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Use Cases
- 01. Publish data for unspecified use
- 02. Publish open Linked Data for unspecified use
- 03. Supply data for Physical Union Catalogue
- 04. Allow Physical Union Catalogue to publish data
- 05. Expose data for federation into Virtual Union Catalogue
- 06. Publish grey literature data
- 07. Contribute data to Google Scholar
- 08. Publish activity data
- 09. Supply holdings data for Collection Management
- 10. Expose holdings / availability data for Closest Copy location
- 11. Share data for Collaborative Cataloguing
- 12. Supply data for Crowd Sourced Cataloguing
- 13. Supply data to be enhanced for own use
- 14. Publish data for LIS research
- 15. Allow personal use of data for Reference Management
- 16. Publish data for lightweight application development
- 17. Allow commercial use of data in mobile application
10. Expose holdings / availability data for Closest Copy location
Expose bibliographic data including holdings and potentially availability that can be used to provide a closest copy location service.
Description
Activity -
Expose bibliographic data including holdings and potentially availability that can be used to provide a closest copy location service. There may be opportunity to include availability for print on demand and download as well as the number and status of physical copies. The service may be operated by a 3rd party or by a consortium at regional or national level.
Actors -
Libraries; 3rd party or consortium services at an appropriate level
Data involved -
Partial bibliographic records (or full depending on service set up) with holdings and perhaps availability
Data flow -
Involves provision of a service (e.g. API, web service, Z39.50 / SRU / SRW server) to enable the closest copy service to report availability in terms of holdings and / or availability. Alternatively (outside the scope of this UC) involves supply of data (and therefore low level of reliability in terms of holdings and availability).
Does this require Open Data -
Whilst not essential, if the records are supplied under an open data license, the scope for reuse both within and beyond closest copy service will be unambiguous. Look for reciprocal open data licensing before engaging with collaborative services operated by a third party.
Current Examples -
We are not aware of examples based on open data, though this approach could be adopted by any shared service.
Consequences of doing it as Open Data
What will happen? -
Although there is no guarantee of any specific outcome of releasing this data, it could facilitate the emergence of location based services enabling researchers, students and others to identify closest copy to their current location
Potential Risks -
(1) Loss of control over institutional data; (2) A ‘closest copy’ service, may not be well aligned with the realities of access on the ground; (3) Increased visibility of collection leads to demand beyond local resources ability to supply
Rights and Licensing Issues
Rights and licensing issues -
This use case requires the granting (whether implicit or explicit) of data access and usage rights to a third party. Whether that is classed as ‘use’ or ‘supply’ will depend upon the nature of the relationship between the organizations involved. See http:// www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Projects/TransferandUseofBibliographicRecords.aspx.
Practicalities
Data exchange formatting -
Z39.50, SRU, SRW or locally developed API
Lifecycle implications -
Potentially significant, as local infrastructure needs to handle the overhead of every query passed along by the union catalogue.
Hosting requirements -
Potentially significant, as local infrastructure needs to handle the overhead of every query passed along by the union catalogue.
Existing systems impact -
(1) Continued support and maintenance of the local target, which must be persistently available; (2) possible development work to align with new requirements from the locate service; (3) possible challenges relating to the catalogue entries for more ambitious implementations covering digital copies.
Skills demands -
Staff concerned with maintaining the external locate service are likely to possess all the necessary skills to maintain Z39.50-style targets, where these are well defined and provided by their existing system provider. Specific use cases may require local (or vendor) development work, with cost or skill implications.
