Maja Žumer: Library catalogues of the future: realising the old vision with new tools

Libraries of the future: realising the

old vision with new tools

Maja Žumer

University of Ljubljana

Slovenia

Prague, March 3, 2014

Library catalogue

• librarian‘s tool

• user‘s tool

– point of entrance to the library collection

– finding relevant materials

– getting an overview of the collection

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Theoretical studies

• Panizzi (1841)

• Cutter (1876)

• Paris Principles (1961)

• IME-ICC (2009)

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Charles Ammi Cutter: Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog(1876) The objectives of a catalogue are: 1. to enable a person to find a book of which either (Identifying

objective) • the author • the title • the subject is known. 2. to show what the library has (Collocating objective) • by a given author • on a given subject • in a given kind of literature 3. to assist in the choice of a book (Evaluating objective) • as to its edition (bibliographically) • as to its character (literary or topical)

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Paris Principles (1961)

The catalogue should be an efficient instrument for ascertaining

2.1 whether the library contains a particular book specified by (a) its author and title, or

(b) if the author is not named in the book, its title alone, or

(c) if author and title are inappropriate or insufficient for identification, a suitable substitute for the title; and

2.2 (a) which works by a particular author and

(b) which editions of a particular work are in the library.

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Why the need for change?

• New developments (computers, databases, new materials)

• New user needs, expectations and demands

What is different?

• Libraries are facing competition for the first time

• Library catalogues are not perceived as intuitive – compared to other tools and services

• Users actively avoid using the catalogue even when they want to borrow a book

• „Everything is on the Web“

• Users expect simple tools which do not require specific training

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Are libraries aware of the changes?

• Not completely

– Libraries are not questioning (enough) their tools

– They are relying on tradition

• But there are discussions and developments:

– New models

– Awareness of new tools and services (e.g. Semantic Web)

– Assuming new roles or performing them in a new way (e-learning, data curation)

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Development of formats

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NUL 1774-1900

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NUL 1900-1947

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ISBD format

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MARC

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DC in XML

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Changes in OPAC interfaces

• Replica of card catalogue

• Web OPAC

• Faceted OPAC

• Catalogue 2.0

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Traditional OPAC

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New generation catalogue

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Why the need for change?

• New user needs, expectations and demands

• Library metadata is not (should not be) isolated

• Libraries should expose and fully utilise the quality of their metadata

What is wrong with current catalogues?

• Long displays of similar records

• No meaningful clustering

• No (or not enough) relationships

• Zero hits

• Authority data not exposed

• Exploration not supported

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• New systems are needed

• We need thorough understanding of the bibliographic universe

• Conceptual models as the necessary foundation

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Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

• Approved by IFLA in 1997

• Published in 1998

• Conceptual model of the ‘bibliographic universe’

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User functions/tasks

• using the data to FIND materials that correspond to the user's stated search criteria

• using the data retrieved to IDENTIFY an entity (e.g., to confirm that the document described corresponds to the document sought by the user, or to distinguish between two similar documents)

• using the data to SELECT an entity that is appropriate to the user's needs (e.g., to select a text in a language the user understands, or to choose a version of a computer program that is compatible with the hardware and operating system available to the user)

• using the data in order to acquire or OBTAIN access to the entity described

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User functions/tasks

• FIND: reduce the set to a manageable size • IDENTIFY: understand exactly the nature of the

resource described by metadata • SELECT: among the relevant resources choose the

ones which are suitable • OBTAIN: get access to the resource

• EXPLORE: browse the collection to get acquainted

with ot and/or locate interesting resources

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FRBR Entities

Group 1:

(products of intellectual & artistic endeavor)

• Work

• Expression

• Manifestation

• Item

WORK: a distinct intellectual or artistic creation

EXPRESSION: the intellectual or artistic realization

of a work in the form of alpha-numeric, musical, or choreographic notation, sound, image, object, movement, etc., or any combination of such forms

MANIFESTATION: the physical embodiment of an

expression of a work.

ITEM: a single exemplar of a manifestation.

