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Improving MyRoots Search. Forestry Librarians Meeting young.hong@weyerhaeuser.com. Presentation Outline. From the User’s Perspective Making Search Work (The Black Box) The Master Plan?! Historical Perspective Next Steps. From the User’s Perspective. Search is not working for me!
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Improving MyRoots Search Forestry Librarians Meeting young.hong@weyerhaeuser.com
Presentation Outline • From the User’s Perspective • Making Search Work (The Black Box) • The Master Plan?! • Historical Perspective • Next Steps
From the User’s Perspective • Search is not working for me! • I need to find information quickly. • I am frustrated that I found it once but now I can’t find it again. • I want Google!
From the User’s Perspective • Basic, no nonsense interface • Accuracy better by 112% • “Did You Mean” suggestion • Summaries in context • Satisfaction at 75%
From the User’s Perspective • Category Search • Drill down into large results sets • Serendipity by browsing • Channel user to preferred terms
Making Search Work Components of MyRoots Search Search Engine Content Metadata Taxonomies
Taxonomy Creation Content Analysis Create in VCC Draft Top Levels sample Revise & Test Expert Review
Taxonomies in VCC Step 1: Hand craft search queries using Verity Query Language (VQL) Step 2: Test each concept, adjust, test another concept, adjust, test, adjust, test … (supplier diversity <ANY> contractor outreach <ANY> (minority owned <NEAR/5> outreach) <ANY> (women owned <NEAR/5> outreach)) <IN> title supplier diversity, contractor outreach, (minority owned <NEAR/5> outreach), (women owned <NEAR/5> outreach) Step 3: Save search statement
Taxonomies in VCC Step 4: Set threshold for automatic content categorization or human review
Taxonomy Skills Needed • Sees the detail and big picture views • Decides what is relevant and doesn’t let the irrelevant sidetrack you. • Thick skinned to work with subject matter experts • Understand and create search logics • Evangelize to content owners the importance of metadata • Have good vocabulary • Be technology oriented
Plan for Findable Content @ WY The Master Plan?!
Past Attempts to Fix Search Metadata Generator Search Engine Web Content Management System (With Classification Tool) Portal Search Engine & Categorization
User Interface Usability Metadata Accuracy Security Concerns Content Management Governance New Content Repositories Issues to Work Through
Future Directions Content Classification 2007 Concept Extractor 2009 Visualization Faceted Navigation
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