GALLOP Government and Legislative Libraries

Online Publications Portal

A service maintained by The Association of

Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC).

http://www.assembly.nu.ca/

http://www.aplic-abpac.ca/

Access to full text electronic legislative and government publications held in Canadian legislative and parliamentary libraries.

http://www.aplic-abpac.ca/canada.html

Types of Publications

Monographs Serials Legislative Publications Government Publications Government Press Releases

http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/visitors/photo-gallery-1/

Examples of Publications

Annual Reports MLA Speeches Committee Reports Legislative Assembly Bills Debates Royal Commissions/ Commissions of Enquiry

http://www.assembly.nl.ca/

Includes

Portal content is representative of the provinces, territories, and Library of Parliament. It includes records from the Government of Canada, Depository Services program. Nunavut records will be added soon.

http://www.gov.mb.ca/mit/legtour/chandelier.html

Languages

•Aboriginal languages such as Cree, Inuktitut •English & French •Bilingual •Multilingual

http://www.assembly.nu.ca/

Scope by Date

1960’s to present Varies by jurisdiction

Continuously updated

http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/pages/wpPages/home.aspx

Searching

Search by keyword or full‐text.

Link to the electronic copies of the materials hosted by the collecting library.

Limit results by jurisdiction or date.

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/100/images/3.jpg

Searching

Search by citation, title, date, language, author, call number, source

Fuzzy searches Truncation Boolean Phrase

Interface development is continuing.

http://aplicportal.ola.org/aplichelp-eng.asp?language=eng

The GALLOPP interface is offered in French and English

http://www.gnb.ca/legis/index-e.asp

Items - November 2013

Alberta 15,640 British Columbia 98,069 Manitoba 9,864 New Brunswick 815 Newfoundland & Labrador 12,494

Northwest Territories 3,143 Nova Scotia 7,478 Ontario 66,441 Quebec 74,527 Saskatchewan 7,499 Canada DSP 123,201

Total 419,171

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http://educationportal.ontla.on.ca/en/about-parliament/how-parliament-works/parliamentary-traditions/canadas-levels-government/ontarios

GALLOPP is hosted/maintained by staff at the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

How did we get here?

• Began work in 2007

• Goals

– to reduce duplication in collection activities

– to enable easier pan-jurisdictional searching

• Low impact / resource demand

• Low cost

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How did we get here?

• Repository vs portal

• Free software

• Monthly / semi-monthly updates

Records are processed – converted to a standard format;

Data is normalised

ftp /

server

processing

Normalised

metadata

record

(XML)

MARC

MARC

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• =092 \\$a345.71601 N93

• =245 10$aResponse of the Public Prosecution Service to the report of the service conducted by the review of the service conducted by the Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C.

• =260 \\$a[Halifax] :$bPublic Prosecution Service,$c1999.

• =300 \\$a43 l. :$btables ;$c28 cm.

• =500 \\$aSpiral binding.

• =500 \\$aOn title page: "Submitted to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, June 21, 1999".

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• =650 \0$aProsecution$zNova Scotia

• =650 \0$aPublic prosecutors$zNova Scotia

• =710 10$aNova Scotia.$bPublic Prosecution Service

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dc / xml record

after conversion

• <doc>

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• <field name="source">ns</field>

• <field name="dc-title">Response of the Public Prosecution Service to the report of the service conducted by the review of the service

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• <field name="dc-creator">Nova Scotia.Public Prosecution Service</field>

• <field name="dc-type">text</field>

• ****<field name="dc-publisher">[Halifax] : Public Prosecution Service,</field>

• <field name="dc-date">1999.</field>

• ****<field name="datesort">19990101</field>

• <field name="dc-language">eng</field>

• <field name="dc-description">Spiral binding.</field>

• <field name="dc-description">On title page: "Submitted to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, June 21, 1999".</field>

• <field name="dc-subject">Criminal justice, Administration of</field>

• <field name="dc-subject">Prosecution</field>

• <field name="dc-subject">Public prosecutors</field>

• <field name="fulltext">

• Response of the Public Prosecution Service to the report of the service conducted by the review of the service conducted by the

Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C.Response of the Public Prosecution Service to the report of the service conducted by the review of

the service conducted by the Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C.Response of the Public Prosecution Service to the report of the

service conducted by the review of the service conducted by the Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C.Response of the Public ……

Some of the issues

• Collaboration

• Decision-making / governance

• Concerns: • unintended consequences

• uncontrolled distribution

• ongoing commitments / responsibilities

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