SUNCAT - towards implementation

SUNCAT - towards implementation

Tony Kidd

Glasgow University Library

[[email protected]]

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April 2003 - SUNCAT

SUNCAT

Rationale

Origins

SUNCAT organisation

Timetable

Methodology


Rationale

User demand - location

– Humanities/Social Sciences– Print collections

but also electronic

– Visits access to collections holdings

– Document delivery


Rationale

Library demand - record source

– Record quality variations Bibliographic Holdings

– Source(s) for records required– Importance of record exchange– OpenURL ramifications


Rationale

JOIN-UP [http://www.edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/index.shtml]

– Seamless access to journals/journal articles Databases Current awareness services - ZETOC

– Xgrain/ZBLSA/Docusend/ZETOC– JISC Information Environment

Research Support Libraries Group [http://www.rslg.ac.uk/]

– February 2003 Final Report– Recommendation

“expedite a national serials catalogue (SUNCAT) to launch state”

Exploitation and rationalisation


Origins

World List of Scientific Periodicals, 1900-1960

BUCOP – British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 1955-1980

UKNUC Feasibility Study, 2000-April 2001

– Final report [http://www.uknuc.shef.ac.uk/NUCrep.pdf]

– Serials report [http://www.uknuc.shef.ac.uk/NUCser.pdf]

SUKNUC £880K

SUNCAT scoping study, Spring 2002 [http://www.rslp.ac.uk/circs/2002/suncat.doc]


Origins

Existing serials catalogues

– COPAC [http://www.copac.ac.uk/]– SALSER

[http://edina.ed.ac.uk/salser/]– University of London Union List of

Serials [http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/]


SUNCAT organisation

Invitation to Tender for Provision of a National Serials Union Catalogue, Oct 2002– £700K over two years– JISC + RSLP

Contract awarded Feb 2003


SUNCAT organisation

ITT Background– “The key users of the SUNCAT catalogue are

expected to be researchers at all levels, inside and outside of UK Higher Education, for whom the catalogue will provide a mechanism for identifying the location of holdings of serials of interest to them held outside their home institution. The catalogue is also expected to have applicability for learning, particularly at undergraduate level but also beyond into the life long learning context. For librarians and contributing libraries SUNCAT will provide a centralised catalogue of high quality bibliographic records for serials held in UK libraries, and a mechanism whereby they can replace their own local records with standardised high quality records obtained from the central database.”


SUNCAT organisation

EDINA lead partner [http://www.edina.ac.uk/projects/]

Overall leadership/technical input Peter Burnhill, Project Director Leah Halliday, Project Manager

Ex Libris ALEPH 500 California Digital Library

Edinburgh University Library User requirements/liaison Liz Stevenson

‘Associate partners’ National Library of Scotland Glasgow University Library Universities of Oxford/Cambridge


SUNCAT organisation

Steering Committee– Chair: Derek Law, Strathclyde– JISC– CURL– British Library

Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group– NLS/Cambridge/Oxford/Edinburgh/

Glasgow– Slawek Rozenfeld– 28 March


Timetable

Phase 1– Feb 2003 – Dec 2004– ‘critical start-up mass of titles’– c20 libraries– ‘Trial service’ followed by ‘Early start

service’ during Phase 1

Phase 2– Jan 2005 – Dec 2006– ‘Full working service’– c200 libraries– Including ‘specialised’ libraries e.g.

learned societies etc


Timetable

Phase 1 libraries– British Library– National Lib

Scotland– National Lib Wales– Queens Univ

Belfast– Univ Birmingham– Univ Bristol– Univ Cambridge– Univ Durham– Univ Edinburgh– Univ Glasgow

– Imperial College– Univ Leeds– LSE– Univ Manchester– Univ Nottingham– Univ Oxford– Univ Southampton– UCL– Univ Wales, Cardiff– Univ Warwick


Methodology

Prime record sources

– CONSER – Cooperative Online Serials programme – MARC21 records [http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/]

Library of Congress + c30 members, mostly US National Library of Canada Hong Kong Univ Sci Tech National Library of Wales

– ISSN International Centre [http://www.issn.org/]


Methodology

Initial additional sources

– National Library of Scotland– University of Cambridge– University of Oxford

SUNCAT will be accessible to all, available as record source for participating libraries


Methodology

Ex Libris– California Digital Library

[http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/?CSdb=pe]

Load and merge(?) CONSER and ISSN files

Match and add files from Phase 1 libraries– Matching algorithms – ISSN, key title

Updates on batch basis Systems Analysis meeting 10-11

April


Methodology

Initial concentration on bib records ISSNs, incl titles without ISSNs Holdings records vital, but of mixed

quality… Print and electronic records/holdings

– Electronic access BALSA – OpenURL resolver service

– Rights Evaluation Mechanism Document delivery - Docusend


Methodology

Holdings statement examples– 1996- 1-

– 1963-1976 23-36

– 40-58, 1967-85

– Notes: Library holds: March 2001- (print), Vol 1, Oct 2000- (electronic)

– Vol.14- , 1992-

– Vols.11-13, 1989-1991.

– 1(1992)-

– 6(1972/73)-

– [1](1984)-3(1985)

– 5 NOS.1-4(1967-70)

– 1985-

– 1(1949)-5(1967)

– 1(1968)-7(1974/77)

– Vol. 8 (1994) to date

– Vol. 13 (1955) to Vol. 30 (1973)

– Numbering Vol.107-111 1985-1989

– Library holds: Winter 1994-

– Numbering 1991


SUNCAT

• “A keystone in the virtual walls of the digital library for the UK.”

Documents

SUNCAT - towards implementation