[Ref-Links] results of "SFX@Gent & SFX@LANL" linking project

[herbert van de sompel <hvds@lanl.gov>]

Hello,

Talking about killer-apps: this list might be interested to have a look
at some screencams illustrating results of the "SFX@Gent & SFX@LANL"
linking project that we have been working on over the last couple of
months.  In this project, the notion of dynamic linking and the usage of
an institutional dynamic SFX-linking service - as introduced in my D-Lib
papers (April 99) - have been taken much further.  

For this project, the libraries of the University of Ghent and of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory have made their local information systems
SFX-aware. Also, Wiley InterScience and the American Physical Society
have made - part of - their collections SFX-aware. Both Gent and LANL
run a SFX-server that describes their collections and desired services.
When searching these SFX-aware systems, users of both institutions can
request extended services from their institutional SFX-server for
references found in A&I databases, the OPAC and electronic papers. The
SFX-server dynamically decides which services are relevant for a certain
reference. Potential services in the demonstrations are holding lookups,
links to full-text collections, links to A&I databases (Current
Contents, LISA, Ulrich, Inspec, Journal Citation Reports, Science
Citation Database, PubMed, Genome database, Books in Print) and links
into web-services (Amazon.com).  

Of special importance to this list will be the occurences where a user
requests services for citations in an electronic paper (from Wiley or
the APS PROLA archive).  One of the services presented by the user's
institutional SFX-server is a link to the appropriate full-text (at
another publisher's site or at the institution's full-text repository). 
Other services include lookups in the Science Citation Database (cited
reference, cited author and author search), holding lookup in the
institutional OPAC etc... . I think that these examples illustrate how
some mechanisms introduced in the SFX-research present an approach to
the so-called Harvard problem of local/selective resolution.

The screencam files - large exe files for Wintel - are downloadable
from: http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~hvds/sfx/htmls/SFX-cams.html 

herbert van de sompel


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Herbert Van de Sompel
Head of Library Automation - University of Ghent - Belgium
Research Assistant - Research Library Los Alamos National Laboratorium
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