Summit Catalog Committee Data Harvesting Working Group

Charge and Membership

This group will explore Summit’s potential as a source of data (bibliographic, item, order, circulation, etc.) for the purpose of developing improved services and informing decisions made by member libraries and the consortium. Potential applications include reuse and sharing of metadata, analysis of usability, cooperative collection development, accreditation and use in Summit or local resource discovery interfaces. This group will work on completing the Summit-Google Scholar interface, a project that involves uploading Summit holdings data to Google to provide a Summit link in Google Scholar search results. This group will include representatives from the Collection Development and Management Committee and Summit Borrowing Committee. It will also consult with the Accreditation Document Task Force to determine their needs for Summit Data. It will produce a written report with recommendations for action by March 1st 2007. Those actions will go to SCC and Council for approval.

The working groups are composed of individuals nominated by the Summit Catalog Committee representatives of Alliance institutions; a list of working group members is posted on the SCC web page. Each working group has a liaison who is also a member of the SCC Steering Team. The Steering Team liaisons will be responsible for initially convening the working groups and communicating with the Steering Team about their ongoing progress. Working groups are free to appoint a leader who is different from their liaison to the Steering Team.

Working Group leader: Mike Spalti
Steering Team liaison: Mark Dahl

Current work, reports, links to useful information, etc.

Report to the Summit Catalog Committee

Meeting Notes: 2007:January 29, January 8 2006: December 11

Report: Current Reporting and Data Access Capabilities of Summit

updated: March 6, 2007