Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Cindy Harper
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of karim boughida Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 5:09 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Hi Tom, Top players are EDS, Primo and Summonthe only reason I see encore

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Cindy Harper
Of karim boughida Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 5:09 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Hi Tom, Top players are EDS, Primo and Summonthe only reason I see encore in the mix is if you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Ross Singer
of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Hi Tom, Top players are EDS, Primo and Summonthe only reason I see encore in the mix is if you have other III products which is not the case of Ubalt library. They have now worldcat? Encore vs Summon is an easy win for summon

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu wrote: I was going to comment that some of the Encore shortcomings mentioned in the PDf do seem to be addressed in current Encore versions

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Walker, David
: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Solr has a feature to make spelling suggestions based on the actual terms in the corpus... but it's hardly a panacea. A straightforward naive implementation of the Solr feature, on top of a large library catalog

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-06 Thread Ross Singer
[rossfsin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:37 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu wrote: I was going to comment that some

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Emily Lynema
Yes, there were (we used 360 Link during the testing). This is one of the reasons we turned on 1-Click about 6 months ago and have been fairly pleased with the results. -emily -- Date:Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:58:28 -0400 From:Jimmy Ghaphery jghap...@vcu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Shearer, Timothy J
We've also gone with one-click for the reasons outlined in the NCSU report. Tim On 9/5/12 9:04 AM, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote: Yes, there were (we used 360 Link during the testing). This is one of the reasons we turned on 1-Click about 6 months ago and have been fairly pleased

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 9/5/2012 9:04 AM, Emily Lynema wrote: Yes, there were (we used 360 Link during the testing). This is one of the reasons we turned on 1-Click about 6 months ago and have been fairly pleased with the results. What does turn on 1-Click mean with regard to Summon? This has turned into a

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Emily Lynema
1-Click doesn't really have anything to do with Summon. But it has to do with the link resolver. The thing about Summon (as opposed to other tools sometimes used as a starting point for users) is that it does not locally provide any access to full-text. When we first implemented Summon back in

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Ah, thanks. If you are thinking of using Summon with a different link resolver, you'd have to see if they provide a similar pass-through type service. I *think* that SFX does. SFX indeed does, but I think on the same basis as 360Link -- turn it on or off globally. Umlaut, the open

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan LeBreton
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of karim boughida Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 5:09 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Hi Tom, Top players are EDS, Primo and Summonthe only reason I see encore in the mix

[CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Hi helpful code4lib community, at one point there was a report online at: http://student-iat.ubalt.edu/students/kerber_n/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf David Walker tells me the report at that location included findings about SFX and/or other link resolvers. I'm really interested in

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Matthew LeVan
It's like a google search challenge! Looks like they changed their student home link patterns... http://home.ubalt.edu/nicole.kerber/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf Thanks, matt On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hi helpful code4lib community, at

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Matthew LeVan wrote: It's like a google search challenge! Looks like they changed their student home link patterns... http://home.ubalt.edu/nicole.kerber/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf That's a challenge?

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Jimmy Ghaphery
Also the NC State study on Summon is worth mentioning. If memory serves there was consistent issues with the last mile in getting to the resource. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/userstudies/studies/2010summon On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Matthew LeVan levan.matt...@gmail.comwrote: It's like a

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Ha, I'm terrible at google searching apparently, thanks Matt and Joe, I believe that is what I was looking for. code4lib++ On 9/4/2012 10:48 AM, Matthew LeVan wrote: It's like a google search challenge! Looks like they changed their student home link patterns...

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread karim boughida
Hi All, Initially EDS, Primo, Summon, and Encore were considered but only Encore and Summon were tested. Do we know why? Thanks Karim Boughida On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hi helpful code4lib community, at one point there was a report online at:

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Tom Pasley
Yes, I'm curious to know too! Due to database/resource matching or coverage perhaps (anyone's guess). Tom On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:50 AM, karim boughida kbough...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Initially EDS, Primo, Summon, and Encore were considered but only Encore and Summon were tested. Do we

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan LeBreton
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of karim boughida Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:51 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Hi All, Initially EDS, Primo, Summon, and Encore were considered but only Encore

Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?

2012-09-04 Thread karim boughida
Hi Tom, Top players are EDS, Primo and Summonthe only reason I see encore in the mix is if you have other III products which is not the case of Ubalt library. They have now worldcat? Encore vs Summon is an easy win for summon. Let's wait for Jonathan LeBreton (Thanks BTW). Karim Boughida On