Who ?

1
Who ?

• Project Name
• ?
• Team at ICBL, Heriot-Watt.
• Roger Rist (Director)
• Phil Barker (Project Manager)
• Santiago Chumbe (Technical)
• Malcolm Moffat (EEVL / library)

2
What ?

• Parallel, comparative evaluations and
  demonstrators of
• D
• MDC
• SPP
• for resource discovery embedded in VLEs (WebCT
  Moodle)

Resource discovery tools
3
Why ? (human factors)

• Lecturers wish to find resources for use in
  courses they run, and wish to make those
  resources available to their students via the
  course VLE.
• E.g. as reading lists
• Is there any benefit to having resource discovery
  tool embedded in VLE?

4
How? (technical stuff)

• As simple as possible!
• Customisable web page templates for embedding
  search tool and results in VLE
• OpenURL resolver for localised results
• Resource lists as RSS

5
How? (non technical stuff)

• Talk to stakeholders
• Teachers, VLE support staff, Library technical
  staff, subject librarians ...
• before, during and after using tools while
  building course
• to get
• user requirements, and
• opinions of whether approach works.

6
Challenges and Problem Areas

• Involving academic staff (in August, while
  planning courses)