Next Generation OPAC Technologies and COPPUL Looking into the Future

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Next Generation OPAC Technologies and COPPUL
Looking into the Future

• Dan Mirau, Library Director, Concordia University
  College of Alberta Library

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COPPUL Strategic Plan Research, Teaching and
Learning Explore Improved Catalogue Access
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Discover Gather Create Share
John Unsworth. Scholarly Primitives What Methods
Do Humanities Researchers Have in Common and How
Might Our Tools Reflect This? Humanities
Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental Practice
Symposium, Kings College, London, May 13, 2000.
http//jefferson.village.virginia.edu/jmu2m/Kings
.5-00/primitives.html
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Find Gather Synthesize Produce Share
John Unsworth. Scholarly Primitives What Methods
Do Humanities Researchers Have in Common and How
Might Our Tools Reflect This? Humanities
Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental Practice
Symposium, Kings College, London, May 13, 2000.
http//jefferson.village.virginia.edu/jmu2m/Kings
.5-00/primitives.html
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Improve the ease with which researchers can
discover library resources by providing next
generation search functionality in the Public
Access Catalogue (PAC)
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Defining Next-Generation
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Next Gen Themes Intuitive and forgiving Faceted
browsing Web 2.0
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Specific Features
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Spell-Check Auto-correction as you
type? Terminology suggestions? Error checking?
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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Endeca at McMaster
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Stop Words Interpreted intelligently? (e.g. It
by Stephen King)
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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Relevance Ranking Relevant results first? Can
ranking criteria be adjusted?
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Endeca at NCSU
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Real Time Availability How many clicks? Where is
request button?
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click 1
Ex Libris Primo at University of Minnesota
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click 2
Ex Libris Primo at University of Minnesota
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click 3
Ex Libris Primo at University of Minnesota
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User Created Content Tags Lists Ratings Reviews
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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Faceted Browsing Can you browse by format,
genre, audience level, series, subject heading,
etc?
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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Endeca at McMaster
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Endeca at NCSU
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Search Scoping Can you specify location? Can you
narrow or broaden search?
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Bibliocommons at Oakville Public Library
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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RSS Support and Persistent Links
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Endeca at NCSU
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Endeca at NCSU
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Endeca at NCSU
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AquaBrowser at University of Chicago
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Social Web Integration Post to Delicious,
Facebook, etc?
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OCLC WorldCat Local
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The Technology Behind Next Gen OPACS
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Harvested MARC Records
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Rapid Re-indexing
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You Still Need an ILS You Still Need an OPAC (for
now)
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Recommendations
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The COPPUL Context Multiple ILS providers No
central node for implementation Costly for
non-hosted products Provincial variations in
planning
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WorldCat Groups Virtual Union Catalogue Based on
WorldCat Works well with Consortia Hosted
Solution Pricing based on FTE Limitations with
Records
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WorldCat Groups All new Groups subscribers get
the WorldCat.org interface

• spell check, stop words and relevance
• facets and scoping
• user content, social web integration
• RSS support
• real-time availability and request button still
  relies on ILS supplied PAC interface
• no ILL software tie-in

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Where does COPPUL go now?
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• Next Steps
• Get pricing on WorldCat Groups
• Identify issues with COPPUL loads
• Gauge interest among COPPUL in WorldCat Local