Thanks Peter,
Developments like Folio are a great opportunity to widen out the notion of
'library systems.' In the past there have been attempts to 'bend' library
systems and the MARC format to meet the needs of other areas such as archives
and museums. These have had only limited success and have rarely (if ever?)
gone beyond some form of data aggregation for discovery. In terms of archives I
think (not quite sure of my ground here) that the US has tended to make use of
MARC whereas Canada and the UK eschew that in favour of ISAD(G)/EAD -I believe
because they can better represent the hierarchical ("fonds" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds ) nature of archives. Spectrum seems to
rule for museums (and in the UK being 'Spectrum compliant' helps in getting
museum 'accreditation' I believe)
Perhaps Folio should talk to (see my other email) System Simulation and Soutron
for example and get them involved? Archives hub
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/about/ in the UK is also brilliant with a lot of
expertise. It is a national Jisc service and I know Jisc is supporting Folio
but I wonder if they have thought about specifically involving the Archive Hub
people?
System Simulation based in London. http://www.ssl.co.uk/
Soutron too has done some work on an integrated library and archive solution.
https://www.soutron.com/products/soutron-combined-library-archive/
Ken
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter
Murray
Sent: 10 November 2017 15:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A coherent solution for a library/archive/museum?
I'll humbly suggest that FOLIO might be a platform for that coherent whole,
albeit one that isn't ready for such a role today. The service platform
concept enables apps to cooperate on storing and operating on data in the
system. There has been early talk about the needs for library special
collections departments for attached record types like "conservation treatment"
and reading room requests. The core of the platform is metadata agnostic...it
will enable several descriptive record formats to coexist in the same system.
The authority control and linked data elements are beyond the plans for v1 to
be ready next year; it would be useful to have archive and museum perspectives
complement the library perspectives that are a part of the project now.
Peter
On Nov 9, 2017, 12:42 PM -0500, Ken Chad <[email protected]>, wrote:
> I'm working with a learned society that is looking for a more integrated
> software solution for its rich library, archive and museum collections. I'd
> love to hear from anyone with real life experience of combining these
> elements into something like a coherent whole....in particular in terms
> of:-
>
> . Unified discovery across the record formats used by
> libraries/archives/museums -e.g. MARC/ISAD(G)-EAD/Spectrum. For example I
> have seen a small number of organisations that have managed to combine the
> display of bibliographic data (based on MARC) with hierarchical archive data
> (based on ISAD(G). I'd welcome any experience you are prepared to share
>
> . A shared thesaurus/controlled vocabulary (MARC authority control
> is insufficient) across the three main collection types
> (library/archive/museum).
>
> . Linked data type solutions to expose these (typically unique)
> materials on the web. (E.g. I've noted the Atlas Systems and Zepheira
> partnership announced last year)
>
>
>
> My sense at the moment that the resource/collection management functions
> will be much harder to integrate into a single solution-although there is
> some similarity between archives and museums (e.g. location management,
> conservation management, digitisation etc)
>
>
>
> All comments gratefully received!
>
> Ken
>
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