Linking Bibliographic Data to Library Content
Julius Welby
Abstract
The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) Work package 5.3 will provide bibliographic and literature discovery tools which will help reduce literature related bottlenecks which can hinder the progress of day-to-day taxonomic research.
In response to discussions and a broader requirements gathering exercise we are planning a website supporting federated searching of taxonomically relevant data sources accessible via standard protocols (e.g., Z39.50). Data sources include library catalogues of EDIT partners and others, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and electronic journals. Users will be able to browse through the results of their searches to see links to useful resources and metadata, and there will be a link to the original content where this is available, via an OpenURL service.
Where full text content is not available, registered users will be able to nominate non-copyright texts which they would like to use, and these nominations will be made available to the various digitisation projects currently in progress at institutions around the world.
The Virtual Taxonomic Library (ViTaL) will also provide a place for taxonomists to view and search aggregated bibliographic references harvested from a number of reference management services and web sites. References will benefit from the same linking technology used for the search results.
The team will share their overall vision for the site, outline some of the practical and technical challenges, and give a brief overview of the technology used to provide linking from search results.
In response to discussions and a broader requirements gathering exercise we are planning a website supporting federated searching of taxonomically relevant data sources accessible via standard protocols (e.g., Z39.50). Data sources include library catalogues of EDIT partners and others, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and electronic journals. Users will be able to browse through the results of their searches to see links to useful resources and metadata, and there will be a link to the original content where this is available, via an OpenURL service.
Where full text content is not available, registered users will be able to nominate non-copyright texts which they would like to use, and these nominations will be made available to the various digitisation projects currently in progress at institutions around the world.
The Virtual Taxonomic Library (ViTaL) will also provide a place for taxonomists to view and search aggregated bibliographic references harvested from a number of reference management services and web sites. References will benefit from the same linking technology used for the search results.
The team will share their overall vision for the site, outline some of the practical and technical challenges, and give a brief overview of the technology used to provide linking from search results.