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Project Overview
- Full Name of Project: Blacklight at Hull
- Project Descriptions (how would you describe this project to your neighbour?):
- short: This study investigates a more flexible discovery tool for Hull’s library catalogue and looks at extending it to local repository search.
- long: This case study will examine the implementation of the open source Blacklight discovery interface system over the library catalogue at the University of Hull, which is currently delivered through the Millennium library management system from Innovative Interfaces. Additionally, the use of the Blacklight interface to search across both library catalogue and institutional digital repository will be explored. The aim of the case study is to investigate an alternative and more flexible discovery interface to the library catalogue and understand the issues and benefits of extending this search to include local digital resources.
- problem it solves?:
- Project Outputs/Products/Deliverables (what thing are you producing?):
- Case study;
- Prototype next generation catalogue/repository interface
Project Details
- Name of Host Institution: University of Hull
- Department: Academic Services
- JISC Programme/Strand: INF11 / A
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- Grant Awarded to Project: £10000.00
Project Team
- Diane Leeson (Head of Content and Access)
- Project Director: Chris Awre
- Project Manager / Consultant: Richard Green r.green@hull.ac.uk
- Simon Lamb (Software developer)
- Partners:
- Naomi Dushay (Software engineer – Stanford)
- Bess Sadler (Software engineer – Stanford)
- Tom Cramer (Associate Director of Digital Library Systems and Services – Stanford)
http://blacklightathull.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/who-are-we/
c.awre@hull.ac.uk r.green@hull.ac.uk s.lamb@hull.ac.uk d.c.leeson@hull.ac.uk tcramer@stanford.edu ndushay@stanford.edu bess@stanford.edu
Documentation
- Project Blog: http://blacklightathull.wordpress.com
- Code Repository: n/a
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Correspondance (below as comments)
Please see below in comments section for any and all correspondance by Programme Manager regarding communication about the project. Also all edits that need to be made to this page please place in comments section and the author will correct.
- Email, Phone calls, twitters, links sent, etc.
requested f2f 121 mtg.
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Project History:
been working w Hydra project for past two years. Muradora being used as current repository, building on Muradora in Hydra looked in to how both users in libraries and students have to access systems Blacklight was designed as next generation OPAC Hull wanted to adapt Blacklight to fit opac and repository Blacklight could be an integrated interface for Repository and OPAC Stanford did usability testing with searchworks that they have sent through (Virginia did one as well)
Team Responsibilities:
Richard: Automate project, e.g. nightly dump of the catalogue, availability of items? make indeces work with lib catalogue and repository index, e.g. solr final interface is a single view on all library holidings: printed, digital, etc. url to try out outputs: technical report on
Chris Awre: Success is having usability tests that inform institution and inform sector AIMS: melon funded project collaboration Stanford, Virginia and Yale for capturing born digital content HULL History Centre: a single home for all the archives, with a lottery funded building in town. Have a mandate for digital deposit. CALM - catalogue system using EAD records. Future ARCH - Oxford - Susan Thomas, beta version of catalogue for students to test --> prototype establishing a blacklight community (Stanford is leading with a strategic group: Sanford, Virginia, Columbia, john Hopkins, hull) <-- get more people involved in UK: Boon Low at Edinburgh and Chris Keene at Sussex Burgeoning developer community behind it?
Diane Lesson: usability 18 ppl + staff (undergraduates) to look at Blacklight at Stanford, etc. (20K student and staff) individuals working on machines, process: opinions, how they would go about doing specific tasks comparison of the two systems, did one first and other one second and then vice versa, taking notes and yes/no to accomplish task one person taking them through it and other person
Analytics engine: "Wordpress' own"
Three priority areas for use case studies: usability, open source, erm
What do you envision a use case to be
What problem will it solve for the end user?
How will this change the way hull university currently operates? (new skills, save money (oss),
What will be its legacy?
For example, the Northwest Digital Archives are using Blacklight to search archival EAD records.
Blacklight is a Ruby of Rails App using Hudson for Continous Integration
Specifically, the project will:
install the appropriate technology stack on a virtual machine extract a representative sample of MARC records from the existing catalogue system and index them into Blacklight customise the Blacklight UI to meet Hull’s requirements and to match its branding carry out usability testing on the customised Blacklight installation at Hull and contrast it with other implementations elsewhere (including Stanford) extract the entire Hull catalogue and present it through Blacklight investigate the requirements for a sustainable process of extraction and indexing compatible with a production system integrate a repository discovery function into the library Blacklight so that a search queries and returns results from both systems