• Julie Schwartz
Federal Depository Library Conference
October 16, 2001



THE PROBLEM
• Many Connecticut state reports, statistics, and databases are now accessible only on the Web.
• Reports may be put up one year and disappear the next year. 
• Search engines are not precise enough to provide adequate access to these key resources.



What have libraries traditionally done to organize information?

• Select
• Organize (Catalog & Classify)
• Provide Access 
• Preserve



What is CORC? 
• Cooperative Online Resource Catalog
• A "metadata creation system" for 
bibliographic records and pathfinders 
that describe electronic resources.
Why CORC?
• Provides a toolkit for accomplishing these traditional library tasks in the digital environment.
• Allows creation of records in Dublin Core or MARC formats, and export in MARC, HTML or XML.
• Automatic assigning of metadata descriptors to multiple or single URL's.
• Easy record updating and exporting to our Catalog.


CORC at the CT State Library
• 1999-2000      CORC Founders' Phase 
         created 300 CORC records

•  2000-2001       Produced over 1200 records for CT Office of Legislative Research Reports

•  2000-2001       Produced over 600 records for   
     key state agency publications

Integrating records into the OPAC	
• The CORC records are supplied by our catalogers (including authority control work and subject cataloging).

• Records are integrated into our Innovative Interfaces OPAC.  

• Records are added to OCLC's WorldCat Database






RESOURCE SHARING
• 46 million cataloging records created by libraries around the world.
• 4000 years of recorded history, in 400 languages.
• Includes over 800,000,000 location listings.









RESOURCE INTEGRATION	
• CORC allows libraries to integrate the collections they have built up over the last several hundred years with the collections they are creating and will create in the future. 
Web Document Digital Archive pilot
Preservation Metadata
• retention periods
• archiving frequency
• property rights
• software requirements






Open Archival Information System

http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/
Archive Functions Timeline, 1
Archive Functions Timeline, 2
Archive Functions Timeline, 3 
Contact information

• Julie Schwartz  jschwartz@cslib.org

• Stephen Slovasky sslovasky@cslib.org

•  Pam Kircher  kircherp@OCLC.ORG