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From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship Discovery

From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship Discovery. David K. Uspal Library Technology Development Specialist Oct. 13, 2010. What We’ll Be Covering.

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From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship Discovery

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  1. From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship Discovery David K. Uspal Library Technology Development Specialist Oct. 13, 2010

  2. What We’ll Be Covering • About Me (Note: this is the best time during the afternoon to get up and get a snack) • The Big Picture (Where I crib the boss’ slides for bonus points) • Activity Insight & Data Collection (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love data harvesting) • From Community Bibliography… • …to World Wide Web Discovery (The good stuff) • Tying it all Together (…and praying everything still works)

  3. About Me • Started July 12, 2010 • Just hit my 3 month anniversary • Previously employers: • Lockheed Martin 2001-2010 • Co-op at ARL NRDC 2000 • Likes: Geekery, Tacos • Dislikes: Traffic

  4. The Big Picture • Facets • Learning Space / Social Place • Educational Enabler • Commons / Intellectual Center • Scholarly Partner • Showcasing Scholarly Activity • “Stuff” via Special Collections, Digital Library, etc. • “People” via Programming & Outreach, Community Bibliography, etc.

  5. Community Bibliography • A celebration of Villanova University community authors and scholars past, present, and future. “Falvey Memorial Library's Community Bibliography is an open repository of the entire published output of the Villanova University community. This extensive database offers a detailed view of our proud scholarly heritage, from our community's historical publications of the 19th Century to the cutting edge research of today.”

  6. Community Bibliography

  7. Activity Insight • “Activity Insight™, by Digital Measures, is a web-based information management system designed to organize and build reports on faculty member’s teaching, research and service activities. AI provides one place for a faculty member to keep information about his/her performance current, including ‘intellectual contributions’ listed on vitae.” • Example reports that can be prepared with Activity Insight: • Faculty Vitae Update • Promotion and/or Tenure Recommendation Reports • Faculty Teaching Loads • Annual faculty activity reports • Accreditation reports • Media surveys, such as U.S. News & World Report • Institutional research surveys

  8. Data Collection Process (Current) Local Villanova Index Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document Refworks Tagged Format Document Activity Insight Intellectual Collaboration VuFind Activity Insight Database

  9. Data Collection Process (Proposed) Local Villanova Index Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document Activity Insight Intellectual Collaboration VuFind RefWorks Tagged Format Document Activity Insight Database

  10. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery • Once data is accessible by Community Bibliography (by way of VuFind), we can index Community Bibliography in Google • Sitemap generated by VuFind • Registered with Google Webmaster Tools • Google crawls site, adds to index • Goal : Short turnaround from Activity Insight to Google’s search engine

  11. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery XML JSON

  12. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery

  13. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery Local Villanova Index Community Bibliography XML Site Map Google Webmaster Tools VuFind Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site

  14. Tying It All Together

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