Development of (EDS) – Applications and Design

STKS (2015-10-22)

Presentor

Currently

Tom Widerström | Discovery Service Engineer | Nordics

Academic background

Master of Science in Information Technology from Linköpings University

Past experince

Consultant and product manager at a Swedish IT company

Agenda

General on EBSCO Discovery Service

EDS

Apps in EDS

EDS – Apps

Example of an EDS App

Development Life cycle

Q/A

General on EBSCO Discovery

Service

What is Discovery service?

EDS brings together the most comprehensive

collection of content — including superior

indexing from top subject indexes, high-end

full text and the entire library collection — all

within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable

discovery layer experience.

EDS; 5 612; 73 %

Primo; 1 407; 18 %

Summon; 673; 9 %

EDS

Primo

Summon

http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014

Library Systems Report 2014, Marshall Breeding

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Early adopters

Late adopters

NISO Report

“The Future of Library

Resource Discovery”

Marshall Breeding

February 18, 2015

EDS, 8,246, 68 %

Primo Central, 1,528, 13 %

Summon; 697; 6 %

Enterprise; 538; 4 %

Encore; 346; 3 %Others; 767; 6 %

Clear choice

Discovery Service Installations

Many use EDS index

Not many

recent sales

EDS – Apps and EBSCO Discovery Service

AppsBranding

• Align the discovery system with your sites

• Customization framework in place to ease

adjustments

• Easy administration interface

EBSCO Apps & Cloud Services

gives you easy access to great apps

directly from the web. Our DSEs

(i.e. me) are here to help you both

with them and enhance the EDS

experince with new apps.

Agenda

General on EBSCO Discovery Service

EDS

Apps in EDS

EDS – Apps

Development Life cycle

Example of an EDS App

Q/A

9000+ sites globally using EDS

30+ Discovery Service Engineers

Dedicated User research team

Customer driven development

Apps – Life cycle

Things change, we adopt and then things change again.

Customer

Idea / issue

Solution /

prototype

EBSCO’s

Development Team

EBSCO’s

Apps & Cloud Services

Customer unique

request

DSE(s)

Apps – History of an application

Every so often the customer had users telling her that they couldn’t find the resources

they searched for.

Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos, C.L., Newhouse, …. Search

No results were found.

Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos,

C.L., Newhouse, J.P. and McNeil, B.J. Acute Myocardial

Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and

clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical

Association, 1992; 18:2530-2536.

Search

Conclusion: a standard Search box do not handle citations searches very well

Apps – Version 1 of the Citation Resolver

End users wanted to be able to copy and paste citations in order to find resources,

but EDS by design do not handle citations searches very well.

• App that helps parse a citation into

searchable fields for the discovery service.

• Easily added into EDS using customized

Tool bar

• Transparent parsing.

Conclusion: functionality offered to customer in an easy to deploy application

Apps – Version 2 of the Citation Resolver

Users could now easily parse citations using the app, but they still needed to leave

the EDS normal interface in order to do it.

• Fully aligned with EDS overall look and feel

• Multi lingual support

• Extended parsing support with new APIs

Conclusion: we are not just maintaining applications, we try to improve them as well

Apps – continue to grow

Agenda

General on EBSCO Discovery Service

EDS

Apps in EDS

EDS – Apps

Development Life cycle

Example of an EDS App

Q/A

EDS – Questions & answers

Ask as much as you can

Thanks for your time

Kiitos!Tom Widerström

twiderstrom@EBSCO.COM