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presentation given to the SirsiDynix European User Group Conference 2007 in Barcelona

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May 2007 Barcelona - Enhancing HIP 1

Enhancing HIP

Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

d.c.pattern@hud.ac.ukhttp://library.hud.ac.uk/barcelona/

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Some Background• definitely not OPAC 2.0• enhancements to the existing OPAC

– user suggestions from surveys– “2.0” inspired features– borrowing good ideas from other web

sites – new features launched with no/low

publicity– “perpetual beta”

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Some Background• required extra web servers and a

MySQL database• required staff buy-in and a

willingness to experiment and take risks

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Spell Checker• we monitored keyword searches over

a six month period and discovered approx 23% of searches gave zero results– most OPACs present the user with a

“dead end” page– a good search engine should still give

the user options on a failed search (“did you mean?”)

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Spell Checker

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Spell Checker• spell checker based on a common

word dictionary or your own holdings?

• spell checker might highlight your cataloguing errors1!

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Keyword Suggestions• failed keyword searches are cross

referenced with www.answers.com to provide new search suggestions

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Keyword Suggestions

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Borrowing Suggestions• we had details of over 2,000,000 CKOs

spanning 10 years stored in the library management system and gathering virtual dust

• Web 2.0 – “Data is the Next Intel Inside1”• historic circulation data can be mined2 to

uncover the hidden trends and links between potentially disparate library items

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Borrowing Suggestions

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Lending Paths

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Ratings and Comments

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Other Editions• uses FRBR-y web services provided

by OCLC and LibraryThing to locate other editions and related works within local holdings– OCLC’s xISBN1

– LibraryThing’s thingISBN2

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Other Editions

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RSS Feeds

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RSS Aggregators

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a9.com (“Stealth OPAC”)

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Email Alerts

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“If you build it, will they come?”

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Popular Books• 100 most looked at books on the

OPAC in the last 7 days– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/popularbooks.pl

• popular books from the last 24 hours that haven't been looked at much before– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/popularbooks2.pl

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Playing with AJAX• search suggestions

– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax.pl• recent search keywords

– http://library.hud.ac.uk/perl/ajax5b.pl• recent search phrases

– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax3.pl

– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/modperl/ajax4.pl

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“I borrowed a green book…”• Searching for books by the colour of

their covers…– http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/colour.pl

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Pictures made of books

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Keyword search cloud (over 6 months)

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Failed Keywords (over 6 months)

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Finally, an OPAC replacement?

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