LINC+Our leap towards a
Web 2.0 OPAC interface
~Lynette Lim, NUS Libraries
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Agenda
• LINC Usability Survey• LINC+• Web 2.0 Features in LINC+• Enriched Content• Summary of Features in LINC+• Web 2.0 Challenges
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Agenda
LINC Usability Survey
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LINC Usability Survey
• Conducted in September 2007
Objectives:• Which features were important to retain• What new features were considered
essential
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New Features Desired by Users
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Survey RankingSurveyRanking
Survey Features New OPAC Features
1 Categorise your search results by subject, author and year Faceted browsing
2 Search across multiple databases and library catalogues Federated searching
3 Most popular or related titles Popular choices
7 Display book covers Enriched content
9 Display the formats of items (e.g. book, CD, journal) as icons
More visual display
13 Spell-check WebPAC Pro
14 Display book reviews by others Syndetic
15 Add your own tags (i.e. using your own keywords to label the item)
Tagging
16 Display tag cloud (i.e. grouping of tags by usage frequency) Tag clouds
17 Add your own book reviews/comments Community reviews
18 RSS feeds RSS feeder
Relevancy ranking
Google-like search
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Agenda
LINC+
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Library Portal
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Library Portal Interface
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Federated Searching
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Web 2.0 Features in LINC+
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Faceted Navigation
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Relevance Ranking
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Tag Clouds
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Trail-of-breadcrumbs
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Popular Choices
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Recently Added
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Enriched Content
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Brief Record View
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Full Record View
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Table of Contents
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Summary
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Review
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Summary of Features in LINC+
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Summary of Features in LINC+
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Agenda
Web 2.0 Challenges
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Web 2.0 Challenges
• Social networking sites– Facebook
• LibraryThing• Tagging and Social bookmarking• RSS feeds
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