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OPAC and ForeCite

OPAC and ForeCite. by Jesse Prabawa Gozali WING Meeting on August 10 th 2007. OPAC. About Past Present Future. OPAC - About. OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog e.g. LINC (linc.nus.edu.sg) Background (Lee, 2006) Lacking usability guidelines for OPAC UIs Lacking usability for OPAC UIs

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OPAC and ForeCite

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  1. OPAC and ForeCite by Jesse Prabawa Gozali WING Meeting on August 10th 2007

  2. OPAC • About • Past • Present • Future

  3. OPAC - About • OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog • e.g. LINC (linc.nus.edu.sg) • Background (Lee, 2006) • Lacking usability guidelines for OPAC UIs • Lacking usability for OPAC UIs • Goal • Leverage current web technologies / techniques to allow dynamic and fine-grained user interaction in accomplishing user tasks. • Challenges • Where? There are many areas of focus • How? Straddle between Desktop and Web paradigms • Why? Not just because we can

  4. OPAC - Past • Four areas of focus • Overview + Details panes • Tabular data display • Tabs as history mechanism • Embedded suggestion bar • Evaluations done focusing on usability with very promising results • JCDL ‘07 short paper: ‘A Rich OPAC User Interface with AJAX’ • More info: WING CVS, SoC DSpace

  5. OPAC - Present • NUS MARC at linc.comp.nus.edu.sg • CSU MARC at linc.comp.nus.edu.sg/csu • Scrapes NUS LINC for circulation data • Integration of spelling suggestion (Kumar, 2005) and known-item query detection (Kan & Poo, 2005) • Hooks for query expansion modules: Morphology (Tan, 2004), Phrase structure (Ng, 2004) • Browser Compatibility • Full: Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, Netscape 9, IE 7 • Cosmetic issues: Firefox 1.5, Safari 2, Netscape 8. • Work-in-progress: IE 6

  6. OPAC - Future • Actually, immediate future • Migration to Prototype.js • Modular refactoring: widgets • CSS flexibility • Longitudinal study • Perhaps, future • Relevance ranking • NLP modules

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  8. ForeCite • About • Present • Future

  9. ForeCite - About • Many things: • Citation network • Author network • Social network • Open content • ML supported • Related • CiteSeer, LinkedIn, CiteULike, Wikipedia

  10. ForeCite - About • Goal • A lightweight user-centered web application • Challenges • ‘nuff said • Use Cases • View citation metadata • Export BibTex • Download papers, slides • Correct/clean noisy metadata • Contribute content • etc (Author network, Social network)

  11. ForeCite - Present • Ruby on Rails (MVC) • Author Network • author/user models by Trung • Citation Network • citation model and views by Jesse • ML Supported • ParsCit by Min • Authentication • RBAC by Trung • views by Jesse • Search with Solr

  12. ForeCite - Future • ParsCit - populate database • Author Network - refactor model • Citation Network - refactor views • Search views • Open content • Authentication • Reputation / credits • Motivation • Social network - views • Web Services (SOAP) - integration with Tony’sTiddlyWiki • …

  13. ForeCite • Mailing List: WING Ruby on Rails • Development site:http://aye.comp.nus.edu.sg/jeprab/forecite/

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