‘Highlighting the U.S. National Agricultural Library’
Islandora WebinarMay 18, 2016
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Adam SmithSales and Marketing Associate
Welcome!Agenda
• Islandora overview
• Introduction of guest speaker
• U.S. National Agricultural Library
• Question period
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Presentation‘Highlighting the U.S.
National Agricultural Library’
Islandora Webinar: Highlighting the U.S. National Agricultural Library
Chuck SchoppetIT Specialist
United States Department of AgricultureNational Agricultural Library
May 18, 2016
What is the U.S. National Agricultural Library?
• One of the world’s largest institutions of agricultural knowledge
• One of the four national libraries of the United States (plus the Library of Congress)
• Created during Abraham Lincoln’s administration in 1862• The creator and maintainer of AGRICOLA (AGRICultural
OnLine Access)
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AGRICOLA• Is the largest bibliographic database of agricultural
knowledge in the world.• Contains about 5 million records.• Made up of two databases:
– Citations for journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, etc. (75%)
– Bibliographic records and holdings for NAL’s print and digital collections of books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials. (25%)
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New opportunities and challenges• New AGRICOLA-based product: PubAg, a search
engine for public access to citations for peer-reviewed agricultural journal articles with access to the article’s full-text.– Increased production to 30,000 new articles per
month.– Moved from human indexing to automatic machine
index.– Transitioned from using MARC21 to more flexible
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Solution• Islandora and Fedora Commons
– Greatest flexibility– Well-supported in the community– Built on a mature foundation
• Discoverygarden– Expert knowledge of software
stack for performance and scaling– Enhancement built on Islandora– Knowledge transfer
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Metadata Management System
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LuxidAutomatic IndexingSubmission
Workflow
Unpack, XSLT &
Ingest
Publisher SuppliedJournal Articles
USDA Authored Articles
NALdoraManually created and corrected Articles
Search, forms, reports, management
Other NAL Products
NALDCPubAg
AGRICOLA
NALdora Highlights
• Staff journal article citation workflow– Auto-populate the article object with journal and issue
information from first article– Unicode character checker for Islandora forms– Custom displays at the journals and issues levels
• Staff article citation quality workflow• Auto-populate metadata from external databases by DOI• Custom reports within Drupal with CSV download
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A Queue too long
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Where’s my
article?
Fedora gSearch
Batch articles: ingested, AI updated, etc.Human keying articles
Islandora gSearcher Module
• Bypasses the queue of objects waiting for SOLR indexing.
• Removes the need for ActiveMQ between Fedora and gSearch.
• Greatly reduces the work load on gSearch and SOLR
• Makes library staff happy!
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Chuck [email protected]
Questions?Acknowledgements:Carol Dowling, Automated IndexingJennifer Gilbert, MetadataYing Li, ITUrsula Pieper, ITShirley Souder, Metadata
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