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Title: Scotlands culture The cultural portal for Scotland


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Scotlands cultureThe cultural portal for
Scotland
  • Gordon Dunsire
  • Centre for Digital Library Research
  • Strathclyde University, Glasgow

2
Scotlands Culture
  • Pilot development of a portal for accessing
    information about the culture of Scotland
  • Funded by the Scottish Executive, and launched by
    the Minister for Culture in October 2003
  • Content creation (metadata) by Scottish Library
    and Information Council
  • Technical development by CDLR

3
Culture?
  • From shortbread, tartan, men-in-skirts, bagpipes
    to opera, theatre, dance.
  • Social inclusion a principal factor
  • No disadvantage to Scottish citizens because of
    education, language, interests, and access
    barriers

4
Standards
  • International library standards applied
  • MARC21, AACR, LCNAF, LCSH
  • Software is Horizon Information Portal (Dynix)
  • XML and open URL
  • Allows searches to be specified in a URL
  • Name/value pairs for index, search term, etc.

5
LCSH vs Scottish
  • Use of LCSH for subject retrieval is a problem
    for social inclusion
  • Spellings are wrong (color vs colour)
  • Language is wrong (sidewalk vs pavement)
  • Structure is complicated for a casual user
  • Structure is incoherent for a sophisticated user

6
Solution!
  • Use the open URL facility to create pre-set
    searches
  • E.g. BaseURL?indexswtermsidewalk
  • Label the URL with local vocabulary
  • E.g. Pavement
  • Allows multiple labels for one search
  • Catering for different languages and terminology
    sets

7
Usage
  • Point-and-click searches
  • Structured text
  • Thesaurus
  • Graphical
  • Image, image map
  • Contextual
  • Cultural essay with embedded links

8
Demonstration
Scotlands Culture http//www.scotlandsculture.or
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