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CISTI Source &
SiteSearch
OCLC User Meeting 2001
Danielle Langlois &
Carol Serroul
May 9, 2001
What Is CISTI Source?
• Integrated current awareness and
document delivery service
• 3 main components:
• CISTI Source Articles database
• Article Alert
• Journal Contents Alert
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New CISTI Source offers
• better integration of CISTI’s current
awareness services
• an enhanced search interface
• additional content
• more customization options
• a better document ordering service
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Why SiteSearch?
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Cross-database searching
Stateful system with search history
Bookmarking of records
Ability to email records
Z39.50 compatibility
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CISTI Source Content
• CISTI Source Articles
• 15,000,000 articles
• 350,000 abstracts
• URL links to publisher sites
• CISTI Source Journals
• 17,000 titles
• CISTI Catalogue
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CISTI Source User Interface
• Created using SiteSearch API
• Easy to use and understand
• Fully bilingual interface (French and
English)
• Customizable
• Combines various CISTI services in
one location
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CISTI Source User Profiles
• 6 tables included with SiteSearch
• 40 additional tables to allow for:
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Saved Searches
Alerts
Customization
Full Text Links
Updating
Billing
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CISTI Source User Profiles
• Database structure allows
• flexibility to add new services with a
minimal amount of modification
• ability to easily accommodate new
customizations
• allows for dynamic interface based
on user’s services and roles
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CISTI Source Demo
http://source.cisti.nrc.ca
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Development Process
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Started in 1999
Market studies
Prototyping
Focus groups
Specifications
Database redesign
User interface design
SiteSearch programming
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SiteSearch Programming
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Over 100 new gadgets
30 additional verbs
25 additional formatting classes
CistiUser object in UserStateObject
contains the user’s profile
information
• Two Java packages to allow access
to Basis databases (non-Z39.50)
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Added Features Saved Searches
• allows user to save query from
session to session
• new verb (savesearch.java) takes
information from ZUserData and
stores it in “SavedSearches” table
• “SavedSearches” gadget displays
saved search profiles and allows
user to execute them
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Added Features Saved Searches (2)
Saved Searches Fields
Field
OID
autho
name
query
creation
revision
lastUsed
dbname
dbgroup
Description
unique identifier
account number
user's name for the query
the actual query (e.g. kw: smith)
the date search was created
date last revised
date search was last used
SiteSearch dbname
SiteSearch dbgroup
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Added Features Article Alert
• Article Alert
• new subject profiles
• runs weekly on CS Articles database
• results/notifications sent by email to
users
• results can also be viewed on the
Web
• articles can be ordered from results
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Added Features Journal Contents Alert
• Journal Contents Alert
• replaces former Select tables of
contents service
• more intuitive interface
• new system to keep track of title
changes
• can reactivate titles at any time
• tables of contents/notifications sent
by email to users
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System Architecture
External Data Sources
(TOCs, abstracts)
Deliver results/
notifications
CISTI Source
Databases
JDBC
Run JCA/AA
Alerts
Order
documents
Z39.50
CISTI
Catalogue
SiteSearch
system
User profile
database
CRS
Database
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Platform
• Installed on Linux cluster - 6 PCs
running RedHat 6.1
• Allows for greater scalability (we add
more PCs as we get more users)
• OpServe, Access and ZBases reside
on one machine and the JASSIs are
distributed across the cluster
• Uses MySQL for authentication
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Customization options
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Institutional logo
Help files and information pages
Home page
Database selection menu
Local holdings
Document delivery
Order form
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Document ordering options
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Multiple document ordering
Customized order forms
Improved local holdings block
New list order features
Links to full-text articles and
electronic journals
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Registration options
• New registration form that allows
users to view and modify their
account information
• Instant registration form for large
institutions
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Subscription options
• CISTI Source service
• Single
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• Site
• Consortium
• Alert services
• Article Alert
• Journal Contents Alert
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Schedule
• Alpha testing - December 2000
• Beta testing - January-February
2001
• First release - March 1st 2001
• Conversion of existing
customizations - March-June 2001
• Termination of existing system - Fall
2001
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Future enhancements
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Account management
Shopping cart
New print formats (alerts & results)
Document ordering from the CISTI
Catalogue
• Domain-specific database subsets
• Additional content
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CISTI Source
• Questions?
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