Creating Public Websites from Specialized Voyager Data Sai Deng, Nancy Deyoe, Gemma Blackburn and...

Creating Public Websites Creating Public Websites from Specialized from Specialized

Voyager DataVoyager Data

Sai Deng, Nancy Deyoe, Gemma Blackburn and Tse-Min Wang

Wichita State University Libraries

Beyond MARC note fields

Most of our abilities in the past have been limited to notes/local notes in our MARC data.

We have done local notes for years for donor notes and collection information

While this information was searchable via keyword, searchers had to be in our OPAC.

Web options wanted!

Greater exposure

New audiences

Publicity for a topic / program

Can create something “new” reasonably quickly

As long as information continues to be added, the featured collection can “grow”

Examples of collections we hoped to feature

Shocker Scholar Festival

Bestsellers/Current interest books (our “Leisure Reading” collection)

Featured authors or subjects (to tie in with public programming events)

Also titles from specialized collections (such as the Wichita Art Museum Research Library)

One featured collection: the Shocker Scholars Festival

Annual event hosted by the WSU Libraries

Information is collected from all colleges of faculty/departmental scholarly activity

Colleges are getting better, but this can still be challenging!

Do the Libraries hold copies of the titles? The process may begin at Acquisitions

Customizing and using the data

WSU faculty author note is added during the cataloging process – this helps build the data

We subscribe to Syndetics, so cover images will appear in our catalog and website

Gemma will now describe how the OPAC data is utilized for the web display

How to draw the data from the library catalog to display on the web

WSU uses:Ex Libris Voyager 7.0.4 ILS

Sun Solaris 10 server

Oracle 10g database

Two ways that we use to pull data from the database

Using Voyager Analyzer

Using an ODBC connection


Voyager DatabaseContains data arranged into tables, each containing several related fields

For example, the Bib_Text table:

There are hundreds of tables in

the Voyager database


Data is pulled from the database for various reasons:

To prepare reportsNumber of circulations

Number of items purchased by fund code

To identify recordsAll records with specific donor notes

Records with multiple 245 fields

To display records in alternative waysWebsites like the Faculty Showcase

RSS feeds

And many others…


Voyager AnalyzerCognos Business Intelligence environment connects to Voyager database and allows the creation of reports using a web-based, end-user friendly environment

Data is rearranged from the Voyager table structure into a new arrangement of layers and folders of related fields for easier reporting creation

Data from reports can be prepared in XML format and displayed on a website using XSLT stylesheets

Web Access to Analyzer


Voyager Analyzer

Cognos Analyzer Logic

Solaris Server

Voyager Oracle Database

Cognos Web Access to Analyzer

DataLogic

Ex Libris Servers


ODBC – Open Database ConnectivityA standard API to access data in a database remotely using SQL queries

Requires ODBC drivers to be installed on user’s machine as well as connection information to connect to the database

Data can be used through Microsoft Access or other databases

Data in the secondary database can be displayed on the web using a language such as ASP, PHP, etc.


ODBC

Solaris Server


Local Machine

ODBC Drivers

Microsoft Access

Voyager Tables


SQL – Structured Query LanguageSQL is the language used to communicate with most databases

SQL queries can be used to pull specified data from a database through an ODBC connection

Data can be identified from specific fields that meets defined criteria


Blob – Binary Large ObjectThe Voyager database does not contain most MARC information. The MARC records are stored independently as binary data on the server, so many MARC fields (such as 590) cannot be extracted with regular SQL queries

Blob queries can be used to extract MARC fields from this binary data using an Access module containing Visual Basic code that has been written for Voyager

Query to identify faculty publications in the library catalog

SELECT DISTINCTROW RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.AUTHOR, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.TITLE, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.EDITION, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.ISBN, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.PUBLISHER_DATE, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.IMPRINT, RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID, GetFieldAll(GetBibBlob([RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID]),"590") AS Expr1, GetFieldAll(GetBibBlob([RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID]),"700") AS Expr2 INTO query590view

FROM RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT INNER JOIN RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION ON RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID=RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION.BIB_ID

