Jürgen Küssow, Senior Consultant – Pre Sales Europe National Technical Library | Praha | 10 May...

Jürgen Küssow, Senior Consultant – Pre Sales Europe

National Technical Library | Praha | 10 May 2010

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Agenda

• Current Status

• Concept

• Primo Version 3.0

• Primo Central

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Agenda

• Current Status

• Concept

• Primo Version 3.0

• Primo Central

Primo in a nutshell

• An end-user discovery and delivery solution

• Enables a library to offer its entire collection

through a single interface, easily and intuitively

• Incorporates Web 2.0-inspired services

• Includes a full spectrum of customization options,

allowing libraries to tailor the content, the display,

and the services to their users’ needs

• Open and extensible and integrates with other

systems

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Primo Facts and Figures

• Development started in 2006• Development Partners:

• April 2007: General Release Version 1• April 2010: General Release Version 3• June 2010: Primo Central General Release

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More than 260 Primo sites in 29 countries

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Agenda

• Current Status

• Concept

• Primo Version 3.0

• Primo Central

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Plug Ins

OPAC integration SFX Linking Web 2.0 Single Sign On Plug Ins

Other SE

Enrich-ment

Front end

Lucene

Millen-nium

Library catalogs

MetaLib

Aleph

Sym-phony

…

DigiTool

Repositories

ContentDM

…Fedora

NationalLicences

DBs/KBs

SFX KB

MLKB

…

Others

WebHarvesting

eLearning

Fast

Zebra

Primo

External Sources

Deep SearchJAVA API/SRU

…

Harvesting

WorldcatGooglebooks

AmazonFull texts

Z 39.50/SRU

web basedback office

Dedup FRBRItem

Availability

Normalisation (PNX)

Primo Central

Ebsco, Springer, Elsevier, …

eArticleseBooksFull textsAbstracts

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Primo Search Architecture

• Primo supports various search technologies:

• ‘Native’ Search - search the Primo index

• Deep Search - search 3rd party resources

using API

• MetaSearch - search remote resources

using metasearch standard protocols

• Link - directs users to the native user

interface of specific resources

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Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Search

Primo Native Search

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Aggregated Licensed ResourcesInstitutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Primo Search

Primo Native Search

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Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo Search

Primo Native Search

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Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Primo Deep SearchPrimo Native Search

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Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo MetaSearch

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards

Primo Deep SearchPrimo Native Search

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Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo MetaSearch

Primo Link

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards

Other Resources

Primo Deep SearchPrimo Native Search

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Spectrum of Interfaces

Java API

Web ServicesX-Services

Deep Links

Plug-ins: Enrichment

& RTA

Embedding Tiles

Back Office Configuration

JS/JSP coding

Matching functionality to interface type

EL Commons

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Agenda

• Current Status

• Concept

• Primo Version 3.0

• Primo Central

• Next Generation Library Software: the outlook

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Version 3.0

Enhance Full-Text support

Expose plug-in for normalization via code

Conditional links to external sources

Enhance back office authorization

Upgrade Express Kit

Improve API support for e-shelf directories

Additional deep search adaptors

BibTip Recommendations

MetaSearch in specific DBs

SitemapDiscovering library items from web search engines

WARC pipeHarvesting web pages

Did You Mean for MetaSearch

Upgrade infrastructure:

Oracle 10 -> 11

JBoss 4.0.1 -> 4.2.2

Lucene 2.2 -> 2.4Language independent Did You Mean algorithm

bX

Recommendations Sorting results by fields

OPAC via Primo UI

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Primo Version 3

OPAC via Primo

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OPAC via Primo – bottom line

• No need for more than one interface anymore

• Library services are available within Primo

• OPAC via Primo includes “My Library Card”

• Primo 3.0 now truly is a one-stop solution

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Primo Version 3

New UI

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New UI – bottom line

• OPAC via Primo offers more:

• Primo 3.0 eliminates need for multiple screens

• User interaction takes place within one screen

• For results, there is only one screen in v. 3.0

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Primo Version 3

iPhone view

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iPhone view – bottom line

• Provided out-of-the-box

• Done 100% via CSS

• Easy to change to institution skin

• Doesn’t require programming skills

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Primo Version 3

bX recommendations

and BibTip

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Recommendations – bottom line

