Encore at the University of Glasgow

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Encore at the University of Glasgow

• Karen Stevenson
• JIBS Workshop
• 13th November 2008

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Presentation outline

• Setting the scene c.2006
• Encore - now
• User feedback
• Encore - next

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Context 2006

• In-house development
• quick polls, search forms, enhanced WebOPAC
• Commercial development
• - proposal from Innovative Interfaces

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Glasgows Encore timeline

• Sept 2006 development partner
• April 2007 Encore server installed
• July 2007 in-house previews
• Feb 2008 publicly available

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System admin

• Encore has its own server
• Interfaces with LMS server
• Data updates required for non-Millennium systems
• AJAX technology

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Encore basics

• Single search box
• Keyword search of the catalogue
• Relevance ranked results
• Options to refine results (facets)
• Results set highlights
• Tag cloud of subject headings

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Encore extras

• Community features
• Related subscription resources
• Federated searching
• Context sensitive links
• Harvesting

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Place the search box wherever convenient for users
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Relevance ranked results item details
Facets
Value added
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Higher relevance weighting for journal records
Electronic links expanded by default
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Search found in Popular with academics
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Limits can be applied or removed in any order
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Glasgow coding changes

• Formats (material types)
• - increased from 10 to 24
• Collections (scopes)
• - increased from 4 to 12
• Locations

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Optional images from Yahoo!
Subject tag cloud- popular with all user groups
Recently Added, or Popular Choices
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Full record display
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Spellcheck/did you mean?
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What the users liked

• search box on first page
• that anything can be typed in and it just
  searches
• did not matter if you wrote in author or title,
  you got suggestions
• nice layout and info breakdown
• really easy to see where everything is
• sidebar categories
• spell checker

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What the users didnt like

• how to export records
• being timed out
• tag searching didnt work as thought
• too simple for serious academic research

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Next up for Encore at Glasgow

• Federated searching
• Community tagging
• Harvesting

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Federated search initial results
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Login - Authentication
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Harvesting

• Institutional repository
• Manuscripts
• Archival material

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Watch this space!

• http//www.gla.ac.uk/library