Bieber et al., NJIT ©2005 - Slide 1 Lightweight Integration of Documents and Services ------- Digital Library Service Integration, IntegraL and IntLib

Bieber et al., NJIT ©2005 - Slide 1

Lightweight Integrationof Documents and Services

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Digital Library Service Integration,IntegraL and IntLib Projects

Michael Bieber*, Il Im*

Richard Sweeney**, Yi-Fang Wu*

* Information Systems Department ** Robert Van Houten College of Computing Sciences Library

New Jersey Institute of Technology

http://is.njit.edu/integralJanuary 2005

http://is.njit.edu/integral






Outline• Motivation• Illustrations• Structural Relationships• 3 Types of Integration• Personalizing Links• Federated Metasearch• Contributions and Vision• Project Details• Call for Collaboration


Challenges for Library Users• Need to know what resources to use before they can access

them• Finding related information outside current system• Need to leave current page to do related tasks

Why?• Library resources aren’t

integrated well

==> Project Goal: – Bring relevant resources directly to the user

Library resources: databases (e.g., EBSCOhost,

ACM Digital Library), external digital libraries,

on-line catalog, special collections, library services (e.g., interlibrary loan)...


Integration through Linking• automatically generate link anchors on elements

recognizedbased on:– structural relationships– lexical relationships

• automatically generate links – to related information – to relevant services

==> lightweight integration of – documents containing links and– documents/services the links point to


Prototype

Services for a launch-date element:- search by launch date- search by month and year- search by year


Prototype

Services for a document element:- open- summarize in 3 sentences


Mock-up for alibrary database

Services from multiple systems(customized to user tasks/preferences)


structural elementsand links

lexical elementsand links

Two Types of Links:(1) structural based on element type * title, author, source(2) lexical (found in a glossary)


Structural Relationships

• Links generated based on application structure, not search or lexical analysis

– You cannot do a search on the display text “$127,322.12” to find related information…

– But you can find relationships for the element Sales[2002]

$85,101.99$127,322.12

2002 Expenses2002 Sales




Three Types of Integration:(1) for documents to receive anchors and links(2) to provide services (which become links)(3) to provide glossaries for content analysis

Require a document schema mapper to recognize structural elements:- wrapper- fixed template - XML markup- etc.


Three Types of Integration:(1) for documents to receive anchors and links

(2) to provide services (which become links)(3) to provide glossaries for content analysis

Linking Rules represent * every service * that a system can provide * for each kind of element.


Three Types of Integration:(1) for documents to receive anchors and links

(2) to provide services (which become links)(3) to provide glossaries for content analysis

Linking Rules represent * every service * that a system can provide * for each kind of element.

Example ==>


Example Linking Rulefrom the AskNSDL system

– a) element type (“concept”)

– b) link display label (“Ask an expert about this”)

– c) relationship metadata

– d) destination collection or service (“Ask NSDL”)

– e) the exact command to send to the destination system

• (logs the user into AskNSDL, opens question template, fills in the element instance (i.e., “physics teaching”) as the subject, and places the cursor in the question area)

– f) any relevant conditions for including this relationship


Three Types of Integration:(1) for documents to receive anchors and links(2) to provide services (which become links)

(3) to provide glossaries for content analysis

Lexical analysis by:• NJIT Noun Phrase

Extractor• NJIT Ontology

Developer


Each system is integrated independently:(1) Schema mappers for individual systems(2) Linking rules are plugged in” independently

for each service(3) Glossaries and thesauri can be independent

of other systems




Personalizing the LinksCustomize the list of links according to:• Collaborative Filtering

– Matching user’s “click stream” to other users’

• time spent at each destination• asking users to rate links• user task information


QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Federated Metasearch• Searches, merges & ranks


QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Federated Metasearch• Searches, merges & ranks• Clusters results by concept


Federated Metasearch:Clustering by Concept

concepthierarchy

search resultsare clusteredby concept


Contributions• straightforward, sustainable approach for

integrating documents and services– Lightweight integration through linking

• combining structural links with content-based links

• next-generation collaborative filtering

• federated metasearch

• integrating traditional and digital libraries

• widespread dissemination


VisionA nationwide virtual library• to and from

– your local library

– other physical libraries

– digital libraries

• incorporating– traditional library resources

– digital library resources

Bringing relevant resources directly to the user!


Additional Slides




Digital Library Service IntegrationNSF National Science Digital Library Award #DUE-0226075; 2002-2005

Tasks• Develop Integration

Infrastructure• Integrate digital library

collections and services• Collaborative filtering• Evaluation

Partners• NASA GSFC Library• AskNSDL• Earth Science Picture of

the Day System• Atmospheric

Visualization Collection• Metis Workflow (University

of Colorado, Boulder)

• University of Arizona


IntLibInstitute of Museum and Library Services Award #LG-02-04-0002-04; 2004-2007

Tasks - to integrate:• EBSCOhost • Gale’s Discovery

Collection • ProQuest• On-line Catalog Systems• New Jersey Digital

Highway

The IntLib Project focuses on integrating the resources of public libraries primarily (and university libraries secondarily) with digital libraries.

Additional Partner• Newark Public Library


IntegraLNSF National Science Digital Library Award #DUE-0434581; 2004-2007

Tasks - to integrate:• ACM Digital Library• Elsevier Science Direct

(permission pending)

• NJIT Electronic Thesis collection

• JerseyClicks• StartingPoint• Digital Library for Earth

Science Education (DLESE)• Science@NASA• NSDL Core Integration

features• an on-line bookstore

The IntegraL project focuses on integrating specific resources of college libraries with those of the NSDL.

Additional Partners• Cumberland C.C.• Ramapo College• Olin College of Engineering


Looking for Collaboration• Additional document systems, digital

library collections, services and glossaries to integrate

• Physical library partners

• Digital library partners

• Web services to integrate

• Other suggestions welcome!


Which additional services would you suggest?


User’s Web Browser

AskNSDL Schema Mapper

AVC Schema Mapper

NSSDC Schema Mapper

CI Search Service

Schema Mapper

Service Schema

Mapper (i)

AskNSDL AVC N’l Space Science

Data Center

NSDL CI Search Service

Service (i)

ME Link Mapping Engine

ME Broker

ME DesktopMetainformation Engine

ME Lexical Analysis

existing system or Web service

usesJava,XML,XPath,etc.

Internal Architecture


Benefits of Integrationfor a system (collection/service)

• Users: direct access to related systems– enlarges a system’s feature set

• Links leads users to a system– systems gain wider use

• Users become aware of other systems– systems gain wider awareness

• Direct access to a system’s features– streamlined access (bypassing menus)