presented project the data from the different institutions are handled in the open source environment of Lucene/Solr and presented in the likewise open source Liferay Content Management System. 
One search presents an integrated results list with objects of completely different variety like a painting, a letter, a brocade or library media. The metadata is fetched from different institutions cooperating in the same service while keeping full integrity and individuality. The presentation of the results list includes facets, fuzzy search and relevance ranked results. The user can easily choose what kind of objects he or she wants to browse through, examine closer, comment on, discuss on the site or in Facebook etc. The metadata presented could be integrated to linked searches or be enriched by external xml formatted data via web services functionality.
The presentation will present challenges and possibilities and show live demo solutions. The focus in this presentation is on local community/regional use because this has the impact of local presence and interactivity but one of the demos will also show how this can be handled for nationwide use
Outline of the presentation 
Thoughts on why this scope could be an alternative path for libraries
A presentation of technologies used in this project
A presentation of different metadata used
An example of the common XML formatted metadata
Presentation of web (and smart phone) views including the metadata with integration and enrichment possibilities including multi language interface
Thoughts on future challenges

Boris Zetterlund

The library world is on the verve on building web interfaces where Web 2.0 end user interactivity and mash up technology is combined with discovery tools.  Included possible functionality is end user interaction like comments, tags, forums, mash ups with extracted xml data, automated linked searches to external sites, fuzzy search , whole CMS functionality, FRBRisation, articles searchable with catalogue, cross portal baskets, the choice of interaction with social media like Facebook and Twitter, centralized data for cooperative use and so on.

These new web platforms, if built with adequate technologies, could be expanded to be used for other institutions metadata as well. Like metadata from Museums and Archives. 

This is an alternative way for libraries using their competence and abilities that, in cooperation with Museums and Archives, change the scope of their work but not the role. In search for the maximum benefit for the end user there are interesting possibilities in a framework built for technical cooperation while maintaining the individual institutions integrity down to each presented service and page. This could overcome the challenges with for example separate responsible boards for the different entities.

One web portal could cover the whole town or a regions public web services in the Archive Library Museum area. High expectations could be fulfilled with one explorative end user interface to all these institutions. These services should also be possible to expose on mobile platforms like smart phones (iPhones, Androids etc) and tablet pc:s (iPads etc).

Key factors are the linking, indexing and presenting of the metadata. The Library world normally use different “dialects” of Marc21 and it is relatively easy to build exchange templates. It is another story with Museums and Archives that cope with totally different metadata sets. Here lies an exciting challenge when data sets from all these institutions, Archives-Libraries-Museums, are poured down in to one “well”. Through agreements with the metadata providers we can define what data is to be interpreted as for example “subject”.  

To accomplish this we were in the need of transforming different metadata sets like Marc21, BTJMARC1, DanMARC2, SPECTRUM, ISAD (G), EAD in to one common xml schema. In the presented project the data from the different institutions are handled in the open source environment of Lucene/Solr and presented in the likewise open source Liferay Content Management System. 

One search presents an integrated results list with objects of completely different variety like a painting, a letter, a brocade or library media. The metadata is fetched from different institutions cooperating in the same service while keeping full integrity and individuality. The presentation of the results list includes facets, fuzzy search and relevance ranked results. The user can easily choose what kind of objects he or she wants to browse through, examine closer, comment on, discuss on the site or in Facebook etc. The metadata presented could be integrated to linked searches or be enriched by external xml formatted data via web services functionality.

The presentation will present challenges and possibilities and show live demo solutions. The focus in this presentation is on local community/regional use because this has the impact of local presence and interactivity but one of the demos will also show how this can be handled for nationwide use

Outline of the presentation 

  • Thoughts on why this scope could be an alternative path for libraries
  • A presentation of technologies used in this project
  • A presentation of different metadata used
  • An example of the common XML formatted metadata
  • Presentation of web (and smart phone) views including the metadata with integration and enrichment possibilities including multi language interface
  • Thoughts on future challenges

 

 

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