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Joshua Ferraro
LibLime/Koha Project
Open source

Customers include a variety of libraries
Athens County Public Library demo
-relevance ranking, limit searches by facets, native support for rss feeds, realtime circulation access, built in spell check, lists, descriptions, reviews and ratings

Showed Near East Library (?) - when you click on a call number it gives you a map of where it's located in the library

Fully integrated - all available through one interface
ajax support in koha

Template system is very flexible - very easy to skin a system

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

http://librarytechnology.org/

 

Crowded landscape of info providers on the web

• non-library web destinations providing library info
• understandable sources (amazon)

Demand for compelling library interfaces

• interface users like to see
• move into current millenium
• powerful search capabilities

OPACs are inadequate!

• text based
• not great at delivering electronic content
• text-based
• weak keyword search
• no relevancy ranking

Disjointed approach to info and service delivery

• books, articles, ejournals, digital content - our users get lost!

Change is underway...

• new interfaces are coming, decouple front end interface from back end
• eventual redesign of ils

New Generation of Library interfaces:

• challenge traditional notions
• better delivery
• powerful search
• updated presentation

Redefining Catalog

• more comprehensiive
• no longer limuted to print, but digital cannot be afterthought
• one interface for delivery of all content
• consolidated user environments

Search

• federated? maybe more like open archibe initiative, consolidated based on metadata and data gathered in advance

Web 2.0 must be integrated

• Web Tools and technology to foster collaboration
• integrated blogs, wiki, tagging, social bookmarking, user ratings, user reviews
  web services, xml apis, ajax, widgets - should be a basic part

Unified User Experience - single point of entry for print, electronic, local and remote, locally created content AND user created content

 

 

One of four interface implementation presentations at the Sirsi SuperConference PreConference:

VuFind Implementation
Tim McGeary
Lehigh University

Open Source

• cat records
• local journals
• digital library items
• institutional repository
• Faceted searching
• partnered with Villanova, palinet
• Yahoo gui
• homepage completely customizable

 

 

System info:

•  Apache Solr
• crossplatform for OS
• Apache webserver 2.2
• PHP 5.2.0 or later
• MySQL 4.1 or later
• Java J2SE JDK 1.5 or later

Alpha:

• faceted searching
• MARC xml import
• LDAP authentication

Beta 0.5

• spell check
• tagging and commenting per record
• persistent url for searches
• RSS feed for searches

Beta 0.7

• internationalization
• enhanced browse
• more complete installation (checks dependencies, less manual config)
• zotero support
• staff view of records

Beta 0.8

• java based MARC import scrpt - FAST!
• Book covers, reviews from amazon or syndetics

Production (Summer 08)

• add/purge nightly
• record view based on format
• web-based admin
• stats

Future...

• federated search - PazPar2
• full installation
• suggested resources and searches

Additional features (current and future)

• full record - includes reviews and cover art
• staff view of all records
• "cite this record"
• email capabilities - from record
• add to favorite
• all records are persistent urls
• offers similar item suggestions
• search history
• faceted browsing, based on LC
• circulation info in realtime - live API call to ILS
• Will release API to Sirsi API repository

 

 

 

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?

 One of 4 interface implementation presentations at the SirsiSuperConference PreConference:

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

 

 

 Note: This presentation did not show all of the advanced functionality of Aquabrowser that was demo'd to Emily Rimland and me by AquaBrowser at Computers In Libraries just after this conference.  The one thought I took from this presentation is that the implementation was straightforward, and even with a non-technical staff has been running very smoothly since initial implementation.

 

 

 

 

One of 4 interface implementation presentations at Sirsi SuperConference PreConference:

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