iSchool at San José State UniversityA Silicon Valley Success Story

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THE GOAL Help Silicon Valley startup RedLink develop a new taxonomy of academic disciplines to provide better business intelligence to academic publishers.

THE TEAM• Dr. Virginia Tucker, Lecturer at SJSU iSchool• Vaughn Egge, MLIS 2014• Ellie Fullman, MLIS 2014• Jonathan Dale, MLIS Projected 2017

THE TRAININGiTiSchool coursework provided the critical skills necessary for this project:• INFO 244 Online Searching• INFO 247 Vocabulary Design• INFO 248 Beginning Cataloging and Classification• INFO 281 Metadata Seminar

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THE TECHNOLOGYAfter evaluating different taxonomy management software options, the team chose Synaptica KMS, a flexible and powerful enterprise solution.

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• Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) PhD Certificate Open Classes Teacher Librarian • • •

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ABOUT SJSU SCHOOL OF INFORMATIONThe San José State University (SJSU) School of Information (iSchool) prepares individuals for careers as information professionals. Graduates work in diverse areas of the information profession, such as user experience design, digital asset management, information architecture, electronic records management, information governance, digital preservation, and librarianship. The SJSU School of Information is a recognized leader in online education and received the Online Learning Consortium’s Outstanding Online Program award. Find out more about the iSchool’s award-winning online educational programs at ischool.sjsu.edu.

ABOUT REDLINKRedLink has been associated with the world of academic publishing by providing business intelligence (BI) solution to a number of publishers across different hosting platforms. It provides a simple, intuitive and user friendly interface to visualize data in a way that enables marketing and sales people to stay on top of their customers’ needs, proactively deal with risks, easily spot opportunities, and grow their business. RedLink Network is the cornerstone of RedLink’s new and ambitious push to solve some of the vexing issues being faced by both the publishers and librarians by streamlining scholarly communication. For more information, please visit redlink.com.

ABOUT SYNAPTICASynaptica develops innovative award-winning software tools that help people to organize information and discover knowledge. Our applications are compliant with open standards that support the industry’s best practices and promote data portability. We work closely with our international client base to understand and respond to the ever-changing challenges faced by the knowledge and information management community. Synaptica supports several library and information science teaching programs and academic-commercial research programs at universities around the world. For more information, please visit synaptica.com.