Doctoring Strange Results
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Doctoring Strange Results
- 1. Doctoring Strange Results (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my Discovery tool) Josh Petrusa LITA FORUM Courtney Greene Butler University Columbus OH Indiana University Libraries October 5, 2012 Libraries
- 5. Elements of black comedy • Make light of serious and often Browse …. Thesauri … Controlled taboo subject matter vocabulary … stop us when you are upset • Provoking discomfort and serious thought as well as amusement in “But I can’t do field code their audience searching…” • Express “Implementation will take about absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, an d cruelty of the modern world three months!” • Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond Discovery? Yes! Delivery? Who the limits of normal satire or irony knows! • Does not necessarily have the Undergrads will love it! explicit intention of offending people
- 6. PALNI Private Academic Library Network of Indiana • 23 private colleges and universities in Indiana • FTEs from 100-5000 • Shared usage of Aleph, SFX, Content DM • Migrated Aleph SFX to Ex Libris TotalCare hosting in 2011 • Added hosted Primo for all members, implementation beginning January 2011 with 6 institutions
- 8. IUB LIBRARIES Flagship campus of Indiana University: over 40,000 students, 3000 faculty 14 libraries across campus, including the Herman B Wells Library and our state of the art offsite storage facility, the ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility) 7,809,797 bound volumes ~12K print serials, ~60K e-journals 850 databases 1.3 million e-books IUCAT – shared statewide online catalog Two simultaneous discovery layer projects: Ebsco Discovery Service (OneSearch@IU) Blacklight (new public interface for IUCAT)
- 9. A few words about IUCAT SirsiDynix Symphony ILS Statewide participation leads to a complex data environment: - Who shares records? What records? How? - Cataloging services provided to “extra-systems” libraries - Vendor records - Every format, language, call number scheme you can think of (and some you would never guess) - Limits on indexes = “interesting” search results - No centralization of proxy services, e-resources budgets
- 10. implementation Andrew 94
- 11. Initial tasks - Customizations
- 12. Initial Data Review pr0digal
- 15. “FRBR-ization”
- 17. 856 links: Defining the institution
- 18. Missing e-books?
- 19. SFX and Linking
- 26. No.
- 28. Metadata Citation and from EBSCO abstract data and other Base index Subscription providers, enabling content full-text linking ARL Statistics for EBSCOHost FY2011: 4,275,175 FY2012: 34,198,225 bit.ly/onesearchguest IUCAT records What’s in OneSearch@IU?
- 30. Integrated Search Connector Usage: Aug 2011- Aug 2012 50 45 44 40 35 30 31 25 20 15 14 13 10 12 8 5 7 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 ProQuest Worldwide 18th C. Washington LexisNexis Literature GeoScience Dissertation Ethnic Sociological Political EconLit Collections Post (1877- Congression Criticism PsycINFO World s and NewsWatch Abstracts Science Online 1993) al Online Theses Abstracts Abstract 1 0 1 2 2 7 44 8 13 14 0 Custom Link 1 0 0 4 2 1 31 12 1 0 1
- 34. 007 ain’t no superspy, aka Format sch-mormat Online = 856 second indicator 0 OR items in Online Library (999 m| ONLINE) OR items in location World Wide Web (999 l| www) OR items in location Music/Variations (999 l| _MUVARIA)
- 35. Sakurako Kitsa Moment of truth
- 36. Choices
- 37. 10/4/2012
- 38. Questions?
- 39. Denouement: What we learned • Know Thy Data. Understand how your system ingests/indexes its data • My friend MARC. Befriend your catalogers, ask their secrets • Ask Civilians. Test with Students – before reference (or any other) librarians committee it • Deep thoughts. Understand the linking/online access universe
- 40. Thank you Josh Courtney Petrusa Greene Butler Indiana University Slides at: University Libraries Libraries http://slidesha.re/PBBVb2 jpetrusa AT butler dot edu crgreene AT indiana dot edu
Editor's Notes
- Implementation/maintenance - IUBSeamless user experienceCustom linksConnectorsFull text whenever possibleCatalog extractHow it “looks”Holdings statements challengesClean up recordsongoing custom link requests -- seamless integration with everything, or at least as much as possibleworking with the extract (not very technical, mostly focusing on impact on how it “looks” - including Springer e-books, challenges with holdings statements showing, changes to data imported to clean up records)
- Lots of choices to make before you even see your implementation – my tip: go ahead and decide, let students test your initial choices, DON”T committee this first
- Even after giving Aleph catalog results as much “weight” in the relevancy as possible, they’re still not at the top
- Discovery is one thing but delivery is something else