The Casalini full-text platform:
enriched content and expanded functionalities
for empowered users
Michele Casalini
ADLUG Conference - Trento, 24 September 2010
[email protected] - www.casalini.it
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Index
• Background and concept• The project• Access methods• Searching and browsing• Navigating• Full-text• User workspace• Statistics• Acknowledgments
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Background (1)
• Casalini Libri founded in 1958• Casalini Digital Division starts activities in year 2000• EIO – Editoria Italiana Online
full-text eBooks and eJournals collection since 2004
• Content from over 100 publishers from Italy and Spain• Worldwide libraries and consortia institutional
subscribers• e-Commerce purchase for individuals• EEO - Editoria Española Online
full-text collection since 2010• Over 180.000 e-Journals articles and e-Book texts• 360 current journals and 6.000 monographs
and conference proceedings
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Background (2)
• Implementation of the Amicus OpenSuite platformwith large benefits for advantages to have one central bibliographical
database for all material and resources integration of all cataloguing operations reengineering of internal workflows adherence of international standards connections with the ERP system robust and scalable platform SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) enviroment
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Concept (1)Monographs and Proceedings content
Literature19%
Arts11%
Technology5%
Pure Sciences3%
Geography & History12%
Generalities5%
Philosophy10%
Religion4%
Social Sciences27%
Language4%
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Concept (2)Periodicals content
Literature26%
Arts5%
Technology2%
Pure Sciences3%
Geography & History19%
Generalities8%
Philosophy9%
Religion3%
Social Sciences17%
Language8%
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Concept (3)
• The reasons for changing New end-user oriented interface Expanded functionalities Powerful full-text search engine Integration with the Amicus OpenSuite platform Unified access to all full-text content Interface customization for libraries and
publishers(skins)
Semantic web tools Web2 features
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The project
• Analysis and prototype in 2009
• Beta 1 launched at American Library Association Chicagoin June 2010
• Beta 2 will be lauched at Frankfurt Bookfair in October 2010
• Definitive release end of 2010
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Home page(one of the entrance pages)
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Access methods
• Authentication flexibility for institutional use via IP recognition via subscription access code via user ID and passwordshowing subscribed content only or all available contenton standard or customized collections
• e-Commerce site for private use and single title purchase
• iPad and other ebook devices
• Open-URL compliancy
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Searching (1)
• ‘Google-like’ searching
• Advanced search options
• ‘Breadcrumb’ navigation
• ‘Refine search’
• Semantic search enhancements
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Searching (2) - Search options
Simple search
Advanced search page
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Browsing (1)
• Classifications / Call numbers
• Author index
• Title index
• Subject indexes
• Publisher index
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Browsing (2) - Examples
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Navigating (1)
• Tag clouds• Stemming• Fuzzy logic, ‘Sounds like’• Spell checker• Translation of search terms• Hierarchical structure• Relevancy• Facets• Sorting
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Navigating (2) - Search result page
Breadcrumb
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Full text (1)
• PDF format
• Highlighting of search terms
• Annotations
• Cut & paste, print, save options
• Search in remote resources
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Full-text (2)
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User workspace (1)
• Personal or shared tags• Comments• Rating • Selections, lists and bibliographies• Automatic citations (RefWorks and EndNote)• Search history• RSS feed• Recommender system
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User workspace (2)
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Statistics
• Usage reporting
• Compliancy with the COUNTER Codes of Practice
• Administrator access area
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Acknowledgments
Key persons Tiziana Possemato, Project Manager @Cult Andrea Gazzarini, Software Engineer @Cult
with the support of Riccardo Turchini, Graphic Specialist Casalini Giuseppe Celano, Digital Specialist Casalini
and many others behind the scenes
Thank you!!!Thank you!!!