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Aggregating Online Resources: Grolier Online as an Educational Portal

Aggregating Online Resources: Grolier Online as an Educational Portal. CONCERT 2001 Taipei, Taiwan; October 2001. Genesis of the Encyclopedia. As abstract of documents As précis of the library As ideological agenda Designed for a professional audience Organized conceptually.

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Aggregating Online Resources: Grolier Online as an Educational Portal

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  1. Aggregating Online Resources:Grolier Online as an Educational Portal CONCERT 2001 Taipei, Taiwan; October 2001

  2. Genesis of the Encyclopedia • As abstract of documents • As précis of the library • As ideological agenda • Designed for a professional audience • Organized conceptually

  3. The 19th and 20th Centuries • Intellectual disciplines atomized into small, discrete articles • Organized algorithmically for easy retrieval • Designed for students and nonspecialist readers

  4. The Article ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE BODY SECTION SECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION ARTICLE SIGNATURE ARTICLE BIBLIOGRAPHY The Article as Fielded Data WORK WORK WORK WORK

  5. The Encyclopedia as Database

  6. Supporting Technologies • Boolean and AI searching • Database technologies • Markup languages • Linking technologies • Networked documents

  7. The Article ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE BODY SECTION SECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION ARTICLE SIGNATURE ARTICLE BIBLIOGRAPHY The Article then . . . WORK WORK WORK WORK

  8. The Article now . . . <Article> <Title . . . /Title> <Body> <Section> <Subsection> <p . . . /p> </Subsection> </Section> <Section> <Subsection> <p . . . /p> </Subsection> </Section> <Signature> <Name . . . /Name> <Affiliation . . . /> </Signature> <Bibliography> <Work> <Title . . . /Title> <Author . . . </Author> . . . etc.

  9. The Encyclopedia as Extensible Library • Bounded collections v. “all texts” • Structured v. unstructured information • The role of the librarian and the editor • Collection identification and acquisition • Mediation between student and text • Organization of documents into subject hierarchies

  10. Competing Content Models • Publishing Model • proprietary content • content creation and editing • Aggregation Model • third-party content • indexing, abstracting, and engine

  11. The Encyclopedia as Extensible Library • Bounded collections v. “all texts” • Structured v. unstructured information • The role of the librarian and the editor • Links technologies and access to third-party texts • The “virtual encyclopedia” • Expands in response to user queries

  12. Grolier Online as anEducational Portal • Uses individual article as index term • Provide summary (article text) • Identify other sources, print & electronic • Provide access to those sources • Combines publishing and content aggregation models

  13. Grolier Online as anEducational Portal • Provides single-search access to all relevant resources via the “GO Frame” • Provides pointers to external content: • Grolier Internet Index • EBSCO periodicals • Bibliographic services (in development)

  14. Grolier Online as anEducational Portal • Provides access to nontraditional materials • Interactive Atlas • Current events • Teacher resources • Study guides

  15. Grolier Online as anEducational Portal Article Study guides Lesson plans Activities Magazines Curriculum correlation Cross-references/ cross-database searches Journal articles Bibliographic citations Web sites

  16. Access and Authentication • Infrastructure upgrades • mirrored sites • content caching • Authentication upgrades • “Smart” authentication • Remote access policies

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