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BuildingSkyNet for Science
Discovering New FrontiersUsing Embedded Knowledge
Richard AkermanNISO Discovery Tools Forum
March 27, 2008
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Stanley
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How can we better serve the machines?
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The machines don’t speak our language
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We must become knowledge translators
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To Serve Machine
• Produce information in formats that machines can understand, in parallel with formats that are human readable
• Every web resource its machine reader
• Have a limited number of formats, keep them simple, and enable easy interchange of information
• Save the time of the machine
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Bibliographic Metadata as a First Class Citizen
• OpenURL (ANSI/NISO Z39.88 - 2004)
• COinS
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Tools
• OCLC/Openly OpenURL Referrer
• LibX
• Zotero
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Unique Identifiers
• authors
• institutions
• text content
• data
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To Serve Human
• Delicious Library
• LibraryThing
• Machines can process and analyze information, but only humans can use and savour information (for now...)
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The Social Life of Humans
• Formal categorization
• Reviews
• Ratings
• Connections / Relatedness
• Informal categorization (tags, folksonomies)
• Use (frequency, time...)
• Groups (colleagues, friends, work groups...)
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The Social Life of Machines
• Feature extraction
• Similarity (count-based, vector-based)
• Impact factor / PageRank
• Context (location, others)
• Numbers numbers numbers
• Machines love unique identifiers
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Use Case
• Find me the best relevant information
• Without me asking for it?
• Wherever and whenever?
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Every Book Its Reader
• The WebOPAC is not a discovery interface
• Build a discovery layer over the catalogue metadata
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Open Data
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There is more to heaven and earth
• Licensed content and access
• Organization content
• The entire biblioverse and Internet
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Is there “too much” information?
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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=11793
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There is too much information poverty
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/w_franklin/51297912/
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Seeing the forest - licensed content
• Federated search
• Local indexing
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Seeing the forest - repositories
• CARLCore Metadata Application Profile
• OAI-PMH
• OAI-ORE
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I see... everything
• XML, RDF, RSS, GeoRSS...
• Microformats - Embedded knowledge
• Aggregators
• Recommender APIs
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Glen Newton
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Experiment on Humans
• CISTI Lab
• British Library Labs
• National Library of Australia Labs
• MIT Libraries Betas
• many others...
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Free the Humans!
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Richard AkermanNRC-CISTI
http://www.connotea.org/user/scilib/tag/nisodiscovery2008
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