Post on 01-Apr-2015
What is LIBRIS?
• Division of the National Library of Sweden
• Is founded on co-operation among the affiliated libraries.
• Mostly university- and research libraries
• A lot like ABES?
What do we do?
• Co-operative national union catalogue
• Development of national systems
• Central licensing
• Librarians, technicians, programmers, interaction designer, license officers....about 25 people
BIBSAM consortia
• Central license agreements
• 65 participating libraries
• About 40 license agreements
- Journal collections (“Big Deals”); Elsevier, Emerald, OUP, CUP, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell
- Reference works; Encyclopedia Britannica
- E-books
Shared cataloguing
• Just catalogue a record once in Sweden and all the libraries can use it !
• Shared, central cataloguing in LIBRIS
• 180 library organisations, 350 library units.
Virtua
Aleph
record export
cataloguing
record exportcataloguing
GothenburgUniv.
National Library
cataloguing
Voyager
StockholmUniv.
record export
LIBRIS
The LIBRIS model
350 libraries do this!
LIBRIS search
Sondera
SwePub
National ILL-system
Commercial systems
• MetaLib/SFX for federated searching & link resolving
• Voyager cat system for central, shared cataloguing
Development methods
Working with a mix of agile development, user centered design and a lot with the design process
Develop towards a moving target
Agile development
Design
Technology Features Experience/Emotions
Technology focus
Feature focus
Experience/emotions
User tests
To be open
“Someone outside your organization will always have a better idea than you..”
To be open
•Linked data
•Open API:s
•Open data
What is Linked Data?
•”Best practices” for the semantic web
•A method to expose, share and link data with help of URI:s
•The semantics is machine readable
Linked Data at LIBRIS
•Links to dbpedia.org
•Links to viaf.org
•Links to lcsubjects.org
•Links to RAMEAU?
http://dbpedia.org/page/Steampunk
http://exciting.thing/somewhere/on/the/web
Linked Data at LIBRIS
•HTTP URI for every resource, e.g.
•http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5059476
•http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/220040
•http://libris.kb.se/resource/library/S
Linked Data at LIBRIS
Exposes name and subject authorities as
•foaf:Person, skos:Concept
•foaf:Organization for librariesBibliographic records as bibo:Book, bibo:Article, etc.
•dc:creator, dc:subjects, etc.
SPARQL in beta
LIBRIS’ open API:s
•z39.50, SRU, light weight-API, rdf, OpenSearch, unApi,OpenURL, spell check API, ...
LIBRIS’ open API:s
•To the data
•To the spelling support
•Reference management formats
•FRBR (beta)
•Related records (beta)
Entrepreneur uses our undergraduate essays data
The Swedish public service radio uses our spell check API
The future?
•Pre study on Libris and data wells/mega aggregates, central indexes, discovery services?
• Cover the public libraries in our services