Advisory BoardMeeting

22 March 2013@ JISC Collections

Agenda:11.00 Welcome & notes of last meeting11.10 Budget Update 11.25 Review of Technology & supplier selection

process 11.40 Alternative/Historical Spellings 12.40 User survey Results 13.00 Lunch13.30 Platform Update and Development Log

includes discussion around PDF / PrintBook and Pages display

14.15 Google Books project update14.40 Updates –MARC records and OCR14.50 AOB

Welcome and IntroductionsIn attendance:

Joanna Ball, Research Liaison Manager, University of Sussex Alistair Baron, Lancaster University Stan Booth, University of Winchester Laurel Brake, Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture,

Birkbeck, University of London Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas Royal

Holloway, University of London Keith Cole, Mimas Adrian Edwards, Lead Curator, Printed Historical Sources, The British

Library Gabriel Egan, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, De Montford

University(Chair)

Welcome and IntroductionsIn attendance:

Scott Gibbens, Service Representative, JISC Collections Jonathan Gibson, Academic co-ordinator, HEA English Subject Centre,

Royal Holloway, University of London Elizabeth McHugh, Electronic Resources Manager, University of the

Highlands and Islands Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections Chris Mounsey, Lecturer in English, University of Winchester Paul Rayson, Director of UCREL and Lecturer in Computer Science

School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University Amanda Salter, Librarian, Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and

Education, University of the West of England Erica Swain, Subject Librarian - English, Communication & Philosophy / Religious Studies & Theology, Cardiff University

Apologies received Ceri Sullivan, Professor, School of English, Bangor University Tracey Hill, Head of Department of English & Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University Simon Elliot, Chair in the History of the Book, Deputy Director, Centre for Manuscript and Print

Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London Andrew Murphy, Head of the School of English, University of St Andrews Jerome de Groot, Director of Research Training in the Arts, University of Manchester Bonnie Latimer, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, University of Plymouth Rachel Marshall, British Library Michael Popham, Head of Digital Initiatives, Bodleian Digital Library Systems & Services, Bodleian

Libraries, University of Oxford Matthew Steggle, Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University Giles Bergel, JPR Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Book, Merton College, University of

Oxford Kelly Centrelli, PhD Candidate (English Literature), Royal Holloway, University of London (NEW!) Godfried Croenen, Reader in French Historical Studies, University of Liverpool John Gilmore, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies,

University of Warwick Stephen Gregg, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bath Beth Palmer, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature, Wadham College, University of

Oxford Mark Townsey, Coordinator of Postgraduate Research, Lecturer in Modern British History, University

of Liverpool

Notes of the last meeting and matters arising

Members are invited to agree the notes of the last meeting as an accurate recordMain matters arising are agenda items todayActions from the last meeting (not on agenda)

Mimas was asked to go through the accessibility report and assess what could be

done short term, long term and any costs associated with the activity

Figures to be tabled on the day

Budget Update

Paul Rayson to present

At present JHB does not support the full range of alternative and/or historical spellings of words that some other databases do support.

Paul Rayson and his colleague Alistair Baron have undertaken some work at Lancaster University to resolve this problem that we could use in JHB.

Alternative / Historical Spellings

See Appendix A

User Survey

Since our last meeting…http://www.jischistoricbooks.ac.uk/

New sort options Indication if full text is available or not New actions to allow you to email records, download records to

reference management software or save records to list New MyBibliograpy: you can save results to your own

bibliography. Once you have saved items they are saved here until you delete them (requires unique login)

Additional PDF server installed Numerous bug fixes have been implemented

Platform Update

The development log has been updated..(Annex B) PDF Print

We now have two PDF servers. One handles smaller requests (under 50 pages) and the other handles larger requests. This is being monitored and balanced. The development log includes an item to convert all the books to PDFs so instant access is available. This is a major issue at present for our users.

Book and Pages display When JHB was first tested we did not have the “Book display”

standard option we had the “Pages display only” However the Book display only works when the search terms

are found in the Author or title If the search terms are only found in the text of the book the

results screen shows the page display instead

Development Log

MARC Records update• MARC records are the metadata that describes the

book• They are used by libraries and resource discovery

tools as a other route to finding books• They help drive usage • We are working with ESTC and the BL to purchase

these records for all the books in the collectionOCR update• Will be updated at the meeting

MARC records and OCR

Date of next meeting and AOB