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Project "Inter-regional analytical painting of articles" (Mars). Mars - the world of journal articles

MARS- "Interregional analytical painting of articles" - a consolidated catalog of periodicals of Russian libraries.

Analytical abstract database of journal articles - DB MARS - contains bibliographic descriptions of all articles from more than 1800 Russian magazines from 2001 to the present.

Now the volume of the consolidated MARS database is more than 2.7 million entries. The database is updated by 1,000 records daily.

The Martian record of our library is counting down since 2005. And we have the opportunity to search for bibliographic information on the ARBIKON website from 2005 to 2016. in an array of 2,375,867 bibliographic documents.

« We were the first, and therefore it was difficult for us, ”said in an interview Valentina Tereshkova. Anyone who starts a new business can say that.

With all the enthusiasm of the pioneers, we took up this business - the corporate signature of magazine articles in machine-readable form.

After reviewing the documents and doing test, we joined the advanced Martians in May 2005.

Since May 2005, the Central Library has been included in the corporate magazine painting project “ Interregional analytical list of articles (MARS) on the basis of the scientific library of the Saratov University. The following documents have been carefully reviewed:

simple partnership agreement (about joint activities),
"Methodology for filling in the fields" on 92 pages,
“Rules for filling in the field “Geographic rubric”,
“Methodology for filling in the field “Keywords”,
« Guidelines on compiling annotations within the framework of the MARS project,
"The procedure for receiving and transmitting data."

We received a converter for MARK.

Several magazines were painted, then the magazines for painting that were not in the project were selected (which was very difficult to do). Passports were compiled for 5 journals with indexes of the journal according to the Rospechat catalogue, indicating the type of journal, the subject of the journal, periodicity, the average number of articles in 1 journal and the number of articles per year, the ISSN of the journal, the presence of author's annotations and author's keywords, the electronic address of the journal and e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.

Under the terms of the contract, we were obliged to paint from cover to cover all the magazines that we chose from our subscription. These were the magazines Asia and Africa Today, Applicant, World Pathfinder, Ideas for Your Home, Russian society Red Cross".

In the first year joint work 12 files were prepared, 516 bibliographic records for journal articles were created.

Patience and a little effort. They worked tirelessly. Figuratively speaking, "blood and sweat" got bibliographic records. Day and night honed skill, aerobatics: to express the essence of the article in one sentence and at the same time not to repeat the title. Employees involved in the project surfed the Internet in search of the exact dates of the life of personalities, the correct names of organizations and events; expanded their horizons by studying obscure scientific and technical terms in dictionaries. Almost akin to a spelling dictionary. Sending their notes by e-mail to MARS, they always secretly hoped that this time they would do without ADVERTISING from the bibliographer-controller.

The corporate project taught us to humble our ambitions, obeying the MARS majority, and strictly follow the accepted rules and methods. We acknowledged our mistakes with dignity, but sometimes argued with the controllers over certain nuances of bibliography and often defended our point of view. Courage and perseverance were sometimes required to defend one's innocence.

Not everyone has a penchant for painstaking bibliographic work. But along with the project, bibliographers grew professionally, mastered new technologies: data exchange, format conversion, filling out web forms. During the existence of the project, we have successfully survived the repeated change in the Painting Methodology, the updating of the Rubricator, the next replacement of the bibliographer-controller, to whose requirements we have already become accustomed.

Do what you must, and let it be what will be. Thank God, the project is alive, developing, bringing tangible benefits. Over time, even the most advanced technologies become familiar, mundane. Who will be excited about flying into space now? Yes, astronauts fly and calmly do their job. So are we Martians. We continue to work with dignity for the common good. Our work is not always noticeable, not in plain sight, “behind the closet”. But this does not detract from our merits. We are honor and glory: the organizer of the "pioneers" on MARS - Pavlova Olga Nikolaevna and many thanks to the project participant Ekaterina Borisovna Tekutieva, over the past few years, responsibly, competently and carefully, checking the names, dates, events, describing articles via the Internet. A low bow and gratitude to the bibliographers-controllers and coordinators of the MARS project. Special thanks Igor Valerievich Krutikhin for believing in us ambulance operational advice on technical matters for your kindness and patience. And hope for the future generation, which will continue OUR COMMON CAUSE.

