Aggregating Online Resources: Grolier Online as an Educational Portal CONCERT 2001 Taipei, Taiwan; October 2001
Genesis of the Encyclopedia As abstract of documents As précis of the library As ideological agenda Designed for a professional audience Organized conceptually
The 19th and 20th Centuries Intellectual disciplines atomized into small, discrete articles Organized algorithmically for easy retrieval Designed for students and nonspecialist readers
The Article as Fielded Data ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE BODY SECTION SUBSECTION SECTION SUBSECTION ARTICLE SIGNATURE ARTICLE BIBLIOGRAPHY WORK WORK WORK WORK
The Encyclopedia as Database
Supporting Technologies Boolean and AI searching Database technologies Markup languages Linking technologies Networked documents
The Article then . . . The Article ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE BODY SECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION SECTION SUBSECTION SUBSECTION ARTICLE SIGNATURE ARTICLE BIBLIOGRAPHY WORK WORK WORK WORK
The Article now . . . <Article> <Title . . . /Title> <Body> <Section> <Subsection> <p . . . /p> </Subsection> </Section> <Section> <Subsection> <p . . . /p> </Subsection> </Section> <Signature> <Name . . . /Name> <Affiliation . . . /> </Signature> <Bibliography> <Work> <Title . . . /Title> <Author . . . </Author> . . . etc.
The Encyclopedia as Extensible Library Bounded collections v. “all texts” Structured v. unstructured information The role of the librarian and the editor Collection identification and acquisition Mediation between student and text Organization of documents into subject hierarchies
Competing Content Models Publishing Model proprietary content content creation and editing Aggregation Model third-party content indexing, abstracting, and engine
The Encyclopedia as Extensible Library Bounded collections v. “all texts” Structured v. unstructured information The role of the librarian and the editor Links technologies and access to third-party texts The “virtual encyclopedia” Expands in response to user queries
Grolier Online as an Educational Portal Uses individual article as index term Provide summary (article text) Identify other sources, print & electronic Provide access to those sources Combines publishing and content aggregation models
Grolier Online as an Educational Portal Provides single-search access to all relevant resources via the “GO Frame” Provides pointers to external content: Grolier Internet Index EBSCO periodicals Bibliographic services (in development)
Grolier Online as an Educational Portal Provides access to nontraditional materials Interactive Atlas Current events Teacher resources Study guides
Grolier Online as an Educational Portal Study guides Lesson plans Activities Magazines Curriculum correlation Article Cross-references/ cross-database searches Journal articles Bibliographic citations Web sites
Access and Authentication Infrastructure upgrades mirrored sites content caching Authentication upgrades “Smart” authentication Remote access policies