Interesting. Do you have active plans/thoughts about how you are going
to get this metadata from scholarly databases run by third party companies?
Bowen, Jennifer wrote:
> XC's architecture is based upon aggregating metadata, and we are
> building a robust platform that will perform this aggregation, called
> the XC Metadata Services Toolkit (MST). This open source software will
> support metadata from scholarly databases as well as from library
> catalogs and repositories. We believe that this is a much more
> promising direction for future discovery interfaces than relying upon
> metasearch technology, although the two approaches may need to be used
> alongside each other in the shorter term. We just don't see a promising
> future in continuing to develop new software that uses metasearch
> technology.
>
> Jennifer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochkind_at_jhu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:21 AM
> To: Next generation catalogs for libraries; Bowen, Jennifer
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Preliminary report on user research for
> eXtensible Catalog
>
> One of the things that stuck out to me in the report was user's
> confusion about whether they could find articles in the catalog, as well
>
> as user's unhappiness with having to learn new interfaces for additional
>
> scholarly databases.
>
> Are you considering trying to address the scholarly database issue with
> some kind of federated broadcast search, aggregated index, or other
> means of attempting to integrate scholarly article results in the main
> interface?
>
> Jonathan
>
> Montibello, Joseph P. wrote:
>
>> Jennifer,
>>
>> Thanks so much for sharing this useful and very interesting report
>>
> with the community. We talk so much about how we need to know what the
> users need. As you say in the report, this is not a comprehensive,
> end-all be-all type of report, but it answers a few questions and
> prompts even more.
>
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Joe Montibello
>> Class of 1945 Library
>> Phillips Exeter Academy
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:08:48 -0400
>> From: Jennifer Bowen <jbowen_at_LIBRARY.ROCHESTER.EDU>
>> Subject: Preliminary report on user research for eXtensible Catalog
>>
>> (Posted on behalf of Nancy Fried Foster,
>>
> nfoster_at_library.rochester.edu)
>
>> The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River
>>
> Campus
>
>> Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research
>>
> that
>
>> we conducted in support of XC software development. We thank the
>>
> Andrew W.
>
>> Mellon Foundation and our user research partners - Cornell, Ohio
>>
> State, Yale
>
>> and the University of Rochester - for their generous support of this
>>
> project.
>
>> Use this URL - http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6873 - for a report that
>> summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings
>>
> from
>
>> the data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible
>>
> Catalog
>
>> (XC) project. A full analysis and interpretation of the data is not
>>
> included
>
>> in the present report and will be provided at the conclusion of the
>>
> project.
>
>> This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions
>>
> and a
>
>> list of the features that emerged from the analysis of those results.
>>
> (See
>
>> the eXtensible Catalog website at www.eXtensibleCatalog.org for more
>> information about the overall
>> project.)
>>
>>
>>
Received on Wed Jun 17 2009 - 10:11:47 EDT