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UDC 01+002.55 BBK 78.5

PROJECT MARS: EVALUATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A BIBLIOGRAPHER

Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts 454111, Chelyabinsk, st. Ordzhonikidze, 36a

Analysis of managerial, organizational, methodological and technological features of the MARS database (Interregional Analytical Listing of Articles), which is a product of corporate interaction between 95 regional scientific, university, central city libraries of the Russian Federation in the context of the all-Russian system of analytical information on the content of periodicals and ongoing publications.

Key words: article painting, analytical painting, periodicals, magazines, corporate projects.

Among the many corporate projects organization of library and bibliographic activities in the electronic environment, which are mostly frozen results of the systematization of links to information resources Russian libraries and information centers, stands out for the dynamism and richness of the development of content and search capabilities of the MARS system - Interregional Analytical List of Articles. I am not involved in the organization of this database, and therefore, as a bibliographer, I can and strive to judge it, the problems of its organization and management with interest and, if possible, objectively.

The development and implementation of the MARS project began in the fall of 2000 at the initiative of specialists scientific libraries Saratov, Udmurt and Chelyabinsk universities. The characteristics of the project can be found in a number of publications /1, 2 and others/ of the organizers of the project and on a special website (mars.udsu.ru). The latter also contains links to 13 corporate library systems of a similar nature, sites of federal libraries, descriptions of programs, formats, rules and standards, statistics of journal receipts and database visits. It allows you to open a complete alphabetical list of journals, indicating the libraries that process them.

Dozens of libraries join the project, accepting the principles of maintaining a consolidated database and the criteria for selecting articles, choosing new journals for development. As of mid-February 2005, 95 regional scientific, university, central city libraries located in 41 cities (most of all in Saratov and Yekaterinburg), paint 835 cents for MARS.

ral and peripheral journals in Russian. Consequently, each library accounts for an average of 8-9 journals, which is many times less than the volume of independent processing of issued periodicals. The volume of the consolidated database at the same time amounted to more than 227 thousand records.

Working through an average of 5 to 10 journals, each of the libraries participating in the project has the opportunity to search the full array of articles for last years by search features, which are authors, personalities, titles, subject headings, classification indices LBC and UDC. In addition, bibliographic records include reference annotations, which, as a rule, are not available in the bibliographic resources of other information centers, including the Russian Book Chamber (RCC). MARS allows users to get acquainted with the annotated content of individual issues of journals. Project participants also practice free electronic delivery of documents, for which they scan articles and send copies of them upon request. Thus, MARS goes beyond the strict framework of the bibliographic system.

The project is open for new libraries to join, and members of the Association of 13 Regional Library Consortiums (ARBICON), formed in 2002, can use the consolidated database of articles without restrictions.

The 4-year period of formation and operation of MARS testifies to the effectiveness of this project. Otherwise it is impossible to explain the growth in the number of its participants and other parameters. From originally interregional, it becomes international (the libraries of Belarus and

Kazakhstan), eliminates the need to maintain parallel databases. Thus, the organizers and participants in the maintenance of the regional consolidated database "Articles" (17 libraries of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions) refused to continue their project and entered the MARS system.

Professionally, it is extremely valuable that the leaders of MARS, when organizing a consolidated database of articles, firstly, strive to comply with the current state standards(so, since September 2003, the system has adopted GOST 7.1-2003 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description” for execution, secondly, they look for and find solutions to problem situations, fixing them in management decisions, strive to improve the system in the interconnections of its elements.

Judging by the publications and the content of the common website, the project managers and participants pay great attention to training and advanced training of personnel, ensuring that they comply with the established standards and rules. The names of librarians and bibliographers are displayed in the "Participants" section of the general site.

