Case study: CiNii’s Japanese langauge
bibliographies in Primo Discovery system
At Zurich and Oslo University Libraries
Zurich University Library
Kamiya Nobutake
Oslo University Library
Naomi Yabe Magnussen

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Contents

1. The purpose of this presentation and current
situation of the Discovery system
2. Testcases from our libraries
3. The present condition, improvement, and tasksremainded
4. The expectations for Primo in the future: What is
the ideal Discovery system?

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The current situation (part 1)

The situation• Several libraries in Europe have adopted Discoverysystem Primo over the last years
Beside Oslo and Zurich: Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) British Library Leiden University Libraries
 Université PARIS 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle KU Leuven and LIBISnet Consortium And more3

The current situation (part 2)What is Primo?
•The discovery service provided by ExLibris•

In addition to the library collections, it’s possible to search othermedia in and outside the libraries at the same time (keyword:one-stop-search)•ExLibris offers PCI (Primo Center Index) in which metadata arepooled and maintained4

Graphical illustration

Bibliographicaldata of Library A
collection

Bibliographicaldata of Library B
collection

Graphic from: “ExLibris Primo Central” © ExLibris

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The purpose of this presentation

We will share our experiences with Primo, and we wish
to think about following to points!
• Does the searching for the Japanese studies materials/ Japanese language materials become better now?
• What other points should be improved?

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Case: Zurich University Library• Started to use Primo from 2013
• Licensed via Swiss Library association NEBIS• Library management system: ALEPH• Activated Japanese databases via PCI:J-Stage, JapanKnowledge, CiNii Articles (fromSeptember 2015)

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Testcase: Search with «夏目漱石« inRechercheportal

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8Results filtered by «Japanese language» and sortedby «date-newest»

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The first result10This result could be from NII-ELS11À propos, a record from JK is shown asbellow12Case: Oslo Univesity Library• Started to use Primo Autumn 2014
• Licensed via Norwegian consortium BIBSYS• Library management system: BIBSYS. From the endof 2015 going to use Alma by ExLibris• Activated Japanese databases via PCI:NDL, J-Stage, CiNii Articles

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Testcase in Oria, with same search method

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Results filtered by «Japanese language», andsorted by «Date-newest»

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View of the 4th entry

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The current condition (part 1)

 Improvement!
We can now search metadata from CiNii Articles inPrimo directly(?)

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The current condition (part 2)

Problems
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Quality of the hit lists is not good enough, not accurate. Huge
difference of result between Primo and CiNii
We don’t know how often data of CiNii Articles updated. We
can’t find data of CiNii Articles from 2015 in Primo
Maintenance of PCI depend on ExLibris. We cannot access tothe detailed informations
Many of access free articles (open access journals) have no links
from Primo
Primo shows sources from which metadata come. But CiNii
Articles is somehow invisible??
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Requests & wishes to ExLibris More transparency of PCI-administration
 The quality of metadata in PCI should haveminimum uniform standard The metadata quality control should be one of themost important tasks for ExLibris (maybe it alreadyis?)19Requests & wishes to NII• We wish that the procedure to access CiNii Articles
metadata becomes simpler (What happens after
Institutional Fixed-Price Service機関定額制?)• Template for application: English version needed• Contents and summary information from CiNii
Books also into PCI?: Is it possible to show this via
PCI in Primo?

20Summary• Primo Discovery systems are similer to Google
and are practical, but the quality of the metadatavaries. It should be uniform. Local librarians
need to have basic knowledge of the system inorder to improve the search quality.
• ExLibris maintains metadata PCI, not individuallibraries. Convenient for the libraries, but itmeans that the libraries can’t control metadataquality.
• The libraries that plan to adopt a Discovery
system should examine different systems.
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Thank you for your attention!

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