Presenters: Danielle Cunniff Plumer, David Dorman, Mark Phillips. This session reviewed three different ways or projects that provide faceted searching. Danielle Plumer – Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative. http://texasheritageonline.org/ The Initiative is a statewide plan that unifies previously created pockets, not a centralized database. They have an OAI harvester (to be described later by Mark Phillips), a real time search, and soon – web search. There are metadata synchronization issues, item description issues, and differences in how the different systems display information. So they assign “Collection Level Metadata†to make facets in an institution “profile†that help the user narrow searches and identify the institutions. David Dorman – Faceted Searching in a Metasearch Environment: The Index Data Experience. Index Data (http://www.indexdata.dk/) is a 13 year old company that develops and supports open source software. Talked about a product called MasterKey which searches multi datasets and provides search results with a left…
Author: Kelly Drake
http://library2.0
Edward M. Corrado, The College of New Jersey, http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/ (good website for those interested in open source, and library 2.0 technologies) Abstract: Corrado began with an introduction of web2.0 then walked participants through the transformation of a Library 1.0 page to a Library 2.0 page, all by using freely available, low IT involvement, and commonly accepted web tools. Why Web 2.0? The talk began with a brief introduction on The College of New Jersey, and its Library. The Library has a very large big presence and is an important player on the campus that serves a ‘Millenial’ – those who have grown up online population. Corrado reminded participants that an other important reason to serve and involve the Millenials is that they will soon be professors and leaders of our culture and they want to create. A review of Web 2.0 Web 2.0 supports group interaction, collaborative, leverages wisdom of…
Enhancing the OPAC
Enhancing the OPAC: Tagging the Catalog and Keyword-in-Heading Searching Shawn Carraway, Midlands Technical College Michael Bowden, Harrisburg Area Community College Michael Bowden and Shawn Carraway presented on two major customizations they made to their OPACs Both presenters work with SirsiDynix Unicorn but regardless of vendor any system should be able to, and want to impliment these ideas. Michael presented first on “Keyword in Heading†which he defines as a cross between a keyword search and browse authority search, and which allows the user to do a keyword search on the headings fields. The reason he set this up is because he feels students are not familiar with LCSH searching. The search page is located at: http://lib2.hacc.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/guest?screen=home.html Michael pulls out heading from Sirsi into a separate MySQL database every night after the subject headings are compiled. The search interface then uses a keyword in browse field from which a php search…