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Evaluating Cross-database Search Tools Catherine Soehner, Head Christy Hightower, Engineering Librarian Science & Engineering Library University of California, Santa Cruz October 4, 2003 LITA National Forum
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University of California 10 campuses 100’s of libraries California Digital Library
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Our Users Want Easy, intuitive, fast All in one place Instant full text
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Cross-database Searching at UC UC San Diego Database Advisor California Digital Library (CDL)
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What We Wanted Customized for each campus Customized for each library Better functionality Duplicate removal Sorting Integration with full text and ILL Panic Button
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The Panic Button IdeaPanic Designed to search: Full Text All subjects Small number of databases Undergraduate level
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SearchLight Reloaded Project to evaluate commercial software to replace SearchLight
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Process: Vendors Reviewed Web documentation Contacted each vendor Set up demo CDL Checklist Questionnaire
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Interesting Vendor Responses Features R&D Personalization, alert services, vocabulary assistance, deduping, merging Technical infrastructure & programming R&D
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Process: Customers Contacted customers Questionnaire
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Interesting Customer Responses Wish List Interface Control Vendor Responsiveness
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Final Product 30 page report evaluating 5 products Summary chart with top 18 featureschart Final decision Prototypes from top 3 vendors
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7 Interesting Features IP address authentication Number of databases searched Number of database categories allowed Merging and de-duping Sorting Auto-check for non-functioning databases Communication
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Lessons Learned Raise expectations New market Technology ready to meet our imagination Ask pointed questions, such as: Can your software do X today? Keep asking!
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