Brainstorming about Scholars Portal 2

Added by Mita Williams , last edited by Mita Williams on Aug 07, 2007

Assessment and Tracking

  • What is working well?
  • What could be better?
  • What are users really looking for?
    • What do students want?
    • What do researchers want?
    • What do librarians want?
  • Usability testing to assess current environment and allow for progress tracking
  • Get feedback about desired features and strengths/weaknesses of current situation
  • Recognize the differences between researchers/students working in different fields. How does a student in the Humanities work as compared to a student in the Sciences?

RSS Feeds

  • Explore the interest in a service that would include RSS feeds
    • of table of contents
    • of matching search terms
    • when a particular article is cited
  • Figure out whether RSS is possible with authentication
  • Can RSS feeds be generated so that they they preserve citation information for RefWorks like PubMed does ?

Scholarlicious

  • Find ways to make SP data useful in social software like delicious or CiteULike
  • Should we use delicious or should SP create its own version? Explore unalog: http://unalog.com/
    • Ross Singer has added more functionality to unalog
  • Explore ways to help users extract the data they want and enable them to use it in their own spaces
  • urls should have COinS links embedded in order to share across OCUL institutions (with LibX for users?)
  • explore existing data from RefWorks

Research Guides/Portals

  • Determine if there is OCUL interest in developing shared research guides
  • How many institutions have or are considering portals? 
  • Is there interest in developing methods of integrating SP data into portals

Scholars Portal II (Mark Logic)

  • Explore interface issues in terms of desired functionality
    • is there a model that we want to follow? Google Scholar? PubMed?
  • Work with the subgroup looking at discovery tools
  • Assist with functionality exploration
  • Provide permanent URLS that automatically has an ez proxy prefix attached (when appropriate) so users can add the link to a course management system or blog or whatever
  • create an ability to make named lists of articles that can be shared (e.g. Bio 101 readings)
  • install WordPress so that each user can annotate and tag articles?
  • spell check
  • explore possibilities to mine and present citation information within Scholars Portal
    • both scopus and web of science provide auto-generated citation data
    • can we sort search results in sp by number of times cited?
  • Provide dynamic service links
  • Ability to filter results to Review Articles only
    • like PubMed
    • review articles - underutilized resource for undergraduates
  • Public profile pages for each user
    • option for photo, brief bio
    • covers of favourite journals
    • tagged articles
    • use FOAF to connect user profiles (like Technorati)
  • Incorporating Zeitgeist information
    • most read, emailed articles this month
    • most recently read, emailed articles
  • Explore the possibilities Mark Logic provides for metadata enrichment
    • Amazon/Google possibilities
    • Thesaurus integration (MESH headings for example)
    • Automated classificationSocial tagging

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