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Connecting and discovering content

We are committed to making all collection holdings visible through LibrariesAustralia or the New Zealand equivalent. This project accelerates this process, providing strategic focus for us to increase resources and achieve significant improvements to coverage and quality of data. This will improve the ability to discover the items that are held in our collections.

Alongside this, we will develop new approaches to connecting our content through enhanced metadata services and new links from online resources, such as Wikipedia, and non-library discovery tools. We will investigate how we and public libraries can take advantage of the proposed service to ensure links are maintained rather than transitory. We will also examine the benefits of a common catalogue interface across our libraries.

This project will include the development of a national metadata store, with analytic content, research outputs and other materials. It will explore feasibility through case studies, plan the development of a service framework, explore how libraries can leverage from the store, and pilot the service.

Resources

• Background Information re. Single Business Discovery Project
• Libraries Australia Advisory Committee paper on the Single Business Discovery Project
• Single Business Discovery System - Prototype
• Connecting and Discovering Content Wiki