I like what NCSU has done:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/
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Šand the third answer promotes Drupal.
There are further votes for Drupal and NCSU.
Clayton Andrew Predmore
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Yale University Library
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On 9/19/12 4:18 PM, Sian Meikle sian.mei...@utoronto.ca wrote:
Full disclosure -- it IS our library's site
Here's touting our own site:
http://www.library.vcu.edu/
http://search.library.vcu.edu
This search is using a hosted instance of Ex Libris' Primo. So I'm not sure
we qualify as technologically sophisticated in terms of coding our own
discovery layer. I do think we are exemplary for simplicity of
My current fav is Digital NZ
http://www.digitalnz.org/
Gill
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Salvete!
My current fav is Digital NZ
http://www.digitalnz.org/
Can't. Resist. Plug. Batman.
Y'all are nerds, so undoubtedly, y'all prolly know this stuff already,
bttt
That started in part with Kete.
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
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
Totally agreed.
Just reading through those email and feel we might off the topic.
If we want to go from location A to location B. There are so many
choice: take bus, taxi, rent a car, buy a car, buy a leisure car, buy a
air ticket, rent a helicopter, or even buy your own aircraft.
I would
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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
That's what user research is. Qualitative evidence, too.
-Sean
On 9/20/12 1:18 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
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.
So, do you have any? I'll tell you what I know:
On average, users rarely go beyond the second page of any retrieved set,
whether in a library catalog or on Google. This of course wreaks hell
with the FRBR concepts of identify and select which is supposed to
be on the results of a find.
In
There are plenty users who go beyond screen 2, I know I do.
Dave Caroline
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Of course they do. This might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
On 9/20/12 10:52 AM, Dave Caroline wrote:
There are plenty users who go beyond screen 2, I know I do.
Dave Caroline
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On 2012-09-20 14:39, Karen Coyle wrote:
What is the net result of the fact that users don't go generally
beyond screen 2? (In the U of Calif catalog, it meant that no one
looked beyond items with a author whose name sorted in the A's.)
Umm... (even more) crappy scholarship?
- mt
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On 9/20/2012 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
So, given this, and given that in a decent-sized catalog users regularly
retrieve hundreds or thousands of items, what is the best way to help
them grok that set given that the number of records is too large for
the user to look at them one-by-one to
Promoting our own site:
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
We are aggregating bibliographic records from 48 European national
libraries, major research libraries and some other free sources. We
also feature some special exhibitions, full text content and some
federated search for those collections
I keep on thinking about how infrequently I use search to surface the media
that I want.
I mean, if I was doing serious research yeah I'd search and drill way past
2.5 pages of results, I'd look at facets, I'd go bananas getting to the
stuff I need to get to.
But increasingly I deal with
SRU version 2.0 is nearing the end of its standardization process. It
makes no reference to the SOAP version of SRU 1.2 (also known as SRW).
Does anyone actually use SOAP anymore? Is this a safe omission?
If there's still reasonable demand, I'll probably provide the WSDL and
request
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On Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nate Hill wrote:
I keep on thinking about how infrequently I use search to surface the media
that I want.
If this includes Google, I would say you are in the solid minority with this
approach to discovery.
I mean, if I was doing serious
I have never run across a SRW service, or if I have, it was so long ago I can't
remember.
Of course, I haven't run across all that many SRU services, either… but I
cannot think of a good reason *not* to omit SOAP from SRU 2.0. Basically,
providing a SOAP interface is like saying please
And likewise, that it's okay for us libraries to develop features which
are used only by significant minorities of our users (important to remember
what our logs show is really significant minorities of _uses_. All users
using a feature 1% of the time can show up the same as 1% of users
Jonathan, I, too, like the use of facets. I wish we could do something a
bit more zing with them, like present them as word clouds or something
a bit more appealing than term (number) but I think the basic data is
there.
Facets, as we use them, though, function as set *narrowing* tools.
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I made this sound like way too much of a blanket statement. I agree with
you. Allow me to refine what im saying a little later...
On Thursday, September 20, 2012, Ross Singer wrote:
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nate Hill wrote:
I keep on thinking about how infrequently I use
Salvete!
Jonathan, I, too, like the use of facets. I wish we could do something a bit
more zing with them, like present them as word clouds or something a bit
more appealing than term (number) but I think the basic data is there.
Facets, as we use them, though, function as set *narrowing*
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On 9/20/12 2:54 PM, BWS Johnson wrote:
Mebbe summat like http://liveplasma.com/ ? I have ever thought
that it was quite sexy, and shamlessly used it for music collection
development and listener's advisory. Now it's bigger than just music,
which is sweet as, bro. Cheers, Brooke
Hmm.
It may not be what you are thinking of, but see
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
the best way to see it in action is to do a search.
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On 21/09/12 12:52, Penelope Campbell wrote:
It may not be what you are thinking of, but see
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
the best way to see it in action is to do a search.
http://www.digitalnz.org/ and it's skins such as
http://nzresearch.org.nz/ are also pretty good, not that I'm trying to
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