1. Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Networking Our Stocks of Information Stefan Farrenkopf Goettingen State and University Library 6 December 2005

2. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Topics Search & Retrieval International Document Delivery Networking Our Stocks of Information

3. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Background Special Subject Collection Forestry Examples of networked resources –Virtual Libraries e.g. www.geo-leo.de –Renardus Project www.renardus.org –Euler Project www.emis.de/projects/euler –vascoda www.vascoda.de –PDD –In preparation: Virtual Library of Forestry Search & Retrieval

4. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford (Advanced) Terminology Options Advantages of a subject indexed set of records (?) Mappings –Homogeneous view on heterogeneous resources (search & browse) –Query term expansion Use of hierarchy / ontology relations for result presentation Multilingual retrieval with monolingual searches Suggestion of additional search options, narrowing searches, spelling, … Search & Retrieval

5. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Status Quo (1) Common subject indexing systems –CABI Codes, CAB thesaurus (en) –Agrovoc thesaurus (multilingual) –FDC, UDK, DDC (all multilingual) –LCSH, LCC (en) –NAL agricultural thesaurus (en) –RVK classification (de) –RSWK / SWD (de) –Keywords (uncontrolled vocabulary) –Others? Search & Retrieval

6. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Status Quo (2) Acitivities of FAO –Agrovoc extension (terms, languages, …) –AOS (Agricultural Ontology Service) –AgMes (Agricultural Metadata Element Set Activities of IUFRO –SilvaVoc – Terminology Clearinghouse –SilvaTerm – Terminology Database Search & Retrieval

7. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford What can we do? (1) Maintainance of existing terminology is an ongoing process Develop new / extend existing terminology –preferred: Multilingual Thesaurus / Ontology of forestry –alternatives: cooperate with Agrovoc / AOS, others? Map existing terminology to one agreed standard Agree on an authority for terminological issues (IUFRO Silva Voc Clearing House, GFIS, FAO, CABI?) Search & Retrieval

8. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford What can we do? (2) Web service for forest terminology –Standard interface (SOAP, …) –Free access, open for everybody, free use –Functionality Serve terminologies Translate between terminologies –Use Cases Browsing Term expansion Enrichment of bibliographic records Search & Retrieval

9. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Search & Retrieval

10. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford What do we get? Subject based access to forestry resources –Improved multilingual access –Crossing of terminological borders –Access to existing records with additional terminology –Advanced user friendly search & retrieval

11. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Status Quo Inside of Germany –Inter Library Loan (Fernleihe) –Delivery Services electronic and printed copies (GAUSS, GBV-direct, SSG-S, subito) International –International Inter Library Loan –GBV Library service –mutual partnerships between Special Libraries (?) –delivery only between libraries International Document Delivery

12. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford International Document Delivery Current Issues Copyright clearance is time consuming and expensive Sometimes unacceptable long processing Missing transparency of charges for users when they order a copy Todays changes in national copyright laws often downgrade or complicate the situation Legal threads act as a deterrent International Document Delivery

13. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford International Document Delivery Outlook Delivery network of libraries and information providers across countries with –cleared legal situation –fixed and transparent charges –fixed and reliable processing periods –technology to connect the distributed resources and make them visible world-wide (GFIS?) Open Access –golden road –green road International Document Delivery

14. Stefan Farrenkopf, 6 December 2005 Frontiers in Forest Information, 5-7 December 2005, Oxford Thank you for your attention! Networking Our Stocks of Information