(Yale University Library’s VuFind implementation) & OPAC requirements for CJK plus...

(Yale University Library’s VuFind implementation)

& OPAC requirements for CJK plus________________________

CEAL Committee on Technical Processing

& Committee on Public Services

Joint Panel Presentation

March 24, 2010

by

Tang Li, Public Service Librarian

Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Catalog LibrarianEast Asia Library, Yale University Library

March 2010

Outline_____________________________________________________

• Yale’s VUfind implementation: Yufind– Background– Project history– Current functionalities

• Current multilingual, multi-script project– Scope / objectives– Project outline & outcomes– Desired requirements (examples)

Background_____________________________________________________

VuFind community

Yufind Project History_____________________________________________________

Phase I: 4/08

Prototype collaboration

Phase II. 7/08. 8 million records; Yale look & feel; query builder

Phase III, IV. 12/08, 3/09.

GBS links; Assessment group report; better ingest mapping; templates

Summer Prod. 9/09. ‘industrial strength’ footing ; faster system response time; MyResearch; module, better synching

Arcadia: Non-Western language support; WorldCat Reclamation, WC APIs, PageRank

March 2010

March 2010

Yufind: current functionalities_____________________________________________________

March 2010

Current Project Objectives_____________________________________________________

• Identification of issues related to multilingual, multi-script functionality in MARC-based discovery applications

• Identification of desirable functionality• Gathering user requirements and expectations

• To seek for grants and collaboration

opportunities

Current Project Scope_____________________________________________________

VuFind community

Lucene/Solr community

Optimization in “Lucene/Solr” (search engine that powers

Yufind, and much more) for support of multilingual, multi-script material access

March 2010

Project outline & expected outcomes_____________________________________________________

• 6 month+ project (started late Nov. 2009)• Literature / environmental scan• Consultation to librarians, language experts,

faculty & researcher community, etc. (meeting, survey, focus group interviews …)

• Publish a report and share the findings• More collaborations for implementations

March 2010

Major Issues for CJK, and beyond …_____________________________________________________

• Word segmentation and spaces• How to handle character variations

– Traditional vs simplified, shin-kyu kanji, hanja vs hangul, MARC-8 equivalents vs IME input

• Interface – localization of labels, instructions, and facet values,

etc.

• Sort order– “relevance” only? How about others?

• Display of CJK headings – they are not authority-controlled ...

March 2010

& OPAC requirements for CJK+_____________________________________________________

We will send you the details after the conference, so …

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Comments, feedback, future collaboration, etc., contact us!

Tang Li: tang.li@yale.edu

Keiko Suzuki: keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Thank you very much!!