From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship

Discovery

David K. UspalLibrary Technology Development Specialist

Oct. 13, 2010

What We’ll Be Covering

• About Me (Note: this is the best time during the afternoon to get up and get a snack)

• The Big Picture (Where I crib the boss’ slides for bonus points)

• Activity Insight & Data Collection (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love data harvesting)

• From Community Bibliography…• …to World Wide Web Discovery

(The good stuff)

• Tying it all Together (…and praying everything still works)

• Started July 12, 2010– Just hit my 3 month anniversary

• Previously employers:– Lockheed Martin 2001-2010– Co-op at ARL NRDC 2000

• Likes: Geekery, Tacos• Dislikes: Traffic

About Me

The Big Picture

• Facets• Learning Space / Social Place• Educational Enabler• Commons / Intellectual Center• Scholarly Partner

• Showcasing Scholarly Activity• “Stuff” via Special Collections, Digital Library, etc.• “People” via Programming & Outreach, Community

Bibliography, etc.

Community Bibliography• A celebration of Villanova University

community authors and scholars past, present, and future.

“Falvey Memorial Library's Community Bibliography is an open repository of the entire published output of the Villanova University community. This extensive database offers a detailed view of our proud scholarly heritage, from our community's historical publications of the 19th Century to the cutting edge research of today.”

Community Bibliography

Activity Insight• “Activity Insight™, by Digital Measures, is a web-based information

management system designed to organize and build reports on faculty member’s teaching, research and service activities. AI provides one place for a faculty member to keep information about his/her performance current, including ‘intellectual contributions’ listed on vitae.”

• Example reports that can be prepared with Activity Insight:– Faculty Vitae Update – Promotion and/or Tenure Recommendation Reports– Faculty Teaching Loads – Annual faculty activity reports – Accreditation reports – Media surveys, such as U.S. News & World Report – Institutional research surveys

Data Collection Process (Current)

Activity Insight XML Data

DumpDocument

Refworks Tagged Format

Document

Activity Insight

Database

Activity Insight Intellectual

Collaboration

LocalVillanova

Index

VuFind

Web Accessible Community

BibliographySite

Data Collection Process (Proposed)

Activity Insight

Database

Activity Insight Intellectual

Collaboration

Activity Insight XML Data

DumpDocument

RefWorks Tagged Format

Document

LocalVillanova

Index

VuFind

Web Accessible Community

BibliographySite

From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery• Once data is accessible by Community

Bibliography (by way of VuFind), we can index Community Bibliography in Google– Sitemap generated by VuFind– Registered with Google Webmaster Tools– Google crawls site, adds to index– Goal : Short turnaround from Activity Insight to

Google’s search engine

From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery

XML JSON

From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery

From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery

LocalVillanova

Index

Web Accessible Community

BibliographySite

VuFind

Community Bibliography

XML Site MapGoogle

Webmaster Tools

Tying It All Together