Discovery and Discoverability

Chancellors Hall, Senate House

University College London, Jan 20th 2016th 13.30 to 17.30

First Draft

13.30 pm Arrival, registration and coffee at Chancellors Hall, Senate House, University of London.

14.00 pm Welcome, Introduction and Chair for the first session John Akeroyd, Honorary Research Fellow University College Dept of Information Studies and Consultant, CIBER Research.

Enhancing Discovery

14.05 pm Schema.Org Richard Wallis is Founder of Data Liberate and Chair of Schema Bib Extend Community Group. http://dataliberate.com;

14.35 pm Citations as a way of discovery. Tom Hatton Founder and CEO Refme

RefME is a free tool that accurately automates citations, reference lists and bibliographies. Our goal is to map our pinpoint citation data to change the way people search, validate and discover knowledge, whilst giving the 300m+ students worldwide who cite, a simple and smart tool.

14.05 pm A strategic overview; the JISC perspective. Neil Grindley is responsible for areas of work at JISC that address how to effectively find resources that are relevant to learning, teaching and research

15.30 pm Tea and comfort break

Case Studies

Chair for the second session.

15.45 pm From Google Scholar to Library Search via Koha: A different journey to discovery services. Dave Peacock , Information and Collections, University of Hertfordshire.

Until August 2015 the University of Hertfordshire relied largely on the traditional OPAC and Google Scholar as its main resource discovery tools. Since then the Koha open source Library Management System has been introduced, with a new commercial Resource Discovery Layer and branded Library Search has now totally replaced the traditional OPAC. What impact has this change had on user experience and usage of resources?

16.10 pm ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality in open access resources Nathalie Cornic, ISSN International Centre Paris.

ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) gives access to a selection of open access multidisciplinary resources taken from the ISSN Register. The functionalities will be presented, as well as how the international standard serial number serves as a matching key between the ISSN Register and external databases to provide quality insight on open access resources.

16.35 pm Improving user experiences by intuitively finding relevant content. Examples, examples, examples. Clive Wright is Vice President of Discovery Innovation at EBSCO Information Service.

Today’s library users demand, and expect, to find relevant, citable materials easily and quickly. This certainly holds true for finding books, publications and articles. Beyond the ease of use of the user interface, users expect that the search engine in fact anticipates their intent behind each and every query. This session will provide many institutions’ impressive implementations of article, publication and book discovery.

17.00 pm Panel session: including participants from the afternoon; chaired by John Akeroyd

17.30 pm End of meeting and drinks.