the synergy of federated searching & clustering lunch with peter jacso ala midwinter forum...
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The Synergy of Federated Searching & Clustering Lunch with Peter Jacso ALA Midwinter Forum ProQuest and Serials Solution Seattle, January 19, 2007. Jacso. While You Savor the Lunch, Allow Me. To give credit to past pioneers like Roger Summit of DIALOG for ONESearching & RANKing - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Synergy of
Federated Searching & Clustering
Lunch with Peter Jacso
ALA Midwinter ForumProQuest and Serials Solution
Seattle, January 19, 2007
Jacso
While You Savor the Lunch, Allow Me• To give credit to past pioneers like Roger Summit of
DIALOG for ONESearching & RANKing • To tip the hat to some of the most widely used
federated search engines and clustering tools• To salute some who offer INTRA-system
metasearching of in-house and domesticated, prepped databases + clustering
• To appreciate the synergy of federated searching and clustering by multiple elements (Central Search)
• To guess what the future will look like
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Yes, Pat, there has been multi-searching and clustering since the 1980s
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RANKing
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DIALINDEX for a Scoreboard
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CLUSTERING THE SET BY Journal Name
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CLUSTERING THE SET BY descriptors
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CLUSTERING THE SET BY author
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CLUSTERING THE SET BY year
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Some of the federated, meta- and polysearch engines
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A Light Clustering Toolbar
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A Tad Too Narrow Source Base
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The Little Engine That Could
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Clustering by subject, sources, site URLs
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The BIG Search Engine That Could Even Better …Including Science Direct, Elsevier’s Digital Collection?
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Except when it shouldn’t ….
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…. or couldn’t
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How Could I Forget Thee, Google Scholar
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Even if you are in beta
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… and have been for 2 years
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HWP Can Do It More Smartly with Vivisimo (but limited to subject)
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Scopus was born with clustering by 5 criteria
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WoS offers more clusters to choose from
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Like clustering by affiliation
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And finally someone clusters OPAC result (with Endeca!) That someone is Andrew K. Pace and his team at NCSU
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And someone else, too, wants OPACs look betterwith an Open Access Software
That someone is Casey Bisson at Plymouth State University
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FEEL THEIR PAIN
Intra-system metasearching of in-house & hosted,domesticated databases with clustering is easier than …
……to federate from diverse, disparate, deviant sources and to
clusterthe uncontrolled, inconsistent format and content of author names,
journal names, descriptors
The aggravation of aggregation
Herding cats and faculty on short notice looks easy
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PolyMeta open access sources
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Subject-only clustering, but many other bonuses
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Meet Dr. Tamás Doszkocs and his ToxSeek PolyMeta engine at NLM
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My customized version for testing & teaching purposes
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And Now ….. Central Search
Many databases federated
and
many results clustered
by
many criteria
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Several ProQuest databases in cluster
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Several Ebsco databases in cluster
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Mixture of hits from different databases
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Clustered sources
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Results sorted by date
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Number of duplicates from different sources may indicate clout of journal, or just re-
purposing
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Keep looking at shopping & price comparison sites to see the future
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Clusters by departure & arrival times, airlines and stoips
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Shop till you drop through the clusters by shoe types
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And by color, size, width and price
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Look for the future also in the many PubMed wizardry projects (top related terms co-
occurring with toxoplasmosis)
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Relative research interest on toxoplasmosis
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Profiles of top journals on toxoplasmosis
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Profiles of top authors and their publications
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Cluster of most productive countries on toxoplasmosis
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Mapped to an atlas
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THE FUTURE • Terminology consolidation
• The potential of the ULAN Getty Project
• “Did you mean”-ing at a higher level
• Tandem clustering of 2 cluster criteria
• “Just in case”-ing of non-selected databases
• Meshing with related factographic data
• Bibliometric analysis for collection development & publishing venue selection
• Visualization2 of search results
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Will he say “Right on”? Will this “love story” of federated searching &
clustering have a happy-end?
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