WHERE ((GetFieldAll(GetBibBlob([RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID]),"590")) Like "*WSU Faculty*");

Other queries to draw specialized data from Voyager

Query to identify Leisure Reading books:SELECT LOCATION.LOCATION_NAME, BIB_TEXT.TITLE, WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER.DISPLAY_CALL_NO,

BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID, BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID

FROM WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER INNER JOIN ((BIB_TEXT INNER JOIN (BIB_LOCATION INNER JOIN LOCATION ON BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID = LOCATION.LOCATION_ID) ON BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID = BIB_LOCATION.BIB_ID) INNER JOIN WSUDB_BIB_MFHD ON BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID = WSUDB_BIB_MFHD.BIB_ID) ON WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER.MFHD_ID = WSUDB_BIB_MFHD.MFHD_ID

WHERE (((BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID)="99"));

Query to identify Goldbarth poems…SELECT DISTINCTROW RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.AUTHOR,

RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.TITLE, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.EDITION, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.ISBN, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.PUBLISHER_DATE, RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.IMPRINT, RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID, GetFieldAll(GetBibBlob([RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID]),“730")

FROM RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT INNER JOIN RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION ON RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID=RO_WSUDB_BIB_LOCATION.BIB_ID

WHERE ((GetFieldAll(GetBibBlob([RO_WSUDB_BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID]),“730")) Like "*Albert Goldbarth Collection*");

Other queries to draw specialized data from Voyager

Query to identify Wichita Art Museum collections:

SELECT LOCATION.LOCATION_NAME, BIB_TEXT.TITLE, WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER.DISPLAY_CALL_NO, BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID, BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID

FROM WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER INNER JOIN ((BIB_TEXT INNER JOIN (BIB_LOCATION INNER JOIN LOCATION ON BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID = LOCATION.LOCATION_ID) ON BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID = BIB_LOCATION.BIB_ID) INNER JOIN WSUDB_BIB_MFHD ON BIB_TEXT.BIB_ID = WSUDB_BIB_MFHD.BIB_ID) ON WSUDB_MFHD_MASTER.MFHD_ID = WSUDB_BIB_MFHD.MFHD_ID

WHERE (((BIB_LOCATION.LOCATION_ID)=“122"));

Website created from query results

Run blob query to draw faculty author data through ODBC (as Gemma discussed);

Query results saved in an Access table:Fields: BIB_ID, AUTHOR, TITLE, EDITION, ISBN, PUBLISHER_DATE, IMPRINT, LOCATION_ID, Expr1, Expr2

Expr 1: 590 notes field data

Expr 2: 700 (other author) field data

Added a localCover field to handle local cover images (when ISBN and Syndetic cover are not available);

Website created via web programming.http://library.wichita.edu/techserv/WSU_faculty/index.asp

Web delivery and dataflow

Web

RSS Feed

ASP

ODBC Blob Query

Access (Query Results)


Local Cover Images

Syndetic Cover Images

If not available

ISBN

SearchBibID

If available

Display

Browse

Browseby Name

by Title

by Year

Retrieve data

SELECT [Fields] FROM [Table] ORDER BY…

Search

Issues to consider in web delivery

What to display? In which format?Fields: Author/Editor, Title, Publication Year, Publisher

Decide to use “Author/Editor” (100 field/700 field) to avoid too many blank fields (no 100);

Field names were changed from all uppercase to make them easy to read;

Added local cover images link.

Added link to OPAC for original records display.

One step further: possible data transformation and web delivery

Alternatively, we can transform Access table data to Dublin Core in XML, and display it online with style sheet.

