This presentation was provided by David Munger of ResearchBlogging.org and Eric Schnell of The Ohio State University during the NISO event "Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards," held March 27 - March 28, 2008.

1. ResearchBlogging.org:
A Peer Review
Research Discovery System
Dave Munger
Eric Schnell

2. esearchBlogging.org Background
Vision / Mission
Team
Sponsors

3. he Demo
http://researchblogging.org

4. ite statistics
259 Active Bloggers (~5 requests per day)
15-20 posts per day
NYT Science section: 7 articles per day
About 700 visits to our site per day
Around 2000 RSS subscribers

5. tandards and Specifications
DOI
CoINS - ContextObject in SPAN
XML
RSS

6. ubject Categories
Goal: Balance needs of content providers
with users
No controlled vocabulary
Primary categories: Current usage
Secondary categories: User defined
Flexible. Change on the fly

7. hort Term Plans
RSS for specific subjects
Foreign language infrastructure
Aggregation of registered postings
discussing a specific paper
PubMed/ID - Efetch

8. uture Directions: Technical
WordPress widget
Non-blogger registration
MyResearchBlogging.org portal
mport to reference tools (Zotero)
Social networking?

9. uture Directions: Content
Skimming easy cream
Grey literature
Other digital objects / datasets
Open Science
Negative recommendations
Blog as authority - informed opinion

10. What Have We Learned?
Leverage comments for discovery!
OpenURL Resolver Gateway!
Microformats - embedded information
Recommender API
WorldCat Identities
SWS - query our database

11. ^Libraries!

12. arshall Breeding
“much of what libraries do centers on
providing information to library clientele an
because information is increasingly more
electronic… it is necessary for libraries to
cooperate and interact with a broad set of
other organizations and their technical
nfrastructures.”
006 issue of Library Technology Reports: “Web Services

13. tp://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/103031816

14. Question to Library Vendor
"Are there any APIs or Web Services
available which would enable us to
syndicate content and build gadgets for ou
community?"

15. Vendor Reply
"...our development folks have talked
bout...I'll let them know of your interest in
uch functionality and we'll consider it as
otential enhancement to the system“

16. ndrew Pace
“nobody in that vendor hall can sell you
product that will allow you to get your ILS,
ERM, open web, repositories to play
ogether.”
t Computers in Libraries 2006

17. hanks!
Dave Munger dsmunger [at] gmail.com
Eric Schnell schnell.9 [at] osu.edu