The document discusses various library discovery tools that aim to provide a single search interface for library collections, allowing users to search local resources as well as articles, books, and other materials from publishers and other libraries, though the tools often fail to fully deliver on the promise of discovery due to limitations in content coverage and indexing.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11791443.v1
Presentation at IGeLU 2014 Oxford. Shift view on relevance in discovery tools from system to user context.
The concept of relevance in retrieving information resources in discovery tools like Primo needs to be redefined. It should take into account the wider context of queries and retrieved items outside the central and local indexes. Content and relevance are inextricably interlinked. Relevance is only calculated for the isolated items in the indexed content. Many indexed items may have relevant connections to each other in the real world, but these are not visible within the system in any way. Starting point should be the customer’s full connected workflow instead of just the library’s collections. Linked Open Data appears to be a relevant approach. This presentation will give some real life use cases and try to give some tentative solutions.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11791443.v1
Presentation at IGeLU 2014 Oxford. Shift view on relevance in discovery tools from system to user context.
The concept of relevance in retrieving information resources in discovery tools like Primo needs to be redefined. It should take into account the wider context of queries and retrieved items outside the central and local indexes. Content and relevance are inextricably interlinked. Relevance is only calculated for the isolated items in the indexed content. Many indexed items may have relevant connections to each other in the real world, but these are not visible within the system in any way. Starting point should be the customer’s full connected workflow instead of just the library’s collections. Linked Open Data appears to be a relevant approach. This presentation will give some real life use cases and try to give some tentative solutions.
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland - 'Linked Data and the Semantic Web - what have libraries got to do with it?'
National Library of Scotland, June 17, 2011
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2671
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11854626.v1
Presented at Dutch National Librarian/Information Professianal Association annual conference 2011 - NVB2011
November 17, 2011
IGeLU2009: Patrons’ Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice: let ...Filipe Bento
University of Aveiro, Documentation Services (Library) presentation for IGeLU2009 Conference (http://igelu2009.org/about/programme/)
In a contemporary society where web 2.0 services are steadily growing in number both for functionalities offered and of users adopting them, it is important to examine which of these services are the core ones that should be offered by Libraries’ online services and how these affect Patrons’ routines. With PRIMO, Ex Libris brings to the resource discovery and delivery scenario some basic web 2.0 and social networking components that users, native consumers in most cases, expect to have as inherent functionalities. But are Libraries ready to be 2.0? The resulting folksonomy from social tagging does bring valuable benefits to the search and retrieval process and the communities of Patrons? Are there some caveats that we should be aware of? In this presentation, the authors look at these social tools and analyze their potential for promoting patrons’ collective intelligence and empowerment, applying it to Communities of Practice’s creation, identification and expansion, not overlooking some possible drawbacks that need to be tackled.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Emerging technologies in the library - a presentation at the MSU Emerging Tec...Patrick "Tod" Colegrove
Primary Speaker: Duncan Aldrich, @One Administrator
Supporting Speaker: Tod Colegrove, Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library
Session Title: Emerging Technologies in the Library: “Toys”? or “Potent Tools for Student Engagement”?
Synopsis:
Since its opening in 2008, the Mathewson-‐IGT Knowledge Center has
deliberately
promoted
and
supported
experimentation
and
active
engagement
with
new
and
emerging
technologies
as
fundamental
to
its
core
mission
–
despite
the
tendency
among
library
domain
defenders
to
dismiss
many
of
the
potentially
disruptive
emerging
technologies
adopted
as
"toys."
Actively
redefining
the
library
from
a
quiet
warehouse
into
a
lively
place
of
learning,
technological
engagement,
and
knowledge
production,
the
emerging
technologies
working
group
of
the
library
is
leveraging
in-‐person
connections
with
students
and
faculty
to
build
vibrant
collaborative
communities
around
a
deliberately
expanded
conception
of
the
library
collection.
Some
of
the
"toys"
include:
Microsoft
Surface
workstations,
a
variety
of
tablet
computers
and
eReader
devices,
wireless
drone
quadricopters,
Arduino
Pro
development
kits,
Kinect
sensors,
LEGO
robotics
kits,
large-‐format
printers
and
scanners,
and
even
a
button-‐making
machine.
