Copac Innovations

Innovation is a core element of the Copac ethos and here you can keep up-to-date with a range of the recent and ongoing work in which we're involved.

Development projects

Recent and ongoing Copac development projects:

CCM: Collection Management Tools

In collaboration with the White Rose Consortium and RLUK, Copac is providing tools to enable libraries to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of collection management decisions, as well as strengthening engagement with academics on retention and access to available copies.

Activity data

In the SALT project Copac worked with the John Rylands University Library (JRUL) to investigate the use of circulation activity data to benefit libraries, national shared services and their users.

We’re now building on the the success of SALT to explore further the potential of aggregating and sharing library circulation data to support recommender functionality and the local and national levels.

Copac Linked Data

Locah project: Mimas and UKOLN worked together on a JISC funded project to make Archives Hub and Copac data available as structured Linked Data. We were exploring putting archival and bibliographic data at the heart of the Linked Data Web, enabling new links to be made between diverse content sources and enabling the free and flexible exploration of data so that researchers can make new connections between subjects, people, organisations and places to reveal more about our history and society. Details are available on the LOCAH Project blog.

Work on linked data is continuing through the Linking Lives project.