Title: CUIPID Catalog User-Interface Platform for Iterative Development
1CUIPIDCatalog User-Interface Platform for
Iterative Development
- David Lindahl
- Director of Digital Library Initiatives
- River Campus Libraries
- University of Rochester
2What is CUIPID?
- Catalog User Interface Platform for Iterative
Development - Project of the Digital Initiatives Unit at the
University of Rochester Libraries - CUIPID is a technology platform that enables
iterative, user-centered design of new catalog
user interfaces - It will help us relate metadata and user needs.
3CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
4Usability Issue
- Users must select a search type.
- Example
- Choose title if you know exact title, or the
beginning of the title - Choose title keyword if you know some words in
title - Users must select the correct type for optimal or
acceptable results
5Usability Issue
- Users should not enter initial articles.
- Initial articles are a an and the
- Certain search types are left-anchored and user
must leave off initial articles when these are
used
6Usability Issue
- Users must undestand what a left-anchored title
search is and when it is called for. - Some search types are, some arent
- Patron is looking for the Journal of Cell
Biology - Patron selects Journal Title for search type and
enters - Cell Biology fails
- Journal of Cell Biology - success
- Journal of Cell - success
7Usability Issue
- Users must use set limits to navigate large
result sets. - User needs to resubmit search
- Too many choices for language, location, etc
- Date limits confusing
8Opportunity
- Provide automatic spelling suggestions
- Voyager Catalog
- Google
- RCL Site Search
- CUIPID
9Usability Issue
- Collecting multiple records to print, save, or
email is confusing. - Too many buttons and choices
- Layout confusing
- Doesnt remember choices between different
results pages
10Opportunity
- Support number searching whether spelled out or
numerical
11Opportunity
- Provide context-sensitive services based on
circulation status - Examples
- If item is available, provide a stack map
- If item is checked-out, provide a recall form
- If item is lost, provide an interlibrary loan
request form
12Opportunity
- Provide more useful information with record
displays. - Display suggestions of other titles instead of
just subject headings - Book cover images, sample pages
- Reviews
- Recommendations
- Donor information
13Usability Issue
- Users dont understand the invisible boundaries
of our information islands. - Users search for journal articles in the catalog
- Users search for books in website search
14Opportunity
- Libraries should hide the technology.
- Systems
- Online Catalog
- Website
- Databases
- Interlibrary Loan
- Features
- Search Engines
- Authentication Mechanisms
- Requests
15Opportunity
- Automatically recognize journal title
abbreviations - Interpreting citations with journal title
abbreviations is difficult without extensive
knowledge or a reference book - This can be accomplished with a web-service that
can translate abbreviation to full-title
16Opportunity
- Incorporate other content indices
- Course pages
- Web pages (subject guides)
- Institutional Repositories
- Digital content repositories
17CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
18FRBR Model
FRBR
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
AACR2
AACR3
MARC
?
19FRBR Example
- What might FRBR accomplish for users?
- Here is an example
20FRBR Example
21FRBR Example
- Susan B. Anthony Keyword Search Top Hits
- Biography
- Biography
- Biography
- Susan B. Anthony Preservation District
- Her Writings
- Biography
- Biography
- Biography
- Correspondence
- Virgil Thomson opera recording
- Biography
- Proceedings of her Trial
- Virgil Thomson opera recording
- Music from the Ken Burns film
- The Ken Burns film
- Biography
- Biography
- Analysis of her writings
- Womens Studies Newsletter
- Her papers
- Biography
22FRBR Example
23FRBR Example
24FRBR Example
25FRBR Example
- Why is this better?
- Collocation materials with the same or related
content are grouped together. - Easier navigation through search results
- Precise results with simple search queries.
26What is FRBR?
