african public libraries summit, september 19-21, 2012 ahmed al-awah head, information systems &...
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African Public Libraries Summit, September 19-21, 2012
Ahmed Al-Awah
Head, Information Systems & Technical ServicesLibrary and Information Management Services
ICT, Science and Technology Division (ISTD)United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Promoting Access to Scientific & Socio-economic Information in/on Africa (ASKIA)
A UNECA Program
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Outline
Context – ECA’s vision and programmes Access Scientific and Socio-economic Information in Africa (ASKIA) programDemonstration of ASKIA prototypeOverview of ASKIA FeaturesGoing ForwardQuestions
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ECA’s mandate & vision
The Economic Commission of Africa:established 1958one of the UN Secretariat's five regional commissions 5 Sub-Regional Offices (SROs): Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Zambia & Cameroon
to promote economic and social development, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development
to promote economic and social development, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development
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Support to member states
Dual role as regional arm of the UN & part of the regional institutional landscape
Provides a vantage position to harness resources and make unique contributions to assist member States' efforts to
address their development challenges
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ASKIA Programme
Access to Scientific/Socio-economic Knowledge in/on Africa (ASKIA) Initiative:
defines a framework for bringing together a variety of scientific and socio-economic and associated information to the African community; Is an implementation programme for the African Virtual Libraries Information Network (AVLIN) established by member states/ECA at the CODI meeting Identifies 5 strategic areas of intervention working in synergy to achieve the overall program objective
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ASKIA Online portal
A one stop shop to all knowledge types from/on Africa
Strategic interventions
ASKIA FSEFacilitate collation, discovery of knowledge on/from Africa through a single search
Geo-data Repository
Access to thousands of maps from Africa
Values added services through information contextualizingKnowledge Hub
Through partnerships enhance capacity of African institutions – BioMed Central, NAML, CNHR
Capacity Building
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DATAD/ASKIA
Maps & Geo Data
ScientificDatabases
University A
University B
E-Journals
Community Corner •Members information•E-forums - CoPs•Blog- Best practices •Project Mgmt Tools
Information Resources on the Internet
ASKIA: http://www.uneca.org/askia
Service A
University Theses
Tools & standards
WWW
Knowledge Hub
E-Registries
Service B
Country Specific Maps, Media, Documents
E-Directories
Library OPACs
Research4Life
ASKIA Online Platform
ASKIAFederated
Search
Data Harvester
Service C
Media stories on African development Digital Maps
of Africa
Service D
ASKIA Search Features
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It is estimated that there is more than 500 times more content in the Deep Web than the Surface Web.
What is the Deep Web?
The Deep Web is a collection of internet information sources that are generally not accessible to web spiders or crawlers and cannot, therefore, be indexed for search by popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing (aka the Surface Web).
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One query…multiple distributed databases…single result set….
What is Federated Search?
“Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.”
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Features at a glance
Incremental results Users get results fast!
Intelligent clustering Users can browse concepts not just keywords, and use filters
Powerful connectors Users go deeper and see better results from each source
Relevance Ranking Users see most relevant results across all sources at the top
Alerts Users receive the newest results emailed to them
Feature Benefit
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AND, OR, NOT
Advanced Search Page• Unlimited categories (sources can be in multiple categories)
• Select sources to search• One or Two columns• Fielded Searching• Boolean Searching
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Incremental display of search results – Users get their results fast!
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Results Page• Incremental Results• Spell Check• Ranked Results• Collection Status• Sort/Refine/Limit• Intelligent Clustering• Email/Print
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Relevance Ranking
•Occurrence of search terms within titles & snippets
•Assigning weight to sources•More current results are assigned
greater weight
Read: “Ranking: The Secret Sauce for Searching the Deep Web”
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Intelligent Clustering
•Real-time semantic analysis of results creates clusters on-the-fly.
•Discover relationships behind the results, not just “keywords.”
Read: “Clusters That Think”
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My Selections - Export to Ref-
Works or EndNote or Mendeley
- Download to RIS format
- Email/Print
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Alerts• Delivery online or via email• Daily, Weekly, Monthly• Pick and choose your sources• Export to RSS reader• Maintain database of past
results
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Visualize the Result Set
Visualize cluster results to see relationships between topics more easily.
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Clustering by Document Type
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Features under development…Contextualization of Sources
Experts, Geo maps, Raw Data, Info graphs, Multimedia tabs
Localizationthe ability to toggle between languages and include French, Arabic
Multi-Lingualqueries translated to the native language of sources for best results
Mobile Apps & Social MediaASKIA apps for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phoneintegrate with different social media services
My ASKIAcustomize the standard My Selection specific to ASKIA needsallow users to save selected results for reviewing later
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Going Forward
ASKIA Go-Live – October 2012Federated expert online resources to be included in search results from ASKIADevelop partnerships with various institutions in Africa to further develop ASKIA Capacity building initiatives to assist institutions in Africa to capture, manage, and disseminate their knowledge
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THANK YOU!!!
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