Peter Zeimet

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Encore 2.0 and beyond Eastern Great Lakes
IUG September 19, 2008

• Peter Zeimet
• Customer Sales Consultant
• Innovative Interfaces

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Development Philosophy

• Its September 2008
• We have 100 installations
• 130 customers overall
• How did we get here?

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Where Electronic Information Searches Begin Where
do you typically begin your search for
information on a particular topic?
Search Engine 82 Library Web Site 1
Source Perceptions of Libraries and Information
Resources, OCLC, 2005, question 520.
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Its your collection

• How do we combine the best of libraries with the
  best of the internet?
• Encore leverages the credibility of libraries
  with presentation and underlying technology
• This combination ensures the most relevant and
  convenient results

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What do we mean by a discovery platform?

• Bring information from disparate locations into
  one place
• Patrons dont have to check (or know about)
  other databases
• Make every searcher an expert searcher

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The challenge

• Bring community features like ratings, reviews
  and tags into the picture
• Create a platform to add new features and
  services in the future
• Transform the librarys web interface into
  something more intuitive and familiar
• Encore reflects the way patrons actually do
  research

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Whats the answer?

• Real-time Millennium Integration
• Imports results from other modules e.g. Research
  Pro
• Faceted results display
• Did you mean?

• Enhanced relevancy ranking
• Community tagging
• Suggestions section
• Apache and Ajax technology
• Familiarity and power

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Encore Welcome Screen
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changes in appearance
Some cosmetic changes for Encore 2.0
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Lets see an example
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Agile development
Example of a different design scheme Univ of
Queensland
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Did You Mean?

• Works even better in 2.0!
• Uses keyword index, not a dictionary
• Intuitive
• Only points to materials in your collection

Lets see an example
Some examples
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Findability
Formal Taxonomy vs. Informal/Emerging/Technical
Vocabulary
AND
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Just cookery? Thats it? Seems a bit lean on
the findability
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Community Tagging
Refine by Tag
cooking (7) alton brown (6) cookbook (4) good
eats (4) food network (2) food science (2)
cookery
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Community Tagging
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True discovery tool
Encore brings results from disparate sources

• Research Pro federated search tool
• Pathfinder Pro context sensitive resources
• Innovative modules like Program Registration
• Other harvesting, i.e. Vincent Voice Library
  at Michigan State University

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Its smart
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Hits from Program Registration
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2.1 is already here
New for consortia or multi-branch libraries

• Location facet will respond to the users known
  location, so its easier to limit to your current
  location

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Consortia friendly

• "Show Local Items First" (Locations Served)
  functionality in Encore to dynamically bring
  local materials to the top of the list
• Users logging in at home see Locations Served
  just like they were in their Home Library,
  without the user having to be at the designated
  IP address

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2.0 Feature List

• Patron login component
• Suppression of the Request link for
  non-requestable materials
• Internationalization (with active testing
  partners joining us from Spain Hong Kong)
• Research Pro authentication
• Community Tagging
• Alternate Suggestions component format (better
  handling of no image, better long title
  truncation)

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2.0 Feature List

• Patron Record Alerts and link to patron record in
  WebPAC
• Requesting within Encore
• Requesting from Automated Storage Retrieval
  Systems (ASRS)
• Location facet
• Full ERM details integration (e.g. License
  information)
• Display of the table of contents based on MARC
  data
• Continued improvements to the Did You Mean
  function
• Yahoo Image search

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2.0 Feature List

• ISBN search
• Support for Google Analytics use
• Improved Research Pro federated search component
  to better indicate resources being searched
• Content Cafe enriched content (library will need
  Content Cafe account)
• Support for Amazon as source for book jacket art
• Improved INN-Reach passthrough search from record
  details display to search for this title
• Improved look feel

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Agile development
More new features coming in 3.0

• Harvesting from OAI compliant targets
• Two new facets (t.b.d.)
• Research Pro Select (additional cost product)
• MetaLib and WebFeat Integration (additional
  cost)
• Integrated User Help
• Community Reviews

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3.0 continued

• Ratings
• Usage Statistics
• Encore for INN-Reach
• Improved cover art through fallback logic
  allowing us to check for identifiers other than
  ISBN
• More...

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Its All Right Here!

• Employs latest Web 2.0 technologies
• Brings together content, community, and
  discovery
•  Simple to use, yet rich in information
• Integrates federated and smart linking products
• Intuitive patron experience
• Real-time integration with Millennium
• Encore keeps getting better!

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Questions?
new discovery integration reviews
context-sensitive links faceted search programs
collection encore relevance tagging popular
choices did you mean? electronic resources
content ajax community rightresult your library