And I presume that you have quantitative evidence to show that.
kc
On 9/20/12 8:49 AM, Sean Hannan wrote:
Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone.
Please conduct your own user research for your own audience.
Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search
results.
Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling
bibliographies or reading lists and they honestly just want a really long
page of titles and authors of what we have.
-Sean
On 9/20/12 11:03 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote:
Every one of this suggestions has one major flaw, IMO. The primary
result of a search is a big set of bibliographic records -- more than
the user can possible look through. In some of them there are facets
available, but in no case is there any useful analysis of set in a
visualization that would allow the user to get a picture of what she has
retrieved. I'm thinking timelines, a la' WorldCat Identities or the Open
Library subject pages [1]. Also, none of them tell the user more about
the person or subject or work that they have retrieved. (At least, in
the views that I have seen.) I really think that lists of manifestations
just aren't good enough when searches bring up hundreds of results.
kc
[1] some examples:
http://openlibrary.org/subjects/halley%27s_comet
http://openlibrary.org/subjects/place:istanbul_%28turkey%29
and see others at: http://openlibrary.org/subjects
or look for your favorites
On 9/20/12 6:03 AM, Hamilton, Gill wrote:
My current fav is Digital NZ
http://www.digitalnz.org/
Gill
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Gill Hamilton
Digital Access Manager
National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Tania Fersenheim
Sent: 19 September 2012 20:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers
Got a favorite discovery interface? Send me the URL
I am doing some quick & dirty investigation into libraries that have
successfully and elegantly integrated discovery of various resources,
e.g.:
- library catalog
- federated indexing service such as Serials Solutions or Primo
Central, or a federated search system like Metalib
- ejournals
- ebooks
- libguides
- library web site
- worldcat local
- that kind o' stuff
I am looking for sites that are both nice to look at and seem easy to
use. I will assume that if you're touting your own site it is
technologically sophisticated. :-D Got any faves?
Tania
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