Arricchimento dell’OPAC per le biblioteche italiane

Ian Pattenden - Bowker

Overview

• The concept of OPAC enrichment and why it’s important

• The challenge facing libraries

• Our solution – Syndetic Solutions

• Characteristics and benefits of the service

• What’s new

• Summary

Syndetic Solutions

• 17 English language data elements

• Information relevant to more than 4 million book titles… and growing all the time

• Hosted service • ISBN linking

• Variety of integration options (HTML/XML)

• Weekly updates

ILS Partners

Cover Images

2.6 million

First Chapters & Excerpts

149,000

Tables of Contents

955,000

Summaries & Annotations

1.9 million

Reviews / Author Notes

750,000 / 160,000

Awards

69,000

Series

58,000

Profiles / Search for Similar Titles

145,000

Italian module

• Bowker has entered into an agreement with Informazioni Editoriali for the use of certain data from the Alice database via Syndetic Solutions…

• 156,000 cover images – immagini delle copertine

• 127,000 summaries - riassunti

• 90,000 ISBNs have both data elements

• Data being loaded now, module due for release May 2007

Italian module

Italian module

More new content

• German – 300,000 cover images and summaries (Libri)

• Spanish – 9,000 summaries and review excerpts (Promo Latino)

• Swedish – coming soon (BTJ)

• AV data… cover images and summaries for almost 1 million video and music titles (Mid West Tape & AMG)

• Core English language content growing… we have added 700,000 cover images between October 2006 and February 2007!

German module

Coming soon… ICE

Indexed – Content – Enrichment

• Libraries who have a search and discovery platform (such as Aquabrowser or Primo) will be able to upgrade their Syndetic Solutions subscription to make the enrichments searchable

• Allows library users to find previously hidden relevant resources by letting them query our summaries/TOCs in their searches

• ICE is an economical alternative to enriching MARC records and involves little initial work and no ongoing maintenance… automatic ISBN linking

No match on Subjects

Match on TOC keywords

Some examples…

• Aalborg University, Denmark: http://aleph.aub.auc.dk/F/-/?func=option-update-lng&file_name=find-b&F2=pc-latin&P_CON_LNG=ENG&local_base=AUBALT (e.g. Physics or Water)

• Napier University, UK: http://nuin.napier.ac.uk/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000223559&local_base=NAP01

• Southern Adventist University, USA: http://lib-catalog.southern.edu?F (e.g. search for "The End of Poverty" 1594200459)

• Philadelphia University, USA: http://ipac.philau.edu/uPortal/Initialize?uP_reload_layout=true&uP_tparam=props (e.g. search for “xml”)

• Middle East Technical University, Turkey: http://library.metu.edu.tr/ (e.g. search for “nanotechnology”

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain: http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~ (e.g. search for “Feuds”)

• Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy: http://millennium.unicatt.it/search*ita/

Libera Universita di Bolzano

Pricing / ISBN Match Report

Benefits & Summary

• Easy to implement and no ongoing work required

• Relevant rich content delivered directly into your OPAC

• No need for users to learn a new system

• Improved and more inspiring online service

• Supports OPAC as central to research

• Encourages users to make best use of your collection

For further information

• Visit www.syndetics.com

• Email ian.pattenden@bowker.co.uk

• Please contact Bowker/Cenfor to receive:– Quotation– ISBN match report– Free trial access for your library