1. Jürgen Küssow, Senior Consultant – Pre Sales Europe National Technical Library | Praha | 10 May 2010

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3. 3 Agenda Current Status Concept Primo Version 3.0 Primo Central

4. 4 Agenda Current Status Concept Primo Version 3.0 Primo Central

5. Primo in a nutshell An end-user discovery and delivery solution Enables a library to offer its entire collection through a single interface, easily and intuitively Incorporates Web 2.0-inspired services Includes a full spectrum of customization options, allowing libraries to tailor the content, the display, and the services to their users’ needs Open and extensible and integrates with other systems

6. 6 Primo Facts and Figures Development started in 2006 Development Partners: April 2007: General Release Version 1 April 2010: General Release Version 3 June 2010: Primo Central General Release

7. 7 More than 260 Primo sites in 29 countries

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9. 9 Agenda Current Status Concept Primo Version 3.0 Primo Central

10. 10 Plug Ins OPAC integrationSFX LinkingWeb 2.0Single Sign OnPlug Ins Other SE Enrich- ment Front end Lucene Millen- nium Library catalogs MetaLib Aleph Sym- phony … DigiTool Repositories Content DM … Fedora National Licences DBs/KBs SFX KB ML KB … Others WebHarvesting eLearning Fast Zebra Primo External Sources Deep Search JAVA API/SRU … Harvesting Worldcat Googlebooks Amazon Full texts Z 39.50/SRU web based back office DedupFRBR Item Availability Normalisation (PNX) Primo Central Ebsco, Springer, Elsevier, … eArticles eBooks Full texts Abstracts

11. 11 Primo Search Architecture Primo supports various search technologies: ‘Native’ Search - search the Primo index Deep Search - search 3rd party resources using API MetaSearch - search remote resources using metasearch standard protocols Link - directs users to the native user interface of specific resources

12. 12 Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Search Primo Native Search

13. 13 Aggregated Licensed Resources Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Central Primo Search Primo Native Search

14. 14 Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Central Remote Primo Index Primo Search Primo Native Search

15. 15 Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Central Remote Primo Index Primo Search 3 rd -Party Repository Resource Accessed via API Primo Deep Search Primo Native Search

16. 16 Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Central Remote Primo Index Primo MetaSearch Primo Search 3 rd -Party Repository Resource Accessed via API Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards Primo Deep Search Primo Native Search

17. 17 Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library Institutional Information Resources Local Primo Index Primo Central Remote Primo Index Primo MetaSearch Primo Link Primo Search 3 rd -Party Repository Resource Accessed via API Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards Other Resources Primo Deep Search Primo Native Search

18. 18 Spectrum of Interfaces Java API Web Services X-Services Deep Links Plug-ins: Enrichment & RTA Embedding Tiles Back Office Configuration JS/JSP coding Matching functionality to interface type EL Commons

19. 19 Agenda Current Status Concept Primo Version 3.0 Primo Central Next Generation Library Software: the outlook

20. 20 Version 3.0 Enhance Full-Text support Expose plug-in for normalization via code Conditional links to external sources Enhance back office authorization Upgrade Express Kit Improve API support for e-shelf directories Additional deep search adaptors BibTip Recommendations MetaSearch in specific DBs Sitemap Discovering library items from web search engines WARC pipe Harvesting web pages Did You Mean for MetaSearch Upgrade infrastructure: Oracle 10 -> 11 JBoss 4.0.1 -> 4.2.2 Lucene 2.2 -> 2.4 Language independent Did You Mean algorithm bX Recommendations Sorting results by fields OPAC via Primo UI

21. 21 Primo Version 3 OPAC via Primo

22. 22 OPAC via Primo – bottom line No need for more than one interface anymore Library services are available within Primo OPAC via Primo includes “My Library Card” Primo 3.0 now truly is a one-stop solution

23. 23 Primo Version 3 New UI

24. 24 New UI – bottom line OPAC via Primo offers more: Primo 3.0 eliminates need for multiple screens User interaction takes place within one screen For results, there is only one screen in v. 3.0

25. 25 Primo Version 3 iPhone view

26. 26 iPhone view – bottom line Provided out-of-the-box Done 100% via CSS Easy to change to institution skin Doesn’t require programming skills

