Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, recently completed an engagement to help enhance book content discoverability for ASM Press, the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology.
The engagement involved the creation of two types of metadata for selected book publications. For monograph, reference, textbook and trade publications, ASM Press required a rich set of MARC record metadata for each book, based on MARC21 standards and AACR2/RDA rules. Scope employed its technology-enabled mARCatTM suite of cataloguing services. The mARCat platform assists Scope's library information professionals in creating and updating MARC bibliographic metadata. In addition, Scope has in-house domain experts who validate subject classifications. For the ASM Press engagement, the mARCat-created tags/MARC fields were customised based on client requirements to improve the discoverability of the book via enhanced, data-rich tagging.
Scope also developed abstracts/summaries and keywords for each book chapter to support ASM Press' objective of making chapters more discoverable. Scope employed ConSCIseTM, its unique abstraction solution for the engagement. ConSCIse generates keywords and abstracts, conforming to client specifications, using a combination of software algorithms based on natural language processing (NLP) rules, Scope's expertise in text mining, knowledge repositories and subject matter expert (SME) curation.
Christine Charlip, Director of ASM Press, commented, "Creating enhanced metadata and librarian-friendly MARC records will propel the discoverability and usage of our extensive microbiology ebook collections. Scope provided expert guidance and high-quality deliverables within a very tight timeframe."
Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope, added, "Scope is very pleased to have the opportunity to support a prestigious life science publisher like ASM Press. Our mARCat and ConSCIse solutions combine our proprietary technology with our experienced SMEs to surpass client's expectations in terms of quality and cost-effectiveness."
