by Jesse Prabawa Gozali
WING Meeting on August 10th 2007
About Past Present Future
OPAC: Online Public Access Catalog◦ e.g. LINC (linc.nus.edu.sg)
Background (Lee, 2006)◦ Lacking usability guidelines for OPAC UIs◦ Lacking usability for OPAC UIs
Goal◦ Leverage current web technologies / techniques to
allow dynamic and fine-grained user interaction in accomplishing user tasks.
Challenges◦ Where? There are many areas of focus◦ How? Straddle between Desktop and Web paradigms ◦ Why? Not just because we can
Four areas of focus◦ Overview + Details panes◦ Tabular data display◦ Tabs as history mechanism◦ Embedded suggestion bar
Evaluations done focusing on usability with very promising results
JCDL ‘07 short paper: ‘A Rich OPAC User Interface with AJAX’
More info: WING CVS, SoC DSpace
NUS MARC at linc.comp.nus.edu.sg CSU MARC at linc.comp.nus.edu.sg/csu Scrapes NUS LINC for circulation data Integration of spelling suggestion (Kumar, 2005)
and known-item query detection (Kan & Poo, 2005)
Hooks for query expansion modules: Morphology (Tan, 2004), Phrase structure (Ng, 2004)
Browser Compatibility◦ Full: Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, Netscape 9, IE 7◦ Cosmetic issues: Firefox 1.5, Safari 2, Netscape 8.◦ Work-in-progress: IE 6
Actually, immediate future◦ Migration to Prototype.js◦ Modular refactoring: widgets◦ CSS flexibility◦ Longitudinal study
Perhaps, future◦ Relevance ranking◦ NLP modules
About Present Future
Many things:◦ Citation network◦ Author network◦ Social network◦ Open content◦ ML supported
Related◦ CiteSeer, LinkedIn, CiteULike, Wikipedia
Goal◦ A lightweight user-centered web application
Challenges◦ ‘nuff said
Use Cases◦ View citation metadata◦ Export BibTex◦ Download papers, slides◦ Correct/clean noisy metadata◦ Contribute content◦ etc (Author network, Social network)
Ruby on Rails (MVC) Author Network
◦ author/user models by Trung Citation Network
◦ citation model and views by Jesse ML Supported
◦ ParsCit by Min Authentication
◦ RBAC by Trung◦ views by Jesse
Search with Solr
ParsCit - populate database Author Network - refactor model Citation Network - refactor views Search views Open content
◦ Authentication ◦ Reputation / credits◦ Motivation
Social network - views Web Services (SOAP) - integration with Tony’s
TiddlyWiki …
Mailing List: WING Ruby on Rails Development site:
http://aye.comp.nus.edu.sg/jeprab/forecite/