Steal
some
of
our
ideas:
using
unconventional
library
materials
in
tandem
with
a
wide
array
of
production
audio
and
video
equipment
and
software,
delivering
just-‐in-‐time
student
and
staff
support;
discover
how
these
powerful
tools
of
engagement
and
outreach
transform
the
high-‐
tech
@One
floor
from
"toy
box"
to
hotbed
of
21st-‐century
literacies.
Explains the benefits and drawbacks of open source software. Explores various open source software used in libraries and the future of open library data.
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland - 'Linked Data and the Semantic Web - what have libraries got to do with it?'
National Library of Scotland, June 17, 2011
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2671
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11854626.v1
Presented at Dutch National Librarian/Information Professianal Association annual conference 2011 - NVB2011
November 17, 2011
IGeLU2009: Patrons’ Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice: let ...Filipe Bento
University of Aveiro, Documentation Services (Library) presentation for IGeLU2009 Conference (http://igelu2009.org/about/programme/)
In a contemporary society where web 2.0 services are steadily growing in number both for functionalities offered and of users adopting them, it is important to examine which of these services are the core ones that should be offered by Libraries’ online services and how these affect Patrons’ routines. With PRIMO, Ex Libris brings to the resource discovery and delivery scenario some basic web 2.0 and social networking components that users, native consumers in most cases, expect to have as inherent functionalities. But are Libraries ready to be 2.0? The resulting folksonomy from social tagging does bring valuable benefits to the search and retrieval process and the communities of Patrons? Are there some caveats that we should be aware of? In this presentation, the authors look at these social tools and analyze their potential for promoting patrons’ collective intelligence and empowerment, applying it to Communities of Practice’s creation, identification and expansion, not overlooking some possible drawbacks that need to be tackled.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Emerging technologies in the library - a presentation at the MSU Emerging Tec...Patrick "Tod" Colegrove
Primary Speaker: Duncan Aldrich, @One Administrator
Supporting Speaker: Tod Colegrove, Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library
Session Title: Emerging Technologies in the Library: “Toys”? or “Potent Tools for Student Engagement”?
Synopsis:
Since its opening in 2008, the Mathewson-‐IGT Knowledge Center has
deliberately
promoted
and
supported
experimentation
and
active
engagement
with
new
and
emerging
technologies
as
fundamental
to
its
core
mission
–
despite
the
tendency
among
library
domain
defenders
to
dismiss
many
of
the
potentially
disruptive
emerging
technologies
adopted
as
"toys."
Actively
redefining
the
library
from
a
quiet
warehouse
into
a
lively
place
of
learning,
technological
engagement,
and
knowledge
production,
the
emerging
technologies
working
group
of
the
library
is
leveraging
in-‐person
connections
with
students
and
faculty
to
build
vibrant
collaborative
communities
around
a
deliberately
expanded
conception
of
the
library
collection.
Some
of
the
"toys"
include:
Microsoft
Surface
workstations,
a
variety
of
tablet
computers
and
eReader
devices,
wireless
drone
quadricopters,
Arduino
Pro
development
kits,
Kinect
sensors,
LEGO
robotics
kits,
large-‐format
printers
and
scanners,
and
even
a
button-‐making
machine.
Steal
some
of
our
ideas:
using
unconventional
library
materials
in
tandem
with
a
wide
array
of
production
audio
and
video
equipment
and
software,
delivering
just-‐in-‐time
student
and
staff
support;
discover
how
these
powerful
tools
of
engagement
and
outreach
transform
the
high-‐
tech
@One
floor
from
"toy
box"
to
hotbed
of
21st-‐century
literacies.
Explains the benefits and drawbacks of open source software. Explores various open source software used in libraries and the future of open library data.
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
10 questions about open access to increase visibility and use of Southern perspectives for addressing global challenges. in: CLACSO-CODESRIA-IDEAs South-South Comparative Research Workshop. Dakar, Senegal, 24-25 July 2014 and Bangkok, Thailand, 3-8 November 2014.
Answering questions, solving problems, or achieving goals requires both knowledge and reasoning. Some of the required knowledge is about the specific domain in question, say banking or medicine or network security. Some of it is more general than that, such as knowledge about communicating or physical movement. And much of it is what we think of as common sense or world knowledge, like knowing that people can read books but books can’t read people, or that water flows downhill, or that things that happen later don’t cause things that happened earlier. And reasoning involves much more than just recalling already known facts. It includes combining knowledge to reach conclusions. Without a large base of knowledge and the means to reason efficiently with it, no system can be considered truly intelligent. Cyc enables the creation of powerful intelligent applications by providing 1) a very rich knowledge modeling language, 2) an unmatched corpus of formally modeled knowledge covering a diverse range of topics, and 3) an efficient inference engine that can quickly answer questions and reach conclusions using this knowledge.
