‘Highlighting the U.S. National Agricultural Library’

Islandora WebinarMay 18, 2016

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Adam SmithSales and Marketing Associate

Welcome!Agenda

• Islandora overview

• Introduction of guest speaker

• U.S. National Agricultural Library

• Question period

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Presentation‘Highlighting the U.S.

National Agricultural Library’

Islandora Webinar: Highlighting the U.S. National Agricultural Library

Chuck SchoppetIT Specialist

United States Department of AgricultureNational Agricultural Library

May 18, 2016

What is the U.S. National Agricultural Library?

• One of the world’s largest institutions of agricultural knowledge

• One of the four national libraries of the United States (plus the Library of Congress)

• Created during Abraham Lincoln’s administration in 1862• The creator and maintainer of AGRICOLA (AGRICultural

OnLine Access)

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AGRICOLA• Is the largest bibliographic database of agricultural

knowledge in the world.• Contains about 5 million records.• Made up of two databases:

– Citations for journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, etc. (75%)

– Bibliographic records and holdings for NAL’s print and digital collections of books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials. (25%)

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New opportunities and challenges• New AGRICOLA-based product: PubAg, a search

engine for public access to citations for peer-reviewed agricultural journal articles with access to the article’s full-text.– Increased production to 30,000 new articles per

month.– Moved from human indexing to automatic machine

index.– Transitioned from using MARC21 to more flexible

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Solution• Islandora and Fedora Commons

– Greatest flexibility– Well-supported in the community– Built on a mature foundation

• Discoverygarden– Expert knowledge of software

stack for performance and scaling– Enhancement built on Islandora– Knowledge transfer

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Metadata Management System

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LuxidAutomatic IndexingSubmission

Workflow

Unpack, XSLT &

Ingest

Publisher SuppliedJournal Articles

USDA Authored Articles

NALdoraManually created and corrected Articles

Search, forms, reports, management

Other NAL Products

NALDCPubAg

AGRICOLA

NALdora Highlights

• Staff journal article citation workflow– Auto-populate the article object with journal and issue

information from first article– Unicode character checker for Islandora forms– Custom displays at the journals and issues levels

• Staff article citation quality workflow• Auto-populate metadata from external databases by DOI• Custom reports within Drupal with CSV download

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A Queue too long

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Where’s my

article?

Fedora gSearch

Batch articles: ingested, AI updated, etc.Human keying articles

Islandora gSearcher Module

• Bypasses the queue of objects waiting for SOLR indexing.

• Removes the need for ActiveMQ between Fedora and gSearch.

• Greatly reduces the work load on gSearch and SOLR

• Makes library staff happy!

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Chuck SchoppetChuck.Schoppet@usda.gov

Questions?Acknowledgements:Carol Dowling, Automated IndexingJennifer Gilbert, MetadataYing Li, ITUrsula Pieper, ITShirley Souder, Metadata

Questions?

Contact us at: info@discoverygarden.ca

Thank you!

Contact us at: info@discoverygarden.ca