The service will act as a portal for the discovery of Australian people and organisations by clustering entries created by partner agencies, with links to related resources. Click it to capture the citation. When library patrons use Amazon's catalog to research what's in the library, they're creating flow through Amazon's site, and Bezos says he's all for that. " It shouldn't, I replied, because although LibraryLookup clearly bypasses some purchases, it also invites people to engage with Amazon.
Indeed, institutions are already investing significant amounts in locally developed solutions given market failures, which leads to redundant effort.
com more than they otherwise might. Think of Amazon or Google Scholar.
This is their favored response. More importantly, there are specific options when Zotero recognizes a page it knows how to scrape from: you see an icon in the location bar, like the RSS icon when Firefox discovers a feed.
There were 'field studies' at several libraries, contextual interviews based on these, interviews with library staff, and followup workshops where earlier results were used to shape questions.
The Flickr staging post puts the entry process closer to the user flow, as potential users may already be familiar with it, and it provides other relevent services. And OCLC has been very active in this area with Open WorldCat, where member data is exposed to several search engines.
But turn off the snapshots: not only were they excruciatingly slow, they ended up as empty PDFs. Success will depend on incentives to search engines to participate. This is a potentially useful service: it will be interesting to see if it lasts.
The importance of national, publicly funded bodies in developing services and policy is much greater in a UK, and broader European, setting than it is in the more decentralized US.
The model we propose here could be adopted and deployed at other institutions capable of implementing a similar lightweight web services interface to their library catalog. I will watch what happens with interest.
I had seen mention of it before but had not tried it.
How to project library resources into campus portals, or course management systems, has heightened interest here.
How to project library resources into campus portals, or course management systems, has heightened interest here.
O'Neill, and Chandra Prabha.
The latter they associate with a centrally managed model, often with dedicated funding.
I use 'syndication' to cover several ways of doing this. And once one moves in this direction, the question of scoping the collective resource in different ways emerges: moving from local to some larger grouping or back. Indeed, as off-site storage and mass digitization initiatives proceed apace, consideration of the 'aggregate' collection grows in importance.
A critical driver here is the benefit of consolidation, and discussion of what level of consolidation is useful. Think of what happens, for example, if you combine article level data and catalogue data. The syndication of data is of growing interest also, as libraries discuss making catalogue data available to search engines and others, with links back to the library environment. Currently it checks prices in several book buying sites, will look in selected library sites, or will interact with Worldcat. Increasingly, a library will have to consider where and how to disclose its resources. Other areas are noted, including, fleetingly, library systems, but are not a main focus. Currently it checks prices in several book buying sites, will look in selected library sites, or will interact with Worldcat.
And once one moves in this direction, the question of scoping the collective resource in different ways emerges: moving from local to some larger grouping or back. We can see a trend from database, to website to workflow. The value of OhioLink as a state-wide catalogue is an example here. In that context, the more we know about the characteristics of collections and how they compare becomes of more interest.