Reading List - A Demonstration application
Reading List is a MyLibrary demonstration application.
As mentioned previously, MyLibrary systems consists of: 1) information resources, 2) users, and/or 3) librarians. In the case of Reading List, the information resources are journal titles harvested from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) via OAI.
DOAJ supports OAI as a data repository. It outputs at least two different data sets: 1) metadata regarding journals, and 2) metadata regarding articles. The Reading List pulls down the journal-level metadata, stores it in a MyLibrary database, and provide a browsable interface to the result.
Reading List then allows people to create accounts for themselves — the users. By associating users with journal titles, a list of “my journals” can be created — a reading list. If users and information resources shared a controlled vocabulary, then relationships between the users and the resources could be created to implement things like, “If you like this, then you might like that.” Alas, this implementation does support such functionality, yet.
Give it a try.
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.