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Evolving Collaboration and Search Strategies at AgNIC: Insights from Lorcan Dempsey

At the Tenth Annual Meeting of the AgNIC Coordinating Committee, Lorcan Dempsey presented key patterns in information flow and collaboration. The session explored concepts of disaggregation and aggregation in services, the importance of collaboration over competition, and the need for libraries and scientists to engage with evolving search tools. Dempsey emphasized the significance of understanding mindshare in academia amidst the rise of major search engines. By leveraging open systems and refining information resources, participants can enhance their research capabilities and user experiences.

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Evolving Collaboration and Search Strategies at AgNIC: Insights from Lorcan Dempsey

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  1. We are the network people Lorcan Dempsey Tenth Annual Meeting of the AgNIC Coordinating Committee March 9-11, 2005 Bolger Blogger Conference Center, Potomac, MD

  2. Overview

  3. Three patterns? • Be in the flow • Recombine: disaggregation and aggregation • Collaborate

  4. Gamers as Metaphor • Compete • Collaborate • Create

  5. Scientists: Google Yahoo PubMed Librarians: Science Direct ISI Web of Science MedLine “Search engine mindshare” John Regazzi “In a survey for this lecture, librarians and scientists were asked to name the top scientific and medical search resources that they use or are aware of.  The difference is startling.” Source: John Regazzi, The Battle for Mindshare: A battle beyond access and retrievalhttp://www.nfais.org/publications/mc_lecture_2004.htm

  6. Be in the flow • Channels • Wherever they are needed • Learning management system • Portal • Inside out on the open web …

  7. OpenURL server Edinburgh’s catalogue Detailed WorldCat record in FirstSearch IP Authenticated Services Open URL FirstSearch Patron ILL NetLibrary ebooks JSTOR

  8. Recombine • Services • Large monolithic systems • Break out services so that they can be used more flexibly • Web services • Information resources • Collections: granularity and aggregation • Objects: granularity and aggregation • Objects: analysis, annotation, reuse

  9. Tools Edit

  10. Research Task Pane

  11. You can search multiple sources or select a specific source (e.g., the GSAFD Vocabulary Service, which provides access to genre terms for fiction and drama) Without ever leaving the Office application, a user can issue a search and paste results from the search directly into a document OCLC Research GSAFD Vocabulary Service

  12. Recombinance • Hooks - standards • Small pieces • Services • Flow

  13. Collaboration/consolidation • Change ….. • Pool uncertainty • Concentrate expertise • Reduce duplication • Accelerate up the learning curve • Pool uncertainty

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