IDS Search Mike Curtis Systems Librarian Broome Community College

IDS Search Situation/Problem/Opportunity:  The interlibrary loan consortia, Information Delivery Services (IDS), provides excellent delivery service for library materials among consortia members. However, there is no discovery service that allows library patrons to search the combined collections of the IDS consortia.

IDS Search Purpose Statement (Goals):  IDS Search will provide patrons a well designed, relevance ranking discovery tool that simultaneously searches the IDS member library collections.  Enrichment of the search results with additional data (i.e. Google Books) or services (i.e. ILLiad) will be seamlessly integrated.  Search scoping allowing the patron to seamlessly search and easily recognize search results on the local, consortial, and national/world-wide levels.

IDS Search Methods  Search of library holdings based on OCLC WorldCat API  Additional systems Aleph  Screen scraping & x-server (OpenURL linking into) ILLiad Google Books for cover images Yahoo! Spellcheck OCLC xISBN  Languages used: PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS

IDS Search Proof of Concept Development Team (Spring 2009)‏  Technical Group Adam Traub, (VZJ) Saint John Fisher College Andy Perry, (ZLM) SUNY New Paltz Michael Mulligan, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center  Usability Group Emily Hart, (VYQ) Upstate Medical Center Katie Sacco, (XFM) SUNY Fredonia Diane Madrigal, (NYG) New York State Library

IDS Search Benefits of a custom search interface  Flexibility Quick development Respond to user needs Open standards Collaborate with others  Low cost (but not free)‏ Drawbacks  Dependent on third party APIs  Programming skills/participation

IDS Search Interface features  Relevance ranking  Spellcheck  Real time circ status on results page  Abstract/summary on results page  Direct links on metadata (author, subject words, etc.)‏  Direct OpenURL linking into ILLiad, etc.  Facebook/Twitter links  Citation links  Google Books previews  Four search scopes  Search results as RSS feeds  OpenSearch browser plugin

IDS Search Online demos  YSY&search_scope=group&group_member[0]=YSY &group_member[1]=BNG YSY&search_scope=group&group_member[0]=YSY &group_member[1]=BNG  /form.php?oclc_symbol=YSY /form.php?oclc_symbol=YSY

IDS Search Hosting and Development  IDS and OLIS exploring central hosting options “Standalone” i.e. ready-to-use, no set up required version for all members will be centrally hosted Target go live date: January 2010 Local CSS and “branding” options in config  Open Source project Will be a open source framework Download, edit, and host locally Edit and submit to central hosted service

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