Institution:
BIBSYS Library Automation
N-7491
Trondheim
NORWAY
ELAG Contact Person:
Mr. Jan Erik Kofoed (adviser),
Jan.Kofoed@bibsys.no
phone: +47-73 59
69 71
Institution Type: Software developer and service provider.
Mission Statement:
BIBSYS is a consortium for all
Norwegian University Libraries, the National Library and a number of college
and research libraries. BIBSYS was established in 1972. At the moment 40
persons with a varied IT background are employed by BIBSYS. BIBSYS is
affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in
Trondheim, Norway. BIBSYS has its own Board of Directors, its own Council, and
its own budget. The libraries that use BIBSYS cover the costs. BIBSYS offices
are in Trondheim, and BIBSYS develops and maintains its own library system.
BIBSYS and its members are using UNINETT (the Norwegian academic network for research and education) as provider for network services. UNINETT is running a national IP-based network with good capacity throughout the Norwegian country. UNINETT is connected to Internet.
BIBSYS has developed and is maintaining its own software system. Database software is ADABAS, and programming environment is NATURAL, both delivered by SoftWare AG (SAG). BIBSYS has a large installation of computers , mainly IBM RS6000 running AIX. In addition we have some INTEL Pentium based computers running LINUX and a few computers from SUN running Solaris.
Our main service is a library system developed by BIBSYS. The library system consists of modules for document ordering, budget control, cataloguing, authority control, circulation, inter-library loan, loan ordering integrated with the search functions, several search modules, periodical control and research documentation. There are also many administrative routines for taking care of users, electronic messages, and a system for reporting errors and suggestions for improvement. Several databases and search possibilities are integrated with the library system.
Union Catalogue (http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/pub?lang=E)
Today the database consists of about 2.8 mill records that contain the metadata corresponding to about 7.5 mill physical documents.
The annual growth of the database is about 180.000 metadata records corresponding to about 600.000 items. About 2.2 mill documents are circulated each year.
FORSKDOK (http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/pub?lang=E&base=FORSKPUB)
System for recording research projects and publications. Currently there are approx. 3.200 projects and 90.000 publications. 40 institutions use FORSKDOK today.
BIBSYS LINK: Ordering of copies and loan (http://www.bibsys.no/bibsyslink/)
BIBSYS has developed a standard to link to holdings information and to copy order in BIBSYS. This gives the users the possibility of ordering loan or copies from a BIBSYS library. Several vendors have implemented this standard, e.g. OVID.
Electronic journals (http://www.bibsys.no/BDB/elj/tdb/)
BIBSYS offers a meta database of approx. 11.000 electronic journals. Norwegian interface only.
Common search interface (http://www.bibsys.no/BDB/search/ZSok/)
ZSøk uses the search protocol, Z39.50 to search many databases through a common interface. Zsøk is based on SiteSearch from OCLC. This service is also integrated with holdings data in BIBSYS and with the copy-ordering function.
ISI database (http://www.bibsys.no/isi.html)
Based on data from Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). More than 13 mill articles and more than 220 mill citations. It is possible to browse the periodicals (about 10.000) and each issue. The ISI database is linked to the holdings database, and gives the possibility to order article copies. 10.000 searches are performed per day.
SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS system (http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/pub?base=XMENU&lang=E)
A SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS system with more than 50 databases is now in operation. Restricted access.
The project BIBSYS Digital Library (BDB) was completed in 2000. The project has been running since 1997. Its objective was to focus on new services for the member libraries of BIBSYS. One important result is a report that describes the architecture of a digital library: Trond Aalberg og Knut Hegna: Arkitektur for digitale bibliotek. The report is in Norwegian only, but it contains a bibliography that references mostly literature in English. Another area that was investigated was access control. Both commercial systems (ISOS) and research projects (CACTUS) was evaluated.
An database for digital images is developed based on a native XML database system (Tamino from SAG). Scanned images (mostly old photographs and postcards) is stored together with their bibliographic records. The records use MARC stored in a XML structure.
BIBSYS is hosting 50 SilverPlatter databases for its member libraries. For a number of those databases BIBSYS has implemented a link to BIBSYS holdings data and copy ordering.
BIBSYS is responsible for operating a common subject based gateway for the libraries. It is based on the ROADS software. The libraries are responsible for cataloguing the Internet resources. BIBSYS maintains the technical part of the gateway and has the editorial responsibility of the database.
The users of BIBSYS can locate full text documents through BIBSYS. Access is controlled based on the users id or the IP address of his computer. BIBSYS is investigating a system for sending copies to the end-users based on scanning and electronically delivery. This will be done by linking the information in the BIBSYS database with a scanner.
BIBSYS is participating in several national and international projects:
A small project, but of great cultural-historical interest, is the implementation of Saami characters and language in BIBSYS. The Saami people are a minority with a total population estimated to 65000 (30000 in Norway). BIBSYS has support for Saami characters in the database and is using UNICODE for presenting them correctly on the web. During 2001 the BIBSYS search interface will be in three languages: Norwegian, English and Northern Saami.
Reported by Jan Erik Kofoed <Jan.Kofoed@bibsys.no>
Trondheim, 15 May 2001
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