The advantages of this project are undeniable. The more I get to know him and observe the evolution of this consolidated database of articles, the more I come to the conclusion that MARS is a phenomenon of electronic bibliography, and of Russian bibliography as a whole. It is possible that the world. MARS is not only the most valuable source of multi-aspect research, but also an exceptionally strong stimulator of professional development for bibliographers. For them, the ideas of coordinating activities, observing standards, and timely actions are not abstract theoretical propositions, but a living reality. Already now MARS is the richest object for multifaceted scientific research.

But he also has problems of an objective and subjective nature, requiring the search for non-standard solutions. Chief among them is the difficulty of controlling the timely, complete and high-quality processing of documents by project participants. Each bibliographic entry indicates the library that compiled it, which increases the responsibility of bibliographers. But random testing shows that the bibliographic

interval for individual issues of journals pre-

embroider set time in seven to ten days

1 The problem of prompt presentation of bibliographic records in the database, as shown by N.E. Kalenov /3/, is also relevant for other projects. With geographically distributed processing of bibliographic reflection objects, it is impossible to establish exactly when the mail delivered the journal number to the library. Across the country, the delivery interval of periodicals reaches months. city libraries

some annotations are not very informative, etc. For example, there are no records for the keywords (CS) of the "Virtual Reference Service" (VSS), although several articles by E. D. Zhabko and other specialists of the Russian National Library are devoted to VSS. Only two articles when searching for the CS "Virtual reference" (in my file cabinet there are five of the publications processed in the MARS system). Although the project leaders developed a program automatic control the completeness of the study of journals and established strict control over the quality of processing of publications, the subjective factor cannot but affect.

It is not clear how the corpus of edited publications is formed. One gets the impression that potential new participants in the project get acquainted with the list of publications already being processed, suggesting those they receive but are not on the list, and coordinate it with the leaders of MARS. I believe that project managers should also have a certain initiative. The source of such an initiative can be an annual list of journals, articles from which are signed in the Chronicle of Journal Articles, subsection "Periodicals" of the section "Bibliographical sheets" of the journal " New world". Comparing the latter in No. 1 for 2005 with the MARS list, I found unedited publications: Arion, Itogi, Political Journal, Rodomysl. Apparently, there are other reputable sources to complete the list. The project participants themselves note the need to increase the share of natural science and technical publications /2/.

Participation of libraries in the project is absolutely voluntary. It is not clear why the libraries of Moscow (except for the Kiev Central Library Library), St. Petersburg and other large cities refuse to participate in MARS. Siberia is poorly represented: only four cities (Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Omsk, Surgut). As far as I know, in the libraries of cities not participating in the project, there are no equivalent public information resources. True, MARS is unrestrictedly available to ARBICON members, but the legitimacy of such a provision is questionable. It turns out that the participants of MARS, spending a significant amount work time qualified employees give someone the opportunity to use a valuable resource for free.

Each library starts processing its logs from the moment it joins the project. The issue of retro-painting of magazines until 2003 is not raised, but the year of the beginning of painting is not indicated either.

journal publishing houses have a natural advantage in this respect. MARS uses it, but most of the journals are published in Moscow and St. Petersburg, whose libraries do not participate in the project.

Over time, after the array of processed publications has basically formed, the difference in the beginning of processing will lose its sharpness. But I do not rule out that there will be a problem of cleaning the database from obsolete texts. As you know, the vast majority of universal and university libraries clean up the systematic card indexes of articles, keeping cards with records of the last three to five years and selectively - for a longer period. Thus, they not only restrain the growth of the file cabinet, but also ensure the relevance of its content. In addition, bibliographers regularly edit the card index, breaking down large sections and headings or transforming them. As is known, the “keyhole” effect operates in the bibliographic database /4, p. 120/, the overflow of sections and headings is not obvious. If the database is not cleaned, then it is very likely that information noise will increase when searching by classification indices and subject headings.

