May 2007 Barcelona - Enhancing HIP 1 Enhancing HIP Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield [email protected] http://library.hud.ac.uk/ barcelona/
Enhancing HIP
Nov 20, 2014
presentation given to the SirsiDynix European User Group Conference 2007 in Barcelona
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May 2007 Barcelona - Enhancing HIP 1
Enhancing HIP
Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield
[email protected]://library.hud.ac.uk/barcelona/
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Some Background• definitely not OPAC 2.0• enhancements to the existing OPAC
– user suggestions from surveys– “2.0” inspired features– borrowing good ideas from other web
sites – new features launched with no/low
publicity– “perpetual beta”
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Some Background• required extra web servers and a
MySQL database• required staff buy-in and a
willingness to experiment and take risks
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Spell Checker• we monitored keyword searches over
a six month period and discovered approx 23% of searches gave zero results– most OPACs present the user with a
“dead end” page– a good search engine should still give
the user options on a failed search (“did you mean?”)
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Spell Checker
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Spell Checker• spell checker based on a common
word dictionary or your own holdings?
• spell checker might highlight your cataloguing errors1!
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Keyword Suggestions• failed keyword searches are cross
referenced with www.answers.com to provide new search suggestions
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Keyword Suggestions
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Borrowing Suggestions• we had details of over 2,000,000 CKOs
spanning 10 years stored in the library management system and gathering virtual dust
• Web 2.0 – “Data is the Next Intel Inside1”• historic circulation data can be mined2 to
uncover the hidden trends and links between potentially disparate library items
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Borrowing Suggestions
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Lending Paths
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Ratings and Comments
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Other Editions• uses FRBR-y web services provided
by OCLC and LibraryThing to locate other editions and related works within local holdings– OCLC’s xISBN1
– LibraryThing’s thingISBN2
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Other Editions
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RSS Feeds
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RSS Aggregators
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a9.com (“Stealth OPAC”)
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Email Alerts
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“If you build it, will they come?”
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Popular Books• 100 most looked at books on the
OPAC in the last 7 days– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/popularbooks.pl
• popular books from the last 24 hours that haven't been looked at much before– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/popularbooks2.pl
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Playing with AJAX• search suggestions
– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax.pl• recent search keywords
– http://library.hud.ac.uk/perl/ajax5b.pl• recent search phrases
– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax3.pl
– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax4.pl
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“I borrowed a green book…”• Searching for books by the colour of
their covers…– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/colour.pl
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Pictures made of books
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Keyword search cloud (over 6 months)
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Failed Keywords (over 6 months)
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Finally, an OPAC replacement?
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