Well, yesterday I finished up a working demo site of Story Starters for the National Science Digital Library. Doing that and teaching kept me too busy to blog. My plan is to make a more general and scalable demo for the world. Hopefully I can have that up by the end of the week. My intention is to also tie in Reference Extract.
Right now in Reference Extract you can search digital reference knowledge-bases and then extend your search to cited references.Like this:
DR Archives –> Cited Searches
No imagine, chaining more specific searches together, so now we can add blogs in Story Starters:
Blogs –> DR Archives –> Cited Searches
Making this capability generic, a local library could add their archives, and then extend to Reference Extract:
My Library –> DR Archives –> Cited Search
And one could continue to add more links:
My Library –> DR Archive –> Cited Search –> Google
The idea would be to make a general utility to tie these searches together in a seamless interface and allow any interface mix and match (and collapse) these chains based on a given user interface. So a library could go:
My Library –> Cited Search –> Google
etc.
Just an idea. Off to start the Story Starter site.