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Work

Expression

Manifestation

Item

is realized through

is embodied in

is exemplified by one

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Group 1 Conceptual/content

Physical/recording

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Group 2:

(agents related to Group 1 entities)

•Person

•Corporate body

•Family (added by FRAD)

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Work

Expression

Manifestation

Item

Group 2

is owned by

is produced by

is realized by

is created by

Person

Corporate Body

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Subjects of works:

• Group1 and Group 2

• Group 3

• Concept

• Object

• Event

• Place

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LC Control No. : 47023612

LCCN Permalink : http://lccn.loc.gov/47023612

Type of Material : Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)

Personal Name : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Main Title : ... Hamlet, traduit par Andre Gide.

Published/Created : [Paris] Gallimard [1946]

Description : 2 p. l., 7-237, [2] p. 17 cm.

CALL NUMBER : PR2779.H3 G5Copy 1

-- Request in : Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or

Area Studies Reading Rms

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet. French.

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“The FRBR revolution”

• User-oriented view of bibliographic data

• Catalogue as a database and not a replica of a card catalogue

• Re-thinking of current cataloguing theory and practice

• potential for interoperability within ALM, rights management, Semantic Web

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The “FRBR family”

• FRBR: the original framework – All entities, focus on Group 1

• FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data – Focus on Group 2

– Accepted in 2009, published in 2010

• FRSAD: Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data – Focus on ‘aboutness’

– Accepted in 2010, published in 2011

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FRAD

• Family added in Group 2

• Name as a separate entity

• Justify and Contextualise added

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FRAD

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FRSAD: established in April 2005

Terms of reference:

• to build a conceptual model of Group 3 entities within the FRBR framework as they relate to the aboutness of works,

• to provide a clearly defined, structured frame of reference for relating the data that are recorded in subject authority records to the needs of the users of those records, and

• to assist in an assessment of the potential for international sharing and use of subject authority data both within the library sector and beyond.

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Challenges of subject access

• Is it possible to objectively determine the topic(s) of each work?

• In what context will the users need a particular work in the future?

• Granularity of topics

• Specificity of topics

• How to represent the subject of a work?

• How will the user formulate the query?

• Different knowledge organisation systems

• Subject searching is difficult for users

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FRSAR WG Activities

• User surveys on the Use of Subject

Authority Data

a. Pilot with Non Library & Information

Professionals

b. Library & Information Professionals

• Investigation of user tasks

• Entities, attributes and relationships

User tasks FRSAD:

Find

Identify

Select

Explore

FRBR :

Find

Identify

Select

Obtain

FRAD:

Find

Identify

Contextualize

Justify

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Products of

intellectual or

artistic

endeavours

An additional

set of entities

that serve as

the subjects of

works

Agents related

to Group 1

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Extension of FRBR Figure 3.3 "Group 3 entities and 'subject' relationships"

Family added by FRAD

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FRBR Group 3 entities….

This part of the model has been criticized,

because it does not include time and does not

cover well activities and processes (e.g.,

Heaney, 1997; Delsey, T. 2005)

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Study and Discussions

Different scenarios discussed:

• Keep FRBR Group 3 entities and only

analyse attributes and relationships.

• Add time to the FRBR list.

• Take Ranganathan’s facets as the basis.

• Take <indecs> as the basis.

• Make a pragmatic list of entities. One

example is the one by Buizza and Guerrini

• Propose something new

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Two small tests:

Four students and faculty members at Kent State Library school classified existing subject terms used by the NSDL (National Science Digital Library) contributors. These include 3 thousand terms assigned based on a variety of subject vocabularies and free keywords.

Professor Lois Chan classified the subject headings from LCSH she included in her books.

They classified terms into six categories: concrete stuff, abstract stuff, event, time, place, and others.

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Test Results

• Blurred distinction between concrete and abstract

• Confusion about proper names

• Terms are put into ‘other’ category

• This categorisation is not generally applicable or useful

• There is no generally applicable categorisation

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3.2 Models discussed Kent & Dublin meetings, 2006-12

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FRSAD– generalisation of FRBR

FRSAD

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Nomen: any alpha numeric, sound, visual etc. symbol or combination of symbols by which a thema is known, referred to or addressed as

Thema: anything that can be subject of a work

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Nomens

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Nomen 9

Attributes of thema

• Type

• Note (description)

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Types of thema

Depending on the implementation (domain

and/or KOS), thema is categorised

• FRBR: object, concept, event, place, +…

• Class and instance

• Medicine: medical condition, symptom,

treatment, substance…

• …

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Nomen attributes (include but not limited to)

– Type of nomen (note: see next slide)

– Scheme: system/vocabulary (LCSH, UDC,…)

– Reference source

– Representation (alphanumeric, sound, visual,...)

