Saturday, January 07, 2006

A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services. Brogan, Martha L. (2003) A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services. Technical Report. [DLIST] comment []3:56:42 PM     Open WorldCat or COiNS. I received a good question about choosing between Amazon and Open WorldCat, "Why not use COinS?" Why not indeed? There is now a COinS generator, so it should be simple to create them. However, when I use I get not the link but all the metadata showing. I'll have to read a bit more to see what the problem could be. COinS has not received as much attention as it deserves, so here is some information The goal is to embed citation metadata into html in such a way that processing agents can discover, process and make use of the metadata. Since an important use of this metadata will be to allow processing agents to make OpenURL hyperlinks for users in libraries (latent OpenURL), the method must allow the metadata to be placed any where in HTML that a link might appear. In the absence of some metadata-aware agent, the embedded metadata must be invisible to the user and innocuous with respect to HTML markup. To meet these requirements, the span element was selected. The NISO OpenURL ContextObject is selected as the specific metadata package. The resulting specification is named "ContextObject in SPAN" or COinS for short. COiNS [Catalogablog] comment []3:12:26 PM     Bibliomining. LIS research has both gained and contibuted a new term to the universe of knowledge - bibliomining - coined by Scott Nicholson, an assistant professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Bibliomining is fully described in Scott's signature piece on the topic, published in Information Processing & Management, and self-archived preprint "The basis for bibliomining: Frameworks for bringing together usage-based data mining and bibliometrics through data warehousing in digital library services". Scott wants to help librarians take advantage of data that exists in their systems and he does this through the bibliomining process, which combines concepts from data warehouse, data mining and bibliometrics to power evidence-based decision making. I asked Scott, who incidentally, is a member of the dLIST Advisory Board about his bibliomining research and here's what he wrote me: "One challenge is creating methods that protect the privacy of users while still maintaining the historical data needed for effective library administration and management. I am currently working on the development of a stronger theoretical base through concepts from information seeking in context and understanding the impact of different methods of protecting patron privacy on the types of patterns available through the bibliomining process." An active OA supporter, Scott self-archives regularly and you can find all his research preprints, besides those on bibliomining, in dLIST. By Anita Coleman. [OA Librarian] comment []3:07:14 PM

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