For the organizers of any bibliographic database, the quality of subject headings and/or keywords is a difficult problem. Usually an alternative decision is made. But the subject headings selected from a pre-compiled list do not fully reflect original ideas authors of publications, and keywords are inevitably somewhat subjective. In order to control the quality of their placement from the outside, you need to re-acquaint yourself with the text of the processed document. This problem can be solved only selectively by testing.

Assessing the MARS project positively on the whole, I cannot get away from the natural question: what about the rest of the libraries in Russia? If most of them join him, he will go from hard to manage to hard to manage. If bibliographic services everywhere unite in the implementation of similar projects, is it rational on a national scale? Isn't it more efficient for bibliographic services in certain aspects and search situations to use the databases of the authoritative center of the state bibliography -RKP2, resources of other federal information centers? Where to look for newspaper articles, some of which remain relevant for a long time? There are no answers to these simple questions.

Electronic technology opens up unrealistic for traditional bibliography opportunities to manage the development of not only local, but

2 RCP for the Chronicle of journal articles and the corresponding database discloses annually the contents of 1 100-

1,200 serials, including ongoing ones,

but the search capabilities of its resources are noticeably inferior to MARS.

and distributed bibliographic resources. An example in this respect is again shown by MARS. In addition to the above methods of maintaining the quality of the database, the project organizers are constantly developing new ways to monitor the development of journals and adherence to established program and methodological solutions. The section of the general site "Statistics of current receipts" is a mirror of the study of journal issues for the current year. In the table, by the title of the journal, its periodicity and raw numbers are indicated. It is not clear why only 333 journals are placed in the table, and not all? If the mail did not deliver some issue of the journal to the library, this is a common thing, does it make sense to ask another library to process this issue?! In traditional technology, this number remained unprocessed, and bibliographers put printed cards in file cabinets.

The openness of the system implemented on the MARS common website also acts as a means of influencing the behavior of the libraries participating in the project.

Like any dynamic open web Information system MARS is constantly changing and improving. It is likely that the problems indicated in this article will be resolved by the time of publication, the gaps will be filled. But even today MARS is a valuable original contribution to the development of Russian bibliography. We will be grateful to its organizers and participants.

Bibliography

1. Zelenina, G.N. Interregional analytical painting of articles / G.N. Zelenina, I.V. Krutikhin, L.P. Besklinskaya // Nauch. and tech. b-ki. - 2003. - No. 9. -S. 51-60.

2. Zelenina, G.N. Project MARS: 100 participants... What's next? [ Electronic resource] / G.N. Zelenina, I.V. Krutikhin. - Access mode: http://mars.udsu.ru. Section "Publications".

3. Kalenov, N.E. Reflection efficiency analysis

bibliographic descriptions in the consolidated catalog LIBNET [Electronic resource] / N.E. Kalenov // Electron. b-ki. - 2003. - Vol. 6, issue. 1. - Access mode: http://www.elbib. ru/index. phtml?page=elbib/rus/

4. Sokolov, A.V. Automation of bibliographic search / A.V. Sokolov. - M.: Book, 1981. - 167 p.

The material was received by the editors on April 18, 2005.

Information about the author: Morgenstern Isaak Grigorievich - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker high school Russia, full member of the International Academy of Informatization, head of the Department of Information and Bibliography, tel. (351-2) 36-78-71

1. General Provisions.

1.1. The Department of Periodicals carries out a list of journals entering the library for permanent storage in Russian.

1.2. Publications of documents, scientific and popular science articles are selected for painting. The selection criteria are subject matter and scientific significance.

1.3. Of all the journals, articles on history, historical science, auxiliary historical disciplines, archeology, ethnography, and the history of social sciences are undersigned.

1.4. Do not sign: articles on the problems of teaching individual disciplines.

1.5. Reviews are signed for books on historical and socio-political topics, as well as books about political figures, cultural and art figures.

2. Selection of articles from certain types of publications.
(According to the GPIB Acquisition Profile.)

2.1. Articles on problems of history are signed in official publications.
Journals publishing laws and others legal acts, election campaign materials are not signed.