Curious Cat is a smart, always-learning AI assistant that wants to learn about the world and make your life easy and fun. Curious Cat uses cutting edge AI technology to produce agents with real social presence, real understanding, and a real desire and ability to learn about the world, and with the goal of making your life easier, more social, more enriching, and more fun.
A presentation about aggregation and discovery issues presented to the ARL Fall Forum. It covers some issues prompted by the Share proposal. Considers metadata aggregation and the general move from 'strings to things' in general Internet services. Touches on linked data, metadata processing, user expectation. Concludes with some general issues to consider.
Organizing Infoshop Libraries and Their Collections: Bringing the Community i...Nicole Pagowsky
Presentation by Kristen Cure & Nicole Pagowsky, University of Arizona School of Information Resources & Library Science (SIRLS) M.A. Students for 4th Annual SIRLS Graduate Student Symposium. Originally presented March 7, 2009 - recording completed on later date.
Community-run infoshop libraries provide access to information of special interest. Typically organized and maintained by non-librarians, there often is little organization to the collection. We present our collaboration with the Dry River Collective, as PLG-UA (Progressive Librarians Guild - UA Chapter), to organize their library. We wanted to explore how can we create systems of organization that are sustainable and efficient as well as supportive to the purpose and mission of infoshops. We will be discussing what an infoshop is, options for organization (including special materials, such as zines), our course of action for Dry River, and why infoshops are important to communities and should be of interest to libraries and information professionals.
http://sirls.arizona.edu/PLG
http://plg-sirls.pbworks.com
Contact:
nicolepagowsky@gmail.com
kkcure@email.arizona.edu
Discovery and the Age of Insight: Walmart EIM Open House 2013Joe Lamantia
Discovery is the most important business capability in the emerging Age of Insight - it's the missing ingredient that makes Big Data a source of value for businesses and people.
The Language of Discovery is an essential tool for providing discovery capability, whether at the scale of designing a single discovery application, determining the value proposition of a new product or service, or managing a strategic portfolio of technology and business initiatives.
This presentation outlines the Age of Insight, and suggests deep structural and historic precedents visible in the Age of Reason, especially in the central parallels between Natural Philosophy and the emerging discipline of Data Science. We then review the language of discovery, and consider widely visible examples of products and services that demonstrate the language.
We review our own usage of the framework as an analytical and generative toolkit for providing discovery capability, and share best practices for employing this perspective across a variety of levels of need.
Similar to Discovery tools: a rearguard action? (20)
Facing the Music: Are Information Professionals and Researchers Dancing to Di...Lukas Koster
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11791518.v1
Presentation by Jane Stevenson and Lukas Koster at ELAG 2013 in Ghent, Belgium, May 30, 2013. The slides without the performance don’t make much sense. We advise you to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmmPNcFteA
Lyrics of the version of U2's 'One' as performed by Mark Dehmlow and Lukas Koster at IGeLU 2011 (http://www.reg.co.il/exlibris-igelu2011/) conference Haifa (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqCB4LSOEK0)
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11854758.v1
FRBR as a datamodel for bibliographic metadata focuses too much on traditional library content/publications. The model can be improved for linked data environments by making it a flexible networked model
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11854836.v1
Presentation given at IGeLU 2010, Ghent - Belgium, by Roxana Popistaşu and Lukas Koster, Library of the University of Amsterdam
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
1. University library
Discovery tools: a rearguard action?
Lukas Koster
Library Systems Coordinator
Library of the University of Amsterdam
@lukask – l.koster@uva.nl
ELAG2012, Palma de Mallorca, May 18, 2012
3. Disclaimer
It’s just me
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 3
4. Discovery?
Columbus discovers America
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 4
5. Discover!
The Free Dictionary:
Determine the existence, presence, or fact of something
Become aware of something, usually accidentally, find unexpectedly
Make a new finding, see for the first time
Serendipity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeymyshkin/2331128659/
http://freedictionary.org/?Query=discover
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 5
6. Unknown unknowns
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we
know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we
know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we
do not know we don't know.”
Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkUO8NpI84
Unknown knowns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
“The things that we know, but are unaware of knowing”
Slavoj Žižek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_known
Things we could have known, but don’t know
Things that others know, but we don’t know (Lukas Koster)
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 6
7. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22116/22116-h/22116-h.htm
Columbus was looking for:
NOT India known known Continent was NOT new:
a new route to India known unknown As old as Europe
Known to inhabitants unknown known
He found:
Found before by Chinese, Vikings, Turks,….
A ‘new’ continent unknown unknown
Became aware only later
Named after someone else!
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 7
8. Discovery is relative
Context is important
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 8
9. Library Discovery Tools
Product Vendor Open Software + Shared index Software + Local Hosted API
Source local index Shared index
Primo/Primo Central Ex Libris x (Primo) x (Primo Central) x x x x
WorldCat Local OCLC x x x
Summon SerialsSolutions x x x
Aquabrowser SerialsSolutions x x x x
EDS EBSCO x x x
Encore Innovative x x
Endeca Endeca x x ?
VuFind OS x x x
LibHub SemperTool OS/Sub x x x x x
Meresco Seecr OS x x x
eXtensible Catalog OS x x x
http://www.librarytechnology.org/discovery.pl
https://sites.google.com/site/urd2comparison
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 9
10. Library Discovery Tools
Ex Libris Primo: “is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote
resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.”
OCLC WorldCat Local: “delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items
from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's
materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get
them what they need.”
EBSCO EDS: “creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources,
and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.”
SerialsSolutions SUMMON: “enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full
breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such
as articles.”
VuFind: “search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the
traditional OPAC to include: Catalog Records, Locally Cached Journals, Digital Library Items,
Institutional Repository, Institutional Bibliography, Other Library Collections and Resources ”
GoogleScholar: “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one
place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts
and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites ”
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 10
11. Library Discovery Tools
Ex Libris Primo: “is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote
resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.”
OCLC WorldCat Local: “delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items
from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's
materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get
them what they need.”
EBSCO EDS: “creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources,
and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.”
SerialsSolutions SUMMON: “enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full
breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such
as articles.”
VuFind: “search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the
traditional OPAC to include: Catalog Records, Locally Cached Journals, Digital Library Items,
Institutional Repository, Institutional Bibliography, Other Library Collections and Resources ”
GoogleScholar: “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one
place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts
and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites ”
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 11
12. Library Discovery Tools
Ex Libris Primo: “is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote
resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.”
OCLC WorldCat Local: “delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items
from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's
materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get
them what they need.”
EBSCO EDS: “creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources,
and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.”
SerialsSolutions SUMMON: “enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full
breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such
as articles.”
VuFind: “search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the
traditional OPAC to include: Catalog Records, Locally Cached Journals, Digital Library Items,
Institutional Repository, Institutional Bibliography, Other Library Collections and Resources ”
GoogleScholar: “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one
place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts
and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites ”
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 12
13. Library Discovery Tools
Ex Libris Primo: “is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote
resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.”
OCLC WorldCat Local: “delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items
from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's
materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get
them what they need.”
EBSCO EDS: “creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources,
and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.”
SerialsSolutions SUMMON: “enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full
breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such
as articles.”
VuFind: “search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the
traditional OPAC to include: Catalog Records, Locally Cached Journals, Digital Library Items,
Institutional Repository, Institutional Bibliography, Other Library Collections and Resources ”
GoogleScholar: “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one
place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts
and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites ”
May 18, 2012 Discovery tools: a rearguard action? ELAG2012 13
14. Library Discovery Tools
Ex Libris Primo: “is a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote
resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects.”
OCLC WorldCat Local: “delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items
from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's
materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get
them what they need.”
EBSCO EDS: “creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources,
and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.”
SerialsSolutions SUMMON: “enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full
breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such
as articles.”
