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Building the Digital Asia Library: A Project Overview

Learn how the From RC to DB project at UW-Madison's Charles W. Dean Library uses CORC and SiteSearch for a digital Asia library, supported by a DoE grant. Enhance access to Asian web content through a dynamic subject guide and centralized database. Project implements Dublin Core metadata, has work flow for cataloging, and robust exporting capabilities. Discover outcomes such as original cataloging in CORC and testing of DC-MARC crosswalks. Unresolved technical issues include UTF-8 support and handling division of labor between server and client tasks.

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Building the Digital Asia Library: A Project Overview

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  1. From RC to DB: Using CORCand SiteSearch to Create theDigital Asia Library Charles W. Dean Library Technology Group UW-Madison cdean@facstaff.wisc.edu SSUGM, OCLC, May 8, 2001

  2. http://digitalasia.library.wisc.edu • DoE grant, 3 years, renewed annually • multi-institutional participation/support (UWisc., UMinn., Ohio State) • supports research in social sciences • enhances access to foreign information: Web sites in Asia in English/vernacular • dynamic subject guide (pathfinders, current awareness, recent additions)

  3. Project Specs/Deliverables • Dublin Core metadata • centralized database for record sharing • Web front-end for cataloging • up to 10,000 records • basic search interface for DAL staff • advanced search choices for end users • Unicode support for original/vernacular titles? (WFP)

  4. Work Flow • area/subject specialists find, evaluate, and select resources • specialists and students catalog resources (RB/CORC) • records reviewed and enhanced by others • cataloger adds LCSHs, checks record and use of fields (DC/MARC views) • cataloger and PM approve the record (SaveFile to RC)

  5. CORC vs. Record Builder • state of DC standard: 2, 3, “DAL” DC, other qualified (modifiers/schemes) • RB workform customization • system speed (submit, view, edit, re-submit) • data integrity (missing records, fields, field truncation, diacritic support) • DC-MARC mapping (CORC) • robust exporting (CORC)

  6. Outcomes • UW db BER uses MARC tags • original cataloging (DC) in CORC • periodic exports (MARC) • testing DC-MARC crosswalks (546/Language, 651/Country, 655/Type) • WebZ “portal” for DAL collection in CORC/WorldCAT • canned searches (thematics, What’s New)

  7. WebZ and Database Builder • using nf obi and MarcCatalog ini’s (Format/Rules) • obi format class (ORG.oclc.fmts.rules.Add856) in [ElectronicAccess] rule hotlinks URLs • externalLink definition in [target] stanza in pagesNoFrame.ini opens new window

  8. WebZ and DB (con’t) • invokes external.js with onClick event for new window w/ pre-defined size and placement • JS file called in nfbrief.html and nffull.html record display templates • ssdot append/update tested 4/17 (replace/update our best practice to date)

  9. Unresolved Technical Issues • WFP -- UTF-8 support badly needed (and promised) for storing, indexing, searching • RB “black box” -- MANTIS, dtd and xml templates, Unicode support (input and display other than workstation config) • division of labor between server (Java) and client (JS) tasks -- record marking, screen re-painting, server file handles/threads?

  10. (If There’s Time) Other Issues Outside SiteSearch • ownership of records (project vs. institutional affiliation) • extracts for OPACs • “rogue” site archive (ephemera metadata) • record “suppression” -- what’s required for record to “graduate” from SaveFile to public display?

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