enhancing resource discovery: ddc and gaelic: the portree project

Enhancing Resource Discovery:DDC and Gaelic: The Portree Project

Elaine FultonDirector

SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

Overview

• SLIC remit and objectives• Standards and Interoperability• Policy Context• Portree Project• Intended outcomes• Outcomes

SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

SLIC Main objectives

• To advise the First Minister and Scottish Executive on library and information matters

• To develop, promote and monitor standards for library and information services in Scotland

• To provide grant aid for library and information pilot projects

SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/ Registered in Scotland

No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

SLIC key priorities

• Quality, standards and evaluation; • Innovation and Service Development; • Co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation• Workforce development.

Through these activities we aim to deliver

• Improved library and information provision in our schools, communities, universities and colleges.• Improved standards of literacy and digital skills in Scotland.• A robust evidence base to inform policy and support decision-making.• Improved services through joint and cross sectoral initiatives.• Innovative digital initiatives, promoting the role of library and information services in all sectors.• Improved co-operation and collaboration across all sectors of the library and information

community and related organisations to encourage co-ordinated service development.• High quality flexible workforce.• Enhanced relations with emerging information professions and networks.



Standards and Interoperability

• Devolved Government• SNP Administration• Gaelic Act



Policy Context

• Enabling Seamless Access, 1999• Organising Information, 2001• Pilot Scottish Cultural Portal, 2002• Digital Access Scotland 2010• Shared Services and smartcards• Digital Strategy (ies)



About Gaelic

• Gaelic is a Celtic Language, Continental Celtic – Gaulish etc, Related to Irish and Manx

• 1881 – 250,000 speakers, 2001 – 58,000 speakers

• Reasons for Decline, Education Act (Scotland) 1872, Emigration, First World War

• Medieval Language - interesting translations in some cases the word is English as there is no other word



Portree project drivers influences

• OCLC relationship – WorldCat/Scottish Cultural Portal, Ask Scotland

• Meet requirements of the Gaelic Act• Seamless access to material• Global tourism and promotion access to the

diaspora. – Almost no corner of the world is untouched by

Scottish emigration, with over 28 million people worldwide descended from Scottish shores and ancestral connections.



Portree project• OCLC looking to make resources available in indigenous languages ,

following on from a project New York with Spanish using DDC and QR codes, power of linked data

• Gaelic speaker to translate top 1000 terms in DDC• Needed to be robust and agreed by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and An Seotal• Needed a robust pilot project – Highland Council was obvious choice,

Active Gaelic Speakers, catalogued Gaelic content• Transferable and sustainable• Timely Politically



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Portree projectSeamless Access in Gaelic – the smart way•A user of a public library in the Highland Libraries service browses the non-fiction collection on the shelves. Each shelf stack has a poster giving the DDC Summary numbers for that stack (or a single poster covering all Summary numbers) with captions in Scottish Gaelic and English. Against each set of numbers and captions is a QR code. •The user scans the code with their mobile phone, using a suitable app. The code is used to carry out an automatic search of the library's catalogue and displays books and other resources which would usually be found in the stack. The user is able to identify resources which are in circulation or otherwise not currently shelved, and resources which are difficult to see on the shelf, such as those with no spines, or in boxes, etc.•A Gaelic-speaking user of the library is able to appreciate the way that topics are arranged on the shelves and the terminology and arrangement of technical topics in their own language.•An English-speaking user of the library sees Gaelic translations of broad subject topics on every stack during every visit, acquires a working knowledge of several hundred Gaelic words, and is encouraged to study the language further.



Portree project• Widening access -Mobile squared!• A poster or set of posters giving the DDC Summary numbers and

captions in Scottish Gaelic and English with QR codes is displayed in the mobile libraries of Highland Libraries service. A user of the mobile library service is able to identify all the resources on a topic held by the service and arrange for specific resources to be included in the mobile browsing collection when the library next visits their location.

• Highland-wide promotion of the library service• A poster or set of posters with the Summary numbers, captions,

and QR codes is displayed on the notice boards of community centres, tourist information centres, and commercial premises throughout Highland region, with text promoting the use of the mobile and public libraries.




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DDC Summaries 530-540English-Gaelic


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530 Physics Fiosaigs

531 Classical mechanics; solid mechanics Meacanaigs clasaigeach; meacanaigs teann-stuth

532 Fluid mechanics; liquid mechanics Meacanaigs stuth sruthach; meacanaigs stuth lionnach

533 Gas mechanics Meacanaigs gas

534 Sound & related vibrations Fuaim & crithean co-cheangailte

535 Light & infrared & ultraviolet phenomena Tachartasan solais & fo-dhearg & ultra-bhìolait

536 Heat Teas

537 Electricity & electronics Dealan & eileagtronaigs

538 Magnetism Magnaiteachd

539 Modern physics Fiosaigs nuadh

540 Chemistry & allied sciences Ceimigeachd & saidheansan co-cheangailte

DDC shelfmarks + QR codes


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Sharing the experienceLibrary Sign Generator

What Does it Do?

• Automated creation of library sign artwork• QR code generation• Batch download• Creation of new colours and templates

• Reference number• English title• Gaelic title• Web address• Age group

Add / Edit

• Automatically generated from web URL

• URL is shortened to allow creation of neat codes

• QR code will regenerate if and when web URL changes

QR Codes

• Print ready PDF files

• Available in all templates

• Can be scaled up/down

Download

Background and text can be changed to suit colour scheme

Options

The Benefits

• Saves time• Saves money• Visual consistency

Promotion

Summary

• Low cost• Wide impact• Meeting government objectives• Improving resource discovery• Good value



enhancing resource discovery: ddc and gaelic: the portree project

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scottish charity

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scottish executive

digital access scotland

sc17886 standards

education act scotland

information services