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 sshreeve@illinois.edu