WHAT WE’RE DOING
• Building a new storage system for catalogue data.
• Providing new faster search tools for the catalogue.
• Opening access to the data stored within the library.
• Starting work on a new ‘library portal’ for users.
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WHY WE’RE DOING IT
• The current catalogue (Stored in Horizon) is difficult to get
data from without using Horizon’s own portal.
• The data isn’t provided in a way which computers can easily
use to do interesting things with.
• Horizon’s own portal doesn’t integrate well with other
services like eJournals or reading lists.
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HOW WE’RE
DOING IT
Part 1: Data Storage
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CURRENT DATA STORAGE
Horizon by SirsiDynix
Can’t keep up with high-demand services, but is an LMS.
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NEW DATA STORAGE
MongoDB by 10gen
Very fast, but doesn’t provide LMS tools or search
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SEARCH
Sphinx
Very fast and provides full-text search
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THE PLAN
Put them together and what have you got...
Convert Horizon
to MongoDB
Make MongoDB
ready to search
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HOW WE’RE
DOING IT
Part 2: Data Access
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THE USER
Just some random person
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USER-FACING
A user reads and searches library data via their web browser
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THE COMPUTER
Could be anything at all, as long as it wants to read our data
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COMPUTER-FACING
Computers can read and search library data over specialised
‘machine-readable’ services
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WHY COMPUTERS?
People can use this information to build new, exciting services
like book recommendation systems based around our data
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HOW WE’RE
DOING IT
Part 3: A New Portal
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THE PROBLEM
• We have loads of services which we want people to use.
• People have to visit them all individually, log in individually and
learn a whole new interface for each service.
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HOW WE’RE FIXING IT
• A new look based around
the University’s Common
Web Design.
• All services have an access
point based around a single
portal.
• Where possible, build access
to features into the new site.
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MORE STUFF
•Follow our blog: http://jerome.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
•Email me: [email protected]
•Twitter: @jacksonj04
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