Roy Tennant – OCLC
Discovery system – public interface – doesn’t replace ils
ILS -> harvests data ->discovery system
Discovery system -> retrieves circ info -> ils
User -> searches ->discovery system
Replace ILS or just interface?
Open source?
Do you have expertise to set up and maintain locally
Are you willing to continually harvest data – ongoing process
Koha -
faceted browsing, highlighted keywords, ils and interface combined
Evergreen –
Facted searching – similar to koha
VuFind
Villanova
faceted browsing
clean interface
tabs, api to places like amazon to enrich record
LibraryFind
Oregon State
metasearch tool – includes article databases searches
WorldCat Local
UW
articles from small set of databases (?)
ranks search results based on local location first
Library Thing for Libraries
Kate Sheehan
similar books – based on books person has read
tag cloud-links to books in collection
see reviews and add reviews
provides stats -
ksheehan@darienlibrary.org
Loosecannonlibrarian.net
can only add tags through their own personal library thing account
Marshall Breeding
Vanderbilt University Libraries
Crowded landscape of info providers on the web
Demand for compelling library interfaces
OPACs are inadequate!
Disjointed approach to info and service delivery
Change is underway...
New Generation of Library interfaces:
Redefining Catalog
Search
Web 2.0 must be integrated
Unified User Experience - single point of entry for print, electronic, local and remote, locally created content AND user created content
Programs and research
International files pending
- 47% non-English
-focus on getting more global as they move beyond batch loading
Next Gen Cat Svcs Pilot
-ONIX metadat from publishers and vendors
On The Record (LC Study)
WorldCat API
-limited release
-10-15 dev from cataloging institutions
-search of worldcat and retreival holdings
-developers build apps that will drive people back to OCLC services
OCLC can harvest metadata from ContentDM -
Q: talk with Linda about users group meeting
NetLibrary
-single point of access
WorldCat Collection Analysis
-analyze usage data
Question Point
-devloped by LC anf OCLC
-1900 libraries
-question point "qwidget" - embed chat services
WebJunction
Gates foundation
rural library sustainability
tech planning
online learning
spanish language outreach
WorldCatRegistry
-single institutional profile
WorldCat.org
-artcles citations
ip address authentication instead of zipcode to find libraries
-2.5 million unique users - 750,000 clickthroughs to library catalogs
-worldcatlist usage
-to come: tagging,listsharing, groups, ratings
WorldCat Identities
-author info
WorldCatFacebook widget
WorldCat Blog
WorldCat Local Pilot
-showed lincoln trails library system
-University of Washington - 70% increase in local consortia borrowing - 100% increase in ILL traffic
Pilot Partners:
One of four interface implementation presentations at the Sirsi SuperConference PreConference:
VuFind Implementation
Tim McGeary
Lehigh University
Open Source
System info:
Alpha:
Beta 0.5
Beta 0.7
Beta 0.8
Production (Summer 08)
Future...
Additional features (current and future)
One of four interface implementation presentations at the Sirsi SuperConference PreConference
Primo
Dale Poulter
Vanderbilt University
- finding tool
- retreival tool
- simple interface to collections
- increased focus on user-centered design
- personalization - through LDAP and EZProxy
Benefits
- fast for local search (but very slow for federated search)
- runs metalib in background for federated search
- flexible
- faceted searching (site can define)
- spell checking (did you mean) - only returns "did you mean" suggestions that have search terms associated with it
- increased visibility of subscription databases
- increased usability of ejournals
Notes:
- Vanderbilt elected to leave all 2.0 features enabled - reviews, tagging, eshelf, rss
- Single sign-on (login to primo same as login to unicorn/vanderbilt libraries!!!)
- Brief and full display are customizable but must include author and title
- (version 2 - april23 - author title display won't be mandatory - but why wouldn't you want them???)
- Gets cover art from amazon - no charge - but must contain link to amazon in footer area
- Highlights search terms in results
- Can do tagging and reviews(must be logged in)
- Can search names of databases or can search within databases themselves
- Faculty tagging resources with course name for their class materials
- RSS feeds available for search
Additional Features:
- Reindexing - ability to reindex while systemis available, ability to apply index rules without reloading records
- uses x-server - imports directly from metalib
- Multisearch quicksets are incorporated into primo
Q: Can you turn off empty images?
