Dear all,

thank you for your so importand information, we are now seeking to get statistics for the quality of UNIMARC (or MARC) records, we would really appreciate if someone has done something similar and could give us a hint, on what tools they use.

By quality of bibliographic records, we mean for example how many fields, then subfields, coded data values, etc in the db have something that doesnot make sense, is not consistend with the UNIMARC format. And visualising that data is the next goal.

Thank you in advance  


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 Απο: Jason Stirnaman <[log in to unmask]>
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Στάλθηκε: 12:53 π.μ. Πέμπτη, 6 Ιουνίου 2013
Θέμα: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics
 

Cab,
I realize you asked for examples, not tools, and this may be overkill for what you're wanting, but http://ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform. 
Ushahidi would be good if you wanted a geographic, time-series visualization mashed-up with social media.
e.g. http://community.ushahidi.com/uploads/documents/c_Ushahidi-Practical_Considerations.pdf
I imagine that could be a worthwhile project on a large scale for many libraries.

A Google Fusion Table would be a simpler mapping/charting alternative. e.g. https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1JRSvdVxym2lKiM2cnfB7vmY735l58GSxD5O7-g0

Jason
Jason Stirnaman
Digital Projects Librarian
A.R. Dykes Library
University of Kansas Medical Center
913-588-7319

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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:40:29PM -0400, Cab Vinton wrote:
> Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most
> recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State
> Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety
> of measures (support per capita, circulation per capita, staffing
> levels, etc.) so I can make the best possible case for increasing/
> maintaining our funding.
>
> The raw data is in a Excel spreadsheet --
> http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html -- so this seems
> ripe for mashing up, data visualization, online charting, etc.
>
> Does anyone know of any examples where these types of library stats
> have been made available online in a way that meets my goals of being
> user-friendly, visually informative/ clear, and just plain cool?
>
> If not, examples from the non-library world and/ or pointers to
> dashboards of note would be equally welcome, particularly if there's
> an indication of how things work on the back end.

YMMV but I've used infogr.am [0]

Granted the type of data I was using doesn't compare to the kind you are
trying to tame above.

Failing that there's lots of listed at datavisualization.ch[1] that could
help solve you problem. Here some assembly will be required.

Cheers,
./fxk

[0] http://infogr.am/
[1] http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Sanbornton Public Library
> Sanbornton, NH
>

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