The document discusses a project to link Google Scholar to the Canadian Information System for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (CISTI) collection and services. The goals of the project were to make CISTI's collection more accessible worldwide, meet researchers where they work by collaborating with Google Scholar, and provide access to both licensed and open access content. Using agile project management methods, the project built components like a crawler, web services, and XML files to create links between Google Scholar search results and relevant CISTI resources. Over 15.7 million article-level XML records were produced.

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

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

7. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

16. …three universes…collide…
to form . . .

17. 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

18. linking from Google
Scholar to Discover

20. 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

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

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

24. 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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