Trip Report: 97. Deutscher Bibliothekartag 2008

MPDL

Event: 97. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, 3. - 6. Juni 2008

Participants MPDL: Kristina Büchner, Christoph Bruch, Andreas Gros, Nicole Kondic, Anja Lengenfelder, Antje Michel, Silvia Munding, Inga Overkamp (3.), Tina Planck, Ralf Schimmer

Programm and Materials:
 * Conference website
 * Presentations (BIB-Repository)

Summary: Staff from MPDL visited various sessions, talked to business partners and/or gave a presentation themselves. This trip report is only highlighting selected experiences.

Jakob Voss: Strukturierte Metadaten in Wikipedia
Section 7 - Technik und Technologie: "Sind Metadaten teamfähig oder Was macht Metadatenformate interoperabel?"

Examples for usage of metadata in Wikipedia:
 * categories
 * templates (info boxes, navigation bars, database links - z.B. PND-Links, ISBN)
 * references and citations
 * interwiki links

Tools and interfaces:
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API - documentation of APIs provided by mediawiki software
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download - database dumps (monthly)
 * DBPedia - structured information (rdf) extracted from Wikipedia (English, German, etc.) and offered via web services, e.g. a SPARQL interface
 * Extractor - perl script for parsing of wikipedia-dumps
 * TemplateTiger - project basing on extractor

Deirdre Kiorgaard: Setting a new standard in resource description and access
Section 4 - Wissensorganisation und Wissensvermittlung: Treffpunkt Standardisierung

Slides: http://www.opus-bayern.de/bib-info/volltexte/2008/472

RDA ("Resource Description and Access") is a draft standard providing guidelines on how to describe information resources in the digital world. More information: http://www.rdaonline.org/ and http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdafaq.html for the frequently asked questions.

AACR and RDA development 1967 - 1st edition of AACR 2002 - 2005 AACR updates 2009 - RDA release (expected)

Goals:
 * RDA standard - should provide a comprehensive guidelines for all types of resources and content
 * RDA data - should support FRBR (functional requirements for bibliographic records), FRAD (functional requirements for authority data) and FRSAR (functional requirements for subject records)

The FRBR-FRAD-FRSAR concept model will be reflected in RDA by definition of entities, attributes, and relationships described. terminology and core elements

RDA content:
 * general introduction
 * main parts:
 * attributes of the FRBR entities
 * manifestations and item
 * work and expression
 * person, family, corporate body
 * place (but concept, event only as placeholders)
 * relationships between the entities
 * primary relationships between works, expressions, manifestations and items
 * relationships to persons, families and corporate bodies associated with a resource (e.g. role designatiors - composer)
 * specific relations between works, expressions, manifestations, and items (whole-part, translation of)
 * relations between person, families, corporate bodies

Each chapter is associated with FRBR user tasks

Relating RDA to further standards
 * RDA and ISBD - standards developed in harmony. RDA include an appendix for mapping to isbd (crosswalk)
 * RDA and MARC - rda appendix for mapping to MARC-21. Most rda entities/elements can be incorporated into marc21, but new data elements are required (e.g. for content type, carrier type)
 * RDA and DC - RDA element set defined (clearly defined elements for both attributes and relationships). rda appendix for mapping to DC

RDA as a web tool
 * search and browse
 * different views, e.g. type of resource, mode of issuance

Discussion
 * Q: What is the impact of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control - which is suggesting to suspend the work on RDA?
 * A: No delay for the release date is expected. The three national libraries, in collaboration with others, are developing the appropriate tests of RDA
 * More info see http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/index.html

Dirk Pieper: Cross-Language Information Retrieval und automatische Sacherschließung in Suchmaschinen am Beispiel der "Bielefeld Academic Search Engine" (BASE)
Section 7 - Technik und Technologie: "Metadaten: Präsentation, Retrieval und Verwaltung"


 * integrated the multilingual Thesaurus EUROVOC into BASE (search tool for OAI content) to enable cross language retrieval
 * When a user enters a search terms, the system looks up, if one or more of the entered words are in the thesaurus. If it is so, the entries for that word in the thesaurus are added to the search entered by the user

Tamar Sadeh: The Ex Libris Open Platform
ExLibris announced the introduction of an Open Platform on which customers can publish and distribute extensions to ExLibris' software. The license under which this software is going to be published seems to be depending on the extension providers.

