Natalie CollinsMarch 31, 2009

Embedding Services: Linking from Google Scholar to Discover

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1975-95• Data

bases

1996-2005• Scanne

d Articles

• NRC RP e-Journals

2005-2007• Electroni

c Articles• Research

Support Tools

2008-2009• Permanent

Access to e-content• e.g.

Trusted Digital Repository

• STM Information Infrastructure• e.g.

PubMed Central Canada

Next 10 years• Tools,

tools, tools

CISTI’s Evolution

Launch of DocDel

Availability of e-content

Infostructure

linking to CISTI’s collection and services

Guiding principles • Make CISTI’s collection more accessible to researchers from Canada

and anywhere in the world• Meet the research community where they work by collaborating with

Google Scholar• Provide access to both licensed and open access content in its

collection• Exploit opportunities to expose CISTI metadata to discovery tools

and applications• Enable immediate access to electronic collection whenever possible

the goal of the project

To reach into a popular and dominant research workflow by creating a link between Google Scholar and CISTI products and services.

why try agile project management?

• small components• opportunity to output testable pieces of code each

iteration• clear project scope• clearly defined business rules• small effort• familiarity and success with agile software development

to form . . .…three universes…collide…

big DB

extract metadata

not located

or not

authorized

NLM xml

located and authorized

locate authorize

search

MODS xml

convert (metadata)

NLM xm

l

insert location

NLM xmlNLM xmlNLM xml

preparing metadata for the web

linking from Google Scholar to Discover

the build . . . in summary

• built a crawler• built locate document web service • reused existing web services for identifying and

applying business rules (e.g. appropriate copy, search and data conversion)

• built an application that creates XML • built an openURL parser• created a soft landing and navigation features to ensure

fluid interaction between Google Scholar and CISTI services

• produced15.7 million article-level XML files • built knowledge of agile project management method

Goals

• Connect media with research

• Connect the public to research

• Connect researchers

another CISTI innovation

How?

Suck

Hook Up

Expose

RSS/Atom

For humans

For machines

research in the news

Thanks!

This material is based on a presentation given at Computers in Libraries organized by:Information Today143 Old Marlton PikeMedford, NJ 08055 USAPhone 1(609)654-6266http://www.infotoday.com