McDreamy OPAC: Creating a Vision for Next Generation Search Tools

Is McDreamy the missing link? YES!

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library. westervillelibrary .org Enriched content. DECOUPLED. Customize. Web Integration.

Get into the driver’s seat! (On a dark and stormy night!) PHOTO CREDIT: J.J. Verhoef, Flickr.

Get into the

driver’s seat!

(On a dark and stormy night!)

The Search Discovery Platform: A Visual Representation

PHOTO CREDIT: Kevin Dooley, Flickr. Clouds WEATHER WARNING: No two clouds are exactly alike. (Discovery vs Refinement)

Opposites Aquabrower > Discover Encore > Refine

PHOTO CREDIT: Stuck in Customs, Flickr. Relevance

PHOTO CREDIT: Sarah Parrott, Flickr. Tagging

PHOTO CREDIT: Bern@t, Flickr. Harvesting

PHOTO CREDIT: Annetta82, Flickr. Facets

Marketplace Explosion The Search Discovery Market

The Search Discovery Market

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library. westervillelibrary .org Endeca, ProFind. NC State . WorldCatLocal, OCLC. Washington State University . AquaBrowser, MediaLab Solutions. Queens Public & Columbus Metropolitan . Encore, III. Westerville Public Library . Primo, ExLibris. Vanderbilt U . The Founders (before 2007):

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library. westervillelibrary .org Enterprise, SirsiDynix. San Diego Public Library . Destiny Quest, Follett. Creekview HS in GA . LS2 PAC, TLC. Terrebonne Public Library , LA. The New Dependent Kids (2008): VTLS, Visualizer.

Jessi Crim-Weithman, Associate Director of Support Services. Westerville Public Library. westervillelibrary .org Ann Arbor Public Library . III wrapped in Drupal. University-Funded open source projects: Solrpac, Miami U . VUFind, Villanova U . Blacklight, U of Virginia Polaris’s PowerPAC . Koha, LibLime. Athens Co Public Library . The Ones to Watch:

The Three Step Program on Developing a Vision for Search

Play, play, play! Go spend an hour on Amazon, followed by half an hour on Flickr, followed by…. (you get the idea!)

Make friends with a cataloger Data is powerful!

Make friends

with a cataloger

Data is powerful!

Go work the reference desk Get to know the users!

Ten Trends to Watch

It’s a Go, Go World WorldCat Mobile: www.worldcat.org/m (Find a WorldCat library near you …)

Voice to Search SpinVox www.spinvox.com Converts spoken word to text Applications: Voicemail, Blogging, Texting, Memos, etc.

Visual Pattern Recognition Snaptell www.snaptell.com A marketing spin, but potential for libraries is unlimited.

Face Recognition Search Riya beta: Visual Search www.riya.com Sophisticated person recognition software.

Social Search StumbleUpon www.stumbleupon.com Recommends websites you might like based on your recommendations, people you like and identified interests. {Amazon model}

FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Amazon gets it! Library Thing gets it, too!

Deliverable Content Searching isn’t just for fun! No really, it isn’t! NetFlix iTunes Kindle eReader iPhone

Searching isn’t just for fun!

No really, it isn’t!

NetFlix

iTunes

Kindle

eReader iPhone

Widgets DEFINED: a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation.

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Enriched Content Syndetics ICE Library Thing for Libraries Video Detective Brodart’s Web Links Flickr APIs Google Books! books.google.com

Syndetics ICE

Library Thing for Libraries

Video Detective

Brodart’s Web Links

Flickr APIs

Google Books!

books.google.com

Influence your vendor Before you sign Development partner Beta tester

Before you sign

Development partner

Beta tester

I wish our OPAC was more like _______ because ________.

Questions? Presentation is available at: slideshare.com/weithman

Thank you! Jessi Crim-Weithman Associate Director of Support Services Westerville Public Library 126 S. State St., Westerville, OH 43081 Email: Jessi at westervillelibrary .org