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RedLightGreen: Transforming Undergraduate Research Experience

Explore the evolution of RedLightGreen as it re-envisions the library catalog for undergraduates, utilizing data mining, user studies, and the power of aggregation to enhance research outcomes. Join the journey towards a more intuitive and user-centric academic resource.

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RedLightGreen: Transforming Undergraduate Research Experience

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  1. RedLightGreen RLG Accelerates Undergraduate Research

  2. Exercise in orienteering • How did we arrive? • What is it? • What have we learned? • Brief tour • Where are we going?

  3. How did we arrive? • The RLG Union Catalog • From project to pilot • Grant from Mellon Foundation • Internal thinking, advisory group, more internal thinking • Emergence of a target audience • More funding from Mellon

  4. RedLightGreen: what is it? • Re-envisions the library catalog as an intuitive web-based research tool tuned to undergraduates’ search behaviors which meets their information needs • Capitalizes on the “power of aggregation” • Leads undergraduates to an important research resource -- their library.

  5. Meet (y)our users

  6. FRBR Work Expression Manifestation Item RedLightGreen “title clusters” (includes related works) editions items What have we learned? FRBR

  7. What have we learned? Data mining • Data mining – powered by Recommind’s MindServer • Search and classification tools • Relevancy ranking • Extends users vocabulary behind the scenes

  8. What have we learned? MARC to XML • MARC as XML in DB2 • Based on the Library of Congress XML DTD for MARC

  9. What have we learned? User studies • Studies conducted in April and May, 2002 • Enormously useful • Some findings difficult to implement in the short term

  10. Bibliography Infomercial

  11. RedLightGreen: brief tour

  12. Where are we going? • Pilot phase • August – December 2003 • Columbia University, New York University, Swarthmore College • More work with users • User panels on May 2nd to test communication modes • User studies to assess features of service

  13. For more information… http://www.rlg.org/redlightgreen/ mgp@notes.rlg.org

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