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Mauro Guerrini
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Mauro Guerrini
Expert Advisory Group Makes Its Recommendations for Open Data in Alma
*The group embraces the goal of open access for the Alma Community
Catalog of bibliographic records***
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*Jerusalem, Israel---January 19, 2012.*Ex Libris^® Group, a world leader
in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce
that the international group of renowned library experts who convened to
advise Ex Libris on the Community Catalog of the Alma library management
service has concluded the first phase of its work. Part of the Alma
Community Zone, the Community Catalog comprises metadata records shared
by libraries that are using the Alma library management service. The
purpose of the Community Catalog is to streamline resource-management
processes, including selection, acquisitions, cataloging, and fulfillment.
The group's recommendations were governed by the principle that all
records contributed to the Community Catalog should be open and that
members should be able to share, copy, edit, and redistribute records
that are linked to the library's inventory. Owned jointly by the
community, the Community Catalog will also enable libraries to
contribute records to external systems, such as Ex Libris Primo^® , or
other discovery environments. Alma's early adopters and development
partners had an opportunity to review the recommendations during the
group's deliberations.
The group's recommendations focus on the rights and responsibilities of
the Community Catalog members to ensure that the records they contribute
will be available for other members' use. Furthermore, the
recommendations specify the mandate of Ex Libris to provide clear
documentation of these rights and responsibilities. Ex Libris has
agreed to work with the community, which will be largely self-governed,
to establish any necessary dispute-resolution practices.
Karen Coyle, an independent consultant and cataloging expert who is a
member of the advisory group, commented: "Establishing clear frameworks
to disseminate library data is of immense importance to library
professionals. I applaud Ex Libris for consulting with this diverse and
knowledgeable group and actively listening to the group's advice."
"The ecosystem for library metadata is rapidly evolving," remarked
advisory-group member Jennifer Younger, chair of the board of directors
at the Catholic Research Resources Alliance, an association of Catholic
colleges and universities that make their resources available
electronically to library professionals and the general public. "Open
metadata is increasingly of interest to the library industry, as huge
volumes of content are made available through the Web. This trend
coincides with libraries' growing interest in streamlining workflows for
acquiring and managing resources to enhance efficiency. Opening access
to metadata as early in the life cycle as possible enables this
efficiency to be more easily and cooperatively achieved."
"It has been a privilege to work with the advisory group's dedicated and
passionate experts from the field of bibliographic data," noted Susan
Stearns, vice president of strategic partnerships at Ex Libris. "By
helping create the governing principles of the Community Zone, this
group has paved the way for Ex Libris to establish a truly open and
shared foundation of data on which to build services."
The members of the advisory group are as follows:
·Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
at University College London; President of LIBER (Association of
European Research Libraries) (UK)
·Diane Baden, Head of Monographic Services at O'Neill Library, Boston
College (US)
·Pascal Calarco, Associate University Librarian, Discovery and Digital
Services, at the University of Waterloo and representing the
TriUniversityGroup of Libraries (TUG) (Canada)
·Karen Coyle, Consultant (US)
·Kurt De Belder, University Librarian at Leiden University (the Netherlands)
·Mauro Guerrini, at the University of Florence (Italy)
·Ben Showers, Program Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure, at the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (UK)
·Barbara Tillett, Chief of the Policy and Standards Division,
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, at the Library of
Congress (US)
·Katharine Treptow Farrell, Head, Order Division, and Assistant
University Librarian for Technical Services, at Princeton University
Library (US)
·Andrew Wells, University Librarian at the University of New South Wales
(Australia)
·Jennifer A. Younger, Chair of the Board of Directors, Catholic Research
Resources Alliance (US and Canada)
As Alma moves into production in 2012, Ex Libris plans to extend this
work by forming a separate group, which will develop and document
cataloging standards and policies for Alma regarding operational issues
such as content standards and quality control.
*About Alma*
By consolidating the disparate systems used by today's libraries to
manage electronic, print, and digital resources, the Ex Libris Alma
library management service accelerates libraries' move toward
next-generation operations. Alma's cloud infrastructure helps libraries
increase their efficiency through collaboration and the sharing of data.
As a result, libraries can focus their resources on extending services
within and outside their institution while supporting the institution's
teaching and research missions.
*About Ex Libris*
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic
libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic,
digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient,
user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will
facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an
impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than
80 countries on six continents.
Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with
customers, Ex Libris enables academic, national, and research libraries
to maximize productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly
enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain
the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge
to knowledge.
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