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Red Light Green. RLG Accelerates Undergraduate Research. Exercise in orienteering. How did we arrive? What is it? What have we learned? Brief tour Where are we going?. How did we arrive?. The RLG Union Catalog From project to pilot Grant from Mellon Foundation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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RedLightGreen
RLG Accelerates Undergraduate Research
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Exercise in orienteering
How did we arrive? What is it? What have we learned? Brief tour Where are we going?
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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
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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.
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Meet (y)our users
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What have we learned? FRBR
FRBR Work Expression Manifestation Item
RedLightGreen “title clusters” (includes
related works) editions items
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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
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What have we learned? MARC to XML MARC as XML in DB2 Based on the Library of Congress XML
DTD for MARC
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What have we learned? User studies
Studies conducted in April and May, 2002– Enormously useful– Some findings difficult to implement in the short
term
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Bibliography Infomercial
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RedLightGreen: brief tour
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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