SUNCAT UK Serials Union Catalogue Leah Halliday

Overview Introduction and background FunctionsHowScheduleProgress

Sponsors Joint Information Systems Committee of HE/FE Funding Councils (JISC) Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) SUNCAT Steering Committee Chair: Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) Secretary: Chris Awre (JISC) with representatives of the JISC, the RSLP, the British Library and the wider academic community

Project partnership Project Partners: University of Edinburgh (Lead Partner; EDINA/EUL) Ex Libris Associate Partners: National Library of Scotland University of Glasgow Libraries at Oxford University Libraries at Cambridge University Contributing (Phase 1) Partners: The larger university & research libraries in the UK (22)

Project Team Project Director: Peter BurnhillProject Director: Peter Burnhill Project Manager: Leah HallidayProject Manager: Leah Halliday ALEPH/Systems: Noam Kaminer & Julia Goldshtein (Ex Libris)ALEPH/Systems: Noam Kaminer & Julia Goldshtein (Ex Libris) User Requirements: Liz Stevenson (EUL) with Tony Kidd (GUL)User Requirements: Liz Stevenson (EUL) with Tony Kidd (GUL) Bibliographic (50%): Nathalie Schulz*Bibliographic (50%): Nathalie Schulz* Special Advisor: Slawek Rozenfeld Special Advisor: Slawek Rozenfeld  * Secretary to Revision Committee for AACR  Formerly Head of Computing at ISSN-IC

Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group Alason Roberts (EUL; Chair)Alason Roberts (EUL; Chair) Hugh Taylor (Cambridge)Hugh Taylor (Cambridge) Susan Miles (Oxford)Susan Miles (Oxford) John Nicklen (NLS)John Nicklen (NLS) Hugh Croll (EUL)Hugh Croll (EUL) Slawek RozenfeldSlawek Rozenfeld Nathalie Schulz (EDINA)Nathalie Schulz (EDINA)

Feasibility Study RSLP focus groups: serials location and holdings info.RSLP focus groups: serials location and holdings info. Priorities: comprehensive with user- friendly interfacesPriorities: comprehensive with user- friendly interfaces Record quality variable – often poorRecord quality variable – often poor Improve standardsImprove standards Facilitate m2m interactionFacilitate m2m interaction

CONSER An international cooperative serials cataloguing programme Began in early ’70s to convert manual records to machine-readable format Now creates and maintain high-quality bibliographic records for serials MARC 21, AACR2 ~ 1M records Profile of membership reflects content

ISSN Register Database of all bibliographic records for which ISSN numbers have been assigned ISSN number, key title, publication frequency, language, other forms of title, place of publication, publisher Links to related titles (former titles, other languages, other media) 1000 records added/week 835, 474 records Current journal records with ISSN, 50—90% (Scoping Study) All (current and dead) serials records with ISSN, 18—35% (SS)

Scoping Study: Priorities Location of holdings Source of high-quality records for upgrading local catalogues Rapidly include the wide-range of titles held in UK Ensure geographical and subject-based coverage Supports open standards and interoperates with related services

SUNCAT Development schedule Phase 1 (03/04) 22 large research libraries Phase 2 (05/06) extending to 200 Contributing Partners Phase 3 (07 --) Consolidation

Development plan Information content, scope and functionality Information content, scope and functionality 1. Critical mass in terms of serials coverage 2. high quality bibliographic records, including the ISSN 3. means for cost-effective upgrade of local records, inc ISSN 4. a technology platform that will scale Prioritise data not software Use Aleph 500 to build SUNCAT Accept de facto definitions of serial

The data ISSN as spine for unique identification CONSER as source of high-quality catalogue records in MARC21 format Records from Contributing Library Partners: 22 in 03/04 Multiple schemas for import Multiple schemas for import MARC21, UKMARC, UNIMARC,…(other ISO 2709) Online/batch conversion/fix routines Online/batch conversion/fix routines e.g. UK-MARC->MARC21

The Melvyl Search Screen

DisplaysBrief Records for ‘Hits’ Displays Brief Records for ‘Hits’

Display of Full Record

Phase 1 Development CONSER and ISSN loaded and matched 06/03 Records from 5 Associate partners loaded and matched by September 03 Demonstrator at Online Information 12/03 Second cluster of contributing libraries loaded by April 04 Third cluster looks to Phase 2 Upgrades available from Spring/summer 04 Service launch September 04

Scottish Dimension Three of five Associate Partners Scottish Value of NLS: 110,000 records; 65,000 are high quality 110,000 records; 65,000 are high quality Longstanding experience of MARC21 Longstanding experience of MARC21 Many Scottish publications not represented in academic collections Many Scottish publications not represented in academic collections

Progress CONSER and ISSN loaded Specifying interface customisation wrt user requirements Working with Associate Partners to: Describe their data and identify required conversion on load Describe their data and identify required conversion on load Specify nature and extent of work required from contributing libraries to maximise benefit to them and SUNCAT Specify nature and extent of work required from contributing libraries to maximise benefit to them and SUNCAT Streamline contribution process Streamline contribution process

Contacts to be website URL EDINA HelpDesk Tel: Fax: Nathalie Schulz (Project Officer - Bibliographic) Liz Stevenson ( User Requirements ) Leah Halliday (Project Manager) Peter Burnhill (Project Director) Chris Awre (JISC Contact)