CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project

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CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project

• Chris Bailey
• Acting Director Library Services
• University of Glasgow

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About CURL

• http//www.curl.ac.uk/
• to optimise the combined information resources
  and expertise of the CURL libraries, in
  partnership with relevant organisations, for the
  benefit of research scholarship
• the development of a national collection
  mapping strategy

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Concerns

• Different communities, different approaches
• Inconsistent collection description
• Inconsistencies in retrieval

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OCLC/Lacey

• Automated collection analysis software
• Uses standard classification schemes
• Maps to Conspectus headings
• Analysis to title level
• Institutional analysis
• Consortial analysis

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RSLP

• CURL response to Circular 2000/3
• Proposal to co-fund a pilot project on collection
  mapping using iCas

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The Project

• Purpose
• Partners
• Process
• Methodology
• Preliminary Results

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Purpose

• Small pilot project
• Evaluate the usefulness of the methodology used
• Provide a cross institutional analysis to compare
  overlap and uniqueness

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Partners

• University of Edinburgh
• University of Liverpool
• Imperial College
• University of Hull
• SOAS
• Natural History Museum

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Process

• Questionnaire to be submitted by each partner
• Test file supplied by each partner
• OPAC upload to OCLC/Lacey
• Data analysis by OCLC
• .approx 9 months in total

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Methodology

• De-duplication
• Records matched to WorldCat in order to locate an
  LC classification
• Conspectus analysis
• Results provided on CD

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Results

• Sent 2,767,669 bibliographic records
• De-duplication 2,707,696 records
• 2,268,225 records analysed 84

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Results.

• Edinburgh 78 analysis
• Liverpool 85 analysis
• Imperial 74 analysis
• Hull 99 analysis
• SOAS 92 analysis
• NHM 47 analysis

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Issues

• Standard use of standard classification seems OK
• Local adaptation of standard classification
  causes inconsistencies
• Issues relating to the standards.

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