Aquabrowser : Implementation at the University of Edinburgh Morag Watson Elize Rowan Edinburgh University Library

JIBS 2008 Background Voyager LMS Implemented1998 Encompass Digital Library Products –Federated Search Webfeat –Openurl Resolver 360Link

JIBS 2008 Why? User interface not keeping up with technological change Supplier aware of development requirement but not top priority UofE not eager to change LMS supplier Decided to pursue other search options –Encompass –Vertical search –Proprietary / Open Source Solutions

JIBS 2008 Selection Market Review –Identified a range of possible services –Established a functional requirement Demonstrations

JIBS 2008 Why Aquabrowser? Ease of implementation Speed of implementation Reasonably priced Flexibility Usability and Accessibility

JIBS 2008 Implementation Pilot –Available remotely Technical Issues –Windows Servers –LMS nightly extract Building a wish List (Interface Requirements) –Existing Catalogue –Other AquaBrowser sites –Other supplier services

JIBS 2008 Wish List Aspects of existing catalogue to be reflected How to link to features in existing catalogue, not in Aquabrowser –e.g. patron functions Which Aquabrowser functionality to implement

JIBS 2008 Timescales for Implementation Technical setup – –3 weeks Interface Configuration – 3 weeks Marc Mapping / Data Customisation – 3 weeks

JIBS 2008

Maximising MARC Opportunity to fully leverage our existing MARC data Return on investment for many years of sourcing/creating high quality metadata Opportunity to re-consider both current and legacy cataloguing practices New view of the underlying MARC data – incl. errors

JIBS 2008 Initial set-up Fresh approach – not opac replication Critically reviewed implementations of AquaBrowser pioneers Determined initial data handling approach: – MARC mapping/field handling – Locations (branches) – Refine facets – Occurrence/labelling of fields in results displays

JIBS 2008

Mining MARC data – the AquaBrowser box of tricks Relevance ranking Stemming

JIBS 2008 Stemming Variations

JIBS 2008 Mining MARC data – the AquaBrowser box of tricks Relevance ranking Stemming Spelling variants

JIBS 2008 Did you mean…?

JIBS 2008 Mining MARC data – the AquaBrowser box of tricks Relevance ranking Stemming Spelling variants Associations

JIBS 2008 Associations

JIBS 2008 Mining MARC data – the AquaBrowser box of tricks Relevance ranking Stemming Spelling variants Associations Synonyms or translations

JIBS 2008 Mining MARC data – the AquaBrowser box of tricks Relevance ranking Stemming Spelling variants Associations Synonyms or translations Refine facets

JIBS 2008 Location refine

JIBS 2008 Refines / Facets

JIBS 2008 Format icons

JIBS 2008 MARC – what next? Post implementation review Lessons learnt A FRBRised future

JIBS 2008 FRBR

JIBS 2008 Launch Library Website –Aquabrowser : a new way to use the library catalogue –Voyager catalogue still available and linked from AquaBrowser University Portal Student Induction Complimentary not Competing

JIBS 2008 Statistics Usage –Number of sessions per day, per hour, per month –Frequent Visitors Searching –Top Queries –Top searches with no hits –Sort / Refine Options Technical –Client Environments / Browsers

JIBS 2008 September 2008

JIBS 2008 October 2008

JIBS 2008 Hourly Use

JIBS 2008 Sort Options

JIBS 2008 Use of Refine Options

JIBS 2008 Most Popular Search Terms

JIBS 2008 No hits

JIBS 2008 What next Integration with Federated Search

JIBS 2008 Link to E-Resources

JIBS 2008 Link to E-Resources

JIBS 2008 What next Integration with Federated Search Content Enrichment

JIBS 2008 Book Covers

JIBS 2008 Tables of Contents

JIBS 2008 MyDiscoveries

JIBS 2008 What next Integration with Federated Search Content Enrichment Better integration with existing catalogue –Availability Information Development of existing catalogue User led evaluation

Aquabrowser : Implementation at the University of Edinburgh Morag Watson Elize Rowan Edinburgh University Library