VuFind: “search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the
traditional OPAC to include: Catalog Records, Locally Cached Journals, Digital Library Items,
Institutional Repository, Institutional Bibliography, Other Library Collections and Resources ”
GoogleScholar: “provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one
place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts
and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites ”
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15. Library Discovery Tools
End user functionality Content types Content sources
one-stop books items from your library
discovery journal articles the world's library collections
delivery digital objects all your library's materials
single-search-box videos an institution’s information resources
unified, customized index articles full breadth of content found in library
accessing catalog records collections
web-searching journals your library's resources
search digital library items institutional repository
browse scholarly literature institutional bibliography
theses scholarly literature
abstracts academic publishers
court opinions professional societies
online repositories
universities
web sites
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16. Library Discovery Tools
A one-stop single-search-box web based solution for searching, browsing, discovery and
delivery of print and digital publications and objects available from library collections,
institutional resources and academic publishers, using a unified index
One-stop
Discovery and Delivery
Unified index
Publications
Library and institutional resources
Academic publishers
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17. Library Discovery Tools
Parties involved Commercial
Public ‘Not (so) commercial’
Academic System Open source
Research vendor
Library
Content Creator
provider Publisher
Aggregator
Customer
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18. Content
Library
Catalogues
Institutional Journals
repositories
Databases
Institutional
databases
Same old content Content
provider
Nothing new, nothing unexpected here
Nothing to discover
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19. Content
System
Library
vendor
Catalogues
Institutional Journals
repositories Contract
Databases
Institutional
“Local” index databases
“Shared” index
Content
provider
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20. Content
System
Library
vendor
Journals
Contract
Databases
“Shared” index System
Content vendor
provider
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21. Libraries think they buy access to articles and information
Library
Publisher
Publishers only sell them services
22. Dave Pattern
...can you really see us renewing the subscription for this database? http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/1722
23. Content discovery?
Same content types as before: publications
Known knowns
Same content sources as before: catalogues, databases, journals
Less content: technical, political, commercial obstacles
Unknown knowns
Known unknowns
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24. Discovery?
No new, unexpected, accidental findings
No discovery
Except that libraries discover:
There are lots of errors in their own data
Their workflows are not fit for unified indexing
Publishers don’t care about libraries, science, knowledge
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25. New silos
Primo Central
Summon Index
Super silos
Local silos
Primo 1 Primo 2 Summon 1 Summon 2
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26. End user functionality
One unified front end
Setting context
Before the search After the search
Subject/discipline search Refine search results
Scoped search Drill down
Facets
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27. Known item search
Book, article
Known known I know the book is in the library
Known unknown I know the article, but not where it’s available
Unknown known?
No discovery desired!
Search on Title , Title + Author
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30. Subject/discipline search
Discovery: find new stuff within subject area
Requires uniform classification by subject of each item
In Local and Shared index
Problematic
Not widely available
Highly desired by subject librarians!
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31. Scoping searches to disciplines mapped to the individual item level
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34. The reality is:
One to one topics from data source “as is”
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35. Scoped search
Limit search context in advance
Catalogues
Institutional Journals
“Local” index repositories
Databases “Shared” index
Institutional
databases
Locations
Collections Local or Shared index
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39. Broad search
Default: search ‘everything’
No limit of search context in advance
No tabs, no locations, no collections prefilter
Limit results afterwards
Drill down
Facets
Largest chance of finding something unexpected
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42. Related information
Find related results while browsing results list
By same author Unknown unknowns
From same period Unknown knowns
About similar subjects
Books and articles are a huge obstacle to find
related information.
You actually have to read them to find
pointers to other useful information sources.
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43. Related information
Recommender systems
Based on analysing usage statistics
Loans
Downloads
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46. One unified front end
All individual library search front ends replaced
by one institutional front end
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47. One unified front end
Focus on
The Library as the place to find all you need
Local Collections, subscriptions
Introverted perspective
lat ion
= iso
ion
eg rat
Int
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48. One unified front end
Customers don’t care where they find stuff
Institutional affiliation is only needed for delivery….
The Model
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49. Slide from Tony Hirst's "A105 - Visionary Views" session at ILI2010
Dave Pattern http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/1722
51. What’s new?
Response time: fast
Unlimited search scope (within limited set)
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52. What’s old?
No unified multilingual subject search
No unified unambiguous author search
Limited set
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53. ?
Time for the Big Question
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54. Bibliotekssystem som begrepp - är det
yesterday’s news?
• Är det t.o.m så att det ” The Big Question here is: do we
need discovery systems based on
börjar bli dags (på riktigt)
centuries old physical library and
att luckra upp innehållet i publishing practices?
våra isolerade
bibliotekssystem (på riktigt) Or do libraries need to really go and
och låta vår data interagera look elsewhere and make use of new
med omvärldens data (på online information sources and
riktigt)? linked open data technology?
