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Calames Catalogue en Ligne des Archives et des Manuscrits de l’Enseignement Supérieur

Online Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts in French Higher Education Libraries

CERL, ParisNovember 7, 2008

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Contents

1. About Calames2. The online EAD editor3. The online public catalogue4. Calames and the web scale

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1. About Calames

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1. About Calames

Designed and developed by the ABES:

Bibliographical Agency for Higher Education

• A state institution (created in 1994)• Its main mission : The SUDOC (Higher

Education union catalogue)• Other activities : STAR, Calames

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1. About Calames

• Project June 2006 – December 2008• Another union catalogue (separate from

Sudoc)• Contains descriptions of manuscripts from

higher education and research libraries (a part of the CGM) About 36 000 records from 45 institutions

• Mazarine | Institut de France | Sorbonne | Doucet | Muséum | Sainte-Geneviève | BNU Strasbourg | BDIC | Montpellier University | Clermont-Ferrand University | …

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1. About « Calames »

1 name, 2 applications and 1 network :

• The online EAD editor • used by 9 libraries since April 2008• 12 more libraries in 2009

• The online public catalogue • launched in December 2007

• A network, a community• Commons tools, rules and practices

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2. The online EAD editor

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2. Key Requirements for the EAD editor

• From the user point of view (catalogers) :– A collective cataloging tool – XMetal, a fairly-known EAD editor– Dynamic help for editing

• About the data :– Data must remain in EAD– Huge EAD files :

• 4 Mb for some of them• Many components by level

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2. The solution

• A shared database• Each library has its own working space• A web application as an Internet Explorer plugin

» faster

• A database with XML support : The keystone of Calames

• Interface = XMetal + home made functions

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2. The online EAD editor

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2. Link to SUDOC’s authority records

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2. Editor’s features

• Tree browsing for each EAD file• Copy/cut/paste any component, or any group of

components• Multiple edits on the same file• All of XMetal’s functionalities• SUDOC’s authority files (searching, linking and soon

creating/updating)• One-click process

– to publish data on the web– To export data in various formats– To validate data (« diagnostics »)

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3. The online public catalogue

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3. Key features of the public catalog’s design

From the user point of view :• Everybody• Simple and advanced ways to search and browse.

» Depends on user’s needs

About the data :• Same EAD data, but how to :

• display them on a web page ?• use the EAD format’s richness for the search ?

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3. The solution

• A W3C standards compliant web site • A light interface which uses the browser to

process data:• XHTML interface, Javascript and web services =

Ajax» More reactive interface

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3. The search page

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3. The dynamic search page

3. The advanced search page

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3. The « search as you type » feature

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3. The results page

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3. The facets of the results page

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3. The components display page

3. The tree browsing feature

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3. Tags cloud

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3. Local Calames

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3. Digitized materials(work in progress)

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3. User generated content(in development)

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4. Calames and the Web scale

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4. Calames and Google

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4. Open Calames

• Sharing Dublin Core Metadata• Via OAI-PMH• With anyone

» First with the CERL Portal !

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4. Open Calames

• Federated Search• With SRU• Open to anyone

» First with CCfr (BnF)

…Teasing for Florent

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4. Open Calames

• Being a piece of the semantic web• Calames in RDFa as a first step= Putting RDF metadata in XHTML pages

<div class="unitdate"><span class="controlC">Date : </span><span content="1601/1700" property="dc:date" class="unitdate">XVII^e siècle</span>

</div>

<http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/res/MAZB10378> <dc:date> "1601/1700"

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Conclusion

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Calames betweenthe local and the global

• LOCAL• People (community, network)• Tools• Interfaces• Data : EAD

• GLOBAL• Search engines• Web services• Semantic Web• URL for each component Hard case !• Data : Dublin Core + FRBR + RDF

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Calames :www.calames.abes.fr

Contact :manuscrits@abes.fr

Blog :www.calames.wordpress.com