Expert Advisory Group on Institution specific data

Libraries Australia is interested in developing a new service which will allow libraries to use a localised version of Libraries Australia as a public access catalogue for their collections.  To support such a service additional institution specific data (ISD) may need to be added to Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) records and be supported in Libraries Australia services.

ISD may be either optionally shareable data (e.g. subject data created using an institution specific controlled vocabulary) or non-shareable data (e.g. an institution specific URL).

The Libraries Australia Advisory Committee at its meeting in September 2007 recommended that an Expert Advisory Group be established to review Libraries Australia policy on support for institution specific data.

The Final report of the Expert Advisory Group on Institution Specific Data is now available.  The report includes recommendations and proposals for the support of ISD in bibliographic records and the implementation of the MARC 21 Holdings Format.

Expanded support for ISD, including support for the use of the MARC21 Holdings Format, will:

Implementation of support for ISD in bibliographic records and the implementation of the MARC 21 Holdings Format in Libraries Australia will require changes to the configuration of the Cataloguing Service (CBS) and will need to be included as a requirement in the National Library’s redevelopment of the Libraries Australia Search service.  Australian libraries will be kept informed as time-frames and plans for implementation are finalised

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Terms of Reference

The EAG has the following terms of reference:

Membership

The membership of the group is:

Meetings

The EAG was established in November 2007.  Meetings will be held by teleconference.

Minutes

Documentation

LAAC paper on Support for ISD.

Background Paper – Expert Advisory Group on Institution Specific Data (PDF)

EAG Draft recomendations and schema (PDF)

Final report - Final report of the Expert Advisory Group on Institution Specific Data (PDF)