Big Data in the Library: Extending Modern Library Catalogues with Data Visualization, Linking and Mining

摘要

Academic Libraries facing the same Big Data challenges as those existed in the Web. The library authority has to address issues as how to apply easy Google-like search in their catalogue, how to interpolate their data with other data repositories and how to store and mine their data efficiently. This talk will present several projects in the field and discuss the challenges in the scope of big data capabilities and library cataloguing features. The VisFacet project deals with topic mapping and present a facet Visualization Module we have integrated in the library Catalogue. The LinkedData project is a backend system we have developed to enrich library catalogue searches as well as allow other sites to enjoy our collections. Another project deals with catalogue search log data mining.