[Building Sakai] Introducing the Sir Louie project

[Dunn, Jon William Butcher]

Hi Adam,

I was away on vacation when you first posted about Sir Louie, but just wanted to let you know that this sounds like a great initiative and one that will make Citations Helper more useful for a lot of people and institutions.

We on the (former) Sakaibrary project would love to talk more with you about this work and how you're planning to implement these features, as we have also been taking with some other vendors (besides ExLibris) about integration with their next-gen discovery systems, and it would be great to have a consistent way of plugging such systems into Citations Helper.

Let us know when the appropriate time might be to have this discussion.

Best,

Jon

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Jon Dunn
Director, Library Technologies and Digital Libraries
IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
jwd at indiana.edu
(812) 855-0953

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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adam Marshall
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:59 PM
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Introducing the Sir Louie project

I just wanted to raise awareness of a JISC project that is just starting at Oxford University - amongst other things, this project will improve the Citations Helper tool.

I've attached the pitch taken directly from the project website, https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/asuc/oucs/sirlouie.

There are links on the website, e.g., to blogs & the project proposal, that may be of interest.

I should point out that I'm not a "reading lists man" myself (yet!) so wont be able to answer any technical questions, however, I know a man who can so please do ask questions / make suggestions.

We will be engaging the Sakaibrary folks ASAP as we'd like to determine best practice and get tips on the best way forward early on in the project

Adam Marshall

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The Sir Louie Project

Sir Louie - System for Integrating Reading Lists within the Oxford University Information Environment.

This project will enhance two academic and administrative systems, the WebLearn (VLE), (based on the Sakai open source platform,) and the University's library search interface SOLO, (based on Ex-libris Primo,) in order to provide much improved experience for both students and lecturers in the area of reading lists.

The planned improvements target the searching of library catalogues and the displaying availability information with a reading list.

Development work on both systems will enable the SOLO search interface to be invoked from within WebLearn's reading list tool, (also known as the Citations Helper,) and be used to find items to be sent back to the VLE for automatic inclusion in the reading list. The data will be transferred using the standard OpenURL encoding.

In addition, the project will develop a method of augmenting all reading lists with availability information when they are displayed in WebLearn.

This is achieved by 'hiding' OpenURL COinS meta data for each item within a reading list. This in-page data can then be used to determine current availability once the page has loaded (using DLF ILS-DI and / or DAIA).

The result is that the reading list will automatically contain links to 'full text' versions of journal articles, a list of (Oxford University) libraries where the item can be found and links to on-line stores where the item can be purchased.

The COiNS meta data can also be used to enable existing Open Source software such as Zotero and LibX (a browser plug-in) to interact with Citation Helper reading lists.

This kind of integration between Oxford's VLE and Library systems was formally requested of the University by the Oxford University Student's Union (OUSU) in order that students can save valuable time when dealing with their reading lists.

The project has been funded by JISC within their Flexible Services Delivery programme and runs until the end of 2010.

Sir Louie Project Team, 11-Aug-2010

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