St. Lawrence University (NY) utilized Encore Harvesting Services to produce a single unified search of its OAI-PMH-compliant collections. The first collection is an institutional repository of seven regional liberal arts schools, called LASR (Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository), described in Qualified Dublin Core(SM) on a DSpace™ platform; the second is an image and video database of the University’s art gallery, described in Qualified Dublin Core(SM) and/or VRA Core on a CONTENTdm® platform.
“We want to use Encore to make these unique, local collections available through a single search just like any other collection we make available, such as our books and e-journals,” says Bart Harloe, University Librarian. “We were looking for a different search experience that is not linear but dynamic, like Google. Encore gets us there.”
Harloe continues: “The institutional repository collection brings unique research from our campus to a main point of search. With the art gallery content, we are trying to make visual resources more prominent in our community. Putting images in the Encore environment also makes the experience more dynamic and more visually stimulating. We will even include art produced by our students. In the future, we will extend the Harvesting Services project to include local, archival material.”
Why Innovative? Says Harloe: “We’ve had a productive, long-term relationship with Innovative. Providing a more internet-like search experience of our library is the next logical step.”
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