Aqua Browser Implementation at Oklahoma State University

AquaBrowser Implementation at Oklahoma State University presented by Anne Prestamo Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services Oklahoma State University Libraries Five College Librarians' Council Next Generation Library Catalogs November 7, 2007

Why an alternative interface?
Intuitive
Interactive
No training required
Expose hidden treasures
Enriched content beyond MARC data
OPACs Suck 1 ; Lipstick on a Pig 2
1 “How OPACs Suck” – Three part series of blog postings by Karen Schneider Part 1- http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/how-opacs-suck-part-1-relevance-rank-or-the-lack-of-it.html Part 2- http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/how-opacs-suck-part-2-the-checklist-of-shame.html Part 3- http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/05/how-opacs-suck-part-3-the-big-picture.html 2 Roy Tennant — April 15, 2005 http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA516027.html?display=Digital+LibrariesNews&industry=Digital+Libraries& industryid=3760&verticalid=151

“ Recently I viewed a library catalog redesign before it went public. This was the first major change in many years, and it turned out to be quite an improvement to the look and feel of the system. But despite this, it still sucks. Badly.”
2 Roy Tennant — April 15, 2005 http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA516027.html?display=Digital+LibrariesNews&industry=Digital+Libraries& industryid=3760&verticalid=151

“ So what can most of us do? We need to focus more energy on important, systemic changes rather than cosmetic ones. If your system is more difficult to search and less effective than Amazon.com (and whose isn't?), then you have work to do. Stop asking for minor tweaks from vendors. After all, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still very much a pig.”
2 Roy Tennant — April 15, 2005 http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA516027.html?display=Digital+LibrariesNews&industry=Digital+Libraries& industryid=3760&verticalid=151

“ And my favorite quote from Robin's [Murray] talk was in his comment on something Pat Sommers, the CEO of SirsiDynix, said in a presentation--about the ILS-- to delegates on Sunday evening. Pat was responding, if I recall correctly, to a question from the floor about why ILS vendors don't innovate more quickly. Pat remarked that his company spends $10 million a year tweaking their systems to respond to requests from customers, and that left scant time and resources to make big changes. Robin rephrased this to describe all that activity as ‘ building twiddly bits .’”
http://scanblog.blogspot.com/search?q=twiddly

756 hits

And then . . . .
January 12, 2006

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Evaluation & Implementation
July 2006 – internal decision to implement new OPAC interface to be live August 2007
Aug 2006 - began discussions with Endeca
Nov 2006 - began discussions with TLC re: AquaBrowser
Mar 2007 - terminated discussions with Endeca

Mar 22 - Loaded bib/holdings records to Medialab test server
real-time circ status retrieved by deep link to WebVoyage
Opens WebVoyage Brief Record in new window
Mar 30 - Signed letter of intent for AquaBrowser (during ACRL)

Apr-June - Continued customization and
modification work on test Server
Serials holdings displays
Relevancy algorithm
Refine elements
Voyager data structure (item type ≠ format)
Language issues (Check out)
June – signed agreement with Syndetics

June 12 - Syndetics ICE content loaded to test server
July 26 - AquaBrowser software installed on local server
Aug 14 - Real-time circ status pulling from Voyager for full record
Aug 15 FTP for daily Voyager exports to local AquaBroswer server

Aug 17-19 - Final frenzy of fixes and tweaks
Aug 20 - Link to BOSS on Library Homepage
Aug 21 - BOSS Search box added to Homepage

Where did that come from?

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Technical Information
Server Requirements:
Ghz+ Intel-based CPU (recommend: dual CPU)
Windows 2003 server
Internet Information Services (IIS) v6
100MB Network Interface Card (recommended: 1GB)

Server Requirements:
Inbound access on port 80
Outbound access on port 80
20GB free HD space (recommended: 50GB)
2GB RAM (recommended: 3GB or more)

Daily Incremental Data Transfer Voyager  AquaBrowser
Bib & MFHD Data
MARCExport runs as cronjob with resulting file FTP’d to AquaBrowser
Item Data
PERL script runs as cronjob with resulting file FTP’d to AquaBrowser
Data is indexed nightly on AquaBrowser server

AquaBrowser queries Syndetics server for ISBN matches on new records
Matching jacket images, TOCs, summaries, and PW reviews are imported to AquaBrowser
New TOCs and summaries are indexed nightly

Reproduced with permission from Karen Calhoun (10/29/07);

From the logfiles
Oct 15 2007
684 WebVoyage searches
1178 BOSS searches
Searches resulting in – 0 – hits
~38% in WebVoyage
~5% in BOSS

From the logfiles
Query: explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the mississippi river to the pacific ocean
WebVoyage
Title search fails
Keyword as phrase 1 hit
Keyword all of these fails
BOSS - 6 hits

From the logfiles
Query: college students working while going to school
WebVoyage
Title search fails
Keyword as phrase fails
BOSS - 5 hits

From the logfiles
Query: mormon racism
WebVoyage
Title search fails
Keyword all of these 1 hit
BOSS - 3 hits
at least one of these is a chapter title that comes from ICE content

From the logfiles
Query: cultural property protection west (u.s.)
WebVoyage
Title search fails
BOSS - 13 hits

From the logfiles
Query: pacific railroads explorations and surveys
WebVoyage
Title search fails
BOSS - 22 hits

From the logfiles
Query: solutions of cyber terrorism
WebVoyage
Title search fails
BOSS - 4 hits

Failed Searches
Some of these can be corrected through forced word associations
Some could be resolved IF user clicked on “Author” tab
Some are typos that were corrected with 2 nd search statement

Some Failed Searches
uniersities andviolence
Donald E. Parker, Value Engineering Theory (Dayton, Ohio: SAVE International, 1998.
organosilicon chemsitry bok
Punlic Tobacco use
stretchy lesson plan

Most Used Refine Dimensions Dimension % Format 23.7 Topics 22.9 Publication Date 15.2 Availability 15.2 Author 6.8 Location 6.1 Circ status 4.1 Language 2.2 Geographical 2.1 Chronological 1.2

Sort Selection Sort Selection % Default (relevancy) 97.8 year 1.5 author 0.6 title 0.0

Made for Librarians
Get snapshot reports about your library’s collection without writing a report query
Search id:*
Click on any “more” link in the Refine Elements

Made for Librarians

What’s Next? – Near Term
LC Subject headings on “Subject” Tab
Dewey classes/subclasses above results display
Call number search and hyperlinked call number in Results and Full Record Display
Canned search to WorldCat from results list screens
RSS Feeds – New Books – past 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks OR custom based on keyword searches

What’s Next? – Jan 2008 & Beyond
Load OSU-Tulsa, OSUCHS, OSU-OKC, OSU-OKM if they wish to do so
Other eight libraries by Aug 2008
Record display with link to ILLIAD to request item from another campus
Add Fed search capability using SerialsSolutions 360 Search with the AquaBrowser Interface
Add MyDiscoveries

A funny thing happened on the way to implementation
Cambridge Information Group bought Bowker - 2001
Bowker bought Syndetics - 2004
ProQuest bought Serials Solutions - 2004
CIG/CSA bought ProQuest - December 2006
Bowker bought MediaLab – June 2007
Ulrichs moves to Serials Solutions – Aug 2007

Questions???
Anne Prestamo
Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services
Oklahoma State University Libraries
(405) 744-9755
[email_address]

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