Andrew K' Pace

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Web2 and Unicorn Its Easier than You Might Think
Andrew K. Pace NCSU Libraries March 16, 2003
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Web2_at_NCSU

• Web2 Classic Review 1999-2003
• Why Web2 is the Developers Friend
• Web2 Classic-to-Unicorn
• Learning from My Mistakes
• NCSU Future Development

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Better to be mis-quoted than never quoted at all
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Web2_at_NCSU FactSheet

• Live with Web2 since August 1999
• NCSU v1 August 1999 (DRA v1.2)
• NCSU v2 December 1999 (DRA v1.2)
• NCSU v3 October 2000 (DRA v1.3)
• NCSU v4 Fall 2001 (DRA v1.3)
• MFHD Site with 1.5M Bibs, 3M items, and 35K Users
• 2001-2002 Statistics 1,864,654 sessions
  generating 2,388,950 queries
• One person solely responsible for Web2
  maintenance and coding

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Web2 Classic Review

• Home page modification
• Hitlist modification
• Printer friendly pages
• Fuzzy matching
• 856 field modification
• Enhanced record display

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Web2 Customization - Home.html
Form should follow function 1. Where am I
searching? 2. What am I looking for? 3. What are
my search terms? 4. What limits do I want to
apply to all of the above?
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Web2 Customization - Home.html
Phrase, Keyword, Number Searching from a single
screen
Single/Multiple Searches separated Advanced
not used
Logical, sequential order for conducting a search
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Web2 NCSU Features - Hitlist.html
DESIGN
FEATURES

• Simplified navigation language
• Static search box
• Greying effect for disabled options

• Change index / Resubmit searches
• Download / Email / Printer Friendly
• Jump feature (javascript)

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Web2 NCSU Features - hitlist.html
Series title displays
Alternate authors display
Date right-justified for post-sort readability
Hitlist options display in a drop-down
Holdings information in default hitlist (MFHD)
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Web2 NCSU Features - print_.html
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Web2 NCSU Features - Fuzzy Matching
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Web2 NCSU Features New Fuzzy Matching
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Web2 NCSU Features 856

• Inc856.html
• 856 u
• 856 u 3
• 856 u 3 z
• 856 u z z
• 856 a u
• 856 y u (yikes!)

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Web2 NCSU Features 856
856 - Bib
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Web2 NCSU Features Record Display
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Why Web2 is the developers friend

• We owe it to patrons to customize the Web OPAC
• The Web2 macro is easy
• Upgrades made simple
• Code is sharable with nothing else but a Web
  browser
• Its fun!

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Web2-Unicorn, a.k.a. WebTooneyCorn
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Getting Started
My friend, Otto.
welcome.html
Post live-date
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Making the Changes MARC
Unicorn server does not understand subfields
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Making the Changes MARC
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Making the Changes Hitlist
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Making the Changes home.html
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Making Changes MFHD and Holdings

• ITEM
• SERIAL
• ACQ

Migrated holdings
Post migration holdings
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Making Changes Item Holdings
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Making Changes MFHD and Holdings

• Bib MFHD vs. Serial MFHD
• MFHD for dead runs
• 843 for reprints
• 864/865 holdings
• Summary vs. system generated holdings
• Latest received moves to bibliographic display

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A Few Extra Tips

• UNICORN RECORD DUMP
• Use the log files
• Search part programs on Unicorn server
• Unicorn server error logs
• Related headings

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My Mistakes

• House Book Flu season 6 spring semester
  presentations
• Web2 Apache Unix-ification File Cleanup
• RBR and MBR
• Keyword searching
• External Links

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Future Development

• Get the MARC record back!
• Shopping cart
• Search titles nearby on shelf
• Spell-checker
• Javascript solutions
• iBistro/iLink/Web2 will be one.

How will you shape your future?
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Full Presentation and all Web2 code available at

• http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/presentations/sirsi2002/

Andrew K. Pace Head, Systems NCSU
Libraries andrew_pace_at_ncsu.edu