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RSP Summer School 14-16 September 2009

UK Institutional Repository Search:a collaborative project to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilitieswww.intute.ac.uk/irs

Sophia Jones

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Project composition

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Knowledge Challenge for UK Research

Vast and constantly expanding range of bibliographic information stores

Open access repository movement – research / e-learning assets

Uncharted ‘supplementary data’ Unconnected islands of discovery and

innovation

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Discovery to Innovation – the researcher

Initial literature review can take months

Information overload

Qualitative research poorly supported

Can’t expose relationships between

information

Managing discovery relationships within a

research team

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UK IRS: Aims

Identify, develop and support high-value research knowledge communities within search and discovery process

Encourage the embedding of repository search in familiar and day-to-day research desktop environments

Showcase the collective and collaborative UK Research output and perspectives in Institutional Repositories

Deliver free targeted search and discovery facilities derived from UK HEI Institutional Repositories to support researchers and academics

Provide improved services to individuals including directed browse and dynamic navigation

Provide a richer more meaningful contextual search facility including full-text searching, text mining and other techniques

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Solution: www.intute.ac.uk/irs

Conceptual Search

Text mining based search

Searches over 95 repositories and over 500K artefacts

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Development Paths

Simple metadata search Full-text indexing of documents Text-mining full-text documents Automatic subject classification,

clustering of results, browsing/visualisation

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What the researcher wants…

Feedback from users Local, national, international demonstrations “wish list”, e.g. - narrow down and make conceptual links to what a

researcher needs - relationships across content based on search

criteria - automatic browsing lists and suggested or related

readings. - personalise and see content results from another

dimension.

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Focussed and relevant search and discovery

Conceptual Search:

Uses Autonomy IDOLsoftware to drivecontextually relatedcontent, people andcommunities intovirtual learning &research spaces

Text Mining Search:

Uses TerMinetechnology by NaCTeM,to find relevant resultsby clicking on the mostimportant concepts andgroups similardocuments

conceptually

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Learning points

Quality of metadata

Talk to your audience

Consider approaches that work for your goals

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Searching examples:Conceptual Search

“What are local issues? The problem of the local review of research” Details of article

Option to add related terms

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Searching examples:Conceptual Search (cont. – Related Search)

Original article: “What are local issues? The problem of the local review of research”

Related articles

Recently selected articles

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Searching examples:Conceptual Search (cont.)

3D Interactive view of the search items

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Searching examples:Text mining search

Results: 1 - 10 of 14 found for ""ethical research"". (0.025 seconds)

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Searching examples:Text mining search (cont.)

Results: 1 - 10 of 12158 found for

"ethical research". (0.047 seconds)

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Searching examples:Text mining search (cont.)

Clusters

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Searching examples:Text mining search (cont.)

Cluster map!

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Searching examples:Text mining search (cont. – full details of doc)

Similar documents

Terms representative of the document

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Searching examples:Text mining search (cont. – “citation purpose”)

Related documents to “citation purpose”

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Benefits

Surpassing the “one size fits all” problem

Providing a more relevant search facility

Promoting own repository within research community

Encouraging content growth by highlighting global audience

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UK IRS Summary and Results: Innovation and Discovery

Discovery to innovation for the researcher:

Exposing relationships between information

Making browsing easy and more relevant

Managing information Discovering previously unchartered

“supplementary data”

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sophia.jones@nottingham.ac.uk

vic.Lyte@manchester.ac.uk

sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk

phil.Cross@bristol.ac.uk

andrew.priest@manchester.ac.uk

Thank you