RedLightGreen

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RedLightGreen

• RLG Accelerates Undergraduate Research

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Exercise in orienteering

• How did we arrive?
• What is it?
• What have we learned?
• Brief tour
• Where are we going?

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How did we arrive?

• The RLG Union Catalog
• From project to pilot
• Grant from Mellon Foundation
• Internal thinking, advisory group, more internal
  thinking
• Emergence of a target audience
• More funding from Mellon

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RedLightGreen what is it?

• Re-envisions the library catalog as an intuitive
  web-based research tool tuned to undergraduates
  search behaviors which meets their information
  needs
• Capitalizes on the power of aggregation
• Leads undergraduates to an important research
  resource -- their library.

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Meet (y)our users
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What have we learned? FRBR

• FRBR
• Work
• Expression
• Manifestation
• Item

• RedLightGreen
• title clusters (includes related works)
• editions
• items

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What have we learned? Data mining

• Data mining powered by Recomminds MindServer
• Search and classification tools
• Relevancy ranking
• Extends users vocabulary behind the scenes

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What have we learned? MARC to XML

• MARC as XML in DB2
• Based on the Library of Congress XML DTD for MARC

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What have we learned? User studies

• Studies conducted in April and May, 2002
• Enormously useful
• Some findings difficult to implement in the short
  term

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Bibliography Infomercial
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RedLightGreen brief tour
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Where are we going?

• Pilot phase
• August December 2003
• Columbia University, New York University,
  Swarthmore College
• More work with users
• User panels on May 2nd to test communication
  modes
• User studies to assess features of service

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For more information

• http//www.rlg.org/redlightgreen/
• mgp_at_notes.rlg.org