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Welcome to the RACL Fall Meeting, 2008. 2:00 PM, November 3, 2008, Presentation: GIL OPAC Committee & VuFind Pilot Project Welcome to this afternoon’s presentation.
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Welcome to the RACL Fall Meeting, 2008 • 2:00 PM, November 3, 2008, Presentation: GIL OPAC Committee & VuFind Pilot Project • Welcome to this afternoon’s presentation. • Please click your check mark to indicate that you hear the music playing -- if you don’t hear music, please click your “X.” We will follow up with you individually to address the problem. • If you are having other technical problems, contact Lauren Fancher via the chat feature on the lower left of the screen or call her at 706-583-2138. • Thank you -- we’ll be getting started soon!
GIL OPAC Committee & VuFind Pilot Project Regents Academic Committee on Libraries Fall Meeting November 3, 2008
Introductions:GIL OPAC Committee presenters Bob Trotter-GIL Site Coordinator and Head of UNIX Systems Support, University of Georgia Libraries Bill Clayton-Assistant University Librarian for Systems, University of Georgia Libraries and oversees GALILEO programming and GIL Service Site at UGA Lori Critz- Co-Chair GIL OPAC Committee and Asst. Dept. Head Information Services Dept., Instruction Coordinator/Web Content Coordinator, Georgia Institute of Technology Library & Information Center Larry Hansard-Technical Project Director, Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology Library & Information Center Rebecca Drummond-Chair GIL OPAC Committee and Subject Liaison, Liaison & Outreach Services, Georgia State University Library
Agenda • Welcome and Introductions (Rebecca Drummond) • Background: Discovery Tools and VUFind (Bill Clayton and Bob Trotter) • Georgia Tech’s VUFind Project (Lori Critz and Larry Hansard) • Other VUFind Implementations (Rebecca Drummond) • Status of VUFind Pilot for GIL (Rebecca Drummond) • Questions
VuFindDiscovery Tool Background 11-03-2008 Bill Clayton
Recent discovery tools(next generation public interfaces) • What’s new? • New look, more visually appealing • Simplified search interface • Faceted analysis of search results • New features & new links • Contents, summaries, book jackets, reviews • Users can add tags, reviews, or ratings • Links to related data for specific titles • Links to alternative information resources • Links to author information • Generally can include locally loaded databases in addition to your library catalog
Recent discovery tools • What’s fundamentally different? • Not an ILS or a fully functional OPAC • New interface & new indexes that overlay your data and your OPAC functions • Does not (and can not) completely replace your ILS OPAC functionality • Can replace the public interface
Recent discovery tools • Look briefly at 4 recent tools • Endeca • Encore (III) • Primo (Ex Libris) • WorldCat Local (OCLC) • Then • VuFind (open source)
Endeca • Primarily a search tool for product inventory & online sales on commercial websites • Home Depot, Hyatt, Lexis Nexis, Barnes & Noble, plus many others • Earliest implementation in libraries was at NCSU in 2006 • Primary new feature – facets (guided navigation) • Some additional library implementers • FCLA • Triangle Research Libraries Network • NCSU URL – http://www.lib.ncsu.edu
Encore • Next generation interface from Innovative Interfaces Inc • Some current implementers • University of Kentucky • New York Public • Michigan State University • University of Glasgow • Univ of Kentucky URL • http://infokat.uky.edu
Primo • Next generation information discovery and delivery tool from Ex Libris • Additional functionality? • Can search commercial article databases • Some current implementers • Vanderbilt • Univ of Minnesota • Univ of Iowa • Emory • Oxford Univ Library Services • British Library • Vanderbilt URL • http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu
WorldCat Local • Searches your WorldCat bib data but also can index and search locally loaded databases • Additional functionality? • Can display results & holdings for home library, consortium, or libraries worldwide • Trying “to extend the discovery capabilities of WorldCat Local to include all licensed and full-text resources of a library” • Some current implementers • Cornell • Univ of Delaware • Univ of Washington (pilot) • Ohio State (pilot) • Univ of Washington URL • http://www.lib.washington.edu
VuFind Technical Bob Trotter
VuFind: Open Source • Development initiated at Villanova University • Project leader is Andrew Nagy • Development started in 2006 • Four to six main code contributors • First release candidate for version 1 announced October 16.
VuFind: Open Source • Development repository at sourceforge.com (an open source development/distribution service). • Code contributions can be made through this site. • Most current development version can be downloaded from here. • Stable (mostly) versions downloaded VuFind.org site.
VuFind: Open Source • The distributions contain complete source code. • Local customizations can be made to any part of the software. • These will have to be modified and reapplied after each upgrade.
VuFind with Voyager • VuFind basically sits on top of Voyager. • Bib Data (Marc) extracted from Voyager and loaded into VuFind (and indexed). • Solr/Lucene indexing/search engine • VuFind links out to Voyager to get Location and Status information. • It also links to Voyager for all patron related info (after login).
VuFind with Voyager • It also links to Voyager to do any Request type functions. • We will try to make this Request linking as easy as possible for patrons.
VuFind@USG • Each institution will have it’s own instance of VuFind. • UC will also be a separate instance. • Location info from MFHD will be added to Bib data loaded into VuFind. • Location Facet created from this data.
VuFind@USG • Georgia Tech in Beta now. • Many presentation layer customizations • We are working on backend functions. • Display of status and location • Improving SQL
Georgia Tech’s VUFind Project Lori Critz and Larry Hansard
Discovery Tool VuFind: Georgia Tech's Implementation Larry Hansard & Lori Critz Georgia Institute of Technology 11/02/08 RACL Meeting
Features Faceted results Search, then refine by NARROW SEARCH feature… Multiple categories – format, author, topic, call number (Others available: era, genre, subject area, language, region) Similar Items “More Like This” suggestions Algorithm to generate list At record level only Persistent URLS Bookmarkable, can be embedded For records & queries Records Sorts - relevance, date, call number, author, title Citation management APA & MLA citations now available Compatible with EndNote, Refworks & Zotero Translations – with more to come soon!
Features Web 2.0 Tagging Whenever someone adds an item as a favorite in VuFind and gives it a tag, the tag is added to the public record Requires participation of MANY LibraryThing connection possible (we are NOT adding these tags) Save to Favorites Save, organize & retrieve lists Texting/emailing for records/results Comments RSS feeds for live updates Reviews fromAmazon (others possible, like Syndetics) Book covers (Amazon, Google Books with links into record)
Searching One interface to search multiple “collections” Catalog, repository, subject guides, library web site, NTIS full-text document server, finding aids Log-in at point of entry to restricted resources Crosswalks needed for some One Box – Basic Search Field choices Multiple Boxes - Advanced Search Multiple fields and terms Limits Format Language Call Number Illustrations
Links are customizable Search Catalog, SMARTech, NTIS Document Server, Subject Guides, Library Web Pages
TRANSLATION OPTIONS – More on the way Rotating display of Safari electronic collection
- Default is a Relevance SORT - Can also SORT by Date, Call No., Author, Title
Narrow with FACETED RESULTS (Format, Call Number, Topic, Author Narrow with SEARCH WITHIN option
BOOLEANsearches available (AND, OR, NOT) --- capitalization required
Field searching available Limits available --- Call no., Language, Format, Illustrations
- Links to SIMILAR ITEMS in collection - Links to other resources (and Voyager!) Link to Universal Catalog & GIL Recall functions for checked out items