Cornell University – March 20, 2009
BIBAPP: A CAMPUS RESEARCH GATEWAY AND EXPERT FINDER
SARAH L. SHREEVESUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
BibApp developed by….
-- Still Under Development --
So what are the issues?
Libraries Talk to faculty about archiving and
scholarly communication issues Market institutional repositories and look
for ways to easily deposit
Faculty want something that gives access to ALL publications not just what is available in repository
Faculty are not motivated to archive, but if the library can help do this, "that's probably the right thing to do..."
Don’t keep track of their publications and responsibility is typically passed to someone else
Need lists of their publications for easy import into grant applications and other reports
Comprehensiveness may be unnecessary for tenured faculty, but is extremely important for untenured faculty. Currency is important to everyone.
Citation re-use is extremely important; faculty often have to contribute publication lists to multiple places.
Faculty want to be able to highlight certain publications over others.
Faculty
Departments / Centers Publication lists are very important for
recruiting new grad students and for research centers
Organizing publications is often the hardest part of a departmental annual report.
Universities Often do not understand collaborations
across campus
Often do not understand shifts in scholarly publishing patterns over time (obvious implications for librarians as well)
Faculty directory information +Publication lists +
Sherpa / Romeo archival database +OpenURL resolver +
SWORD (for repository connection) =----------------------------------------------
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BibApp
Demo
http://bibapp.mbl.edu/
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bibapp/
History Speech Communication
History Speech Communication
Metadata Issues….
Inconsistency across A&I services (example below from three)
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Author Disambiguation
Also see
http://code.google.com/p/bibapp/wiki/AuthorAut
horities
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1371131/
Rudimentary Authority Control
Example with Publishers
Other metadata issues…
Althaus, S. L. (2001). Who's voted in when the people tune out? Information effects in congressional elections. In Hart, R. P. and Shaw, D. R. (Eds.), Communication in U.S. elections: new agendas. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 33-53.
Book chapters in social sciences and humanities hard to find as the primary
entry.Conferences can also be hard to find.
Other metadata issues
Not displaying or sharing: Subject terms Abstract
Working on updating via RSS feed but inconsistent across A&I services
Open author identifiers that can be used across publishers, libraries, A&I services, grant making agencies, etc.
Better consistency from A&I services
Better awareness of what’s available and what’s not via A&I services
Better support of API’s, RSS feeds, and other sharing mechanisms by A&I services
We need:
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails Lucene / Solr Sherpa Romeo API Google Books API OpenURL FOAF
Accepts RIS, RefWorks XML, Medline
Runs on MySQL or PostgreSQL
Where are we?
BibApp 1.0 Easy to get citations in from multiple venues Easy to get citations out in multiple formats Straightforward authorization for editing citation lists Maintain focus on publication analysis Maintain pushing material in and out of the
institutional repository
BibApp 2.0 Tag clouds Collaboration network visualization Publication patterns
When is BibApp 1.0 coming? Aimed for late spring / early summer
2009
See http://www.bibapp.org/ for more information or to download code (0.7 available)
Contact Information
Sarah ShreevesCoordinator, IDEALShttp://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
217-244-3877 [email protected]