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
- IFLA publication, 1998
- A conceptual model, not a standard
- Relates bibliographic data to user tasks
- Tools and rules are available
27FRBR Entities
- Group 1
- Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item
- Products of intellectual or artistic endeavor
- Group 2
- Person, Corporate Body
- Those responsible for intellectual or artistic
content - Group 3
- Concept, Object, Event, Place
- Serve as subjects of works
28FRBR Group 1 Entities
- Work
- Expression
- Manifestation
- Item
Goethes Faust L. Filmores English
translation of Faust
As published by W. Smith, 1847
The copy owned by my library
29CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
CUIPID
30CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
CUIPID
Voyager
CUIPID 2
31Voyager Demo
32Architecture - Voyager
User Interface
Index
Metadata
33CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
Videos / DVDs
CUIPID
Audio / CDs
Voyager
CUIPID 2
eJournals
34DVDs and Videos
Videos / DVDs
- Why?
- Common queries were for specific titles, genres
and directors - Voyager just didnt cut it
- Not browse-able
- Cumbersome limits page to work through
- Integration with website
- UC Berkeley example
35DVDs and Videos
Videos / DVDs
- What?
- Web interface for searching and browsing DVD and
Videos collection - Fully automated system
- Maintain data in Voyager
- Allow users to search by keyword, and browse by
title, genre, language, and director - Customized metadata display on results screen
- Demo
36Architecture - Videos
User Interface
Find Videos/DVDs
Index
Cached Queries
SQL database
Metadata
Videos
37DVDs and Videos (etc)
Videos / DVDs
- DVDs and Videos is related to FRBR
- Primary language expression level attribute
- Genre work-level attribute
- User needs for metadata
- Unknowingly implemented aspects of FRBR
38CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
CUIPID
SARA
Voyager
CUIPID 2
Site Search
39SARA
SARA
- Why?
- Overcome limitations of commercial metasearch
application - Influenced by grouped-search-results page at
Amazon.Com - Experiment Can we search everything from a
single user interface?
40What is SARA?
SARA
- Search And Retrieval Application
- ColdFusion as a platform for metasearch
- Multiple concurrent Voyager searches
- Demo
41Architecture - SARA
ColdFusion
User Interface
SARA
Verity Indexes
Index
Stored Queries
Metadata
42CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
CUIPID
SARA
Voyager
CUIPID 2
Site Search
43Why build CUIPID?
CUIPID
- Influences
- Usability issues with Voyager
- Opportunities
- FRBR
- UB Alternative Catalog
- Stanford XOBIS
- Past Projects
- Videos/DVDs
- SARA
- Site Search
- Hundreds of things we wanted to do
44What is CUIPID?
CUIPID
- Catalog User Interface Platform for Iterative
Development - User-Centered-Design plaftorm
- XML copy of library catalog records
- Did you mean spell checking
- Grouping of search results
- Maps to stack locations
- FRBR in the future
- Unlimited possibilities
45Whats in CUIPID?
- Approximately 2000 records in CUIPID 1
- Records selected from four authors
- Jane Austen
- Charles Dickens
- William S. Burroughs
- Igor Stravinsky
- Demo
46CUIPID Future
CUIPID
- Vision of a new catalog CUIPID 2
- Take advantage of metadata
- Manipulation
- Navigation
- Behind the scenes processing
- Enhanced displays
- Usability
47Architecture CUIPID 1
ColdFusion
User Interface
CUIPID
Index
Metadata
MARCXML
48Architecture CUIPID 2
ColdFusion
User Interface
CUIPID
XML Database
Index
XPath
Index
METS Wrappers
extra metadata
Metadata
MARCXML
Dublin core
49CUIPID Roadmap
Influences
Usability Issues and Opportunities
UB Alternative Catalog
Stanford XOBIS
FRBR Model
CUIPID
SARA
Voyager
CUIPID 2
Site Search
50Questions?
CUIPIDCatalog User-Interface Platform for
Iterative Development
David Lindahl Director of Digital Library
Initiatives River Campus Libraries University of
Rochester