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> Mitch, Eric, Steve> July 21, 2009 - CUWL> http://disco.library.wisc.edu
UW · Forward
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UW · Background
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UW · RDisco / Forward?• The Resource Disco
- An "experiment" to develop a discovery layer for UW System collections
‣ OPACS‣ Digital Collections (UWDCC)‣ Repository data (MINDS@UW)‣ Museum content‣ Web sites‣ Archives
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UW · Forward• The result of RDisco
• A discovery layer into:
- UW System catalog data- Representative UWDCC
collections- 70% of MINDS@UW
content
http://disco.library.wisc.edu/forward
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UW · Background• A response to UW-Madison RDTF recommendations
and formation of CUWL RDTF
• From that report, recommendations: 1. Decouple the interface from the ILS2. Complete control over the interface, data, and index3. Emphasize interface simplicity4. Sophisticated search and result functionalities5.Seamlessly integrate and deliver UW collections6. Adapt to user behaviors7. Encourage personalization and customization8. Be where our users work and play9. Compare well in design and user experience to popular Internet
destinations10. Be staffed for excellence and continuous change
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UW · More Background• UW-Madison Shared Development Group (SDG)
- Tech Enhanced Learning project with School of Human Ecology (Disco environment and Fedora repository for instructors)
• February - July- 0.5 FTE February-April- 1.5 FTE May-July
• Maturation of proven software (high powered indexing)• VuFind and Blacklight analysis• Leveraged a core of smart coders/librarians• Organizational commitment to application development
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UW · Key Principles• Experiment
• One system, one library, one interface- Added complexity of consortium
• Use of proven software
• Flexible and extensible to different types of data
• Discovery layer only
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UW · Next Steps?• Functional assessment, feedback, participation
• Resource assessment and support development projection
• Beta interface sometime in the not-so-distant future?
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UW · Demo
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UW · Features
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UW · Features• Content
- Catalog + - Digital Collection +- Institutional Repository- Unicode compliant
• Search- Natural language- Fielded-search- Facets- Sort: relevance, date, title
• Bling- Book covers- Author info / bios- Image zoom, slideshow
• Circulation status- Nightly
• Open Source- Ruby on Rails- Solr / Lucene
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UW · Future• Forward is Blacklight
• Blacklight - available- Search history- APA/MLA citations- Export to Refworks- Email records / results- SMS records / results
• Blacklight - future- Endnote, Zotero support- EAD files
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UW · Context
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CUWL · Recommendation
“UW Libraries should continue to analyze the functionality and
integration of library services”
Unpublished - CUWL RDETF
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Results
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Context
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UW · Context
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UW · Context
Results Context(Ads)
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UW · Context
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UW · Context
Results Context(facts)
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UW · Context Freebase“open database of the world’s information”
Wikipedia - unstructured data
Freebase - structured data
http://www.freebase.com/
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UW · Context Bing
External APIs - Related searches- Instant Answers?- Web results?- Web images?
http://www.bing.com/
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UW · Context LocalOur APIs- Ask a Librarian- Subject Liaisons- Bibliographers- LibGuides?- Libraries?- Coll. Highlights
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UW · Context
Hours
Workshops
New items
Subject guides
More like this...
Local experts
Digital collections
Common book
Library news
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UW · Workflow
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Irrespective of Which System…
This work will be inescapable.
- Will present both opportunities and challenges
- Must adapt/change over time with users
- Expectations will be set by the Web at large (i.e., outside of the library sphere)
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Assumptions
“One System, One Library”
translates to
One Catalog
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UW · What Have We Learned?
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Our Data is Messy
1969 c1969 [1969]
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A catalog is not a catalog is not a catalog.
“Mr. Wiggles,” by Bill Futrealhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/billfutreal/112141388/
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UW · So What?
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Certain collections are special
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Farmers’Bulle2ns
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Archival Materials
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MuseumContent(non‐tradi2onallibrarymaterials/data)
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UW · Data
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UW · Data
“Data outlasts code”
Ian Davis, code{4}lib 2009
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UW · Data
“Open data is more important than open source”
Ian Davis, code{4}lib 2009
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UW · Data
When picking the next Resource Discovery System,
don’t lock up your data and throw away the key.
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UW · Thanks
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