SCONE Project

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SCONE Project

• Cuna Ekmekcioglu
• Centre for Digital Library Research
• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk

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Slides

• are available at
• http//scone.strath.ac.uk/dissemination/present.ht
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Overview

• SCONE
• SEED
• Conspectus
• RCO database

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Overview

• CAIRNS
• SCONE database
• Collaborative Collection Management
• SCAMP Scottish Collections Access Management
  Portal

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SCONE

• Scottish Collections Network Extension
• RSLP funded two year project
• Based at the Centre for Digital Library Research

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Aims

• The project aims to
• Expand the coverage of the RCO collection
  description database that is the key to
  navigation in the CAIRNS clump
• Investigate alternative methods of measuring
  collection strength

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Aims

• Provide tools to support Collaborative Collection
  Management (CCM)
• Map Conspectus to other subject schemes.

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SEED

• Scottish Executive Education Department Project
• SCONE sister project
• Shares a common vision with SCONE for
  developing/managing/accessing the Scottish
  National Collection

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SEED

• Aims to
• Extend the RCO database by adding existing
  subject descriptions of research collections
• Examine the feasibility of extending this data to
  include collections held in public libraries and
  elsewhere in Scotland

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RCO Database

• Research Collections Online
• The original version of RCO is a database that
  allows users to identify collection subject
  strengths, based on the Conspectus exercise, and
  then access (separately) each relevant catalogue.

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RCO

• The current RCO database, which is used in CAIRNS
  dynamic clumping, not only allows users to go
  from subject strengths to individual catalogues,
  but also to send the same subject search to all
  Z39.50-compliant catalogues using the CAIRNS user
  interface.

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Conspectus

• Collection assessment methodology
• Used by the Scottish University Libraries,
  National Library of Scotland, Mitchell Library
  and Edinburgh City Library
• Will form basis for the collection strengths
  measurement exercise in the New Universities

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Conspectus Hierarchy

• 25 Divisions
• 250 Categories
• 7000 subjects
• For example
• LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
• LIB 41-86 Library Science Information Science
• LIB 47 Library Information Networks

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What is Z39.50

• Z39.50 is an international standard for
  communication between computer systems primarily,
  library and information related systems
• It facilitates cross-searching by translating
  between the different search and retrieve
  languages used in the clump

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What is a Clump?

• A list of databases that share common features
• A group of cross-searchable Z39.50 catalogues

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Dynamic Clumping

• A means of automatically generating different
  mini-clumps for cross-searching - e.g. just those
  catalogues strong in Scottish History
• Mechanism to aid user navigation in large
  distributed clump
• User can narrow search to a few key catalogues
  through searching, browsing collections strengths
• Based on Conspectus exercise

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CAIRNS

• Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval
  Network for Scotland
• Focus for CCM and Dynamic Clumping...
• Aims
• Z39.50-based distributed union catalogue
• a common user interface
• RCO collection strengths database
• an subject based dynamic clumping

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Users

• Student
• Researcher/academic
• Wider public

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User needs

• What is that users might actually want?
• A specific item a bibliographic reference or an
  item that needs to be physically accessed
• Subject coverage

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When the search is successful

• Where is the material located?
• Access conditions
• Borrowing rights
• Lending facilities

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SCONE Database

• Collection of collection descriptions
• Extends RCO database which is used in CAIRNS
  Gateway by adding
• Research level collections in the 'New
  Universities', other Scottish HE Institutions
• Scottish Datasets Project details

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SCONE Database

• Shared Preservation Programme data
• Information about national licences (online
  resources, CD-ROMs etc.)
• Electronic research papers created by academic
  staff
• Digital collections (BUBL, SLAINTE, NGfL, GDL)

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SCONE Database

• Collaborative tenders
• Important public library collections
• Access conditions
• ILL arrangements, access agreements

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CCM

• Collaborative Collection Management
• Managing collections collaboratively
• Co-operative collection development, collection
  analysis and use studies, collection policy
  preparation, preservation, selection and
  acquisitions, etc.

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SCONE and CCM

• SCAMP Scottish Collections Access Management
  Portal
• CAIRNS Gateway
• Cross-searching on order files
• Staff discussion area

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SCAMP

• Online update forms
• Useful resources directory information, ILL
  arrangements, access agreements, collection
  development policies

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Further Information

• http//scone.strath.ac.uk
• http//seed.cdlr.strath.ac.uk
• http//cairns.lib.strath.ac.uk
• http//cdlr.strath.ac.uk
• cuna.ekmekcioglu_at_strath.ac.uk