Next Gen Pub interface Team: April 2008 Archives
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
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?
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
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