27. 27 Primo Version 3 bX recommendations and BibTip

28. 28 Recommendations – bottom line Find material which you were not looking for Usage driven bX for e-resources BibTip for library resources Requires subscription

29. 29 Primo Version 3 Location per Institution

30. 30 Location per institution – bottom line Consortia can display only relevant locations “Other” libraries can be excluded from facet Primo enables libraries to deal with complexity

31. 31 Primo Version 3 Alphabetical sorting & left-anchored search

32. 32 Alphabetical sorting & left-anchored search – bottom line We listen to input from the community These are “librarian” features -- but -- really useful librarian features We will continue to develop features relevant in a library context

33. 33 Primo Version 3 Multilingual thesaurus

34. 34 Multilingual thesaurus – bottom line Allows for translation of subjects English in English interface; Czech in Czech interface Works in full display and facets

35. 35 Primo Version 3 Find Databases (MetaLib)

36. 36 Find Databases – bottom line Incorporates core MetaLib functionality in Primo UI Lets users create personal QuickSet Yet another step towards unifying interfaces

37. 37 Primo Version 3 New Back Office features…

38. 38 New Back Office features – user roles New user roles – more granularity Separation by institution Ideal for consortia

39. 39 New Back Office features – file splitter Enables loading any form of XML Can be handled by ”normal” Primo administrators We use it ourselves for Primo Central A very powerful tool for non-standard formats

40. 40 Agenda Current Status Concept Version 3.0 Primo Central

41. 41 What is Primo Central? Centralized Primo index; hosted and maintained by Ex Libris Includes data from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators Available to all Primo customers Available to all MetaLib customers as a search target Designed to index hundreds of millions of scholarly materials

42. 42 What is Primo Central for? Serves as a central index for scholarly materials Primarily articles and e-books, but also other materials of interest Items that are of global and regional academic significance Enables Primo to present one, blended result list Supports Primo’s proven high level of performance and relevance ranking quality

43. 43 Primo Central Content Articles, e-books, and possibly other e-content Bibliographic metadata Abstracts Full text Type of content is subject to the agreement with the information provider

44. 44 Ex Libris Manages Primo Central Hosting and ongoing maintenance Signing agreements with information providers to obtain their data Harvesting, normalizing, and adding content

45. 45 Ongoing Update EBSCO, AIP, BMJ, IOP, Project Muse, and more XMLMARCHTMLPDFSGMLONIX Normalization of Publisher Data Primo Central Index

46. 46 Primo Search and Primo Central Primo Central fits in the Primo architecture as another Primo index External resources are seamlessly available and blended with local result. Can be tailored to the specific needs of institutional users.

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48. 48 PC – V3 – Crime & Punishment

49. 49 PC – V3 – Request

50. 50 PC – V3 - Recommendations

51. 51 PC – V3 – online

52. 52 Primo Publisher Program Ex Libris is in negotiation and active discussion with all key global providers and main regional providers of scholarly materials Comprehensive content roadmap has been created with priorities set according to Library Partner requests Sample data received from many providers prior to agreements being finalized

53. 53 Primo Publisher Program Response from providers is extremely positive; they embrace new tools to enhance discoverability of their content Currently loading more than 55.000 journals with c. 300 million items from 50+ providers (goal is half a billion by end 2010) Mostly articles Some as full text

54. 54 Publisher on board (April 2010) Acoustical Society of America (ASA) American Accounting Association American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) American Astronomical Society (AAS) American Helicopter Society (AHS) International - The Vertical Flight Society American Institute of Physics (AIP) American Psychological Association (APA) AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing BioMedCentral BMJ Publishing Group Cambridge University Press Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) EBSCO Emerald Group Publishing Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) Gale Hindawi Publishing Human Frontier Science Program Publishing (HFSP) Ingram Digital/MyIlibrary IOP Publishing and Publishing Partners JBJS JSTOR Laser Institute of America (LIA) National Library of Medicine Medline National Library of Medicine PubMedCentral Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Oxford Publishing (OUP) Physics Essays Publication (PEP) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Project MUSE Publishing Technology (IngentaConnect) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Society for Information Display SPIE TIRE Society University of Chicago Press

55. 55 Primo Central Partners

56. 56 Live Demo Primo

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58. 58 Thank You ! juergen.kuessow@exlibrisgroup.com