Impact Centre of Competence presentation at CERL 2014 by Tomasz Parkola (PSNC)
Calames :: CERL seminar (Paris, 2008)
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Calames Catalogue en Ligne des Archives et des Manuscrits de l’Enseignement Supérieur
Online Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts in French Higher Education Libraries
CERL, ParisNovember 7, 2008
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Contents
1. About Calames2. The online EAD editor3. The online public catalogue4. Calames and the web scale
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1. About Calames
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1. About Calames
Designed and developed by the ABES:
Bibliographical Agency for Higher Education
• A state institution (created in 1994)• Its main mission : The SUDOC (Higher
Education union catalogue)• Other activities : STAR, Calames
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1. About Calames
• Project June 2006 – December 2008• Another union catalogue (separate from
Sudoc)• Contains descriptions of manuscripts from
higher education and research libraries (a part of the CGM) About 36 000 records from 45 institutions
• Mazarine | Institut de France | Sorbonne | Doucet | Muséum | Sainte-Geneviève | BNU Strasbourg | BDIC | Montpellier University | Clermont-Ferrand University | …
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1. About « Calames »
1 name, 2 applications and 1 network :
• The online EAD editor • used by 9 libraries since April 2008• 12 more libraries in 2009
• The online public catalogue • launched in December 2007
• A network, a community• Commons tools, rules and practices
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2. The online EAD editor
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2. Key Requirements for the EAD editor
• From the user point of view (catalogers) :– A collective cataloging tool – XMetal, a fairly-known EAD editor– Dynamic help for editing
• About the data :– Data must remain in EAD– Huge EAD files :
• 4 Mb for some of them• Many components by level
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2. The solution
• A shared database• Each library has its own working space• A web application as an Internet Explorer plugin
» faster
• A database with XML support : The keystone of Calames
• Interface = XMetal + home made functions
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2. The online EAD editor
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2. Link to SUDOC’s authority records
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2. Editor’s features
• Tree browsing for each EAD file• Copy/cut/paste any component, or any group of
components• Multiple edits on the same file• All of XMetal’s functionalities• SUDOC’s authority files (searching, linking and soon
creating/updating)• One-click process
– to publish data on the web– To export data in various formats– To validate data (« diagnostics »)
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3. The online public catalogue
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3. Key features of the public catalog’s design
From the user point of view :• Everybody• Simple and advanced ways to search and browse.
» Depends on user’s needs
About the data :• Same EAD data, but how to :
• display them on a web page ?• use the EAD format’s richness for the search ?
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3. The solution
• A W3C standards compliant web site • A light interface which uses the browser to
process data:• XHTML interface, Javascript and web services =
Ajax» More reactive interface
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3. The search page
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3. The dynamic search page
3. The advanced search page
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3. The « search as you type » feature
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3. The results page
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3. The facets of the results page
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3. The components display page
3. The tree browsing feature
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3. Tags cloud
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3. Local Calames
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3. Digitized materials(work in progress)
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3. User generated content(in development)
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4. Calames and the Web scale
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4. Calames and Google
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4. Open Calames
• Sharing Dublin Core Metadata• Via OAI-PMH• With anyone
» First with the CERL Portal !
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4. Open Calames
• Federated Search• With SRU• Open to anyone
» First with CCfr (BnF)
…Teasing for Florent
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4. Open Calames
• Being a piece of the semantic web• Calames in RDFa as a first step= Putting RDF metadata in XHTML pages
<div class="unitdate"><span class="controlC">Date : </span><span content="1601/1700" property="dc:date" class="unitdate">XVII<sup>e</sup> siècle</span>
</div>
<http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/res/MAZB10378> <dc:date> "1601/1700"
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Conclusion
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Calames betweenthe local and the global
• LOCAL• People (community, network)• Tools• Interfaces• Data : EAD
• GLOBAL• Search engines• Web services• Semantic Web• URL for each component Hard case !• Data : Dublin Core + FRBR + RDF