On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Frances Dean McNamara wrote:
> We have a new catalog interface at University of Chicago that we are
> currently testing. It is based on Aquabrowser Library of Medialab and
> the library has named it LENS to distinguish it from the existing
> library catalog.
>
> http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/
>
> We have added EADs from a local system, a crawl of the website
> (which is
> still being refined, we are getting too much), data from our link
> resolver and eresource database lists. We are also experimenting with
> loading Oxford DNB. You have to search a last name of a British
> author
> to see that, try just "austen". Of course you'll only see those
> articles if you subscribe to that db.
This implementation is going in a direction I admire. Incorporating
lot's o' content into a single index seems to me to be a way to
breakdown silos, improve relevancy ranking, and enable libraries to
incorporate more services against content. I realize this will not
work with 100% of library data/information, but... Kudos.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
Received on Wed Dec 19 2007 - 11:12:29 EST