Common Access Point for the Spanish General State Authority Libraries: report available

Hi all,

Is available the English version of the report of the Spanish project "Common Access Point for the General State Authority Libraries" drawn up by de General State Authority Libraries Union Catalogue Working Group.

The General State Authority Libraries comprise nearly 1000 libraries coordinated through a General Coordination Committee, whose Permanent Secretariat is the Spanish Ministry of Culture Sub-Directorate-General for Library Coordination. (http://www.mcu.es/bibliotecas/MC/BAGE/index.html )

The Common Access Point is based on open-source developments and especially the tools of eXtensible Catalog which cover most functionalities required for a Union Catalogue, among others the possibility of importing metadata from different ILMS through OAI-PMH harvesting, an OAI layer for those ILMS which do not support this, the normalisation of metadata from different sources (MARC21 or Dublin Core), transformation into a schema which employs the most advanced bibliographical standards: FRBR and RDA; the possibility of building advanced
consultation, discovery and data presentation interfaces. It furthermore provides for real-time connection with individual ILMSs to obtain copy availability information via NCIP, allowing inter-library loan services to be set up.

You can download the report from:  http://hdl.handle.net/10421/5601

We are already working on a pilot of the Common Access Point. We will keep you informed.

We hope this project will be of interest and any feedback is  welcome.

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Domingo Arroyo Fernández
Coordinator - Working Group on the Union Catalogue for the General State Authority Libraries
Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria.
Ministerio de Cultura
Plaza del Rey ,1
28701 Madrid
+34 91701 74 63
domingo.arroyo_at_mcu.es