Agnic, March We are the network people Lorcan Dempsey Tenth Annual Meeting of the AgNIC Coordinating Committee March 9-11, 2005 Bolger Blogger Conference Center, Potomac, MD

Agnic, March Overview

Agnic, March Three patterns?  Be in the flow  Recombine: disaggregation and aggregation  Collaborate

Agnic, March Gamers as Metaphor  Compete  Collaborate  Create

Agnic, March “Search engine mindshare” John Regazzi  Scientists:  Google  Yahoo  PubMed  Librarians:  Science Direct  ISI Web of Science  MedLine Source: John Regazzi, The Battle for Mindshare: A battle beyond access and retrieval “In a survey for this lecture, librarians and scientists were asked to name the top scientific and medical search resources that they use or are aware of. The difference is startling.”

Agnic, March Be in the flow  Channels  Wherever they are needed  Learning management system  Portal  Inside out on the open web …

Agnic, March OpenURL server Detailed WorldCat record in FirstSearch Edinburgh’s catalogue IP Authenticated Services Open URL FirstSearch Patron ILL NetLibrary ebooks JSTOR

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Recombine  Services  Large monolithic systems  Break out services so that they can be used more flexibly  Web services  Information resources  Collections: granularity and aggregation  Objects: granularity and aggregation  Objects: analysis, annotation, reuse

Agnic, March Edit Tools

Agnic, March Research Task Pane

Agnic, March OCLC Research GSAFD Vocabulary Service  You can search multiple sources or select a specific source (e.g., the GSAFD Vocabulary Service, which provides access to genre terms for fiction and drama)  Without ever leaving the Office application, a user can issue a search and paste results from the search directly into a document

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Recombinance  Hooks - standards  Small pieces  Services  Flow

Agnic, March Collaboration/consolidation  Change …..  Pool uncertainty  Concentrate expertise  Reduce duplication  Accelerate up the learning curve  Pool uncertainty

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