[Yr7-10it] National Library SBDS Prototype

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Interesting to spot the two Sun products that power this database .. Java
and MySQL

Thanks for sharing this Stephen :-)

Regards Roland

2009/6/16 <stephen at melbpc.org.au>

> National Library of Australia
>
>  http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/
>
>  http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/sbdp-ui/general/about
>
>
> About the SBDS Prototype
>
> SBDS will be a new discovery service focused on Australia, Australians,
> and items found in Australian collecting institutions.
>
> It will provide a single point of access to resources currently
> discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to
> digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.
>
> The primary purpose of this first prototype version is to develop the
> technical framework to support this new discovery service, and as far as
> possible ensure that the technologies we are using will provide
> acceptable performance, especially for record updates.
>
> The design so far is based primarily on decisions made within the project
> team to allow rapid development of the prototype. What is there now will
> form the basis for feedback, ideas for improvement, and input into the
> design of new features from a wide range of people.
>
> The system is a work in progress, and we have made it available for you
> to follow our development as we build and improve it. The prototype will
> be constantly updated as it evolves into a system planned for release
> into production in the third quarter of this year.
>
>
> What sort of things can I find?
>
> You can find:
>
> * Text resources such as books, theses, reports, research articles, raw
> data sets from research, book chapters, sheet music, conference
> proceedings, and papers and records collected by significant people and
> organisations
>
> * Maps and Audio-visual resources such as photos, artworks, postcards,
> videos, musical sound, sheet music and sound recordings of interviews
>
> * Full text of selected Australian newspapers, from between 1803 and 1954
>
> * Copies of significant Australian websites which may no longer be
> available online
>
> * Information about significant people and organisations
>
> Some of these items will be available online while others are available
> in hard copy only.
>
> Where is the data coming from so far?
>
> Metadata:
>
> The Australian National Bibliographic Database - 19 million items in
> Australian libraries
>
> Picture Australia - 1.6 million pictures and photos from Australian
> cultural institutions
>
> Australian Research Online - 0.3 million Australian research outputs
>
> OAIster - 20 million resources from insitutions world wide, including
> many scholarly insitutions
>
> Open Library - 0.3 million online public domain books
>
> Hathi Trust - 0.2 million online public domain books
>
> Wikipedia - 0.3 million keywords (tags) associated with books
>
> People Australia - 0.2 million people including many biographies and
> relationships from the Australian Women's Register, Music Australia,
> Australia Dancing and Libraries Australia
>
> Text:
>
> Australian Newspapers - Full text articles from historic Australian
> newspapers, 1803 to 1954
>
> Pandora - Archived copies of significant Australian websites
>
> The National Library of Australia's manuscript finding aids - 349
>
> The Library of Congress - 0.4 million tables of contents, publisher's
> descriptions and sample chapters of books
>
> Internet Archive - 0.1 million full text public domain books
>
>
> What does SBDS Stand for?
>
> BDS is our internal project name for this service. It stands for Single
> Business Discovery Service. The service does not yet have a final brand
> name.
>
>
> I want to know the technical details. What can you tell me?
>
> The prototype has been developed in-house using:
>
> the Java programming language
> SOLR/Lucene for indexing
> MySQL for record clustering
> Jetty and Restlets as the HTTP container, FreeMarker as the templating
> language
>
> Project Team
>
> Susan Collier (Project Manager)
> Kent Fitch (Developer)
> Simon Jacob (Developer)
> Joanna Meakins (Business Analyst)
>
>
> Feedback
>
> What do you think? What can we do better?
> This prototype is an exploration of ideas and techniques aimed at making
> information easier to find and showing it within a useful context.
>
> This development of this prototype will be strongly influenced by your
> feedback, so please give us your comments and suggestions on how to
> improve it. Comments and suggestions ...
>
> --
>
> Cheers people
> Stephen Loosley
> Victoria, Australia
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