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MERLIN (Metadata Enrichment for Libraries in a London Institutional Network): short overview

Moyle, M.; (2010) MERLIN (Metadata Enrichment for Libraries in a London Institutional Network): short overview. Presented at: MERLIN Steering Group meeting 1, UCL (University College London). Green open access

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MERLIN will use off-the-shelf text mining techniques to enrich the functionality of the SHERPA-LEAP consortial repository cross-searching service, LASSO. LASSO offers search across aggregated, normalised metadata which is collected from London-based institutional repositories using OAI-PMH harvesting. MERLIN will use the TerMine term extraction tool to derive terms from the full text digital objects held at LASSO's source repositories and, after a weighting process, enrich the LASSO database with derived keywords. The derived terms will be exposed at various points in the LASSO interface to support discovery. In a supplementary strand, MERLIN will apply thesaurus tools to construct a pilot hierarchical, browsable subject tree from the text-mined keywords. An open source, re-usable web application will be created to allow the MERLIN metadata enrichment technology to be incorporated in any repository on any platform

Type: Conference item (Presentation)
Title: MERLIN (Metadata Enrichment for Libraries in a London Institutional Network): short overview
Event: MERLIN Steering Group meeting 1
Location: UCL (University College London)
Dates: 26 January 2010
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Research > Library Services
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19921
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