Development of (EDS) – Applications and Design
STKS (2015-10-22)
Presentor
Currently
Tom Widerström | Discovery Service Engineer | Nordics
Academic background
Master of Science in Information Technology from Linköpings University
Past experince
Consultant and product manager at a Swedish IT company
Agenda
General on EBSCO Discovery Service
EDS
Apps in EDS
EDS – Apps
Example of an EDS App
Development Life cycle
Q/A
General on EBSCO Discovery
Service
What is Discovery service?
EDS brings together the most comprehensive
collection of content — including superior
indexing from top subject indexes, high-end
full text and the entire library collection — all
within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable
discovery layer experience.
EDS; 5 612; 73 %
Primo; 1 407; 18 %
Summon; 673; 9 %
EDS
Primo
Summon
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
Library Systems Report 2014, Marshall Breeding
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 20:13
Early adopters
Late adopters
NISO Report
“The Future of Library
Resource Discovery”
Marshall Breeding
February 18, 2015
EDS, 8,246, 68 %
Primo Central, 1,528, 13 %
Summon; 697; 6 %
Enterprise; 538; 4 %
Encore; 346; 3 %Others; 767; 6 %
Clear choice
Discovery Service Installations
Many use EDS index
Not many
recent sales
EDS – Apps and EBSCO Discovery Service
AppsBranding
• Align the discovery system with your sites
• Customization framework in place to ease
adjustments
• Easy administration interface
EBSCO Apps & Cloud Services
gives you easy access to great apps
directly from the web. Our DSEs
(i.e. me) are here to help you both
with them and enhance the EDS
experince with new apps.
Agenda
General on EBSCO Discovery Service
EDS
Apps in EDS
EDS – Apps
Development Life cycle
Example of an EDS App
Q/A
9000+ sites globally using EDS
30+ Discovery Service Engineers
Dedicated User research team
Customer driven development
Apps – Life cycle
Things change, we adopt and then things change again.
Customer
Idea / issue
Solution /
prototype
EBSCO’s
Development Team
EBSCO’s
Apps & Cloud Services
Customer unique
request
DSE(s)
Apps – History of an application
Every so often the customer had users telling her that they couldn’t find the resources
they searched for.
Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos, C.L., Newhouse, …. Search
No results were found.
Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos,
C.L., Newhouse, J.P. and McNeil, B.J. Acute Myocardial
Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and
clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical
Association, 1992; 18:2530-2536.
Search
Conclusion: a standard Search box do not handle citations searches very well
Apps – Version 1 of the Citation Resolver
End users wanted to be able to copy and paste citations in order to find resources,
but EDS by design do not handle citations searches very well.
• App that helps parse a citation into
searchable fields for the discovery service.
• Easily added into EDS using customized
Tool bar
• Transparent parsing.
Conclusion: functionality offered to customer in an easy to deploy application
Apps – Version 2 of the Citation Resolver
Users could now easily parse citations using the app, but they still needed to leave
the EDS normal interface in order to do it.
• Fully aligned with EDS overall look and feel
• Multi lingual support
• Extended parsing support with new APIs
Conclusion: we are not just maintaining applications, we try to improve them as well
Apps – continue to grow
Agenda
General on EBSCO Discovery Service
EDS
Apps in EDS
EDS – Apps
Development Life cycle
Example of an EDS App
Q/A
EDS – Questions & answers
Ask as much as you can