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The MERIC PrototypeA Proof of Concept for the MERIC Vision
William E. Moen <[email protected]>School of Library and Information Sciences
Texas Center for Digital KnowledgeUniversity of North Texas
Denton, TX 72603
2006 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, November 7, 2006, Austin, Texas
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MERIC vision
An online environment to support metadata and cataloging education and research
A metadata-driven repository of learning objects and other resources
Features and services for building community
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Taking up the challenge Class project in Spring & Summer 2006
Metadata and Networked Information Organization and Retrieval
30+ graduate students Blended learning class
Real-world experience in application development Understanding functional and technical requirements Developing responses to the requirements Documentation Implementing and assessment
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Organizing the effort Project planning Modularizing and phasing the project
Project Planning and Project Management Functional Requirements Analysis, Clarification, and Prioritization Technology Review, Assessment, and Recommendation Metadata Requirements Application Design Graphic Design Prototype Implementation Loading of Resources & Metadata Creation Functional and Usability Testing
Working groups for each of the areas of work
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Understanding requirements MERIC Advisory Board documents specifying requirements
MERIC Organization and Navigation Report MERIC Collection Policy
The MERIC Application: Architecture and Functional Requirements Preliminary Architecture for the MERIC Application Functional Requirements Metadata Requirements User Registration Requirements Resource Submission Requirements Editing and Review Requirements General User Interface Requirements Search and Navigation Requirements
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Services-based architecture Enable the rapid development of the MERIC applicaion Allow for future extensibility Focus on defining the services Choose one or more technologies to implement the service Service: Something offered by the MERIC application to
one or more groups of users. Also used in the context of “web services,” which are modular
applications that can be called and interacted with via a set of standards that support the W3C concept of web services
.
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Z-Interop Phase 2 Radioactive MARC Records: specially designed diagnostic
records
A set of test searches and automatic testing script that issues searches, retrieves records, and develops reports on the search and retrieval results
A database of MARC documentation that enables the automatic identification of types of searches to issue
