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Next Generation User Interfaces

Ministerial Conference on Information Infrastructure for Science, Education, and Culture. Next Generation User Interfaces. Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University Library http://www.librarytechnology.org/. Library Technology Guides.

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Next Generation User Interfaces

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  1. Ministerial Conference on Information Infrastructure for Science, Education, and Culture Next Generation User Interfaces Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and ResearchVanderbilt University Library http://www.librarytechnology.org/

  2. Library Technology Guides • http://www.librarytechnology.org • Repository for library automation data • Expanding to include more international scope • Announcements and developments made by companies and organizations involved in library automation technologies

  3. Lib-web-cats • Started building database in 1995 • Most comprehensive resource for tracking ILS and other library automation products • Serves as a directory for general public • Specialized tool for tracking ILS and other automation products • 40,825 Total libraries listed • 384 Slovenian Libraries • Need data for libraries in other countries in region

  4. LJ Automation System Marketplace Annual Industry report published in Library Journal: • 2009: Investing in the future • 2008: Opportunity out of turmoil • 2007: An industry redefined • 2006: Reshuffling the deck • 2005: Gradual evolution • 2004: Migration down, innovation up • 2003: The competition heats up • 2002: Capturing the migrating customer

  5. Next generation user interfaces • Vision of the possibilities for library interfaces well suited for today’s information environment • No single product implements all possibilities • These concepts are not necessarily connected to the COBISS OPAC, but may stimulate ideas to stimulate new directions.

  6. Crowded Landscape of Information Providers on the Web • Lots of non-library Web destinations deliver content to library patrons • Google Scholar • Amazon.com • Wikipedia • Ask.com • Do Library Web sites and catalogs meet the information needs of our users? • Do they attract their interest?

  7. Libraries in Transition • Print > Electronic • Increasing emphasis on subscribed content, especially articles and databases • New emphasis on digitizing local collections • New generations of library users: • Millennial generation • Web savvy • PervasiveWeb 2.0 concepts

  8. The Competition

  9. Traditional ILS and OPAC

  10. Legacy OPAC

  11. Demand for compelling library interfaces • Urgent need for libraries to offer interfaces their users will like to use • Powerful search capabilities in tune with how the Web works today • Meet user expectations set by other Web destination • Maintain quality of searching in precision, predictability, and scope

  12. Disjointed approach to information and service delivery • Silos Prevail • Books: Library OPAC (ILS module) • Articles: Aggregated content products, e-journal collections • OpenURL linking services • E-journal finding aids (Often managed by link resolver) • Local digital collections • ETDs, photos, rich media collections • Metasearch engines • All searched separately

  13. Change underway • Widespread dissatisfaction with legacy OPACs. Many efforts toward next-generation discovery layer products. • Movement among libraries to break out of the current mold of library catalogs and offer new interfaces better suited to the expectations of library users. • Decoupling of the front-end interface from the back-end library automation system. • Eventual redesign of the ILS to be better suited for current library collections of digital and print content

  14. Characteristics of Commercial Information Resources • Modern Interface • Visual appeal • Relevancy-based retrieval • Faceted navigation • Comprehensive, global scope • Deep indexing

  15. More than the “library catalog” • More comprehensive information discovery environments • Primary search tool that extends beyond print resources • Digital resources cannot be an afterthought • Systems designed for e-content only are also problematic • Forcing users to use different interfaces depending on type of content becoming less tenable • Libraries working toward consolidated user environments that give equal footing to digital and print resources

  16. Evolutionary Path • Card Catalogs • Library online catalogs – OPACs • Discovery interfaces • Web-scale discovery services

  17. A simple vision • A single point of entry to all the content and services offered by the library

  18. Modernized Interface • Single search box • Query tools • Did you mean • Type-ahead • Relevance ranked results • Faceted navigation • Enhanced visual displays • Cover art • Summaries, reviews, • Recommendation services

  19. Online Catalog vs. Discovery Layer • Discovery Layer • Modern interface elements • Scope: aims to address broad range of components that constitute library collections • Online Catalog • Interface conventions from an earlier Web era • Scope: Tied to the ILS and its content domain

  20. Social discovery • Tags, user-supplied ratings and reviews • Leverage social networking interactions to assist readers in identifying interesting materials: BiblioCommons • Leverage use data for a recommendation service of scholarly content based on link resolver data: Ex Libris bX service

  21. Discovery Products

  22. Decoupled from ILS

  23. Discovery Interface Products • AquaBrowser • Ex Libris Primo • Innovative Interfaces: Encore • Serials Solutions: Summon (under development) • SirsiDynix Enterprise • The Library Corporation: LS2 PAC • VUFind (open source) • BiblioCommons • eXtensible Catalog (under development)

