Integrating LibData into Enterprise Systems:

1. Integrating LibData into Enterprise Systems: Positioning Library Resources in Places Useful to Students UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LibData: Database and Authoring Tool Deliverables Enterprise Systems Integration General and Customized Page Genres Research QuickStart (http://research.lib.umn.edu) dynamically generates structured information resource pages for over 230 subjects that are associated with academic departments and programs. Admin Systems Data Model Authoring CourseLib (http://courses.lib.umn.edu) is web-based authoring and database tool to support rapid customized library page creation and instruction for specific courses and programs. Portal Presentations: Pushing Personalized Library Resource Pages to Students . Page Generation 1. Atomicity of Page Element Structure PageScribe is a free-form authoring genre that renders elements (resources, services, locations, etc.) from the LibData base. PageScribe is used to create non-course specific library pages. 2. Page Authoring: Page Ordered elements 3. End-user Page Selection: SQL Joins 4. Rendered HTML LUMINA (main library web site) is increasingly driven by LibData through query-rendered pages and new content management system functions. • LibData Architecture • OS & Web Server • Solaris/Apache (pre-existing; driving local site); system has also been developed and tested on Linux • Database • mySQL (fast, easy to work with, free, widely available) • Programming Language • PHP (high-performance, free, widely available, simplicity to develop and maintain complex logic) Abstract: • The goal of publishing dynamically-generated library web pages through a system that integrates easy-to-use web authoring tools with a large database of information resources led the University of Minnesota Libraries to build LibData. Now this library web content management system is being explored for its potential for integration with portal and instructional management system environments on the Minnesota campus. Automated delivery of relevant library web pages to enrollment and departmental profiles are being prototyped. The idea of providing faculty and course designers access, through the LibData system, to a "palette" of library resource and service options for populating course pages is also being explored. Numerous workflow and behavioral questions must be investigated to inform design development, including: What degree of unmediated authoring control over library resources do faculty desire or would use if offered? • LibData Technical Status • ~40 tables in highly normalized relational database • ~40,000 lines of code • ~2,100 hours of coding • Status • 106 staff members with accounts • 6,784 resources in database • 233 Subject (RQS) pages • 562 CourseLib/PageScribe pages • 17,836 total page elements • GPL Open Source at: http://libdata.sourceforge.net/