River Campus Libraries Find Articles A Web Redesign for ENCompass David Lindahl Web Initiatives Manager River Campus Libraries University of Rochester.

River Campus Libraries

Find ArticlesA Web Redesign for ENCompass

David LindahlWeb Initiatives ManagerRiver Campus LibrariesUniversity of Rochester

Web Design Process

Roles Content Design Usability Development

Web Design Process

Overall Design “Hide the technology” Consistency with library website Task oriented pathways Usability testing program

Page Design Essential components Prioritize Simplify Style guidelines

Universal Design Section 508 Web Style Guide Research-Based Web

Design & Usability Guidelines

Page Editors’ Checklist

“Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” Ron Mace

Style Guidelines

http://www.section508.gov/ http://webstyleguide.com/

http://usability.gov/guidelines/ http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=623

Models For Finding: Google

1. Enter keywords2. Browse results by title

and snippet3. View full text

Models For Finding: FRBR

FRBR User Tasks Find Identify Select Acquire

FRBR = Functional Requirements for Bibliographic RecordsMore information: http://www.ifla.org

Web Design Process: Find Articles

“Find Articles” project Ongoing project to address usability issues Our implementation of meta-search with

Encompass

Find Articles: Usability Issues

Choosing a database Using a database Expectations OPAC versus database Terminology

Find Articles: Meta-search

What is meta-search? Federated Search Single user interface to multiple databases Simultaneous searching across resources Merged results

What the Libraries Did

Invested in meta-search technology Selected SFX (Linking) Selected Encompass (XML UI, Catalog integration) Vendor partnership

Training User interface development Technology integration (CF, XML, SFX, SQL)

Encompass UI

1. Enter keywords and select databases

2. Select databases or “SHOW ALL”

3. Select a result4. View metadata5. Select a full text

source6. View full text online

Encompass UI

1. Enter keywords and select databases

2. Select databases or “SHOW ALL”

3. Select a result4. View metadata5. Select a full text

source6. View full text online

Find Articles UI

1. Enter keywords 2. Select a result3. View full text online

Mapping the Find Articles UI to FRBR

Search SelectArticle

FullText

(Gather)

FRBR Tasks:• Find• Identify• Select• Acquire

Find Articles: How It Works

Search SelectArticle

FullText

(Gather)

LibraryWeb Server

ERA ServerSubscription

Database

XSLT

User

Page withFull Text

XSLT

XML XML

HTML HTML

Meta-search Issues

Speed and Reliability Connectors Index vs. Meta-search

Ease of use Database selection Abstracts on selection screen Full text availability One click to full text

Quality of results How search terms are applied Database selection Relevance sorted results and de-duping

Meta-search Standards

Z39.50 SRW/SRU and CQL OpenURL NISO MetaSearch Initiative OAI

Find Articles: Subject Clusters

Subject Clusters Pre-selected databases Search boxes anywhere

Course Pages Connects undergrads to

library resources Top-5 resource Usability success

Add Subject Clusters to Course Pages

Web Design Process: Find Articles

David LindahlWeb Initiatives ManagerRiver Campus LibrariesUniversity of Rochester

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