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CREE Project (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment)

CREE Project (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment). Matthew J. Dovey University of Oxford. Introduction. The CREE Project Part of the JISC Portals Programme http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree/ User evaluation How do users want to search? Technical development

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CREE Project (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment)

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  1. CREE Project(ContextualResourceEvaluationEnvironment) Matthew J. Dovey University of Oxford ZING Meeting – 22/23 June 2005, Chicago

  2. Introduction • The CREE Project • Part of the JISC Portals Programme • http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree/ • User evaluation • How do users want to search? • Technical development • Portlet development using JSR 168 and WSR

  3. CREE - Partnership • Lead: e-SIG, University of Hull • OUCS, University of Oxford • EDINA, University of Edinburgh • Archaeology Data Service, University of York • Newark & Sherwood College • instructional media + magic, inc

  4. CREE – A JISC Project • Joint Information Systems Committee • UK Government Agency supporting post-16 education • Network (SuperJANET) • Content • Advice • Development • $1.4 million per year on portals

  5. JISC Portals Programme • A range of portal development projects • Each supports: • Resource discovery across distributed multiple resources • Presentation • Use of open standards e.g., Z39.50, SRW/U, OAI, RSS • Each has its own discrete website

  6. Where does CREE fit in? • Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment • Context in that there are different portal environments • Institutional • National/International • Library • Virtual Learning Environments • Virtual Research Environments • Etc. • Portals have assumed user will come to them • Better taking the portals, or portal functionality, to the user • Embedding in institutional contexts • CREE • Investigating whether users find this valuable • Testing portal technologies to enable embedding

  7. User evaluation • How do users want to search? • How do they currently search? • What requirements do users have for searching? • How might different contexts affect searching?

  8. CREE Survey • National survey carried out • September - October 2004 • >4500 responses • 2500 of them came from Oxford! • CREE Focus groups • 13 groups held: 6 staff and 7 student • >60 people from across disciplines • University of Hull and University of Oxford, Newark and Sherwood College

  9. What did the survey find? 85% used Internet search tools daily 61% used them daily for learning, teaching or research 67% used subject-specific resources 68% used the local library catalogue at least weekly 54% used other library catalogues at least monthly

  10. What search tools are used? • Google! • Used frequently by over 90% • Usually as first choice and starting point • Sometimes as last resort! • Yahoo!,Ask Jeeves,Altavista also used • Nationally maintained subject-specific resources • Second in popularity to Google • But users are aware of and use more specific search tools (especially electronic journals) • Choice of tool is according to need

  11. Simultaneous Searching

  12. Displaying search results

  13. Technical development • Test out how users wish to interact with portal search tools in different contexts • Institutional portal • Learning Management Systems • Virtual Research Environments • Outside of formal framework • Creation of interactive search interface demonstrators for users to view

  14. Testing portal standards • For testing in portals and related frameworks • Developing portlets using open standards • JSR 168 • WSRP • Examine the relationship between these

  15. JSR 168 1.0 JCP - Java Portlet API JSR 168 WSRP Implementations: Java, .Net, Perl, Python WSRP 2.0, JSR168 2.0 OASIS TC Web Service for Remote Portals OASIS TC WSIA Family WSRP (initial spec) OASIS TC Web Service for Interactive Applications OASIS TC WSRP 1.0 (WSIA dropped) Potted History of JSR-168/WSRP Apache JetSpeed Portal WebServices Web Service User Interface 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Very rough timeline…

  16. Re-purposing existing tools • JAFER – OpenSource Z39.50/SRW engine for searching library catalogues (and other) – Oxford • http://www.jafer.org • GetRef - Metasearch engine for searching bibliographic databases – EDINA • Including GetCopy - OpenURL resolver – EDINA • http://edina.ac.uk/getref/ • Archaeology Data Service Z39.50 search • http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ • XSLT based Google Portlet developed by im&m • http://www.immagic.com

  17. Development path • All project partners concluded that JSR 168 was the simpler development route • JSR 168 portlets developed for all so far • JSR 168 portlet is basis for WSRP portlet • JAFER the first example of this • ADS now working via this route as well • Google being developed

  18. uPortal at Hull

  19. The usual stuff

  20. Workflow for SRW Searches

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