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Xiaorong Xiang, a Ph. D. student in computer science here at Notre Dame, has started working full-time here in my department. She will be helping us implement a Find More Like This One service as a part of the Ockham National Science Foundation Digital Library project. If everything goes right, this is how the service will work: 0. We will index OAI-accessible content from National Science Foundation Digital library projects as well as open access journal literature. 1. A person will search the index(es). 2. Search results will include three things: A. First, they will include bibliographic data describing and linking to found items. Simple. B. Second, search results will include additional pre-created queries -- other search strategies -- that can be applied to the same or other indexes. These will be similar in appearance to Google ads. C. Search results will also include embedded links to Find More Like This One. By selecting these links users will be given the opportunity to select qualities of the selected record they find desireable, i.e. author, title, format, publisher, etc. These selected qualities will be returned to system and transformed into new queries that can be applied against the same or other indexes. These new queries will be transformed using a combination of statistical analysis, semantic analysis, and professional judgment. 3. The implementation will be distributed as open source software using a documented Web Service technique. Ideally, this should enable the technique to be applied to other search services. (Famous last words.) Xiaorong will be with us until August 31. On our mark. Get set. Go! -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604