[Lukas Koster]
Kristin Olofsson, March 27 2012 http://www.kb.se/dokument/Libris/inspirationsnm%C3%B6ten/Front%20till%20librisinsp.pdf
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56. Rearguard action?
Rückzugsgefecht achterhoedegevecht
combat d’arrière-garde
reträttstrid
azione di retroguardia
accion de retaguardia
baktroppen handling
týlovou akci
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57. Rearguard action:
The Free Dictionary:
rearguard [‘rɪə,gɑːd]
n
1. (Military) a detachment detailed to protect the rear of a military formation, esp in retreat
2. an entrenched or conservative element, as in a political party
rearguard action
a. an action fought by a rearguard
b. a defensive action undertaken to try to stop something happening or continuing
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rearguard
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58. Rearguard actions
Content providers
Libraries
System vendors
Customers
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59. Rearguard actions
Content providers, publishers, aggregators
Protect commercial position
Business model based on 19th century conditions
Peer review
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60. Rearguard actions
Libraries
Promote local physical collection
Protect organisational position
Focused on publications
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61. Rearguard actions
Library system vendors
Protect commercial position
Dependent on content providers and libraries
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62. Rearguard actions
Customers
Conditioned by existing situation
Publications: go to the library
Anything else: go to Google, YouTube, FaceBook
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63. Rearguard actions
Open acces Linked open data
Nanopublications Social media
Web
Customer
Collaboratories
Datasets
Libraries Publishers
Vendors Information
New Bibliographic Framework
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64. Forward!
The Web…the Final Frontier…
To explore strange new worlds…
To boldly go where no one has gone before
Unknown unknowns
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66. Examples!
New Bibliographic Framework
Webscale Next Generation ILS
Research information
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67. New Bibliographic Framework
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html
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68. New Bibliographic Framework
No local data sources for bibliographic data
Summon 2
Primo 1 Summon 1
Primo 2
Discovery tools need to work with shared linked data sources
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70. Webscale Next Generation ILS
Same old business model
Same old content
Same old silo structure
New technical infrastructure
Shared cataloguing (new??)
Integration of print and electronic
Back office workflows
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71. Same old silos
Alma
Intota
Super silos
Local silos
Primo 1 Primo 2 Summon 1 Summon 2
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72. Webscale Next Generation ILS
Should be focusing on new Bibliographic Framework
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73. Research information
Person
Publication
Person
Research project
Review
Organisation
Publication
Dataset
Discovery tool, OPAC Research information system
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74. Research information
http://twitter.com/jamestoon/statuses/195423498649346048
James Toon @jamestoon
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75. Informal assessment of
the need for a discovery
tool, January 2012
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76. Assessment Outcomes
Two different use cases:
Research staff: one unified interface
General public: promote KNAW collections
Research staff :
Needed: Subject area prefilter
OR:
Just use Web of Science/Google Scholar, etc.
No real return on investment
No need for organisation-wide discovery tool right now
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77. Solutions
http://www.slideshare.net/wilbanks/wilbanks-nfais
John Wilbanks @wilbanks
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78. Solutions
Front end tools:
Semantic/linked data search
Search ‘trusted’ global data sources
Resolve stored URIs on the fly
Process metadata schemas
Infrastructure:
Publish Linked Open Data
Add links
Use persistent URIs
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79. Google Knowledge Graph
http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html
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80. All library data
No silos All scholarly publications
? ?
Primo 1 Primo 2 Summon 1 Summon 2
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81. Open up!
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82. Publishers
Open access, share data
Libraries
Shift focus to information, curation
System developers/vendors
Provide general linked Information systems
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83. Real discovery is not a frontend issue,
it’s an infrastructure issue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/distillated/4019168148/
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Editor's Notes
The short version of this presentation
Unknown knowns? To the end user? Known unknowns?
Discovery tools are designed to give lots of results, in order to show they have lots of records
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/beta/discover
Time for national, thematic front ends
The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series The European University Institute (EUI) Villa La Fonte, San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence), Italy Fiesole (Florence), Italy April 12-14, 2012
Compared to federated search; using individual databases one at a time
Is it even so that it is time (for real) to loosen up the content of our isolated library system (for real) and let our data to interact with theoutside world data (for real)?
So…. Is implementing a discovery tool a defensive action undertaken by libraries, publishers, vendors to try to stop a specific threat to their existence? And will it be successful?