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Transfer and Use of Bibliographic Records: Use cases

Use cases for bibliographic records

These use cases illustrate some of the possible ways that bibliographic records are used and transferred, and some ideas about how they might be in future. They show some of the differences between supply, use and make available, and highlight potential issues with the current bibliographic record supply environment.

The most basic use cases (load into an LMS to allow users to search for books, etc) are not included.

1	Design OPAC to facilitate spidering by search engines	Make available
2	Provide an open Z39.50 interface to bibliographic records	Make available
3	Convert bibliographic records from one format to another	Use
4	Use bibliographic records to suport commercial services offered by the institution	Use
5	Aggregate bibliographic records with institutional circulation data to mine user behaviour	Use
6	Downloads in machine-readable formats	Use \| Make available
7	Upload bibliographic records to a union catalogue	Supply
8	Large-scale behaviour analysis	Supply \| Use
9	National-scale collection management	Supply \| Use
10	Supply records to a commercial service for discovery	Supply

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This website "Transfer and Use of Bibliographic Records: Guidance in a Legal Issues" has been developed by Curtis+Cartwright Consulting Ltd in partnership with Ms Naomi Korn. It is the output of a project funded by JISC under the Information Environment Programme 2009-11. The contents of this website are for information purposes and guidance only. They do not constitute legal advice.

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Use cases for bibliographic records