By Lars G. Svensson & Yvonne Jahns
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Frankfurt, Germany
This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly on August 12, 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
From the Abstract:
In January 2010, the German National Library discontinued the print version of the national bibliography and replaced it with an online journal. This was the first step in a longer process of redefining the National Library’s bibliographic services, leaving the field of traditional media – e. g. paper or CD-ROM databases – and focusing on publishing its data over the WWW. A new business model was set up – all web resources are now published in an extra bibliography series and the bibliographic data are freely available.
Step by step the prices of the other bibliographic data will be also reduced. In the second stage of the project, the focus is on value-added services based on the National Library’s catalogue. The main purpose is to introduce alerting services based on the user’s search criteria offering different access methods such as RSS feeds, integration with e. g. Zotero, or export of the bibliographic data as a CSV or PDF file. Current standards of cataloguing remain a guide line to offer high-value end-user retrieval but they will be supplemented by automated indexing procedures to find & browse the growing number of documents. A transparent cataloguing policy and well arranged selection menus are aimed.
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