On 11 April 2008, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> I think a number of us are doing this. I wonder if there's a way for us
> to create a common wiki somewhere with our collective findings, to share
> the investigatory work?
Something sort of like this is being done by a group at Scholars Portal, a
consortial project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries in
Ontario, Canada. It may be of interest to folks here and I don't think
I've seen it mentioned. It's not unique, but it's worth a pointer.
In Ontario various university libraries are going with, or have gone to,
Endeca, Primo, Evergreen, and Bibliocommons. Some others are waiting.
There's no province-wide discovery layer, but there's a feeling that there
might be some day, and with good new systems we can swap and share all our
information anyway with open standards anyway.
A Scholars Portal group is collecting what they can find that's been done
already on building a good discovery layer. Then they'll do a bunch of
user research, and then they'll build their own system, and the member
universities can use it and build on it in turn.
You can see what they're doing here:
http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/PSWG/Discovery+Tools+Sub-Group
Look in the Attachments tab for reports etc.
Bill
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Received on Sun Apr 13 2008 - 13:45:53 EDT