Aqua Browser
Kathie Harris
Alachua Public Library District
Set up:
· Separate servers
· Indexed nightly
· Click on an item and it takes you back into the catalog
· Display area is very modifiable
· Yearly maintenance includes upgrades (they are currently running their original version- have not upgraded
· Deep linking back to catalog
· Added databases
· Set different relevance for different MARC fields
New features:
· Call #s displayed in hit list
· Icons for formats
· Rss feeds
Sirsi Enterprise
Berit Nelson
Jared Oates
Phase 1 – release date August 2008
Interface:
· Updated look and feel
· Enhancement to OPAC
· “fuzzy” search logic as well as “did you mean?”
o Fuzzy search based on “trigrams” – broken down into 3 characters at a time
· Immediate response
· Search widget to place on web pages
· Theme support
· Faceted search on MARC and non-MARC records
· Bookmarkable records and searches
o Search url is stateless – url does not contain any session info
o Enter url, search is recreated so all new info is included
· Customized with css and javascript
· Record display is not customizable/configurable
Admin interface
· Create groups in admin completely separate from from backend
· Provide templates that can be changed/customized in many ways
· Search index based on changes rather than on nightly complete record dumps
· Manage profile
o set facet display
o set up friendly url
o all things configurable within a profile means that a profile can be configurable for any audience – language, look and feel, data sources, facets
Phase 2 – available 2009
· Offers more web 2.0 technologies
o Ratings
o User reviews
o Rss feeds
o Tagging
o Library favorites
o Data sources beyond catalog
o Discovery tools
· Integrates additional data sources (federated search and library favorites)
· Incorporating other resources (METASEARCH)
· Immediate and intuitive faceted search experience
Relevance Ranking:
· Order of words
· How close they appear
· Exact matches weighted as more relevant
Set up:
· Initial record dump
· Incremental changes
· Interface is separate from catalog as a whole
· Any user interaction takes you into your own opac
· Hosted by Sirsi
Keynote
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project
Smart, funny and he LOVES librarians :-)
Session E101 – Learning From Newspaper Publishing
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Brian Kroski, VP & GM Online, Observer Media Group
The recent redesign of the New York Observer website (www.observer.com) transformed the paper into a daily social news source and a revolutionary experience for its readers. By incorporating blogging, alternate content views, user commenting, tag clouds, and social bookmarking, the New York Observer has set the bar for the future of online news delivery.
Learning From Newspaper Publishing
Brian Kroski, VP & GM Online, Observer Media Group
www.observer.com
-running entire site on drupal 6
-syndicating alot of content to itunes, YouTube
-start with small projects, be prepared to be wrong - stay agile, use partners and services for non-core, constantly iterate and improve, solicit user feedback to shape goals, measure success
Fast and Easy Site Tune - Ups
Jeff Wisniewski
University of Pittsburgh
1. Update copyright
<p>Copyright ©<script type="text/javascript">
var d=new Date();
document.write(d.getFullYear());</script>
2. add last updated code to each page - one external script file
3. Add photos to contacts - research indicates that this will boost contact
4. Microformats - implementation of semantic web http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/microformats/ - allows you to create this in dreamweaver - hcard creator - creates code for you to add to page
Tails/operator both extensions for microformat enabled
5. remove all instances of "click here"
6. survey monkey - 3 question survey
-what is the purpose of the visit to your site today
-were successful/unsuccessful in completing your task
-why or why not
-ask for their email
7. add final slash to any directory link
8. web 2.0ify your logo - large chunks of sans serif type/rounde edges
web 2.0 stylr
enter text/font, choose colors will create logo
9. icons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/crystal_clear
10. web site performance
-firebug
-Yslow
11. Cache-
serever config file-
set certain file types to stay fresh/ not expire
12. eliminate inline scripts - call your js, css etc externally
13. inline scripts for your homepage
14 validate your markup
15. clean css - cleancss - compresses/makes smaller -smaller and leaner
16. SEO page titles - google webmaster accounts - diagnostics - doc title/section name/library site name
17. add labels to your forms
18. social bookmarks creator - get code for social bookmarks to add to your page
Engaging The Audience
Binky and Emily - phew! presentation over :-)
Temple - Kristina DeVoe, Derik Badman
Libguides and how they are using them for subject guides.Impressive ofr their first semester of implementation - use of multimedia content
Interesting/useful Links:
Think about:
Skype for video reference?