NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Aquaculture Web Resources and Bibliographies BUILDING THE DATA

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland “But where are the Internet librarians? Google and its friends don’t come close…query results are the equivalent of ripping out 50,000 pages from books, periodicals, brochures, and random snippets of jetsam…and …stacking them in front of the patron. HP ran an ad: ‘What the Internet needs is an old-fashioned librarian.’...” WIRED magazine 04/2003

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Who is the audience? What do they want? Do they know what they want? What do they expect? What should they get?

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Getting specific or general? Basics Issues User driven NOAA driven Time as a factor

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland The “searchable bibliography” project motivated by professional enthusiastic people…

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland CREATING THE SEARCHABLE BIBLIOGRAPHIES MySQL – NOAA Miami Library (Open source database) PROCITE Software from ISI for importing online bibliographic data Import references directly from online databases, copy and paste from online citations, or manually type in the reference HTML for intro page and looks

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland The search strategy I. (Tilapia aurea or Sarotherodon aureus or Oreochromis aureus or Tilapia niloticus or Sarotherodon niloticus or Oreochromis niloticus or Tilapia mossamibica or Sarotherodon mossambicus or Oreochromis mossambicus) and (genetic* or gene or reproduc* or hatch*) II (Tilapia aurea or Sarotherodon aureus or Oreochromis aureus or Tilapia niloticus or Sarotherodon niloticus or Oreochromis niloticus or Tilapia mossamibica or Sarotherodon mossambicus or Oreochromis mossambicus) and (feed* or nutrition or supplement* or meal or digest* or diet*) WHAT ARE THE LIMITS AND LIMITATIONS?

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland The Search - ASFA

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Name database Configuration file PROCIT E

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland These are the new citations …all enter with marks Theoretically “Subdatabase” goes to Miami

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland WORKFORMS

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland The journal list

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Files Go to Miami Here the real work begins: Check for duplicates Convert the records from Procite to text in comma delimeter format using an output style created in Procite to match the database Import the records into miniSQL

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Whaaa happened? Citation is not complete Still some data in wrong fields File is then saved: as text format using an output style created in Procite to accommodate the fields in the table for that database in MiniSQL database reveals extra spaces for removal

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland TA-DAA !!

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Modifying and Filtering Limiting the scope Limiting the date range Getting as comprehensive as possible Making the data amorphous The online part Hitting the target…

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Non-searchable - traditional Issue Driven Highly specialized

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Issue driven: using both citations and online links

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Comprehensive BUT with an Internet theme and “interactive”

NOAA Librarians Workshop March 2003 NOAA Central Library Silver Spring, Maryland Thanks for your attention! Questions ?