In the enhancing project of PurpleSearch, until now the following has happened:
* I have compared a few search systems (Xerxes , VuFind, Primo Iowa / Kopenhagen / Vanderbilt).
* We received a database with peer reviewed journals, from David Walker (CalState University) – Thank you very much!
* A new trainee, computer science student, Ain Uljas from Tartu, Estonia, came to Groningen. He’ll also be involved in the programming part for PurpleSearch the coming year.
* We made a plan to build a database, necessary to enhance PurpleSearch:
- Make an ISSN database; we try to get the ISSN data out of the catalogue and the SFX data.
- Connect to the ISSN database holding information of the University of Groningen catalogue. Information how is available.
- Connect to the ISSN database impact factors we get from ISI Web of Science.
- Connect to the ISSN database subject information from the dutch central catalogue NCC, GOO, from Library of Contents, LC, and DDC. We hope to develop FRBR faceting options in PurpleSearch, using GOO, LC, and DDC codes to refine a search result.
- Connect to the ISSN database tables of contents of journals. We hope to find this maybe in Ulrich’s, or via electronic journals publishers & aggregators.
- Connect to the ISSN database of journal covers. We hope to find them, maybe in Ulrich’s, or via electronic journals publishers & aggregators.
Why do we use a static database, and not a live connection to updated sites, such as XISSN service of WorldCat?
- We think we can make a faster service, when we host data in Groningen, instead of using WorldCat or other data.
- The XISSN of WorldCat service probably costs money.
- We hope to develop some smart programming, so that we can update parts of our ‘static’ ISSN database.
- When the database is ready, and we have done some more programming, new services will be available in PS.
So let’s go for it!
WoW!ter zei
I don’t see the usage data from you current journal publisher’s All Counter reports report ISSN and eISSN, journal title and publisher. Journal name changes, mergers and splits, will be difficult to keep track of in the future. And in the end of the day, there are scholarly journals that don’t have an issn number.
Succes!
andrek zei
The ISSN database is built because we could not find a similar one anywhere on the Internet, it will will serve as a service for PurpleSearch and quite a few other systems (Journals RSS Alerter and Statistics apps)
Keeping track of all changes will indeed be an ongoing process..
I dont think Counter/SUSHI information should be used in this service (but certainly in the Statistics modules)
Andre Keyzer