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Adding Facets to an Information System

Adding Facets to an Information System. Tim Shearer Library Systems. Introduction. Faceted Classification Task (Marchionini, Hert, Alle) Collocation (short term) Triangulation (long term) Instinct!. Background. Limited Resources Distributed Content

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Adding Facets to an Information System

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  1. Adding Facets to an Information System Tim Shearer Library Systems

  2. Introduction • Faceted Classification • Task (Marchionini, Hert, Alle) • Collocation (short term) • Triangulation (long term) • Instinct!

  3. Background • Limited Resources • Distributed Content • Most Importantly – Staff with expertise with collections and end users!

  4. Distributed • Goals of Distributed content management • Reduce staff html coding • Distribute Load • Scalable • One of our solutions? • Database back-ends • Middleware front-ends • Administration via Web

  5. Distributed, cont. • Most important! • Let those staff with best knowledge of their environment, their collections, and their collection end-users take charge of the content.

  6. Distributed Examples • Guides • Public Service Point

  7. Eresources • Indexes and Databases (tens to hundred) • Broad Subjects (~12, e.g. Social Sciences) • Ejournals (hundreds to thousands)

  8. “Narrow” Thesaurus • Appropriate chunking for ejournals • Need ~ hundred or so terms • Departments and Curricula • Tie to University • 3 Iterations

  9. Databases grow • Added narrow thesaurus terms to Databases (more than 433 now) • Integrated Broad and Narrow

  10. Examples • Site today • Development version • For instructors – e.g. blackboard • Portal

  11. Timeline • EID –production • EJ –production • Guides –Production • Public Service Point –Development, nearing completion • Staff –nascent • Some Time this Semester!

  12. Caveats/Future • Actual use by Freshmen • Death penalty • Recall Election • We will be doing usability/focus group studies

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