2.2. Scientific publications.

2.2.1.Universal. Of the universal journals, articles on history and social disciplines are fully signed.

2.2.2. Industry. From industry scientific journals fully signed articles on history and historical science, auxiliary historical disciplines, archeology, ethnography, historical local history .

Painting of articles in other disciplines is carried out selectively.

Warfare - on the history of military art and the armed forces as a whole and the history of individual units and formations.

Art and - on the history of art and the history of individual species

art history art, about the work of artists, theaters, monuments of history and material culture.

History of natural and technical sciences, medicine, ecology -on general problems and history of these industries.

Culture. The science.

Bibliology.

Librarianship.

Bibliography - on history and general problems of these industries, about cultural and scientific figures.

Literature - on the history of literature and literary criticism, on individual writers.
Articles on the problems of literary study of the work of writers and poets are not signed.

Pedagogy - on the history of pedagogy and about the figures of education.

Psychology - in social psychology and the history of psychology.

Religion - on the history of religious denominations, historical theology, church art and iconography, on the history and architecture of places of worship, on religious thinkers and church leaders.
Articles on dogmatics and liturgics, as well as articles of spiritual and moral content, are not signed.

Sociology

and political science - on general problems of sociology and political science (in relation to the history of individual countries), the history of sociology.

Economy - on general problems of the economy of individual countries and regions, the history of the economy.
They do not sign narrowly specialized economic articles, articles on theoretical problems of economic geography and economic statistics.

Legal Sciences - on the history of legal science and individual jurists.
Articles on the theory and history of branches of law written in the legal aspect are not signed.

Linguistics - on the history of languages and linguistics, sociolinguistics.

2.2.3. Scientific and information journals of a bibliographic and abstract nature are not signed.

2.3. Socio - political magazines.

2.3.1. Articles on the history of various countries and the history of social thought are signed from social and political journals. Articles on the history of the trade union movement are signed from trade union magazines.
Youth, children's, women's magazines do not sign.

2.3.2. Of the information and journalistic journals, articles are written only on history.
Journalistic articles on the problems of current politics are signed selectively (depending on the volume and content).

2.4. Literary - art magazines.

2.4.1. Scientific and journalistic articles on history, history of culture and art are signed from the central literary and art magazines.

2.4.2. Articles on the history, history of literature and art of a given republic or region are signed from the literary and artistic republican and regional magazines of the Russian Federation and the CIS.

The corporate project "Interregional Analytical Painting of Articles" exists since 2001 and currently unites more than 240 libraries various systems and departments.
The aim of the project is to jointly create a consolidated database of analytical list of articles from periodicals.
The annual replenishment of the consolidated database is more than 250,000 bibliographic records.
The analytical bibliographic database of articles has a database of participants, detailed information about the journals undersigned in the project, a consolidated database on the subscription of participating libraries, starting from 2005.
As of December 14, 2017, MARS contains descriptions of more than 3 million articles from 2327 journals.

Attention! The summary database does not contain full text articles!

Working with the MARS electronic search engine

1. Identification of the directory user.

On the start page of the Search heading, two authorization options are offered. The first provides access to the search system for registered participants in the MARS or Arbicon project. Any other user who does not have these rights logs in as an anonymous user.

2. Analytical painting of articles.

Simple search allows you to search for a document by 1/2/3 formats of existing parameters (Author, Title, Subject, Year of publication… Everywhere). Also in the list of materials, you can specify the type of document you are looking for (Monographs, Articles ... Search by all parameters). There are functions for enabling/disabling document location detection, entering the number of retrieved records per page (in the field with an automatically set number of "20"). By clicking on the Search button, the results of the operation are called up. Advanced search allows you to use additional query characteristics (Document language) and additional output options: Record presentation form (RUSMARC, OPAC), Elimination of duplicates, Sorting by key, Query expansion using ... (Attent Thesaurus, RND Rubricator ...).