etd search services
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ETD Search Services. Ming Luo Edward A. Fox ([email protected]) Virginia Tech. Acknowledgements (selected). Support: Adobe, AOL, DFG, NSF (DUE-0333531,0136690,0121679; IIS-0086227,0080748 ), OCLC, UNESCO, VTLS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Acknowledgements (selected)
Support: Adobe, AOL, DFG, NSF (DUE-0333531,0136690,0121679; IIS-0086227,0080748 ), OCLC, UNESCO, VTLS
Colleagues: Vinod Chachra, Tom Dehn, Marcos Gonçalves, Thom Hickey, Aaron Krowne, Ming Luo, Gail McMillan, Hussein Suleman, Jeff Young
Where are the data coming from?
From this community! Please join us, share your data! OCLC NDLTD Union
– 112,652 ETDs metadata– 44 institutions– Will be able to provide 3 formats
DC ETDMS MARC21
Where are the data coming from?
OCLC (Research) contacts are– Thom Hickey [[email protected]]– Jeff Young [[email protected]]– Tom Dehn [[email protected]]
VTLS has some additional data sources– Providing data other than through OAI-PMH– Including in Korean and Greek– Contact is Vinod Chachra [[email protected]]
Institutions in OCLC NDLTD Union Set (1)
Institutions in OCLC NDLTD Union Set (2)
OCLC SRU
What is SRU?– Search and Retrieve URL Service (SRU) is web
service based protocols for searching databases– Derived from Z39.50 – Uses Common Query Language– Current version: V1.1, 13th February 2004– Three basic operations, explain, scan and searchRetrieve
CQL Examples(from http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/)
dc.title cql.stem
dc.title = "cat" cat
dc.title = "cat" author = "smith"
dc.title any "cat" bath.author cql.exact "smith, j."
dc.title any/relevant/rel.CORI "cat fish" dc.author exact/stem "smith, j."
dc.title = cat "<element>"
dc.title = "cat" and bath.author = "smith" " cat" or hat
dc.title = "cat" prox/distance=1/unit=word dc.title = "in""cat" prox/distance>2/ordered "hat"
dc.title=cat and/rel.sum dc.title=dog > dc="http://www.dublincore.org/" dc.title = "cat"
OCLC SRU Interface
VTLS Search
Based on Virtua system from– VTLS (www.vtls.com)– Visionary Technology in Library Solutions
Developed in C++ Uses Oracle Database
Virtua User Interface
Scan Search Key Word Search Expert Search
VTLS Union CatalogContent Languages
The VTLS NDLTD Union Catalog has data in 6 different languages. These are: English German Greek Korean Portuguese Spanish
Examples follow
Language = German; hits = 137
Full record display
Virginia Tech ETD Union
Componentized Digital Library Software Uses OCLC’s OAI data provider Mirrored in China by CALIS About 200 queries and 400 pages per
day for the past year and usage is increasing
DiscoveryCurrent
AwarenessPreservation
Service Providers
Data Providers
Meta
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The World According to OAI
VT ETD Union System Diagram
BrowseSearch What’s New
OCLC data provider
User Interface
Open Digital Library Protocol
Extended OAI-PMH
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Open Digital Library Component
Extended OPEN ARCHIVE
OPENARCHIVE
Open Digital Library Components
Running now– XML-File (data provider from file system)– Search: simple or in-memory (Essex) or generalized– Union, browse, recent, filter– E-journal/review, Submit, Edit, Annotation– Recommender, Rating; Mirroring (see JCDL’02)– Working with NCSA: from DB, unstructured text
Others in process– Classification/categorization– Registry (and other connections with web services)
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Program
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Document
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Document
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Document
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Program
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Program
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Image
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Image
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Image
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Video
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Video
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Video
open digital library
OA OA
OA
OA
OA
OA
OA
OA
OA
PMH
PMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
XPMH
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Program
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Document
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Document
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
ETD-1
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Program
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
ETD-2
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Image
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Image
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
ETD-3
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Video
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
Video
1010100101010010101010010101010101010101
ETD-4
ETD DL for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
(www.ndltd.org)
Search
Filter
Filter
Union
Recent
Browse
PMH
PMH
PMH
ODLRecent
ODLBrowse
ODLUnion
ODLUnion
ODLSearch
ODLUnionPMH
PMH
US
ER
INT
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FA
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Students and researchers ETD collections
Example Open Digital Library
ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)
Quality of Search Services
Composability Efficiency Effectiveness
OCLC SRU Medium High High
VTLS Low High Medium
Virginia Tech ETD Union Search
High Medium Medium
Comparison of Software
Software Used Software License
Price of Software
Full Text Search
OCLC SRU Homegrown N/A N/A No
VTLS VIRTUA(VTLS.com)
Commercial Depends on user number, collection size
No
Virginia Tech ETD Union Search
Open Digital Library
BSD-like Open Source License
Free No
Virginia TechETD collection
Ultraseek(Verity.com)
Commercial Depends on user number, collection size
Yes
Next Steps with VT ETD Union
Web Services based component
Easier user interface configuration
Better precision of search results; full-text?
Research studies (e.g., Ryan Richardson dissertation)– Studies of collections and genre– Summaries using concept maps– Cross-language retrieval
References:
Z39.50 International - Next Generation: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing
VT Service: http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~etdunion/cgi-bin/OCLCUnion/UI/index.pl
VTLS Service: http://www.vtls.com/ndltd OCLC Service (SRU):
http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/SearchbySru.html
Thank You!
Paper with more details is available at URL: http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~lming/software/ETDSearchServices0.7.doc
DLRL: www.dlib.vt.edu, http://dlbox.nudl.org/
Fox: http://fox.cs.vt.edu