Ungava [http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cistilabswiki/index.php/Ungava]
is a Lucene-based test-bed for experimental, scalable search, browse and
results visualization of library catalogs and article-level collections. The
first release also includes an implementation of drill clouds
[http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/drill-clouds-for-search-refinement-id.html]
for search refinement, as well as using Simile's
[http://simile.mit.edu/] Timeline for temporal visualization of search
results and Exhibit for faceted interactions.
There are two collection instances available:
- NRC Research Press Collection: 16 journals (~15k records; metadata
& full-text) [http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ungava/]
- Colorado State University Libraries catalogue (~1.5M records;
metadata only) [http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ungava01/]
Forthcoming collection instances:
- DOAJ: ~2900 journals, ~900 full-text, ~160k article
- BioMed Central: ~180 journals
- arxiv.org: 443,988 e-prints, metadata & full-text
- University of Denver Catalogue
- CERN Document Server: ~900k articles, ~360k fulltext
Ungava also does union searching and a union instance allowing
search, browse & visualization of DOAJ, arxiv.org, NRC Research Press,
BioMed Central, arxiv.org, CERN and ColState library catalog at the
same time will be released in the next few weeks.
Ungava has also been applied to an internal private collection of ~4M
articles, full-text and metadata, as well as a union collection of
1) ~4m article level metadata and full-test
+
2) ~26m article level metadata (also internal/private)
and performed very well.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
NB: The Ungava interface is rather spartan / minimalist as my research
focus is not GUI design. Designistas need not apply :-)
Thank-you,
Glen Newton
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Glen Newton | glen.newton_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research
& NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative
http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu
tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
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Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
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Received on Tue Oct 16 2007 - 10:13:48 EDT