RedLightGreen

RLG Accelerates Undergraduate Research

Exercise in orienteering

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

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

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.

Meet (y)our users

What have we learned? FRBR

FRBR Work Expression Manifestation Item

RedLightGreen “title clusters” (includes

related works) editions items

What have we learned? Data mining

Data mining – powered by Recommind’s MindServer

Search and classification tools Relevancy ranking Extends users vocabulary behind the

scenes

What have we learned? MARC to XML MARC as XML in DB2 Based on the Library of Congress XML

DTD for MARC

What have we learned? User studies

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

term

Bibliography Infomercial

RedLightGreen: brief tour

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

For more information…

http://www.rlg.org/redlightgreen/

mgp@notes.rlg.org