journal tocs presentation at eurocris
DESCRIPTION
This presentation about the JournalTOCs project was given at the 2009 EUROCRIS is St Andrews in November 2009. JournalTOCs is a JISC funded rapid innovation project.TRANSCRIPT
JournalTOCsLisa Rogers, Santy Chumbe & Roger Rist
Institute for Computer Based Learning - Heriot-Watt University
Background
• 6 months JISC Rapid Innovation Project
• Allows searching of the latest Tables of Contents of over 12,000 journals from over 420 publishers.
• Content in JournalTOCs collected using ticTOCs Data Set.
• Developing a freely available API. http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/
API Methods
• Journalhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals
• Articleshttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles
• MyTOCShttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/emailAddress
• Registered Institutionhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/applicationID
Journals Examples
• List of Journals whose titles contain keywords i.e. learning technology
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/learning technology
• List of latest articles from a journal given the ISSN i.e. 0906-4710
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/0906-4710
Articles Examples
• Find recent articles published by an Institution i.e. Heriot-Watt University
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/“Heriot Watt University”
• Find recent articles published by an author i.e Dorothy Bishop
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/Dorothy+Bishop
MyTOCs Examples
• List of Journals selected by a user i.e. Roddy MacLeodhttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/[email protected]
Institution Example
• Searches across articles that Heriot-Watt University has a subscription tohttp://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/HeriotWatt/corrosion
Results Format
RSS 1.0 with:
– Dublin CoreModule
– PRISMModule
– ContentModule
Based on RSS
Recommendations
from ticTOCs project
+ <dc:contributor>
for affiliation
Monitoring Journals
Use Case 1
• Identifying new content for IRs– Query by name of institution/author list– Returns a list of articles
• What to do with the results?– Could use the list to find the authors and ask
to manually deposit– Create a new (draft) entry in repository.
Use Case 2
• Metadata Enhancement (i.e. to check/update published status)– Query by title/keywords/author etc.– Returns an article/list of possible matches
• What to do with the results?– Manually check article to see if correct– Correct/update metadata manually– Automatically update entry?
Other Use Cases
• Add RSS Feeds to your library catalogue.
• Researcher Current awareness: Keep up-to-date with articles containing particular keywords.
• Show others journals that you follow.
• Embed localised search results into library website.(Demo) http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/library/
Issues
• We are reliant on publishers providing author affiliation.
• Rely on publishers providing structured metadata in their RSS Feeds.
• Discrimination: How to deal with authors with the same name.
Contact
• Lisa Rogers– [email protected]– @lisajrogers on twitter
• Santiago Chumbe– [email protected]– @santychumbe on twitter