1. (Yale University Library’s VuFind implementation) & OPAC requirements for CJK plus ________________________ CEAL Committee on Technical Processing & Committee on Public Services Joint Panel Presentation March 24, 2010 by Tang Li, Public Service Librarian Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Catalog Librarian East Asia Library, Yale University Library

2. March 2010 Outline _____________________________________________________ Yale’s VUfind implementation: Yufind –Background –Project history –Current functionalities Current multilingual, multi-script project –Scope / objectives –Project outline & outcomes –Desired requirements (examples)

3. Background _____________________________________________________ VuFind community

4. Yufind Project History _____________________________________________________ Phase I: 4/08 Prototype collaboration Phase II. 7/08. 8 million records; Yale look & feel; query builder Phase III, IV. 12/08, 3/09. GBS links; Assessment group report; better ingest mapping; templates Summer Prod. 9/09. ‘industrial strength’ footing ; faster system response time; MyResearch; module, better synching Arcadia: Non-Western language support; WorldCat Reclamation, WC APIs, PageRank March 2010

5. Yufind: current functionalities _____________________________________________________

9. March 2010 Current Project Objectives _____________________________________________________ Identification of issues related to multilingual, multi-script functionality in MARC-based discovery applications Identification of desirable functionality Gathering user requirements and expectations To seek for grants and collaboration opportunities

10. Current Project Scope _____________________________________________________ VuFind community Lucene/Solr community Optimization in “Lucene/Solr” (search engine that powers Yufind, and much more) for support of multilingual, multi-script material access

11. March 2010 Project outline & expected outcomes _____________________________________________________ 6 month+ project (started late Nov. 2009) Literature / environmental scan Consultation to librarians, language experts, faculty & researcher community, etc. (meeting, survey, focus group interviews …) Publish a report and share the findings More collaborations for implementations

12. March 2010 Major Issues for CJK, and beyond … _____________________________________________________ Word segmentation and spaces How to handle character variations –Traditional vs simplified, shin-kyu kanji, hanja vs hangul, MARC-8 equivalents vs IME input Interface –localization of labels, instructions, and facet values, etc. Sort order –“relevance” only? How about others? Display of CJK headings –they are not authority-controlled...

13. March 2010 & OPAC requirements for CJK+ _____________________________________________________ We will send you the details after the conference, so … Please participate in the survey!! Yufind Home: http://yufind.library.yale.eduhttp://yufind.library.yale.edu Yufind updates: http://labs.library.yale.edu/yufindhttp://labs.library.yale.edu/yufind Comments, feedback, future collaboration, etc., contact us! Tang Li: tang.li@yale.edutang.li@yale.edu Keiko Suzuki: keiko.suzuki@yale.edukeiko.suzuki@yale.edu Thank you very much!!