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PSIgate: “ two clicks away from rich information”

PSIgate: “ two clicks away from rich information”. physics. astronomy. chemistry. materials. history and policy. earth sciences. John Blunden-Ellis, USTLG Meeting 17 June 2004. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway. Current Product Development Growth and Content

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PSIgate: “ two clicks away from rich information”

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  1. PSIgate: “two clicks away from rich information” physics astronomy chemistry materials history and policy earth sciences John Blunden-Ellis, USTLG Meeting 17 June 2004

  2. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development • Growth and Content • Usage and Marketplace • Future Plans

  3. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • 1. Current Product Development • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel. • Last updated November 2002. • Reviewed on a six-monthly basis. • Re-structure for September 2004.

  4. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

  5. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development: • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel • Harvesting tool

  6. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

  7. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development: • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel • Harvesting tool • Products and services

  8. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Top 50 • Measured by number • of clickthroughs to • original resource from • catalogue. • 267,000 clickthroughs • in total on PSIgate • since August 2003. • Most popular site had • 248 visits in • November 2002.

  9. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Timelines • 1,428 lines. • Single science timeline • or separate subject • timelines. • Can be searched by • word or by date range. • 12,600 word searches • since August 2003

  10. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Newsfeeds • PSIgate Headlines, Spotlight, PSIgate • Newsletter, Jobs and Courses, Newsfeeds. • Newsfeeds: BBC, Associated Press, • New Scientist, IoP, scenta, LTSN • Materials, NextWave, Google Science. • Cross searching planned.

  11. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Space Guide • Topical features on Astronomy. • Updated with a new feature(s) • every six weeks or so. • All features linked to the • Catalogue through relevant links. • First feature on Constellations • with a star map of each • constellation. • Next feature will be Saturn.

  12. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • A-Z listing of Browse Headings • Originally listed by subject and main • Heading. • Now additional choice of full alphabetic • Listing.

  13. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel • Harvesting tool • Products and services • Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality

  14. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

  15. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel • Harvesting tool • Products and services • Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality • Links to other services

  16. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • ETB • Engineering & • Technology Board. • ETB have adopted • Many browse headings • From PSIgate. • Link to PSIgate • Catalogue. • Use articles from • Spotlight.

  17. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • IoP • PSIgate pioneered • arrangement with IoPP. • Remote searching all • abstracts of IoPP journal • articles • (over 150,000). • Cross searching with • PSIgate and Zetoc set • up but results unhelpful. • Access to full article if • user institution • subscribes.

  18. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • RSChem • Agreement with • RSC to provide remote • searching of abstracts • of journal articles • Published by RSC. • RSC LIC useful for • images relating to • Chemistry history • (2,000 digitised).

  19. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Current Product Development • Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel • Harvesting tool • Products and services • Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality • Links to other services • Spotlight redesign

  20. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

  21. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 2. Growth and Content Main catalogue 11,100 resource descriptions (June 2004) in the main catalogue: High granularity. Tutorials/Lecture Notes/Case Studies…. 1,200 tutorials; 1,350 lecture notes; 172 laboratory practicals Web catalogue (harvester) 122,000 resources in the harvested catalogue

  22. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Growth and Content Content breakdown of main catalogue by subject area: ASTRONOMY: 1,796 CHEMISTRY: 3,612 EARTH SCIENCES: 3,119 PHYSICS: 3,107 SCIENCE HISTORY & POLICY: 1,000

  23. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Usage and Market Place • Global usage of PSIgate. • Usage model: • Subject keyword searches + subject browse searches + searches of static pages. Per Month • Page views. Per Month • Size of ac.uk marketplace and PSIgate usage within that marketplace. • Usage model: • Subject keyword searches + subject browse searches + Searches of static pages + % of unresolved host/location. Per Month • Page views. Per Month

  24. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 196,000 keyword searches

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  26. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Top 10 institutional users of PSIgate August 2003 – May 2004 (10 months)

  27. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway PSIgate Size of ac.uk market sector in physical sciences SUBJECT STUDENTS STAFF TOTAL Chemistry/Materials/Ceramics 20,330 3,865 24,195 Physics/Astronomy 14,100 3,960 18,060 Earth/Marine/Environmental Science 29,340 3,100 32,440 Other 1,355 115 1,470 TOTAL: 65,125 11,050 76,175 Source: HESA Number of PSIgate searches from ac.uk origin for 2003-4: 72,000

  28. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway PSIgate User Survey

  29. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Future Plans • Two major projects for 2004-5: • eBank in partnership with UKOLN and the University of Southampton • Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry in partnership with the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University • And • Outcomes of six-monthly team Brainstorming meeting

  30. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • eBank (1) • Subject area: chemistry (crystallography). • Based on the perception that research and learning processes are cyclical. Outputs are based on the use and re-use of data and information. • Example: student might wish to ‘rollback’ to the original research data on which a publication was based. This underpins the concept of provenance. • Therefore, eBank project wishes to link publications and the datasets to which the publications refer, giving users access to the datasets.

  31. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • eBank (2) • Draw on experimental work undertaken for the Combechem project (combinatorial chemistry) where large quantities of varied data are generated. • Comparing/testing metadata schemas for chemistry datasets (e.g. CLRC Scientific Metadata Model). • Demonstrator currently in preparation. Harvesting metadata about eprints, and harvesting metadata about research data. These will be brought together. • Demonstrator database made available via PSIgate September/October 2004. • Valuable learning/teaching and research tool.

  32. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry (1) • Pilot study at PSIgate (MSc project). • Create an exemplar database of research interests harvested from departmental websites. • Each record based on individual. • Metadata: author, institution, departmental details, stated research interests/publications, controlled keywords, uncontrolled keywords, webpage date, record creation date. • Code written (Java) that will automatically extract data from all UK chemistry websites and re-present in database form.

  33. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry (2) • Automatic database creation. • Testing and refining code, based on experimental work undertaken at Department of Chemistry at Cambridge (Chemical Informatics Group: Chemical Data Checker, etc). • Promote to ac.uk chemistry community, with protocols for easy amending of webpages. • Database automatically updated weekly. • Extend model to global listing. • Possible application to other disciplines in physical sciences.

  34. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway • Brainstorming – some plans for 2004-5 • 57 separate action lines. • Events database for PSIgate. • Separate packaged features: Case studies; Tutorials, etc. • based on PSIgate’s high granularity. • Redesign Welcome Pages. • Focus on IRC growth/quality/specificity through a number of • identified initiatives. • Revamp browse headings, with pop-up scope notes. • etc.

  35. PSIgate: “two clicks away from rich information” physics astronomy chemistry materials history and policy earth sciences John Blunden-Ellis. USTLG meeting 17 June 2004

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