Ross Singer - Interoperability and Open Standards Champion, Talis
Jonathan Rochkind - Johns Hopkins University Libraries
The Ümlaut is an open source OpenURL middleware layer intended to improve the link resolving chain by analyzing incoming citations and intelligently querying resources to better enable access to them. The Ümlaut takes multiple approaches for locating items such as conference proceedings, preprints, postprints and gray literature utilizing search engines, Amazon, social citation managers and more. By utilizing the Worldcat registry, it is also personalizable and geospatially aware of available collections allowing access to all resources available to the user beyond the subscriptions of the Ümlaut’s host institution. This talk will cover the history, architecture and community of this project.

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