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As a faculty member or librarian, I want to create a virtual collection containing information resources from multiple collections across multiple universities either by direct selection or by a set of resource characteristics, so that I can share a focused collection with a <class, set of researchers, set of students in a disciplinary area>.
Questions:
- is "set of students in a disciplinary area" in scope? What would be source of data for that?
- is share with "public" in scope?
- what expectations are there for discovery of virtual collections?
Potential Demonstrations
A. Faculty member constructs a reading list to share with a set of students: Faculty member at one institution browses local discovery system, finds item of interest for a class and creates a new virtual collection with this one item (where is link? when do they log in?). As part of creation process they give the collection a name and add a couple of sentences describing it. They then got back to the catalog, enter search terms resulting in a short result set, all of which they wish to include, they "select all" and add these to the collection. When their collection is complete they set the sharing permissions to allow sharing with the set of students in the seminar class. They cut and paste the collection link into an email to the students. When the students follow this link they are prompted to authenticate and then have access to the collection which show summary information and links to each item.
B. Extend A to allow selection of materials from other institutions
C. Extend A/B to allow ordering of items in the virtual collection and comments about each one
Implementation Notes
Data Sources Needed
- MARC records
- Digital collections metadata...
- Subject area or class membership information (if sharing with sets of students in area or class are in scope)
Engineering Work
- Authentication as user in class allowed to create lists (at least librarian, faculty member)
- Model of use user classes/groups/individuals and authentication of these in access system to see a particular virtual collection
- Method for selecting resources not only in local discovery system but also other university discovery system (or are resources from other university displayed locally for selection?)
- Bulk selection method to support selection by resource characteristics (could be "select all" for a set of search results)
Use Case: Tag scholarly information resources from multiple institutions to support reuse in multiple systems.
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