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"In acknowledging the Web as the platform for searching, sharing, aggregating and extending information, librarians need to familiarize themselves with the semantic web (an extension of the current web), learn new tools, techniques and trends. Most importantly for catalogers, they need to educate themselves in RDA (Resource Description and Access) which may soon replace AACR2 and MARC 21 as the new cataloging rules and standards. RDA is a set of guidelines evolved from AACR2 and is constructed on the framework of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements of Authority Data). The application of which is meant to direct the library catalog in providing better access to Web resources. Instead of being a display standard of library catalog using AACR2, RDA is a content standard that attempts to improve the way catalogers describe and present elements, entities and their relationships and roles in the bibliographic world. It is also the intention of RDA to make data in library catalog play a better role in the Web environment. Moreover, RDA is supposedly more flexible and adaptable in that it may be used with many encoding schema such as MODS, MARC, Dublin Core, etc."

"Summon occasionally fails to successfully link to articles in EBSCO databases. Instead, the full-text article link drops users at a more general EBSCO search screen and it's not clear how to get to the actual article. (...) Some vendors do not provide article-level linking. * Summon will provide a direct link to articles available through the NCSU Libraries. Sometimes, however, Summon only provides a link to a Journal, or the article link fails to turn up the full text. This is due to a lack of article-level links available through some publishers. "

"Serial Solutions just released their database recommender feature and it is now live on our site. It currently produces a recommendation for a specific list of resources based on matched triggers, and only shows databases to which you subscribe. As they go forward, the range of what is recommended will continue to grow. Recommendations will also be triggered from a wider range of factors, including analysis of both the search terms and results set. The list of databases that are currently recommended are listed below."

"Depuis que j'ai mentionné ici l'achat d'un résolveur de liens OpenURL, je reçois, tous les 2 ou 3 jours, un mail me demandant comment nous avons choisi. Je mets la réponse ici (hors questions tarifaires, bien sûr). Je me suis appuyé sur l'article de Ross Singer dans Computers in Libraries de février 2006: Helping you buy: link resolver tools."

Summon at the University of Huddersfield http://library.hud.ac.uk/summon

"EBSCO A-to-Z®, un répertoire automatiquement actualisé pour une meilleure valorisation de l'information électronique. EBSCO A-to-Z est un catalogue électronique des ressources documentaires, entièrement personnalisé. Il répertorie plus de 350 000 titres issus de plus de 3 200 bases de données et bouquets de revues électroniques. Conçu pour valoriser les ressources de type périodique auxquelles vous êtes abonné, EBSCO A-to-Z propose un accès simplifié à des revues et livres électroniques, bases de données en texte intégral, packages éditeurs, revues au format papier. Ainsi, vous bénéficiez de votre propre répertoire de ressources électroniques et de la mise à jour automatique des liens URLs de ces dernières, quel que soit le mode d'acquisition des ressources concernées."

"We learned that they've turned on a new back end that greatly increases the speed of the product, with 80% of all searches being fully returned in 1 second or less. Go ahead and try it with the U of Calgary implementation. Don't like a hosted URL? Check out what the U of Virgina has done with the Summon API for their mobile interface! There's a lot of long-tail stuff out there. One of the content managers pointed out that the average academic library holds 24% of Ulrich's Core Journals, and Summon has 40%. I'm really revitalized over this project, and will be heading back to Calgary with an aim towards cleaning up our metadata in order to really leverage Summon. Lots of good stuff coming in the next few months."

"This map lists libraries with "next generation catalogs", with a focus on homegrown solutions or libraries that make a special effort in tweaking commercial products. "

* Blacklight * Evergreen * Kochief * Koha * Scriblio * SOPAC * VuFind

"In addition to Discovery products created by commercial companies, a number of alternatives have emerged in the open source arena. These open source products allow libraries to follow a more experimental approach in establishing their nextgeneration discovery interface strategy. Libraries can download and install the software on a test server, load sample data sets, and customize it without the need to make a major commitment or financial outlay. They can even experiment with multiple products. Theavailability of these open source products allows a library to make an initial investigation of a new generation interface and gain hands-on experience, even if they might eventually decide to purchase a commercial product. In the open source discovery interface arena, VUfind stands as the dominant product. The Mellon-funded eXtensible Catalog project has been underway for about 2 years and will soon be releasing software. Other open source discovery technologies emerging include the University of Virginia's Blacklight and OpenBib, which is an example of discovery interfaces developed internationally."

"With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a multinational group of libraries is developing the design for an Open Library Environment (OLE), an alternative to the current model of an Integrated Library System. The goal is to produce a design document to inform open source library system development efforts, to guide future library system implementations, and to influence current Integrated Library System vendor products."

"A pilot of the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is currently underway, which allows you to upload the metadata of your digital content to WorldCat from any OAI-compliant digital repository. (Previously, the Gateway was only integrated with CONTENTdm repositories.) Once your metadata is in WorldCat, your collections are more visible and discoverable by end users who search WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start", as well as Google, Yahoo! and other popular Web sites."

"Catalogue 2.0? Catalogue de nouvelle génération? Peu importent les appellations, finalement. Ce qui compte réellement, c'est la manière de gérer la transition, avec une attention particulière aux contenus et aux services, bref à la médiation. Ci-dessous, une sélection de ressources, de références, amorces possibles pour une discussion "globale", au sein de notre institution, sur les nombreuses questions: On y passe? Oui? Non? Pourquoi? Comment? Suivant quelles modalités? Avec quels outils, quelles fonctionnalités? Si vous le souhaitez, je vous invite à participer au débat en utilisant les commentaires pour alimenter la liste…"

"I don't think its obvious, but what OCLC is trying to do with WorldCat is much bolder than Serials Solutions and Summon. With Summon, libraries are basically throwing all of their content into one index to break down the data silos within an institution. But what you end up with is a big search silo for that institution. With WorldCat, the vision is to break down not only the silos within institutions but also the silos between institutions. And not just break down those silos in the sense of harvest-and-search. The concept is that libraries and their patrons will be working together to improve a shared database through intentional and professional metadata. This shared database will be big enough to have a real impact on the web. Its records will surface in search engine results. Its interface will be familiar to many, and it will be customizable for a particular audience via the WorldCat Local route."