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Bodleian Libraries Websites Launch Event Jesus College, Oxford Wednesday, 10 th April 2013
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This event was held on Wednesday, April 10th at Jesus College in Oxford.
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Bodleian Libraries Websites Launch Event Jesus College, Oxford Wednesday, 10th April 2013
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Today
> Welcome remarks > A:ernoon session 2pm – 4.50pm > Drinks recepCon and library tours from 5-‐7pm
at the Divinity School
Project Walk-‐Through Alison Prince Web Manager, Bodleian Libraries
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Project scope
> Matrix CMS > www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
and child sites (31!) > Supported by changes
in policy and process
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Who uses Bodleian Libraries websites?
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What are they doing?
> Opening hours, opening Cmes > Looking for books > Looking for libraries > Being tourists > Using a database or catalogue
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Lessons from research phase
> Beware of jargon > Organize content by use-‐case > Keep navigaCon shallow > Raise profile of hidden content > Put popular content in key places > Get search right > Succinct, up-‐to-‐date content > Increase text size > Keep it integrated > Make life easier for editors
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New designs
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Responsive design
> One website > Fluid dimensions > Flexible layout > Adapts to userʼs browser
window size
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New (and more) templates
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New website search
> Funnelback > Can index and return results
from external sites (e.g. LibGuides) > Used by Cambridge, V&A,
Electoral Commission etc
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More integraCon
> Funnelback > Blog aggregator > Direct integraCon of databases > Feeds from data.ox.ac.uk > DistribuCon of designs (familiarity) > Linking strategy > Digital.bodleian (later!)
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More integraCon
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Library & subject navigator
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Live chat service
> Builds on success of trial > Libraries-‐wide live help
rolled out > Many portals, same team
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Calendar & booking for free events
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RSS funcConality
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Master content library
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Easy-‐edit suite
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Policy and process
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A ‘model’ library?
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TransiCons
> Supported by roll-‐out pack for ediCng team
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Content
> Currently devolved – 180 editors > Planning major content review > More training? > Central content editor? > More new editorial processes?
The big ‘write-‐up’
> DocumentaCon > Training and instrucCon material > New processes > Style guides > Plan for ongoing incremental
development
Monitoring
> What ʻgoodʼ looks like > More analyCcs training > Model review process Ongoing feedback mechanisms
QuesCons? My contact details [email protected] @themissprince @bodleianlibs
Image credits: Flickr – beneneuman, Lara604, mhaithaca, twin…, MyTudut, bennthewolfe
Technical Showcase JusPn Avery Technical Consultant, Squiz
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Responsive Design
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What is Responsive Design
1. Flexible Grids 2. Flexible Media 3. Media Queries
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Flexible Grids
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Flexible Media
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Media Queries
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“Responsive design allows your website to adapt to the device/viewport the visitor is using. It provides you with the capability to write once publish everywhere (meaning less work for you)”
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The Answer!
> Now we had a > TBC2 > TBC3
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Responsive Design
Any quesCons?
Refreshment Break Tea, coffee and biscuits in recepPon
NavigaCng the Digital Library Landscape ChrisPne Madsen Head of Digital Programmes, Bodleian Libraries
The Bodleian Digital Library
> Previously known as the Oxford Digital Library
> DigiCsing collecCons for more than 15 years
> Currently manage about 15-‐20 acCve digital projects (not all digiCzaCon)
> Building core digital infrastructure
The Bodleian Digital Library
> Work with faculty, librarians to:
- build digital infrastructure to help answer their research quesCons
- provide online, thorough, innovaCve access to library collecCons
Understanding the Digital Library Landscape
> Understanding Libraries
> “Laboratory for the HumaniCes”
What do Libraries Do?
Salient Features of the Content?
> Books? Scrolls? Tablets? Journals? Images?
> Data? InformaCon? Knowledge?
Artefacts of Intellectual Discourse
Access to the discourse
Thomas Bodley
Sir Frances Bacon Thomas Bodley
“In regard of your great and rare desert of learning”
“…having built an arc to save learning from deluge”
Beginning of Digital Libraries
What do digital libraries do?
EvoluCon of the Digital Library
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Digital Libraries Phase I: 1990’s
> Access: gelng content online
> Replicated the collecCon structure
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Digital Libraries Phase I, also
> Chipping away at larger corpora
> Working with both text and with image
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Digital Libraries Phase I was
> Online exhibits
> Databases (silos)
> Good if you new exactly what you want
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Digital Libraries Phase II: 2000’s
> Very detailed
> Very comprehensive
> Aggregators
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Digital Libraries Phase II, also
> Understanding Impact
> Emergence of the Digital HumaniCes
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"Even if you had Cme to waste for the rest of your life, you couldn't do a job like that," he said. "You seem to be more go-‐ahead and American
than we are!“ [Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 31, 1956 ‘Religion: Sacred Electronics’]
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1949 – Busa approaches IBM
1970’s – the 56 volume Index Thomis1cus is
printed
1989 – CD-‐ROM version is released
2005 – web based version ]
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“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impa1ently.
“I cannot make bricks without clay.”
– Sherlock Holmes, from The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
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Digital Libraries Phase III: 2010-‐-‐
> From Digital CollecCons to Data
> Understanding the Library and its role
> Working closely with users
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Rules for Future-‐Proofing
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Separate Content from Interface
Content Interface
SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending DUKE ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.
CollecPon Interface
Content
Metadata
Infrastructure
CollecPon Interface
Content
Metadata
Infrastructure
CollecPon Interface
Content
Metadata
Infrastructure
Content
Metadata
Infrastructure
COLLECTION INTERFACE
COLLECTION INTERFACE
COLLECTION INTERFACE
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Same content = MulCple interfaces
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Build for Scale
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Give users many paths through your collecCons
Different Interfaces for Different Users/Uses One object in many contexts
Exhibit about boardgames
CollecPon of Ephemera
All digital collecPons
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Digital Libraries Phase III
> More sustainable
> More usable
> Gives users mulCple paths
> Allows them to create their own
Improving Search with … Richard Morgan"Client Services & Support Manager, Funnelback
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What is Search?
> Relevance of keywords > Okapi BM25 algorithm
But we also use linking…
> PageRank > Onsite links > Offsite links
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And what about recency …
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70+ tuning opCons
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Content: rich and complex
> Do we mean high quality or variable quality?
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DuplicaCon
> Which one?
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DuplicaCon (2)
> Which one?
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Search is about people
> Complex content usually means a variety of users and user needs
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Including internal people
Handling search problems
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The Search Master…
> Monitors the analyCcs > Supports key user journeys with best bets > Handles terminology with synonyms > Tunes the search algorithm > Enhances the design of the search
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Successful search projects…
> Undergo conCnuous improvement > Build a virtuous circle around content and
discovery > Ayend closely to user behaviour
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Q&A and Closing Remarks Alister Ca^ell Sales & MarkePng Manager, Squiz
Thanks For Joining Us This A:ernoon
Please follow us to the Divinity School, Bodleian Library, for refreshments
There will be a signup sheet for tours of Duke Humprey’s Library (Hogwart’s)
