The presenters will be reporting on work that came out of their Mellon planning grant with Professor Eric Rebillard. In the first section of the forum, Adam Chandler will report on progress in creating transparent and scalable metrics for evaluating the quality of OpenURLs across content providers. In the second part of the forum, David Ruddy and Professor Rebillard will discuss a domain specific resolution service called the Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB). This service allows for the assembly and maintenance of specialized knowledge about works within its domain and about online resources that can provide services related to those works. It understands the linking heuristics used by online text resources within its domain and is able to create for any given canonical citation one or many URLs that can take users to specific texts within these resources, and ideally to specific passages. Although this example, and the focus of the study, concerns Classical literature, such domain specific knowledge bases would operate in the same way for other disciplines.
Eric Rebillard, Professor of Classics and History, received his PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris. Specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, his last book, The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity, has been recently translated into English and published by Cornell University Press. He is also the General Editor of L’Année philologique, a database of classical bibliography.
David Ruddy is the Director of E-Publishing Technologies within the Division of Library Information Technologies. His current responsibilities are for the Library's publishing initiatives, primarily Project Euclid, and for eCommons, Cornell's institutional repository.
Adam Chandler is Database Management and Electronic Resources Research Librarian in the Cornell University Library. His current responsibilities and interests include: project manager for the Cornell WorldCat Local implementation, OpenURL quality, canonical citation linking, user centered design workflow, usage statistics management, and more. He served as founder and co-chair for the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative from 2005-2009 and is an active member of the COUNTER Executive Committee. Adam was a member of the Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) Steering Group from 2001-2005.