– Language (English, Japanese, Slovenian,…)

– Script (Cyrillic, Korean, Chinese-simplified,…)

– Transcription/transliteration

– Encoding (Latin-1, UTF-8,…)

– Form (long, short, formula…)

– Time of validity

– Audience: Community, for which this is the preferred form

– Status (provisional, accepted, official,...)

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Types of nomen

• Identifier (= name, assigned to an entity,

which is persistent and unique within a

domain)

• Controlled name (= name constructed in

authority control/vocabulary maintenance

process, which usually serves as access point) (note: called Controlled access point in FRAD)

• Implementation-specific types, e.g.:

– Defined by originating system

– Defined by language

– ….

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Thema relationships General relationships between themas

(applicable to all types)

• Hierarchical

– Partitive

– Generic

– Instance

– Polyhierarchical

• Associative (=other)

Other thema-to-thema relationships are

implementation-dependent

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Nomen relationships

• Partitive

• Equivalence (nomens of the same thema)

Equivalence can be specified further, e.g.:

• Replaces/is replaced by

• Has variant form/is variant form

• Has derivation/is derived from

– Has acronym/is acronym

– Has abbreviation/is abbreviation

– Has transliterated form/is transliteration

thema –thema relations

place as

thema

nomens

thema types (place-specific)

nomen –nomen

relations

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The importance of the THEMA-NOMEN

model to the subject authority data

• to separate what are usually called concepts (or topics, subjects, classes [of concepts]) from what they are known by, referred to, or addressed as.

• A general abstract model, not limited to any particular domain or implementation

• Potential for interoperability within the library field and beyond

Functional Requirements for

Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)

- A Conceptual Model

by Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer

& Athena Salaba (Eds.)

Series: IFLA Series on

Bibliographic Control 43

Publisher: De Gruyter Saur

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http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/ifla-series-on-bibliographic-control

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Why FRBR?

• Not a replica of a card catalogue

• Bibliographic universe presented as a network - relationships

• Supports exploration

• Is intuitive

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FRBR: intuitive?

• Declaratively user-oriented

• No user studies

• No completely FRBR-based implementation

• One way to find out: mental model elicitation

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Study

• Do mental models resemble the conceptual model?

• 30 participants

• Ljubljana

• July 2007 – February 2008

• We only looked at Group 1 entities

Tasks

• Card sorting

• Concept mapping

• Comparison of examples

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1. Card sorting

• Abstract/concrete nature of the things described

• Cards: plain descriptions of instances of FRBR entitites

• No expression/manifestation groupings (Work – Editions – Copies)

• Original expressions with works, other expressions with manifestations

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2. Concept mapping

• “What comes out of what?”

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Task 2: Results

• Most common connections were FRBR-like

• Core group of mental models close to FRBR

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3. Comparison task

• 1. Interviews

• 2. Rankings

• 11 pairs of similar objects (mostly books)

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Rankings

• Ranking pairs according to their perceived substitutability from the most substitutable to the least substitutable

• Pairs could be on the same level of substitutability

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Pair Average Rank

Parma 2

Koča 2

Kačič 3.8

Bulgakov 3.9

Mystery 4.8

Kam 7.2

Skrivnost 7.4

Economics 7.7

Africa 7.8

Poirot 9.6

Room 9.7

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Conclusions of the study

• There is no single mental model

• The more people think about bibliographic universe and the more they interact with it, the more FRBR-like their mental models are

• Results of user study indicate that FRBR can be used as conceptual basis for catalogs

• Positioning of the original expression in the model (often seen as surrogate of work)

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• PISANSKI, Jan, ŽUMER, Maja. Mental models of the bibliographic universe : part 1 : mental models of description. J. Doc., 2010, vol. 66, no. 5, str. 643-667.

• PISANSKI, Jan, ŽUMER, Maja. Mental models of the bibliographic universe : part 2 : comparison task and conclusions. J. Doc., 2010, vol. 66, no. 5, str. 668-680.

