1. From Vitae to Google: Technical Intermediation for Scholarship Discovery David K. Uspal Library Technology Development Specialist Oct. 13, 2010

2. What We’ll Be Covering About Me (Note: this is the best time during the afternoon to get up and get a snack) The Big Picture (Where I crib the boss’ slides for bonus points) Activity Insight & Data Collection (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love data harvesting) From Community Bibliography… …to World Wide Web Discovery (The good stuff) Tying it all Together (…and praying everything still works)

3. Started July 12, 2010 –Just hit my 3 month anniversary Previously employers: –Lockheed Martin 2001-2010 –Co-op at ARL NRDC 2000 Likes: Geekery, Tacos Dislikes: Traffic About Me

4. The Big Picture Facets Learning Space / Social Place Educational Enabler Commons / Intellectual Center Scholarly Partner Showcasing Scholarly Activity “Stuff” via Special Collections, Digital Library, etc. “People” via Programming & Outreach, Community Bibliography, etc.

5. Community Bibliography A celebration of Villanova University community authors and scholars past, present, and future. “Falvey Memorial Library's Community Bibliography is an open repository of the entire published output of the Villanova University community. This extensive database offers a detailed view of our proud scholarly heritage, from our community's historical publications of the 19th Century to the cutting edge research of today.”

6. Community Bibliography

7. Activity Insight “Activity Insight ™, by Digital Measures, is a web-based information management system designed to organize and build reports on faculty member’s teaching, research and service activities. AI provides one place for a faculty member to keep information about his/her performance current, including ‘intellectual contributions’ listed on vitae.” Example reports that can be prepared with Activity Insight: –Faculty Vitae Update –Promotion and/or Tenure Recommendation Reports –Faculty Teaching Loads –Annual faculty activity reports –Accreditation reports –Media surveys, such as U.S. News & World Report –Institutional research surveys

8. Data Collection Process (Current) Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document Refworks Tagged Format Document Activity Insight Database Activity Insight Intellectual Collaboration Local Villanova Index VuFind Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site

9. Data Collection Process (Proposed) Activity Insight Database Activity Insight Intellectual Collaboration Activity Insight XML Data Dump Document RefWorks Tagged Format Document Local Villanova Index VuFind Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site

10. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery Once data is accessible by Community Bibliography (by way of VuFind), we can index Community Bibliography in Google –Sitemap generated by VuFind –Registered with Google Webmaster Tools –Google crawls site, adds to index –Goal : Short turnaround from Activity Insight to Google’s search engine

11. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery XML JSON

12. From Community Bibliography to World Wide Web Discovery

13. Local Villanova Index Web Accessible Community Bibliography Site VuFind Community Bibliography XML Site Map Google Webmaster Tools

14. Tying It All Together