  24. AquaBrowser Library • Earliest and most implemented discovery interface • Developed by Medialab Solutions in The Netherlands • Now owned by R.R. Bowker, part of CIG • Features word cloud, faceted navigation, relevancy ranked results

  25. Queens Public Library

  26. VuFind – Villanova University • Based on Apache Solr search toolkit • Lead developer: Andrew Nagey (now with Serials Solutions) • http://www.vufind.org/ • Libraries using VuFind: • National Library of Australia; Villanova University; CARLI, University of Georgia libraries, South Dakota Library Network, etc

  27. SOPAC • Initially developed by John Blyberg • Build on Drupal

  28. Blacklight • Developed at the University of Virginia • Apache SOLR • Ruby on Rails interface • Libraries working with Blacklight include: • Stanford University, University of Virginia

  29. eXtensible Catalog • University of Rochester – River Campus Libraries • Financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/ • Tworounds of funding from Mellon • $283,000 (April 2006) • $749,000 (October 2007) • Wider institutional participation

  30. Discovery product Trend • Initial products focused on technology • AquaBrowser, Endeca,Primo, Encore, VUfind • Mostly locally-installed software • Current phase focused on pre-populated indexes that aim to deliver Web-scale discovery • Summon (Serials Solutions) • WorldCat Local (OCLC) • EBSCO Discovery Service (EBSCO) • Primo Central

  31. Beyond local discovery interfaces • Pre-populated indexes • Web-scale • Increased full-text indexing

  32. Pre-populated discovery services • New-generation interface • Harvested local content • ILS metadata • Institutional repositories, ETDs, Digital Collection platforms • Vendor-supplied indexes of library content • E-journals, databases, e-books • Full-text and metadata corresponding to e-content subscriptions • Book collections beyond local library collections

  33. Web scale discovery • Indexing the full corpus of information available globally • Or at least major portions • Google aims to address all the world’s information • Not quite comprehensive – partial harvesting of any given resource • Discovery Layer Products for libraries aim to address all content collected by libraries: • Print • Remotely access electronic content: e-journals, e-books, databases, licensed and open access. • Local special collections: digital and print. • Addresses the comprehensive body of content held within library collections • Comprehensive, unified

  34. Deep indexing • Entering post-metadata search era • Increasing opportunities to search the full contents • Google Library Print, Google Publisher, Open Content Alliance, government publications, etc. • High-quality metadata will improve search precision • Commercial search providers already offer “search inside the book” and searching across the full text of large book collections • Not currently available through library search environments • Deep search highly improved by high-quality metadata

  35. Summon from Serials Solutions • New Discovery Service – initial libraries now in production • Consolidated index harvested from many sources • ProQuest, Gale, Thompson Reuters (Web of Science), LexisNexis, etc • 500,000,000 articles represented • Full-text search + Citations • Local catalog data harvested, real-time link to holdings • Other local repositories harvested • Others available through metasearch

  36. Primo Central • Repository of article-level indexes maintained and hosted by Ex Libris • Available to Primo sites without additional cost • Move more content from metasearch to local index

  37. EBSCO Discovery Service • Agreement with OCLC for WorldCat data • EBSCO Host interface and content • Content from other publishers and providers

  38. WorldCat Local discovery service • Existing service in pilot stage for new discovery service • WorldCat.org data + ArticleFirst (30 million articles) • Agreement with EBSCO to load EBSCOhost citation data into WorldCat • Pursuing agreements with additional content providers

  39. WorldCat Local quick start • No-cost option to FirstSearch subscribers • No reclamation to reconcile local ILS with WorldCat • One ILS supported; must be among supported products • Program to expose thousands of libraries to WorldCat Local as a discovery option

  40. Discovery / Library Business Automation • Now viewed as separate problem • Many interdependencies • Current model of feeding discovery systems from many underlying repositories • ILS / e-journal collections / collections of digital objects • Will models of resource management change to consolidate the repositories? • Realign Discovery and management?

  41. Competing Models of Library Automation • Traditional Proprietary Commercial ILS • Millennium, Symphony, Polaris • Traditional Open Source ILS • Evergreen, Koha • Clean slate automation framework (SOA, enterprise-ready) • Ex Libris URM, OLE Project • Cloud-based automation system • WorldCat Local (+circ, acq, license management)

  42. A new phase of library automation • Beyond selecting one brand from an assortment of similar products • Several conceptually diverse options • Companies and projects now competing on innovation

  43. Questions and discussion

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