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Continuation

• Based on Task 2

• List of descriptions+six graphs (including FRBR graph)

• 6 groups of 10 students – for each of two examples

• „Which graph is the best representation of the relationships between entities listed?“

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No. Description

1 The novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

2 Da Vincijeva šifra translated by Nataša Müller, published in 2004 by Mladinska knjiga in Ljubljana. It has 473

pages. 3 Signed copy of The Da Vinci Code from 2003, owned by Lojze B., a book collector.

4 The first edition of The Da Vinci Code, published in 2003 by Doubleday in New York. It has 455 pages.

5 Copy of Da Vincijeva šifra from 2004, located in the local library in Spodnja vas with call number 234.

6 Translation of the novel The Da Vinci Code into Slovene by Nataša Müller.

7 Copy of Da Vincijeva šifra from 2006, located in the local library in Spodnja vas. The call number is 567.

8 Da Vincijeva šifra translated by Nataša Müller, published in 2006 by Mladinska knjiga in Ljubljana. It has 511

pages. 9 Copy of The Da Vinci Code from 2006, located in the local library in Spodnja vas. The call number is 123.

10 Edition of The Da Vinci Code, published in 2006 by Anchor Books in New York. It has 489 pages.

11 Brown’s original English text of the novel The Da Vinci Code.

12 Copy of Il Codice da Vinci from 2003 with the call number DAV2, which Lojze B. borrowed from library in

Koper 13 Copy of Il codice da Vinci from 2003, located in library in Koper. It‘s call number is DAV1.

14 Edition of Il codice da Vinci translated by Riccardo Valla, published in 2003 by Mondadori publishing house in

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Results Major Ex. 1 Ex. 2 Ex. 3 Ex. 4 Ex. 5 Ex. 6 Own

Computer

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Design 0 + 1 0 + 2 1 + 1 1 + 0 3 + 4 3 + 2 2 + 0

Economics 0 + 0 0 + 1 0 + 1 0 + 2 8 + 4 2 + 2 0 + 0

History 1 + 1 1 + 3 1 + 1 0 + 2 5 + 3 0 + 0 2 + 0

Medicine 2 + 1 1 + 0 0 + 0 1 + 1 4 + 6 2 + 2 0 + 0

Social

Studies

1 + 0 0 + 0 0 + 1 1 + 0 7 + 9 1 + 0 0 + 0

Total 6 + 5 2 + 7 2 + 5 4 + 6 33 + 30 9 + 7 4 + 0

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• PISANSKI, Jan, ŽUMER, Maja. User verification of the FRBR conceptual model. J. Doc., 2012, vol. 68, no. 4, str. 582-592.

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If FRBR is the model, why not implement it immediately?

• Harmonisation of the FRBR family

• Frbrisation

• Presentation of search results

• Semantic web (formats, identifiers)

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Presentation of search results

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• Lists of manifestations

• No meaningful order

• Relationships missing or not evident

• Exploration not supported

Visualisation as a possible scenario

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PROTOTYPE FrbrVis

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indented hierarchy radial

treemap sunburst

4 hierarchical scenarios

User study

• 4 visualisations + baseline traditional

• Visualisations superior in performance

• Visualisations preferred

• Indented hierarchy and sunburst chosen as best

• Very positive feedback

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Published in

• MERČUN, Tanja, ŽUMER, Maja, AALBERG, Trond. Presenting and exploring the complexity of bibliographic relationships. Lect. notes comput. sci., str. 63-66. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_8#page-1, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_8.

• MERČUN, Tanja, ŽUMER, Maja, AALBERG, Trond. FrbrVis : an information visualization approach to presenting FRBR work families. Lect. notes comput. sci., str. 504-507. http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-33289-0/#section=1132939&page=1&locus=16, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_60.

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The future of libraries

• Competition with other information providers and their tools

• Accepting change

• Important contribution to the Semantic Web

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Utilising the technology to finally realise the old goal:

Reconfirm the library catalogue (and bibliographic information in general) as an important building block of the global information infrastructure

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Shouldn‘t this be our motto, too?

OUTSTANDING PAST

BRIGHT FUTURE

(borrowed from University of Malta)

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Thank you

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