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Lynette Rayle and Dave Eichmann have worked on creating an infrastructure and code for enabling a configurable approach to integrating “Questioning Authority” or QA lookups. Lynette has worked on creating configurable linked data lookups using the QA Ruby on Rails gem. We refactored the VIVO lookup code to provide JAVA interfaces in the Vitro layer that could then be implemented in VitroLib to enable lookups to be available to the VitroLib interface. We added QA implementations for Library of Congress Name Authority File, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the Library of Congress Genre Form Terms QA lookups that were made available on a server setup for this grant. We also incorporated some contextual information made possible by Lynette’s implementation to enable more information to be displayed to the user.
Below are some screenshots showing the integration of QA lookups into the VitroLib interface. Figures 1 and 2 below the integration of lookups from the Library of Congress Name Authority File where a user can select from autocomplete results. We modified the lookups front-end to enable the “Verify this match” link to open up the Real World Object found in the result. From cataloger feedback, we know the desired behavior is to open up the authority file instead but this modification enabled some level of review of the selected result. Also, Figure 1 shows ISNI as a potential lookup source which is not implemented as a QA authority but which was implemented as a VitroLib search option.
Figure 1: LCNAF Lookup
Figure 2: Verify this match link next to selected LCNAF lookup
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