E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced the development of a new E-Books Metadata Normalization process for Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. As a result of this new process, KnowledgeWorks will now be able to deliver the best possible access to e-Books through 360 services and OPACs.
E-Book metadata is normalised in the KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase to provide more accurate and consistent e-Books holdings information to improve access and management of e-Books. To enable normalisation of e-Books metadata, Serials Solutions metadata librarians have developed innovative and trustworthy algorithms that efficiently aggregate and authoritatively link data from all available sources. For each e-Book in the library’s collection, KnowledgeWorks aggregates holdings data from all subscribed databases and normalises them into a single record. This makes it easier for patrons to find and access the e-Books in the collection, thereby increasing usage and return on investment in e-Books content.
Serials Solutions acquires E-Books metadata from all available resources without preference or exclusion. E-Book records harvested by Serials Solutions populate the KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase, and are distributed to patrons through the patron-facing interfaces of Serials Solutions 360 access services and the library’s OPAC via 360 MARC Updates. Each Serials Solutions 360 service shares the same KnowledgeWorks data and administrative interface to eliminate redundancy and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of each service.
The new e-Books normalisation process will be implemented in Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase in January 2010.
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