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

Thanks!

Kristin.Olofsson@kb.se