What is LIBRIS? Division of the National Library of Sweden Is founded on co-operation among the affiliated libraries. Mostly university- and research libraries A lot like ABES?

What do we do? Co-operative national union catalogue Development of national systems Central licensing Librarians, technicians, programmers, interaction designer, license officers....about 25 people

BIBSAM consortia Central license agreements 65 participating libraries About 40 license agreements - Journal collections (“Big Deals”); Elsevier, Emerald, OUP, CUP, Springer, Wiley- Blackwell - Reference works; Encyclopedia Britannica - E-books

Shared cataloguing Just catalogue a record once in Sweden and all the libraries can use it ! Shared, central cataloguing in LIBRIS 180 library organisations, 350 library units.

Virtua Aleph record export cataloguing record export cataloguing Gothenburg Univ. National Library cataloguing Voyager Stockholm Univ. record export LIBRIS The LIBRIS model 350 libraries do this!

LIBRIS search

Sondera

SwePub

National ILL-system

Commercial systems MetaLib/SFX for federated searching & link resolving Voyager cat system for central, shared cataloguing

Development methods Working with a mix of agile development, user centered design and a lot with the design process

Develop towards a moving target

Agile development

Design Technology  Features  Experience/Emotions

Technology focus

Feature focus

Experience/emotions

User tests

To be open “Someone outside your organization will always have a better idea than you..”

To be open Linked data Open API:s Open data

What is Linked Data? ”Best practices” for the semantic web A method to expose, share and link data with help of URI:s The semantics is machine readable

Linked Data at LIBRIS Links to dbpedia.org Links to viaf.org Links to lcsubjects.org Links to RAMEAU?

Linked Data at LIBRIS HTTP URI for every resource, e.g

Linked Data at LIBRIS Exposes name and subject authorities as foaf:Person, skos:Concept foaf:Organization for libraries Bibliographic records as bibo:Book, bibo:Article, etc. dc:creator, dc:subjects, etc. SPARQL in beta

LIBRIS’ open API:s z39.50, SRU, light weight-API, rdf, OpenSearch, unApi,OpenURL, spell check API,...

LIBRIS’ open API:s To the data To the spelling support Reference management formats FRBR (beta) Related records (beta)

Entrepreneur uses our undergraduate essays data

The Swedish public service radio uses our spell check API

The future? Pre study on Libris and data wells/mega aggregates, central indexes, discovery services? Cover the public libraries in our services

Thanks!