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Institute was founded in 1935.
The IISH conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations. To this end it gathers data, which are made available to everybody.
The institute holds over 3,000 archives, more than 1,000,000 printed volumes, and an equivalent number of audio-visual items, in total ca. 50 kilometer. The largest part of the collections is accessible without any restrictions.
Has some 1.3 milion records stored in Evergreen.
Evergreen migration steps
Export of bibliographic data, serials and authorities from Advance ILS
First migration to Evergreen 2.03. was done in September 2011
Last migration to Evergreen 2.2.2 was finished in January 2013
Unit testing was developed for every Evergreen module
Evaluation of results for every unit test by Collection Department Team (CODI)
Final migration to Evergreen 2.2.2 with completely tested functionality
Linked Data – Authority Linking
Two ways of authority linking for IISH:
Users can link authority in Evergreen Staff Client:
- open authorities list
- choose appropriate authority
- link it with bibliographic record
Automatic authority linking by using searching and matching techniques:
- automatically linked for 1.3 millions records during migration
Data Management in Evergreen
Automatic update of selected fields in any Evergreen record
No restrictions for amount records to be updated in one batch
Rules for update are stored in Excel files All records first will be copied and placed in backup
and can be restored if something is wrong Authorities can be searched and matched
Data Management: Excel file
Vu-Find as OPAC
VU-find is used by our patrons
(http://search.socialhistory.org/)
MARC21 records, EAD and other databases all in Vu-Find
Data is exported through an OAI protocol (https://github.com/IISH/evergreen-oai/tree/master/htdocs)
API Evergreen
OAI protocol
API Vu-Find
Tool to import book titles: the ISBN reader
http://evergreen.iisg.nl/cgi-bin/offline/isbnreader.pl
TCN =1466257
In evergreen you’ll find:
Automatic update of the language code, country code and year of publication to the
leader field:
More information
Technical details on all tools can be obtain by emailing :
Vyacheslav Tykhonov
Take a look at his presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/vty/bridging-research-and-collections
