Irene Onyancha James Weinheimer Gauri Salokhe Stephen Katz Johannes Keizer

Irene OnyanchaJames Weinheimer

Gauri SalokheStephen Katz

Johannes Keizer

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsLibrary and Documentation Division

Rome, Italy DC2004Shanghai, China

Metadata Exchange without pain:the AGRIS AP to

harvest and exchange quality metadata

• The Problem of Information Exchange

• Motivation behind the needs for a change

• AGRIS AP: What is it?

• AGRIS AP exchange layer avoids the need for a single format

• New possibilities

• Future Issues

Overview

010 __ |a 2001023765020 __ |a 0852382847040 __ |a DLC |c DLC |d DLC042 __ |a pcc050 00 |a SH328 |b .W46 2001082 00 |a 333.95/6/153 |2 21100 1_ |a Welcomme, R. L.245 10 |a Inland fisheries : |b ecology and management / |c compiled by R.L. Welcomme.260 __ |a Oxford ; |a Malden, MA : |b Fishing News Books, |c 2001.300 __ |a xix, 358 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm.504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-352).650 _0 |a Fishery management.650 _0 |a Freshwater fishes |x Ecology.710 2_ |a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The Problem of Information Exchange

100: Welcomme, R.L.^b(comp.)200: Inland fisheries: ecology and management600: English401: Oxford (United Kingdom)402: Fishing New Books for FAO403: 2001500: 358 p.610: graphs, tables; Includes bibliography320: 0-85238-284-7800: INLAND FISHERIES; FRESHWATER ECOLOGY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICIES; INLAND WATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER FISHES; FISHING METHODS; FISH PROCESSING;EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

The Problem of Information Exchange•Different record structures and applications

•Different contents designations for the same bibliographic conceptMARC21: 245 (title) vs.AGRIN3: 200 (title)

•Different conceptual bibliographic metadata•Main entry/Open URL/Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

•Different cataloguing rulesAGRIS/AGRIN3: (401) Oxford (United Kingdom)AACR2/MARC21: (260) |a Oxford ; |a Malden, MA (ISBD)

•Variant treatments for different formats (one record/multiple records•Does an electronic format get a separate record?

DIFFERENCES

The Problem of Information Exchange•Multilinguality•AGRIS/AGRIN3

English title: (200) Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa French title: (202) Situation alimentaire et perspectives de recoltes en Afrique subsaharienne

•AACR2/MARC21:Main title: (245 10) ‡aFood supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa :‡bSituation alimentaire et perspectives de recoltes en Afrique subsaharienne Variant title: (246 31) ‡aSituation alimentaire et perspectives de recoltes en Afrique subsaharienne

•UNICODE, non-ASCII character sets

•Other Differences in Bibliographic Concepts and Granularity (2 fields or 1 field?)

245 10 ^a Inland fisheries : ^b ecology and management Where:

245=Title statement10 =Main entry/added entry indicator and filing indicator^a Title proper^b Other title information (or subtitle, separated by a space-colon-space)

200 Inland fisheries: ecology and managementWhere:200= English language title

DIFFERENCES

UNIMARC

AGRIN3

MARC21

new database

Motivation behind the needs for a changeEfficient exchange of bibliographic information

new database

6 total mappings12 total mappings20 total mappings

AGRIS AP: What is it?

•Benefits of the AGRIS AP

•Exchange of agricultural DLIO (Document-Like Information Objects)

•Improve interoperability and resource discovery•Based on Dublin Core with extensions of AgMES (Agricultural Metadata Element Set)

•Harvesting of metadata and associated content for Open Archives

•Possibility to access the actual resource from the Web

<agrisResource ags:ARN="NL2004700464"><dc:title xml:lang="nl">Internationale verkenning mestvergisting<dcterms:alternative xml:lang="nl">[International exploration manure fermentation]</dcterms:alternative></dc:title><ags:creator>

<ags:creatorPersonal>Tijmensen, M.</ags:creatorPersonal><ags:creatorCorporate>EcoFys, Utrecht (Netherlands)</ags:creatorCorporate>

</ags:creator><dc:publisher>

<ags:publisherName>EcoFys</ags:publisherName><ags:publisherPlace>Utrecht (Netherlands)</ags:publisherPlace>

</dc:publisher><dc:date>

<dcterms:issued>2003</dcterms:issued></dc:date><dc:subject xml:lang="en">

<ags:subjectClassification scheme="ags:ASC">N01</ags:subjectClassification><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">ANIMAL MANURES</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">FERMENTATION</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">GREENHOUSE EFFECT</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">AIR POLLUTANTS</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">EMISSION</ags:subjectThesaurus>

</dc:subject><dc:description>

<ags:descriptionNotes>In opdracht van: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Energie en Milieu (NOVEM)</ags:descriptionNotes><ags:descriptionNotes>Projectnummer: 0377-02-02-03-28 (4700003707)</ags:descriptionNotes>

</dc:description><dc:identifier scheme="dcterms:URI">http://www.robklimaat.nl/docs/4700003707.pdf</dc:identifier><dc:format>

<dcterms:extent>123 p.</dcterms:extent><dcterms:medium>internet</dcterms:medium>

</dc:format><dc:language scheme="ISO639-1">nl</dc:language><agls:availability>

<ags:availabilityLocation>Library Wageningen University and Research Centre, Postbus 9100, 6703 BK Wageningen [email protected] http://library.wur.nl/desktop/</ags:availabilityLocation>

<ags:availabilityNumber>1700464</ags:availabilityNumber></agls:availability>

</agrisResource>

AGRIS-AP XML Record

AGRIS AP exchange layer avoids the need for a single format

•Platform independent exchange facilitates interoperability and reusability of information

•Supports multilinguality

•Maintains a level of quality in the collected information

UNIMARCAGRIN3

MARC21 New database

AGRIS AP exchange layer<dc:title xml:lang="nl">Internationale verkenning mestvergisting</dctitle>

200 Internationale verkenning mestvergisting

245 Internationale verkenning mestvergisting

UNIMARC

AGRIN3

MARC21

new database

new database

New possibilities

• Sorting/Processing with XSL Transformations

• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to create user-designed newsfeeds

• Web services for connecting all web-based information

<dc:subject><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:AGROVOC">Animal Husbandry </ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:AGROVOC">Livestock Management </ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:AGROVOC">Animal Research</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">age-differences</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:CABT">animal-husbandry</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="en" scheme="ags:LCSH">Livestock systems--Congresses </ags:subjectThesaurus>

</dc:subject><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="fr" scheme="ags:RAMEAU">Bétail -- Alimentation </ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="de" scheme="ags:SWD">Nutztierhaltung </ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang="de" scheme="ags:SWD">Haltungssystem </ags:subjectThesaurus>

</dc:subject>

Future Issues

• Compatibility with ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)

• Compatibility with FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)

• Information loss is inevitable

DC2004Shanghai, China