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Michael Heaney of Oxford University Library Services has extended his
entity-relation model of collections and their catalogues [1] to
include modelling of the means by which users obtain access to
collections.
The result is a new document "Users and Information Resources: An
Extension of the Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues
into Usage and Transactions":
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/model-ext/
The extended model introduces a number of additional entities and
relationships, and enumerates some additional attributes for some of
the entities which were present in the original model. The document
also includes some illustrative examples of the transactions that occur
between entities as users access collections.
The work was supported by UKOLN's Collection Description Focus, which
is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the
Museums, Libraries and Archives council (MLA)
[1] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/
Ann Chapman
Collection Description Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
UK tel: +44 (0)1225 386121
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