Category: Discovery & Delivery
Metasearch Infrastructure Project: Update
The Metasearch Infrastructure Project seeks to develop a robust set of tools for crafting tailored search interfaces to diverse information resources for specific audiences and/or purposes. For additional background information, including previous updates.
Update (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. See: [http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/metasearch/index.html]
New look for the Request form debuted December 14th, 2006
Request now uses the user’s IP address or a campus designation passed from UC-eLinks to determine the user’s home campus and provide the appropriate campus form. If the user’s IP address is not a valid UC IP address the user […]
Make Searching More Convenient
The CDL has created a UC version of LibX, a Firefox open source extension that allows you to search the Melvyl Catalog, all the UC campus catalogs, and Google Scholar, and use embedded links. Detailed information on its functions and […]
Melvyl Recommender Project Findings
The Melvyl Recommender Project http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl_recommender/, which explored next-generation services for library catalogs, has reached its conclusion. The project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Popular commercial services such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Netflix have evolved quickly over […]
National Science Foundation Grant Final Report
The California Digital Library was awarded a National Science Foundation grant in 2003 to build on and enhance the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The work has been completed Update: (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. For Metasearch […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project Reaches Key Milestone
A milestone in creating a UC campus configurable metasearch tool has been reached: an alpha, or very first testing stage, version of UC’s “Find It” metasearch tool was unveiled and reviewed by two groups of UC librarians on May 4 […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project: Current Status
The Metasearch Infrastructure Project seeks to develop a robust set of tools for crafting tailored search interfaces to diverse information resources for specific audiences and/or purposes. For additional background information, see the project web site at [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/]. Significant progress has […]
Melvyl Software Upgrade
The CDL has begun moving the Melvyl Catalog to version 16.02 of Ex Libris’ Aleph 500 software (the Melvyl Catalog is currently on version 15.3.). Previously, we anticipated that the upgrade would be complete by the end of 2005. The […]
Google Scholar Emphasized Links
Now that UC-eLinks has migrated to Version 3 of SFX, the CDL has the necessary technical capability to share UC’s ejournal holdings with Google Scholar. By doing so, Google Scholar will then be aware which journals and papers UC has […]
CDL Receives Grant for Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project
What if your library catalog was smart enough to offer good recommendations? The Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project is an experimental research and prototyping project that is investigating a number of technical strategies for making online public access catalogs easier to […]