• Find material which you were not looking for

• Usage driven

• bX for e-resources

• BibTip for library resources

• Requires subscription

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Primo Version 3

Location per Institution

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Location per institution – bottom line

• Consortia can display only relevant locations

• “Other” libraries can be excluded from facet

• Primo enables libraries to deal with complexity

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Primo Version 3

Alphabetical sorting &

left-anchored search

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Alphabetical sorting & left-anchored search – bottom line

• We listen to input from the community

• These are “librarian” features -- but --really useful librarian features

• We will continue to develop features relevant in a library context

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Primo Version 3

Multilingual thesaurus

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Multilingual thesaurus – bottom line

• Allows for translation of subjects

• English in English interface; Czech in Czech interface

• Works in full display and facets

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Primo Version 3

Find Databases (MetaLib)

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Find Databases – bottom line

• Incorporates core MetaLib functionality in Primo UI

• Lets users create personal QuickSet

• Yet another step towards unifying interfaces

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Primo Version 3

New Back Office features…

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New Back Office features – user roles

• New user roles – more granularity

• Separation by institution

• Ideal for consortia

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New Back Office features – file splitter

• Enables loading any form of XML

• Can be handled by ”normal” Primo administrators

• We use it ourselves for Primo Central

• A very powerful tool for non-standard formats

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Agenda

• Current Status

• Concept

• Version 3.0

• Primo Central

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What is Primo Central?

• Centralized Primo index; hosted and maintained

by Ex Libris

• Includes data from primary and secondary

publishers and aggregators

• Available to all Primo customers

• Available to all MetaLib customers

as a search target

• Designed to index hundreds of

millions of scholarly materials

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What is Primo Central for?

• Serves as a central index for scholarly materials

• Primarily articles and e-books, but also other

materials of interest

• Items that are of global and regional

academic significance

• Enables Primo to present one, blended result list

• Supports Primo’s proven high level of

performance and relevance ranking quality

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Primo Central Content

• Articles, e-books, and possibly other e-content

• Bibliographic metadata

• Abstracts

• Full text

• Type of content is subject to the agreement with

the information provider

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Ex Libris Manages Primo Central

• Hosting and ongoing maintenance

• Signing agreements with information

providers to obtain their data

• Harvesting, normalizing, and adding

content

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Ongoing Update

EBSCO, AIP, BMJ, IOP, Project Muse, and more

XML MARC HTML PDF SGML ONIX

Normalization of Publisher Data

Primo Central Index

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Primo Search and Primo Central

• Primo Central fits in the Primo architecture as

another Primo index

• External resources are seamlessly available and

blended with local result.

• Can be tailored to the specific needs of

institutional users.

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PC – V3 – Crime & Punishment

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PC – V3 – Request

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PC – V3 - Recommendations

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PC – V3 – online

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Primo Publisher Program

• Ex Libris is in negotiation and active discussion with all key global providers and main regional providers of scholarly materials• Comprehensive content roadmap has been

created with priorities set according to Library Partner requests

• Sample data received from many providers prior to agreements being finalized

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Primo Publisher Program

• Response from providers is extremely positive; they embrace new tools to enhance discoverability of their content

• Currently loading more than 55.000 journals with c. 300 million items from 50+ providers (goal is half a billion by end 2010)

• Mostly articles

• Some as full text

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Publisher on board (April 2010)

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)• American Accounting Association• American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)• American Astronomical Society (AAS)• American Helicopter Society (AHS) International - The Vertical Flight

Society• American Institute of Physics (AIP)• American Psychological Association (APA)• AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing• BioMedCentral• BMJ Publishing Group• Cambridge University Press• Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)• EBSCO • Emerald Group Publishing• Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS)• Gale • Hindawi Publishing• Human Frontier Science Program Publishing (HFSP)• Ingram Digital/MyIlibrary• IOP Publishing and Publishing Partners• JBJS• JSTOR• Laser Institute of America (LIA)• National Library of Medicine Medline • National Library of Medicine PubMedCentral• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)• Oxford Publishing (OUP)• Physics Essays Publication (PEP)• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)• Project MUSE• Publishing Technology (IngentaConnect)• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)• Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)• Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)• Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)• Society for Information Display• SPIE• TIRE Society• University of Chicago Press

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Primo Central Partners

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Live Demo

Primo

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Thank You !

juergen.kuessow@exlibrisgroup.com