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Bringing the Library to the User : using Endeca for a library catalog (A-4)

Bringing the Library to the User : using Endeca for a library catalog (A-4). Emily Lynema NCSU Libraries AALL Annual Meeting July 15, 2007. The Context. What is faceted navigation?. A question . “How is the new generation of library catalog being developed?”

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Bringing the Library to the User : using Endeca for a library catalog (A-4)

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  1. Bringing the Library to the User:using Endeca for a library catalog (A-4) Emily Lynema NCSU Libraries AALL Annual Meeting July 15, 2007

  2. The Context AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  3. What is faceted navigation? AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  4. A question • “How is the new generation of library catalog being developed?” • informed and enhanced by search technologies developed outside of the library • more than just “2.0” • based on how our users know how to search, not on how we want them to search • What does search look like for our users? AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  5. wikipedia • earthobservatory.nasa.gov • umich.edu • nationalgeographic.com AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

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  7. What’s the big picture? • Improve the quality of the library catalog user experience. • Exploit our existing metadata infrastructure (make MARC work harder). • Build a more flexible catalog tool that can be integrated with discovery tools of the future. AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  8. Or… • Usability • Findability • Remixability AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  9. Local Implementation: Endeca AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  10. What is Endeca? • Software company based in Cambridge, MA • Search and information access technology provider for a number of major e-commerce websites • Developers of the Endeca Information Access Platform AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  11. Why Endeca? • Customized relevance ranking • Improved response time • Better subject access with facets • Enhanced natural language searching • spell correction • automatic stemming • Browse-ability AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  12. Demo AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  13. Relevance ranking • Based on a locally customizable algorithm • Factors • Query as entered most relevant • Field match weighting (title > notes field) • Number of fields matched • Lots of other levers and dials AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  14. Availability LC Classification Subject: Topic Subject: Genre Format Library Subject: Region Subject: Era Language Author New Titles Facet refinements AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  15. Enhanced natural language searching • Automatic spell correction • Ex: ‘dictionary of organic compunds’ • Also searched for ‘dictionary of organic compounds’ • “Did you mean…” suggestions • Ex: ‘religon’ • Did you mean ‘religion’? • Automatic stemming AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  16. The nitty gritty • Endeca co-exists with SirsiDynix Unicorn ILS and Web2 online catalog • Endeca handles keyword search • Web2 handles authority search and detail page display • Endeca indexes MARC records exported nightly from Unicorn • Endeca = discovery portion of the ILS AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  17. Outward Integration AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  18. Freedom to build • Don’t underestimate the power to build your own… • ‘CatalogWS’ -> XML web services • RSS • QuickSearch integration • Mobile phone search interface • Visual ‘bookwall’ AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  19. RSS AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  20. QuickSearch • Web site search available on every page in library website. AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

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  23. So what? It’s still just a catalog • Dismantle the old • Rebuild / exchange individual parts • Rebuild into something new • Repeat as necessary AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

  24. Thanks • NCSU project site: • http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca • Presentations (including these slides) • http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/presentations.html • Emily Lynema • Systems Librarian for Digital Projects • emily_lynema@ncsu.edu AALL Annual Meeting 2007 Bringing the Library to the User

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