IFLA Conference 2014Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge

Engaging researchers in the Digital

Learning Space

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What are other libraries doing?

Discovery Service Adoption Worldwide

EBSCO stands as the front-runner, with a long

lead of 5,612 library subscribers to EDS.

OCLC reports 1,717 libraries with access to

WorldCat Local, though a smaller number use

it as their primary discovery interface.

Ex Libris has licensed Primo to 1,407 libraries.

ProQuest reports 673 libraries using Summon.

American Libraries

April 15, 2014

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>6,200 ‘developers’, ‘support staff’, ‘customer satisfaction’ for EDS

Most relevant pages

in the eBook

60,000 citable

research starters

Finding the needle in the haystack

Subject

indexes

Anticipating User Intent Highlighting Content Library Interaction

Growing Widget, App, Plugin

Catalog

Raise awareness of

relevant subject specific

collections

Result Lists

with Assorted

Widgets

Result Lists

with Assorted

Widgets

Result Lists

with No Widgets

User Expectations …(custom widget)

Existing Familiarity(Springshare Integration)

Result Lists

with API

Result Lists

with API

Result Lists

with API

VuFind

VuFind

VuFind

ILS Integration within EDS

Click “Request This Item”

Folder Items View

Hover over top right folder icon

Folder Section with ILS Integration

User clicks top right folder

ILS Integration

with multiple sites RTAC

ILS Integration

with multiple sites RTAC

• Algorhythms SLIM

• Archimedes

• aStec

• Aurora

• Bookhouse Culture & Sci Tech Co

• Booksite

• BSZ

• CALYX

• Capita

• Civica

• Concord Australia

• Cosmotron

• EOS (now part of Sirsi)

• ExLibris

• Follett

• Futurenuri

• Hyweb

• III

• Koha

• L.A. Information Technology

• Logica Czech Republic

• Lucidea/InMagic/SydneyPlus

• Mirtech Inc

• OCLC

• Pergamum

• SIABI

• SIRSIDynix

• SL IZUM

• Softlink

• Sophia / Prima

• Soutron

• SVOP

• Talis

• UNIBUS

• Vizolve

• Yordam

A sample of ILS Providers that integrate with EDS

Library Homepages

University of

Ljubljana

(http://dikul.uni-lj.si)

Twitter feed

Search History, Saved Searches,

Alerts

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See that the metrics for this article can be

easily embedded on a website or other

application by copying and pasting the

JavaScript code

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Search “pinsky”

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Relevancy and Value Ranking

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Resource Discovery Services Athena Hoeppner

University of Central Florida

Relevancy is extremely

important and hard to pin

down.

• The central index is a BIG pile of hay.

• The search and refinement tools are rakes

• The relevancy ranking is a magnet.

Relevancy and Value Ranking

• Weighted fields

• Exact match of term with field

• Density of terms

• Currency of item

• Document type

• Document length

• Locally owned

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University of Central Florida

Superior Relevance RankingThe system has the following priorities and has

no bias toward content from any provider:

1) Match on subject headings from controlled vocabularies

2) Match on article titles

3) Match on author keywords

4) Match on keywords within abstracts

5) Match on keywords within full text

Exact Matches: Exact matches are favored over partial matches –

considering also the field in which those words appear (abstract vs.

full text vs. title, etc.)

Density: The number of times the word(s) appears relative to the size of

the document (more is better) – considering also the field in which those

words appear (abstract vs. full text vs. title, etc.)

VuFind, Blacklight, Koha, Drupal and other EDS API app modules available

VuFind v1.x and v2.0

PHP application

EBSCO is contributing to the open source

communities

EDS Course Management Reading List Tool

Instructors stay within their course, and can

easily add EDS content into their courses

Desire2LearnMoodle

Canvas… Blackboard, Sakai, Pearson eCollege, Jenzebar, and other

LTI-compliant LMS: <http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html>

Picking a WSD and Making It Yours

1. Know what you want to do with the service.

2. Pick the central index that aligns with your content and has the metadata to support discovery. Turn data sources on or off to focus the index for your users.

3. Pick a discovery layer that can surface the content your users want to find and that facilitates search behavior you want to promote.

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Resource Discovery Services Athena Hoeppner

University of Central Florida

Thank you

Questions?