Monguz Kft. Various aspects of metadata structuring, construction and the business logic characteristics of integrated library systems. The highest level of unification job of segmentation and integration data processes by an ILS application Qulto András Simon

Technical tasks - customer data Segmented storage, ergonomic entry Value lists form customer data (nationality, address, city, occupation, qualification etc.) for proper calculation. Masked data entry for proper calculation Possibility for import from institutional or official dictionaries Standardized view points, in local, institutional, or state level Possibility for archiving instead of erasing

Basic requirements towards the making of statistics or the use of statistics - customers Age Gender Qualification Residence Social status (child, employee, retired, student, unemployed etc.) Nationality Mother tongue Readers category (student, employee, retired) Registration date

Basic requirements towards the making of statistics or the use of statistics - documents Document type (book, ebook, periodical, audiovisual material, electronic or physical copy, map, note) Belle lettres / professional material by Dewey or by other classification systems Special collections Language (Hungarian, English, German, other) Acquisition date and type Date of publishing Author (loan fee, transaction fee) Price, and value of document Date and time of loan. (weekdays, weekend, holidays)

Authorities - types  Holder  Owner  Supervisory authority  State, local, institutional, other

Authorities demands and aims Use of library Social effects Expenditure efficiency Utilization of holdings Necessity of indexing Use of external data sources Common databases from libraries and museums

Library – demands and aims  Utilization of holdings  Old unused books  Often borrowed books  Changing of utilization  Acquisition policy  Changes of the proportion of customer segments

Problems of the data coming from the ILS Open shelves – bookstacks (less used) Work – level identification (language of book important) Reading in foreign languages Local use, how to measure? Borrowing for others. Renewing, how much to count? Literature for students given by the teacher

Problems with the results Public debate in Hungary, „ half of the holdings are unused” Aufklärism – should we do anything with it? Change of loan policy – liberal regulations Change of copy service policy Change of acquisition and finance policy Human resources – less need Preconceptions, manipulating the data by employees

Outputs - problems Formatted reports Results of calculations in graphs Direct search on the interface Direct search via SQL in the database Too complicated data structure Too big data tables Searches should be prepared by the programmers on ad hoc way

Evaluation methods Local experiences Formal demands of authorities – L'art pour l'art Own aims of libraries Regularity – month, year, school year concerning to the lifecycles of the library Usage of document concerning to price and value Changing of the customers attitudes and demands especially by the youth Highly polarized society in Hungary by intellectual factor

Utilization of results Acquisition policy Marketing Loan policy Opening hours, holydays Changing of financing Increasing effectiveness of utilization Usage of human resources

Qulto solutions 300 customer in Central Europe MARC structure, complete segmentation Reader Data complete segmentation Archiving the information about deleted readers, users, bibliographical holding and loan data Long time storage, data preservation

Technical tasks – document data All bibliographical data in MARC Every MARC tag and subfield in separate data field for proper calculation, and in order to form the controlled data entry Unlimited possiblity form combination by creating search masks Possiblity for entering sepcial data content (date, timestamp, integer, decimal etc.) Entering regular expressions, and default values Making data fields obligatory Usage of value lists (language, classification etc.)

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