Embedding Services:
Linking from Google Scholar to Discover
Natalie Collins
March 31, 2009

CISTI’s Evolution
Infostructure
Availability of
e-content
Launch of
DocDel
2

linking to CISTI’s
collection and services
Guiding principles
• Make CISTI’s collection more accessible to researchers from Canada
and anywhere in the world
• Meet the research community where they work by collaborating with
Google Scholar
• Provide access to both licensed and open access content in its
collection
• Exploit opportunities to expose CISTI metadata to discovery tools and
applications
• Enable immediate access to electronic collection whenever possible

the goal of the project
To reach into a popular and dominant research workflow by
creating a link between Google Scholar and CISTI
products and services.

why try agile project
management?
• small components
• opportunity to output testable pieces of code each
iteration
• clear project scope
• clearly defined business rules
• small effort
• familiarity and success with agile software development

…three universes…collide…
to form . . .

preparing metadata for
the web
MODS
convert
xml
(metadata)
extract
metadata NLM
big DB xml search
authorize locate
located and
authorized
insert NLM
NLM
NLM
location xml
xml
xml

linking from Google
Scholar to Discover

the build . . . in summary
• built a crawler
• built locate document web service
• reused existing web services for identifying and applying
business rules (e.g. appropriate copy, search and data
conversion)
• built an application that creates XML
• built an openURL parser
• created a soft landing and navigation features to ensure
fluid interaction between Google Scholar and CISTI
services
• produced15.7 million article-level XML files
• built knowledge of agile project management method

another CISTI innovation
• Connect media with
research
Goals • Connect the public to
research
• Connect researchers

research in the news
RSS/Atom
Suck
How?
Hook
Up
Expose
For humans

Thanks!
This material is based on a
presentation given at
Computers in Libraries
organized by:
Information Today
143 Old Marlton Pike
Medford, NJ 08055 USA
Phone 1(609)654-6266
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