- Title and Abstract
- Take away points
- Where I'm coming from
- CDL collaboration and metasearch
- Focus for the talk
- Subset of the whole area of integrating library resources and e-learning/educational technology
- MetaLib and Sakai as a specific case of integration
- other work that has been done
- Screenshots for demo
- Resource Lists shown in demo
- What would make deeper integration easier
- Acknowledgements
TinyURL for this talk: http://tinyurl.com/bonvt
Title and Abstract
Integrating Metasearch with e-Learning
Various strategies for integrating e-learning and metasearch systems will be described, drawing from the speaker's experiences of combining data and services from ExLibris' MetaLib X-Server, Sakai, the Firefox browser, and the Scholar's Box.
Take away points
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for end-users metasearch is better as part of an integrated (or integratable) collection of services rather than in isolation.
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we are in the early stages in the specific area of integrating metasearch and educational technology
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there are things we can do to make integrating metasearch with other services much easier
Where I'm coming from
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my R&D focus is the seamless use and reuse of digital content in research and teaching
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We at the
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Interactive University been building the Scholar's Box to give scholars this functionality in the form of an end-user desktop client
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Scholar's Box is a prototype right now.
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four intersecting domains of interoperability: educational technology, library services, desktop tools, and social software
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We will demonstrate SB and metalib today
CDL collaboration and metasearch
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The Interactive University has been collaborating with the CDL in its Metasearch infrastructure initiative (thanks Roy for getting me the opportunity to speak here.) See
CDL's Metasearch Infrastructure) and MetaLib-XServer CDL listserv.
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Specifically, we are hooking the Scholar's Box up to CDL's MetaLib server via the X-Server API
Focus for the talk
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I will focus on the integration of metasearch and e-learning specifically though the Scholar's Box is concerned with a larger view: how to get the stuff out of metasearch and use it in as many different contexts as possible (of which e-learning is one context). I'm interested in the problem of pulling all the tools and sources together and mixing and remixing them from the end-user point of view.
Subset of the whole area of integrating library resources and e-learning/educational technology
Background:
MetaLib and Sakai as a specific case of integration
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sakaiproject.org: The Sakai Project is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education. The Project began in January, 2004.
other work that has been done
UMD
Twin Peaks
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http://129.79.35.230:8080/portal is a demo.
Screenshots for demo
See ScholarsBox/EssaySeries/CurrentState
Resource Lists shown in demo
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/HtmlList (see
Repurposable OpenURLs: a little demo for explanation of how the OpenURLs appear)
What would make deeper integration easier
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fewer API specs and fewer metadata specs!!!
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standard interfaces -- I think that I will have heard more about that work. MetaLib is fine...but what if I want to switch, what do I do?
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more work on metadata crosswalks: MarcXML -> OpenURLs and work on bibliographic metadata standards in general
Acknowledgements
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the
California Digital Library for its collaboration with the InteractiveUniversity
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RoyTennant and others on the NISO organizing committee for inviting me to speak
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Tom Schirmer, my colleague who did most of the programming in the ScholarsBox
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David Greenbaum, the Director of the InteractiveUniversity, for giving a home at the IU for the ScholarsBox work
