1. River Campus Libraries Creating Usable User Interfaces (with Voyager, Encompass, and SFX) David Lindahl, Digital Initiatives Manager dlindahl@library.rochester.edu Jeff Suszczynski, Senior Web Developer jeffs@library.rochester.edu

2. Agenda  Consistent interfaces  Voyager and Illiad interfaces  “DVDs and Videos”  Federated Search (Find Articles)  Interfaces in the users context  Course Pages  Find Articles Courses Clusters  DSpace  Future interfaces  SARA  CUIPID  OpenURL Knowledge Bases (SFX, LinkFinder, etc)

3. Consistent interfaces  Style guide  Web design process  Technology  Content Management System  Cold Fusion Server  Microsoft SQL  Voyager (html)  Illiad (html, variables)  Encompass (XSLT)  SFX (web service, SQL)

4. Consistent interfaces  Homepage  Voyager instance interface  Illiad interface

5. Illiad mySQL PERL/cgi Web Server MS SQL ColdFusion Infrastructure Voyager Oracle WebVoyage Public view of library website

6. Voyager and Illiad interfaces Voyager (WebVoyage) customization  Instancing – address shared catalog issue  CSS and HTML editing  Header.htm  Footer.htm  Configuration files  Opac.ini  Trial and error  Examples  Hide the ‘Reset’ button  Replace graphics with standard text links

7. Voyager and Illiad interfaces Illiad Customization  Instancing – address shared interlibrary loan issue  CSS and HTML editing  Embedded variables  Managing sets of files  Trial and error  Example  OpenURL page customization

8. DVDs and Videos Why  Not browse-able  Common queries were for specific titles, genres and directors  Voyager (WebVoyage) just didn’t cut it  Cumbersome limits page to work through  Customized metadata display on results screen  Integration with website  UC Berkeley example

9. DVDs and Videos What  Web interface for searching and browsing DVD and Videos collection  Fully automated system  Maintain data in Voyager  Allow users to search by keyword, and browse by title, genre, and director

10. DVDs and Videos How  Record cleanup in Voyager  Scheduled PERL script  Parse the blob  Conditional logic  Regular expression cleanup  Save flat-text file  Scheduled ColdFusion script  Import flat-text file  Populate SQL database  Cold Fusion User Interface queries SQL

11. Web Server MS SQL ColdFusion DVDs and Videos Voyager Oracle WebVoyage Public view of DVDs and Videos PERL copy

12. DVDs and Videos

19.  Live Voyager Status, how it works  We have BIB and MFHD IDs  SQL query to Voyager  SQL query to local database

20. DVDs and Videos

21. Web Server MS SQL ColdFusion DVDs and Videos Voyager Oracle WebVoyage Public view of DVDs and Videos PERL copy

22. DVDs and Videos  CDs and Sound Recordings  Staff only access to CDs  Record Manipulation  Limited collection size  Extraction of data similar to DVDs and Videos

23. DVDs and Videos  FRBR  Primary language = expression level attribute  Genre = work-level attribute  User needs  Unknowingly implemented aspects of FRBR

24. Federated Search (Find Articles) Why  Meet expectations  Difficulty selecting databases and subjects  Support a no knowledge needed pathway

25. Federated Search (Find Articles) What  Encompass for resource access  Customized interface  Pre-selected databases  Skipped screens, and eliminated choices  Simplified screens  “Full text in two clicks”

26. Federated Search (Find Articles) 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online Encompass UI

27. Federated Search (Find Articles) 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online Encompass UI

28. Federated Search (Find Articles) 1.Enter keywords 2.Select a result 3.View full text online Find Articles UI Generation 3

29. Federated Search (Find Articles) How  Skip intermediary page  Eliminate Object page from users path  Eliminate Metadata page (database vendor) from users path  Full text in two clicks

30. Course Pages

31. Course Clusters

32. DSpace

33. SARA

34. CUIPID

35. OpenURL K.B.