[Building Sakai] Introducing the Sir Louie project

[Adam Marshall]

Great news Jon

I did briefly mention the project to Jim Eng - this was when we had a few loose ends to tidy up wrt funding - we now have the full go-ahead so I emailed the list.

First of all I must point out I am not really a reading list man - I'm pretty new to the game - however we have a person working on the prject who is an expert in this area.

What we plan to do is mocked up here: http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2010/08/proposed-new-user-interface-for-the-reading-list-tool/ 

The "Import into WebLearn / Sakai" button will use OpenURL insead of the "non-standard" format used on the Google Scholar equivalent. 

We have proposals for how to use openURL for this purpose. I'm sure the author wont mind you seeing them but I'll ask permission first. We would really value input / suggestions for improvement.

All ex-libris code will be deposited in el commons. It would be great for the project if the Sakaibrary team were able to comment on any design decisions and then use the code after the project finishes.

adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dunn, Jon William Butcher [mailto:jwd at indiana.edu]
| Sent: 19 August 2010 15:01
| To: Adam Marshall; 'sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org'
| Cc: 'Hollar, Susan'; 'Jim Eng'; Notess, Mark H
| Subject: RE: Introducing the Sir Louie project
| 
| 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
| 
| ---
| Jon Dunn
| Director, Library Technologies and Digital Libraries
| IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services
| Indiana University
| jwd at indiana.edu
| (812) 855-0953
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| 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
| 
| ==============================================================
| 
| 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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