Information provided by Oren Beit Arie, ExLibris

 * 1) Ex Libris pursues a strategy to decouple User Interface and the underlying systems, which is represented by their system "Primo". Primo stands for the creation of an Unified Information Space.
 * 2) Ex Libris wants to increase the efficiency of back-end systems. They try to depart from separated, vertical structures of systems (Silo Approach) and move towards a more horizontal systems architecture (higher connectedness between building-blocks of back-end systems). Following a Unified Electronic Resource Management Framework approach, Ex Libris wants to connect a multitude of collections, knowledge bases, etc. to form one common back-end system.
 * 3) Based on the experiences from Los Alamos (Herbert van der Sompel & Johan Bollen) regarding usage analysis, Ex Libris now offers the possibility to use a plug-in to monitor and analyze the usage of SFX. However, this is still being set up. Ex Libris offered the MPDL to participate in this process as a development partner, which will be decided on by the department Informationsversorgung by the end of next week.

Meeting with Britta Fricke from the "Frankfurter Buchmesse"
Ms. Fricke would like to have the MPDL present some digital collections in October 2009 at the Frankfurter Buchmesse. Depending on the general topic they would like to present a collection from a related field, e.g. if it is going to be "Nutrition", they would like to have the Sengbusch Collection as Sengbusch developed the first alkaloidfree "sweet" Lupine, a plant that is now used for nourishing humans and animals in South America.

E-Book: Das ewig neue Medium
Themenkreis 6: Wissensmarkt

Abstracts, Vortragsfolien und Vortragstexte der Veranstaltung auf dem Repository des BIB

'''S. Mundt/R. Scheuble: Wie "reif" ist der Markt? Eine Studie zur Akzeptanz von E-Books an Hochschulbibliotheken''':


 * Befragung von Studierenden an FHs, PH, Hochschulbibliotheken zu ihren Erwartungen an Studienliteratur und zu Feedback zum E-Book-Angebot
 * Ein Ergebnis: Präferenz für gedruckte Werke!
 * Professorenbefragung für Ende 2008 geplant

H. Schäffler: Von Äpfeln und Birnen: Standardisierungsbestrebungen bei E-Books:


 * Mangel an Standardisierung als Problem
 * Mangel an Transparenz bei der Preisgestaltung
 * Preisverhalten gedruckte - elektronische Ausgabe
 * Herausbildung von Grundtypen bei der Preisgestaltung erforderlich
 * Deep-Discount-Modelle für E-Books?

'''K. Junkes-Kirchen: "Über die allmähliche Verfertigung eines Geschäftsgangs beim Erwerb von E-Books". Fragen und Antwortversuche auf ein bald nicht mehr aktuelles Thema''':


 * Wie kann ein Geschäftsgang für E-Books entwickelt werden?
 * Vorschläge für Regelungen bezüglich Erwerbung, Erschließung, Benutzung, IT-Abteilung

M. Hammerl: E-Book-Aggregatoren: Individuelle Titelauswahl auf Konsortialbasis?


 * Vor- und Nachteile von E-Book-Aggregatoren
 * Zugriffsmodelle, Preismodelle, Konsortialmodelle, technische Besonderheiten
 * Vergleich der Aggregatoren NetLibrary, ebrary, MyiLibrary

T. Planck: Zum Umgang mit E-Books in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft


 * Erfahrungsbericht einer außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtung
 * Vortragsfolien

Miscellaneous

 * http://www.neon-toolkit.org - "[...] an extensible Ontology Engineering Environment. It is part of the reference implementation of the NeOn architecture. It contains plug-ins for ontology management and visualization."
 * Multinational licenses are expected to come soon (deff, jisc, surfnet, dfg), see http://www.nationallizenzen.de/knowledge-exchange
 * MARCXML survey is available on DNB website, see http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/pdf/expertise_marcxml.pdf
 * A German translation of the "Functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR)" is available on the DNB website, see http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/pdf/frbr_deutsch.pdf
 * New Service: eBooks on Demand