IDS Search

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• Mike Curtis
• Systems Librarian
• Broome Community College
• curtis_m_at_sunybroome.edu
• 607-778-5609

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• Situation/Problem/Opportunity
• The interlibrary loan consortia, Information
  Delivery Services (IDS), provides excellent
  delivery service for library materials among
  consortia members. However, there is no discovery
  service that allows library patrons to search the
  combined collections of the IDS consortia.

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• Purpose Statement (Goals)
• IDS Search will provide patrons a well designed,
  relevance ranking discovery tool that
  simultaneously searches the IDS member library
  collections.
• Enrichment of the search results with additional
  data (i.e. Google Books) or services (i.e.
  ILLiad) will be seamlessly integrated.
• Search scoping allowing the patron to seamlessly
  search and easily recognize search results on the
  local, consortial, and national/world-wide levels.

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• Methods
• Search of library holdings based on OCLC WorldCat
  API
• Additional systems
• Aleph
• Screen scraping x-server
• (OpenURL linking into) ILLiad
• Google Books for cover images
• Yahoo! Spellcheck
• OCLC xISBN
• Languages used PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS

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• Proof of Concept Development Team (Spring 2009)?
• Technical Group
• Adam Traub, (VZJ) Saint John Fisher College
• Andy Perry, (ZLM) SUNY New Paltz
• Michael Mulligan, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center
• Usability Group
• Emily Hart, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center
• Katie Sacco, (XFM) SUNY Fredonia
• Diane Madrigal, (NYG) New York State Library

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• Benefits of a custom search interface
• Flexibility
• Quick development
• Respond to user needs
• Open standards
• Collaborate with others
• Low cost (but not free)?
• Drawbacks
• Dependent on third party APIs
• Programming skills/participation

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• Interface features
• Relevance ranking
• Spellcheck
• Real time circ status on results page
• Abstract/summary on results page
• Direct links on metadata (author, subject words,
  etc.)?
• Direct OpenURL linking into ILLiad, etc.
• Facebook/Twitter links
• Citation links
• Google Books previews
• Four search scopes
• Search results as RSS feeds
• OpenSearch browser plugin

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• Online demos
• http//www.sunybroome.edu/s/start.php?oclc_symbol
  YSYsearch_scopegroupgroup_member0YSYgroup_m
  ember1BNG
• http//www.sunybroome.edu/library/search/projects/
  ids/form.php?oclc_symbolYSY

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• Hosting and Development
• IDS and OLIS exploring central hosting options
• Standalone i.e. ready-to-use, no set up
  required version for all members will be
  centrally hosted
• Target go live date January 2010
• Local CSS and branding options in config
• Open Source project
• Will be a open source framework
• Download, edit, and host locally
• Edit and submit to central hosted service

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• Questions discussion...