From a technology prototyping point of view, the overall goal of this period of work is to produce focused prototypes of real-life collection building and reuse. We will focusing on two specific types of reusable collections: bibliographic and image collections.
In support of continued strategic planning today, let me write a list of some of the technology work that I am planning to do in the next 3 months:
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On the bibliographic side:
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refining our implementation of the Metalib X-server API in Scholar's Box and the attendant issues of bibliographic metadata interop (MARC XML, OpenURLs, LOM)
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some "computational Melvyl": I plan to more automatically pull data out of Melvyl and use it: e.g., create a bibliography of Milosz's work that I translate into other data formats
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transporting references via more portable OpenURLs. See http://www.openly.com/openurlref/latent.html for example
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first observations about Sakai 1.5 -- and my work at pushing resources into it
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On the image side:
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my work with flickr -- a prototypical personal photo repository, its API, and mixing it up with archival content (such as from CDL) -- and taxonomies vs folksonomies -- and drawing content from flickr into my wiki programmatically (e.g., http://raymondyee.net/wiki/BerkeleyBowl and http://raymondyee.net/wiki/CzeslawMilosz)
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focus on reusing materials from the CaliforniaDigitalLibrary, especially
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its collection of publicly avaiable images.
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User-studies:
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how a teacher actually uses CDL materials: http://128.32.250.15:8080/yinzgandantananat/2004/10/26
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GIS and images: how I'm trying to do geocoding of images on the cheap and mixing it with google maps (and using google maps and the Yahoo APIs to pull together to put pictures on a map) -- and lowering the barrier to entry for GIS
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first observations of Chandler 0.5 and its repository architecture and object model
