Interesting to spot the two Sun products that power this database .. Java and MySQL<br><br>Thanks for sharing this Stephen :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/16 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@melbpc.org.au">stephen@melbpc.org.au</a>></span><br>
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<a href="http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/</a><br>
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<a href="http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/sbdp-ui/general/about" target="_blank">http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/sbdp-ui/general/about</a><br>
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About the SBDS Prototype<br>
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SBDS will be a new discovery service focused on Australia, Australians,<br>
and items found in Australian collecting institutions.<br>
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It will provide a single point of access to resources currently<br>
discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to<br>
digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.<br>
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The primary purpose of this first prototype version is to develop the<br>
technical framework to support this new discovery service, and as far as<br>
possible ensure that the technologies we are using will provide<br>
acceptable performance, especially for record updates.<br>
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The design so far is based primarily on decisions made within the project<br>
team to allow rapid development of the prototype. What is there now will<br>
form the basis for feedback, ideas for improvement, and input into the<br>
design of new features from a wide range of people.<br>
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The system is a work in progress, and we have made it available for you<br>
to follow our development as we build and improve it. The prototype will<br>
be constantly updated as it evolves into a system planned for release<br>
into production in the third quarter of this year.<br>
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What sort of things can I find?<br>
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You can find:<br>
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* Text resources such as books, theses, reports, research articles, raw<br>
data sets from research, book chapters, sheet music, conference<br>
proceedings, and papers and records collected by significant people and<br>
organisations<br>
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* Maps and Audio-visual resources such as photos, artworks, postcards,<br>
videos, musical sound, sheet music and sound recordings of interviews<br>
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* Full text of selected Australian newspapers, from between 1803 and 1954<br>
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* Copies of significant Australian websites which may no longer be<br>
available online<br>
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* Information about significant people and organisations<br>
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Some of these items will be available online while others are available<br>
in hard copy only.<br>
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Where is the data coming from so far?<br>
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Metadata:<br>
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The Australian National Bibliographic Database - 19 million items in<br>
Australian libraries<br>
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Picture Australia - 1.6 million pictures and photos from Australian<br>
cultural institutions<br>
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Australian Research Online - 0.3 million Australian research outputs<br>
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OAIster - 20 million resources from insitutions world wide, including<br>
many scholarly insitutions<br>
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Open Library - 0.3 million online public domain books<br>
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Hathi Trust - 0.2 million online public domain books<br>
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Wikipedia - 0.3 million keywords (tags) associated with books<br>
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People Australia - 0.2 million people including many biographies and<br>
relationships from the Australian Women's Register, Music Australia,<br>
Australia Dancing and Libraries Australia<br>
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Text:<br>
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Australian Newspapers - Full text articles from historic Australian<br>
newspapers, 1803 to 1954<br>
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Pandora - Archived copies of significant Australian websites<br>
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The National Library of Australia's manuscript finding aids - 349<br>
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The Library of Congress - 0.4 million tables of contents, publisher's<br>
descriptions and sample chapters of books<br>
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Internet Archive - 0.1 million full text public domain books<br>
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What does SBDS Stand for?<br>
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BDS is our internal project name for this service. It stands for Single<br>
Business Discovery Service. The service does not yet have a final brand<br>
name.<br>
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I want to know the technical details. What can you tell me?<br>
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The prototype has been developed in-house using:<br>
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the Java programming language<br>
SOLR/Lucene for indexing<br>
MySQL for record clustering<br>
Jetty and Restlets as the HTTP container, FreeMarker as the templating<br>
language<br>
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Project Team<br>
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Susan Collier (Project Manager)<br>
Kent Fitch (Developer)<br>
Simon Jacob (Developer)<br>
Joanna Meakins (Business Analyst)<br>
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Feedback<br>
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What do you think? What can we do better?<br>
This prototype is an exploration of ideas and techniques aimed at making<br>
information easier to find and showing it within a useful context.<br>
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This development of this prototype will be strongly influenced by your<br>
feedback, so please give us your comments and suggestions on how to<br>
improve it. Comments and suggestions ...<br>
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Cheers people<br>
Stephen Loosley<br>
Victoria, Australia<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>