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VuFind as a Participatory Scientific Information Discovery, Access, Evaluation and Sharing Service
VuFind Summit 2012
Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library October 15, 2012
Systems that facilitate the
discovery and sharing of
information
Impetus
Web 2.0: to be where our users are;
Generate a dynamic of participation and
shared production of contents.
Library
Impetus
Higher Education' Libraries and the Bologna Process
Higher Education' Libraries and the Bologna Process
Reinforces the role of the Library as a
complementary space for informal learning, socially facilitated by its
users, enabling information discovery and sharing.
buzzwords
Core Concepts
Information Integration:: Agregation and Federated search?
Library 2.0:: Active/Receptive
Users 2.0:: Participative users
Jack Maness (2007)
“Library 2.0 is not about
searching, but finding;
not about access, but
sharing. Library 2.0
recognizes that human
making the thriving connectionLibrary 2.0 / Users 2.0
beings do not seek and utilize information as individuals, but as communities”
Collective Intelligence
Without…“No one knows everything, everyone knows something...“ Pierre Lévy (1997)
What we are implementing using VuFind as the base system:
An integrated and participatory service for search guidance, recommendation, evaluation and sharing.
“Search Find Evaluate (select) Understand Share” cycle
contributes
Oriented to “ad-hoc” communities construction / identification
Results should also show patrons or communities that are more active in that area
ideally
Aimed at evaluating the information search and retrieval habits, which resources and sources do the University of Aveiro’s users value and their presence and information sharing habits in social networks.
Online Survey, "invitation only":• 26 questions, some conditional;• 2 months time span, 27th Jan – 23rd Mar 2010;• 4.228 full responses from about 14.500 possible;
Initial survey
Relevance given to information in blogsor shared by other users on social networks
Initial survey - Results
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4% 3% 2% 1% 1% 1%5%
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12% 14%
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37% 39%
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26%34% 32%
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Irrelevant
Little relevance
No answer
No opinion
Relevant
Very relevant
Essential
Initial survey - ResultsRelevance given to features in the Results List
31%
41%
14%
13%
10%
29%
52%
44%
41%
38%
26%
33%
9%
6%
29%
27%
35%
20%
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7%
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Automatic recommendation of documents or related resources
Faceted browsing (subjects, authors, year, etc.).
List of tags placed by users to records in the results list
Subscription of updates (RSS feed of new records)
Interface for mobile phones / PDAs
Receive notifications / SMS alerts (reserves, end of loan, etc.).
Other features, including possible new ones
Very Important Important No opinion Not selected Little relevance Irrelevant
51%
44%
34%
15%
12%
27%
12%
12%
0%
39%
44%
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Summary
Table of Contents
Expert reviews
Cover (books)
Rating (stars)
Classification (keywords assigned to the document, tagging)
Comments (from users)
Export to other systems such as blogs, facebook, twitter,…
Other features, including possible new ones
Very Important Important No opinion Not selected Little relevance Irrelevant
Initial survey - ResultsRelevance given to records contents’ enrichment via (external) Information aggregation
Initial survey - ResultsRelevance given to communities’ features
6%
14%
7%
45%
55%
38%
29%
16%
33%
6%
3%
8%
1%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Consult groups and associated users
Consult works or resources recommended by the group / users
Access blogs, wikis, etc., from different groups
Other features, including possible new ones
Very Important Important No opinion Not selected Little relevance Irrelevant
27%
22%
21%
19%
35%
8%
17%
22%
13%
28%
32%
30%
33%
39%
15%
31%
32%
21%
27%
26%
31%
14%
37%
31%
27%
33%
8%
9%
7%
9%
3%
26%
9%
8%
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Rating (stars, for instance) of documents
Classif ication (assigning keywords to the document, tagging)
Comments
Follow users with common interests
Consult documents or resources recommended by other users
Create new Communities or Groups
Join Communities or Groups
Recommend documents or share resources in Communities
Collaborate in blogs, wikis or other collective resources of the …
Always, when relevant Sometimes No opinion Not selected Very occasionally Never
Initial survey - ResultsFeatures in which they would take part / contribute
Recommendations… of related resources:
+ based on tags’ frequency, other resources with the same tags;
+ based on other accessed resources within the same search;
+ circulation data: based on loans history from patrons but
should be limited to the same or related subjects;
• better yet: users more active in that area (upon their express agreement).
ideally
…based on the number of recommendations/shares and discussion within record’s facebook social plugin
or any other external service plugin like DISQUS
Evaluation… in record’s full view: Community tab
social discovery: online bookmarking + photo sharing + visual “to do” lists = Inspiration Boards
SharingPinterest
… facebook is virtually the third country in the world:4th Oct 2012 announcement: over a billion active users around the world
Sharing“Community” tab
Users may come and go, but the value they add accumulates
SharingBe where users are and attract them to visit and add value to locally indexed resources
Shares/recommends
Shares/recommends
Rates/comments
Rates/comments Shares/
recommendsRates/comments
Community
Search 4.0
… a natural social dynamic amongst the four key elements:1. user; 2. resources;3. semantic mapping of metadata; 4. user’s communities (their peers,
users with common interests)
Search 4.0
In full interaction enhanced by the system, these four elements generate a dynamic social network, self-sustainable and with guarantee of future preservation, a social network not only of human actors, but rather the resources themselves taking the role of actors.
Search 4.0
In fact, resources were always actors, having their own network. When an author cites others resources, expands their “social” network.