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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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Thank you
