Encore at the University of Glasgow
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Encore at the University of Glasgow
Karen StevensonJIBS Workshop13th 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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Glasgow’s 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 detailsFacets 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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Recently Added, or Popular Choices
Optional images from Yahoo!
Subject tag cloud- popular with all user groups
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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 didn’t like
• how to export records• being timed out• tag searching didn’t 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!
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