CS 502 Computing Methods for Digital Libraries Cornell University

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Lab Library Gateways
CS 502 Computing Methods for Digital
LibrariesCornell University Computer
ScienceHerbert Van de Sompelherbertv_at_cs.cornell.
edu
Access to PC orpcuser orpcpw
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Pop Quiz Vannevar Bush As we may think
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Exploration of library gateways
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session management
ERL
URL
THIN
menu system
authorization
interlinking
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Some library gateways
http//lib-www.lanl.gov/fancy-index.htm http//sf
xserv.rug.ac.be/index_eng.html http//www.lib.duk
e.edu/ http//campusgw.library.cornell.edu/ http
//www.cdlib.org/collections/
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Check this out

• Do you see something that looks like
  authentication/authorization?
• Do you see something that looks like session
  management (turn on cookies)?
• Does the menu-system allow you to figure out the
  type of content that is presented in the
  menu-system
• secondary/catalogue/primary/
• disciplines
• formal/non-formal
• locally stored/remotely stored

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• What are the features of the bibliographic menu
  system
• Search
• known item
• set search which attributes?
• filtered search (search only for certain types)
• Browse (which attributes?)
• What metadata about the resources is indexed?
• What kind of help is available?
• Other useful functionalities?
• How does the gateway inform you about your
  lack of authorization?