MARC (in Voyager table) to DC mappingMarc field Simplified DC Qualified DC

001 BIB_ID Not mapped

020 ISBN Identifier

100 AUTHOR Contributor

245 TITLE Title

250 EDITION Description

260$a$b IMPRINT Publisher

260$c PUBLISHER_DATE Date Date.issued

852$b LOCATION(_ID) Relation Relation.ispartof (housing at)

590 notes (Expr1 in query) Description

700 other author (Expr 2 in query) Contributor

Additional fields Added: Link to OPAC/library catalog Relation Relation.isbasedon (*source)

Cover image link Relation Relation.haspart (*contained item)

Adding Syndetic cover and local cover images

Added some local covers for books without Syndetic covers;

If local covers are available, use local images (thumbnail linked to large covers);

If local covers not available, If ISBN available, use Syndetic covers:

Either show Syndetic covers or show blank

If no ISBN, use a generic local cover

Local cover images scanning guideline

Based on BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices;

Dimensions of images were set to be consistent to Syndetic covers but with higher resolutions.

Master Access Thumbnail

File Format TIFF JPEG JPEG

Bit Depth 48 bit color 24 bit color 24 bit color

Spatial Resolution

400-600 dpi 300 dpi 144 dpi

Spatial Dimensions

4000 pixels across the long dimension



Local cover images digitization

Issues to consider in digitizing old cover images:

Extra hard drive to save master image files;

Image editing and touch-up: erase barcode, image clean-up, image repair;

What’s behind the barcode area? Do not make up images if a pattern cannot be found.

Code to add local and Syndetic cover images

From browse.asp:…<td class="image" rowspan="6">

<% If ((Recordset1.Fields.Item("localCover").Value <> "") AND (Recordset1.Fields.Item("localCover").Value <> " ")) Then %>

<a href="localcover\<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("localCover").Value)%>L.jpg" target="_blank">

<img border=0 src="localcover\<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("localCover").Value)%>.jpg" /></a>

<% Else %>

<% If ((Recordset1.Fields.Item("ISBN").Value <> "") AND (Recordset1.Fields.Item("ISBN").Value <> " ")) Then %>

<a href="http://syndetics.com/hw7.pl?isbn=<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("ISBN").Value)%>/lc.jpg&client=wichitasu" target="_blank">

<img border=0 src="http://syndetics.com/hw7.pl?isbn=<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("ISBN").Value)%>/sc.gif&client=wichitasu" /></a>

<% Else %>

<img alt="book cover" src=“localCover/cover.jpg" />

<% End If %>

<% End If %>

</td> …

Image link to add Syndetic covers

Add local generic cover

Add specific large and small local covers

Adding RSS feedRSS feed icon

RSS feed display

Code to add RSS feed

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title>WSU Libraries: Faculty Author Published Books Update</title>

<link>http://library.wichita.edu/techserv/WSU_Faculty/index.asp</link>

<description>Update on published books of Faculty Author available at WSU Libraries</description>

<language>en-us</language>

<pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

<lastBuildDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>

<docs>http://library.wichita.edu/RSS</docs>

<managingEditor>…@wichita.edu</managingEditor>

<webMaster>…@wichita.edu</webMaster>

<item>

<title>It grows in winter and other poems / Chinyere Okafor. </title> <link>http://library.wichita.edu/techserv/WSU_faculty/browse.asp?browse_type=PUBLISHER_DATE</link>

<description>Get more information on this book and other WSU faculty publications at Faculty Research Showcase Website.</description>

<pubDate>Thu, 5 Mar 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

…

</Channel>

</rss>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Faculty Author - Recent Books [RSS]" href="http://library.wichita.edu/techserv/WSU_faculty/pubupdate.rss">

pubupdate.rss

added to the webpage header

Required Channel elements:title, link, description

Final thoughts

Other project possibilities for featuring specialized Voyager data;

Dynamic websites can be created based on the current model;

One step further: using Dublin Core metadata schema to present data via web to facilitate data harvesting;

One more possibility: Add local covers to Voyager…

Contact information

Sai Deng, Metadata Cataloger, Wichita State University Libraries, [email protected]

Nancy Deyoe, Assistant Dean for Technical Services, [email protected]

Gemma Blackburn, Systems Developer, Wichita State University Libraries, [email protected]

Tse-Min Wang, WSU Graduate Student in Computer Science, [email protected]

Thank you!

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