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Integrating Local Expertise into Virtual Libraries and Discovery Systems
1. Integrating Local Expertise into
Virtual Libraries and Discovery
Systems
Simeon Warner (Cornell University Library)
describing work mostly of other people, the two key teams being:
CuLLR team Discovery and Access,
● Adam Chandler Integration Layer Team
● John Cline ● Simeon Warner
● Jeremy Cusker ● Glen Wiley
● Dianne Dietrich ● Rick Silterra
● Michael Engle ● Keith Jenkins
● Holly Mistlebauer ● Jon Corson-Rikert
● Jim Reidy ● Mira Myhre
● Marty Schlabach ● Dianne Dietrich
● Leah Solla ● Dean Krafft
simeon.warner@cornell.edu, Fall CNI Membership Meeting 2011-12-12
4. photo: Editor B @ flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/148825841
8. Experience with virtual library 1.0?
● Specialized lists considered useful
● Very painful to update
(~ 3200 hand entered and updated items for the
Physical Sciences Library)
● Does not leverage information in catalog
(search either local items or whole catalog)
9. CuLLR data flow and components
CuLLR = Curated List of Library Resources
10. First stage is general...
PLOP = Persistent Library Object Pages
15. Expectations for virtual library 2.0?
● More functional as can relatively easily define a
large subset of items in the catalog as relevant
● Less painful to update. Significant effort to
minimize manual work updating
● May want ability to add items not in catalog
● Don't yet know how similarly different virtual
libraries will use CuLLR
17. Centralized Discovery and Access
Facilities at Cornell
● Goal is to provide “one search box” as a
starting point for searches over all items
● Recent decision to purchase Summon
● Roll out first as article search replacing
EBSCOhost (January 2012)
● Expect to integrate catalog and other sources
(e.g. eCommons) but not everything
22. Approach
● Include what we can and what works in
Summon (expect at least articles, catalog, IR)
● Use additional result panes as necessary
● Create system that gives overview with links to
more specialized searches
● Surface local resources and local expertise
● Enable semantic queries
24. Open question
● How do we use information from disciplinary
virtual libraries in the central discovery and
access system?
● Inherent tension between local and global
● Won't know user area initially, might infer likely area
from query/results
● How do we deal with possibly conflicting information
about one resource as “used” in multiple virtual
libraries?
25. Multiple panes vs one result set
Panes One result set
● Easier to implement ● Simpler to understand
● Shows space of possible ● Uniform interface for all
results things
● Avoid trying to rank apples ● More efficient use of
and oranges together screen real estate
26. Questions?
Me:
● Simeon Warner <simeon.warner@cornell.edu>
Contact for CuLLR:
● Holly Mistlebauer <hlm7@cornell.edu>