March 2002

CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project

Chris BaileyActing Director Library

ServicesUniversity 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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…watch this space!….

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