A presentation from Ian Pattenden from Bowker about their ‘Syndetic Solutions’ OPAC enrichment product.<\/p>\n
Obviously really a sales pitch, but I find this an interesting area – do cover shots ‘enhance’ an academic library catalogue, or are they superfluous, and a distraction from the real business of looking for library material?<\/p>\n
Syndetic Solutions provides 17 ‘data elements’ for OPAC enrichment – cover shots, tables of contents, sample chapters, author notes, reviews, etc. (see below) and the currently cover 2.8 million books, and growing.<\/p>\n
One issue I have with this service is that it is hosted, so the information doesn’t get integrated into your catalogue. Ian is presenting this as ‘simple’, but for me it is a wasted opportunity. If we are going to add ToC to our catalogue, I’d like them to be searchable.<\/p>\n
The links are done by ISBN, which means that it doesn’t apply to any of our Audio-Visual material of course, as well as items without ISBNs.<\/p>\n
The data elements available are:
\nCover images (1.7 million, increasing by 10k per week)
\nFirst chapters and Excerpts (from books published from 2000 onwards)
\nTables of Contents (about 800,000, rising to 1 million by the end of 2007)
\nSummaries and Annotations (taken from book jackets and publishers)
\nBook Reviews and Author notes
\nAwards (e.g. Pulitzer Prize etc.)
\nSeries (e.g. fiction series in reading order)
\nProfiles\/Search for similar titles (e.g. based on the fact a book is about a single mother detective, you can find other books about single mother detectives)<\/p>\n
\nSome examples Finally, free trial access is also possible (apparently there is an Ex Libris KB item – KB6850 – on how to set this up).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A presentation from Ian Pattenden from Bowker about their ‘Syndetic Solutions’ OPAC enrichment product. Obviously really a sales pitch, but I find this an interesting area – do cover shots ‘enhance’ an academic library catalogue, or are they superfluous, and a distraction from the real business of looking for library material? Syndetic Solutions provides 17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-igelu-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/aleph.aub.auc.dk<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/nuin.napier.ac.uk
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\nMore detail is available at http:\/\/www.syndetics.com<\/a>, and Bowker can do you a ISBN match report before you buy the service (they find match rates vary between 30% and 60%). Price is based on the number of English Language books for academic libraries, or annual circulation for other libraries<\/p>\n