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-updatelng&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 [email protected]
• Please contact Bowker/Cenfor to
receive:
– Quotation
– ISBN match report
– Free trial access for your library