Endeca Search, Information Access and Guided Navigation

A presentation to WRLC Libraries

January 17, 2007

Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS

Functionality

Keyword searching Relevance ranking Boolean Wild card Subject access Known items searching Faceted classification

Extensibility

Taxonomy Tree New Releases Models of relevance Title vs abstract Thesaurus-Create Rules MARC adapters Report Generator-Usage serach terms or

browse paths

Interoperability

Skins lay over OPAC Exposes exploration and discovery Data driven application Can provide segmented results OPAC and Metalib

North Carolina State University

NCSU Libraries– Andrew Pace

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ Browse New Books Narrow Search LCSH Narrow Search

– Subject– Genre – Format– Era– Language– Author

Other Examples

Harvard Business Online http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/home/index.jhtml?_requestid=113229

– Most Popular vs.Publication date

Barnes and Noble

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?z=y – Book Browser

Endeca Demo– http://endeca.com/demo.html