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Posted by sarneil on 10 Jul 2009 in Activity log
Attended meeting with Greg on Bibliography database for legal librarians from law school.
Prior to that reviewed their material and posted a couple of questions for discussion at the meeting.
1) It's pretty self-evident to me the purpose of the full-text and
bibliographic information for each document in your collection. I'm not
clear on the purpose of the annotations, nor who writes them, nor how
many can there be for a given document. Are the annotations attached to
an entire document, or to specific sections within a document?
2) In generating connections amongst documents in the collection, are
those connections based on the bibliographic information (works cited,
works citing), features in the full text, features in the annotations?
Do you intend to construct those connections manually or
programatically? You mention creating an "indexing vocabulary" and
"subject tags". Can you provide more details on how that fits in?
3) When the user does a search, what are they searching through (the
full text of the documents, the annotations to the documents, the
bibliography of the documents)?
4) It appears that the results of the search are list of documents. What
ideas do you have for how to rank that list or highlight the information
in the document that caused it to be included in the search results?
5) You mention "We will make this on online collaborative effort,
soliciting annotations and subject tags from the expert community, but
doing the bibliographic work in house, to maintain quality." We can talk
about which category of people (your staff, approved users, general
public) should be entitled to add or edit which elements of content