1. The MERIC Prototype A Proof of Concept for the MERIC Vision William E. Moen School of Library and Information Sciences Texas Center for Digital Knowledge University of North Texas Denton, TX 72603 2006 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, November 7, 2006, Austin, Texas

2. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 2 MERIC vision An online environment to support metadata and cataloging education and research A metadata-driven repository of learning objects and other resources Features and services for building community

3. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 3 Taking up the challenge Class project in Spring & Summer 2006 Metadata and Networked Information Organization and Retrieval 30+ graduate students Blended learning class Real-world experience in application development Understanding functional and technical requirements Developing responses to the requirements Documentation Implementing and assessment

4. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 4 Organizing the effort Project planning Modularizing and phasing the project Project Planning and Project Management Functional Requirements Analysis, Clarification, and Prioritization Technology Review, Assessment, and Recommendation Metadata Requirements Application Design Graphic Design Prototype Implementation Loading of Resources & Metadata Creation Functional and Usability Testing Working groups for each of the areas of work

5. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 5 Understanding requirements MERIC Advisory Board documents specifying requirements MERIC Organization and Navigation Report MERIC Collection Policy The MERIC Application: Architecture and Functional Requirements Preliminary Architecture for the MERIC Application Functional Requirements Metadata Requirements User Registration Requirements Resource Submission Requirements Editing and Review Requirements General User Interface Requirements Search and Navigation Requirements

6. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 6 Services-based architecture Enable the rapid development of the MERIC applicaion Allow for future extensibility Focus on defining the services Choose one or more technologies to implement the service Service: Something offered by the MERIC application to one or more groups of users. Also used in the context of “web services,” which are modular applications that can be called and interacted with via a set of standards that support the W3C concept of web services.

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8. Moen ASIS&T 2006 -- Austin, TX -- November 7, 2006 8 Z-Interop Phase 2 Radioactive MARC Records: specially designed diagnostic records A set of test searches and automatic testing script that issues searches, retrieves records, and develops reports on the search and retrieval results A database of MARC documentation that enables the automatic identification of types of searches to issue