415 – Bios
I haven’t done the quiz yet, but I have made the biographies available to all, if you want to download for later reading. Log in to the course, choose Assignments, and then instead of choosing a specific assignment – look at the row of tabs and select the tab called “Published”. The default display is 10 at a time, so remember to go to next pages to get all 21.
462 – Hathi Trust
And right after Maura’s talk comes an announcement about the Hathi Trust –
Nov. 19, 2009
Contact: Liene Karels, (734) 764-6338, lkarels@umich.edu
Frank Provenzano, (734) 647-4411, fproven@umich.edu
HathiTrust offers full-text search of millions of digitized books and journals
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections.
The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities across the entire library. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright works by keyword or phrase.
Based on open source Solr/Lucene technology, the service expands on an experimental search of public domain volumes introduced in November 2008. Full-text search will continue to be supported across the repository as it grows at a rate of hundreds of thousands of volumes every month.
“The HathiTrust partners are pleased to offer a search service that helps mine this growing body of authoritative library materials,” said John Wilkin, HathiTrust executive director and associate university librarian at the University of Michigan. “HathiTrust continues to distinguish itself with its reliability and with its efforts to broaden the availability of digitized library collections in the flow of scholarly discourse. We see this valuable discovery service as one in a series of major steps HathiTrust is taking to shed light on this vast body of material.”
In combination with the HathiTrust Digital Library’s carefully curated bibliographic data, the new functionality allows researchers to more efficiently locate items relevant to their research. It also lays the foundation for future services such as full-text search with faceted browsing, advanced search, “more like this” options, and tools that can be used in computational research.
The effort to provide full-text searching capabilities across the repository has yielded valuable benchmarking data, methods, and code to the broader large-scale search community, said Wilkin.
The HathiTrust partners are committed to developing the repository and its services to meet the long-term needs of their academic communities, and offer a unique resource on the Web for scholarship and research.
HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia, and currently includes digitized volumes from the University of Michigan, University of California, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin.
415 – Asst3
I am beginning to return the hard copy to your mail folders, but this will lag behind my returning comments and grades in elearning,since I do the eLearning thing first and then return hard copy in batches. So, if you see your grade and comment sheet and are wondering what the cataloguing and coding issues are, check your mail folder periodically.
415 – Dewey PPT
Slides for tonight and Friday are in eLearning. I made them 2 to a page so you could read and annotate.
415 – Chan
Someone pointed out that the Chan readings are out of sync, so here is an update. General background on classification: Chapter 12; LC classification: Chapter 14; Dewey: Chapter 13. Sorry ’bout that.
Nano
I have a spare skin for an Apple Nano – not the 5G, but the ones before that. E-mail me if you would like it.
All – check this out
I’ll fight you for the library, performed by Taylor Mali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXgPfMGG8E
415 – lecture tape
So, the audio portion of November 4 (Wednesday) is online at http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/20091104-candys-lecture_final.mp3. You should have a printout or online version of the PPT PDF files (the one from the preceding week and the one from Nov 4), and if possible Classification Web in a browser. Remember, I will be giving this exact same class on Friday November 13. P.S. This is a three hour class (with a break), so do not expect the mp3 to load quickly – give it time to open.
415 – lab time change
On Nov 18 and 20, we will start the class in the lab, doing LCC.
415 – Wednesday taping
I am going to audiotape Wednesday’s class and put it on the Web. You can follow along if you have the PPT files (a bit of the end of the one we were at last week, and then the two-to-a-page from this week), or on the Web (or both). I will still give this class to Friday when I come back, so this is just in case you want to get started on LC classification.
