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The Library behind the sceneHow does it work ?

The Library behind the scenes

JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS


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Outline

• 1- Introduction – definitions and context• 2- Information systems in particle physics• 3- Standards• 4- Tools• 5- Conclusions and outlook


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1- Introduction

Do you speak “Librarian”?


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What’s a Library for you ?


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What’s a Library for you ?


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Some definitions

• Library (Oxford Reference Online)• A building or room containing collections of books,

periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution

• Digital Library (Wikipedia)– is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats

(as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system.


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Context

• Towards a digital world: print vs online– Traditional print/physical collections: • Books, journals, theses, reports, standards…• Physical item, description, location

– E-resources:• E-books, e-journals, multimedia (videos, photos…), e-

document…• File, description, link, content ++

Evolution of information retrieval


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2. Information system at CERN and in particle physics

CDS and Inspire


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Particle physics and CERN

• Particle physics– Aims to understand how the Universe works– Small but tightly organized worldwide community– Experimental vs theoretical

• CERN: Research Institute in Particle Physics– LHC (Large Hadron Collider)– 2500 staff + 10,000 users coming from everywhere in the world

• Need fast communication to distribute research result– Publication in journals, too long process– Preprint communication– From mail to arxiv.org


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Open access

• Traditional publication model: – Subscription, purchase, controlled access

• Open Access: – Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free

of charge to the reader, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

– Green OA, ex. Institutional repositories (CDS, JINR..)

– Gold OA, OA to published articles


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CERN Scientific Information Service

• Mission– Provide information resources in ALL fields of

relevance to CERN– Ensure scientific information produced at CERN is

safeguarded and made publicly available.– Distribute CERN publications

• Audience– Particle physicists (from CERN and from outside),

Engineers, technicians, Computer scientists, Administrative staff


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CERN Document server: institutional repository and Library catalogue

http://cdsweb.cern.chPowered by Invenio

CERN Library collections: (e)books, (e)journals, (e)standardsCERN Institutional repository: preprints, articles, theses (fulltext)…Multimedia collections. CERN publication


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Inspire: HEP literature database

http://inspirehep.net/Powered by Invenio

Worldwilde repository:CERN, Fermilab, SLAC and Desy

All HEP literature (since 1960)

Citation extraction, author, affiliation analysis..


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JINR Document server


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Where do first search for information?


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What system do your prefer?Arxiv 0804.2701v2, Gentil-Beccot et al.

2007 survey9% of HEP scholars use Google as preferred information system


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Google generationArxiv 0804.2701v2, Gentil-Beccot et al.

What do you do when you are looking for an information?


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Why?


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2- Standards

Why we need them


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Library catalogue


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Library catalogue


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Marc 21

• Metadata: data about data, record description• MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloguing,

international standard for representing and communicating bibliographic records, developed in the 60s

• MARC21: redesigned MARC for the 21st century– Is based on the ANSI standard Z39.2, which allows

users of different software products to communicate with each other and to exchange data.

• XML-MARC: XML schema based on MARC21


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Marc 21

Author Title

Identifier


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MARCxml

Title

Author

Identifier


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Other standards

• Metadata: – MARC, Dublin Core, BibTex…

• Identifiers: – DOI, ISBN, Barcodes…

• Data exchange protocols:– Z39.50, OAI-PMH

• Full text and coding:– Xml, PDF, PDF/a…


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Why is this important?

• Retrieve information– Identification and searchability

• Preservation– Ensure the information will be readable by

another machine / in 20 years time (?)• Interoperability / Information integration– Transfer (convert) data easily to another catalogue– Extract information and re-use it


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4- Tools


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A Library system

Bibliographic record

Physical Item

Electronic file

Borrower

LibrarianBibliographic record

Physical Item

Electronic file


Physical Item

Electronic file

BorrowerBorrower



Publisher Other Source

Loan

Create/edit

Ingest

Ingest

LIBRARYCATALOGUE

Access

Search / Find

Author

Submit


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CERN Document server


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Circulation and statistics


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Record edition: BibEdit


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Record edition: Multi-record editor


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Records ingestion

Library catalogue

Conversion

Matching

-> New records-> Update records

MARCXML

XML

XMLMARCXML


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• Importance of structured information:– Standards– Automatic procedures as much as possible

• Why? – Users find what they need (and even more)– In the digital era, new challenges and opportunities:

• Build new services on top of the catalogue • Integrate information resources• Communicate!

• More in the next session!

Conclusions and outlook


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