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Japanese E-resource Metadata Issues
Haruko Nakamura Yale University Library
Workshop on Electronic Resources Standards and Best PracticesCEAL annual meeting pre-conference workshop, 25 March 2014, Philadelphia
OutlineIssues: Lack of resources and awareness
Scarce e-resources / contents
No/Poor metadata ebooks aggregated databases
Lack of proper procedures and communication
Scarce e-resources / contentsIndexing databases are still dominantSmall number of e-books and e-journalsVery few front list titles ( 新刊 ) are published as
ebooks
↓Majority of e-books have been already published in
print and many libraries already own them. Therefore, not many libraries purchase e-books,
thus they are not yet familiar with the Japanese e-book market.
MetadataLack of individual links of e-journals and e-
books providedFew vendors provide MARC records for OPACPoor interface function Confusion of diverse presentation of e-
resources (interfaces, access points, metadata, etc.)
eBooks Around 7,000 Japanese e-books available (mostly
science subjects)
Provides metadata in discovery tools like Summon, but…
Availability of MARC records are not consistent
Good MARC records, but poor interface function Transliterated headings (880 fields) Series headings Volume number Subject headings Collections base links
MARC record sample – Beautiful!
No transliterations
No series headings
No subject headings
No volume numbers
“ 新日本古典文学大系” as series
No Series Headings
Aggregated Databases
e-books and e-journals in one database
No MARC records
Provides metadata in discovery tools, but..
No direct links to individual titles or to several individual interfaces
Insufficient metadata? No ISBN, published year, transliterated titles, etc.
Lack of proper procedures and communicationContent updates (added, deleted and
changes of titles, etc.)Who takes care of this? Communication with
e-resources librarians (internal), vendors and publishers.
Japanese resources in databases supplied by other countries? (ex. Medical*Online, Factiva)
Annals of Gunma University Graduate School of Health
Sciences [Ja] ( 群馬保健学紀要 )
Other e-resource issues
Certain contents are not available outside Japan
Users have to install client softwareDifficult license agreementsUsage statistics not being availablePrice
Future Access at Yale Univ.
Knowledge base
Discovery Service
E-journal and E-book MARC
records in catalog
E-journal A-Z list
Database A-Z list
Link Resolver
Conclusion - Working Together With
Librarians (liaison to users)
andPublishers and Vendors (content creators)
↓ Increase access points of e-resources Improve awareness of e-resources among users Increase the use of e-resources Librarians can justify subscriptions of e-
resources Everyone wins!
Thank you!