(yale university library’s vufind implementation) & opac requirements for cjk plus...
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(Yale University Library’s VuFind implementation)
& OPAC requirements for CJK plus________________________
CEAL Committee on Technical Processing
& Committee on Public Services
Joint Panel Presentation
March 24, 2010
by
Tang Li, Public Service Librarian
Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Catalog LibrarianEast Asia Library, Yale University Library
March 2010
Outline_____________________________________________________
• Yale’s VUfind implementation: Yufind– Background– Project history– Current functionalities
• Current multilingual, multi-script project– Scope / objectives– Project outline & outcomes– Desired requirements (examples)
Background_____________________________________________________
VuFind community
Yufind Project History_____________________________________________________
Phase I: 4/08
Prototype collaboration
Phase II. 7/08. 8 million records; Yale look & feel; query builder
Phase III, IV. 12/08, 3/09.
GBS links; Assessment group report; better ingest mapping; templates
Summer Prod. 9/09. ‘industrial strength’ footing ; faster system response time; MyResearch; module, better synching
Arcadia: Non-Western language support; WorldCat Reclamation, WC APIs, PageRank
March 2010
March 2010
Yufind: current functionalities_____________________________________________________
March 2010
Current Project Objectives_____________________________________________________
• Identification of issues related to multilingual, multi-script functionality in MARC-based discovery applications
• Identification of desirable functionality• Gathering user requirements and expectations
• To seek for grants and collaboration
opportunities
Current Project Scope_____________________________________________________
VuFind community
Lucene/Solr community
Optimization in “Lucene/Solr” (search engine that powers
Yufind, and much more) for support of multilingual, multi-script material access
March 2010
Project outline & expected outcomes_____________________________________________________
• 6 month+ project (started late Nov. 2009)• Literature / environmental scan• Consultation to librarians, language experts,
faculty & researcher community, etc. (meeting, survey, focus group interviews …)
• Publish a report and share the findings• More collaborations for implementations
March 2010
Major Issues for CJK, and beyond …_____________________________________________________
• Word segmentation and spaces• How to handle character variations
– Traditional vs simplified, shin-kyu kanji, hanja vs hangul, MARC-8 equivalents vs IME input
• Interface – localization of labels, instructions, and facet values,
etc.
• Sort order– “relevance” only? How about others?
• Display of CJK headings – they are not authority-controlled ...
March 2010
& OPAC requirements for CJK+_____________________________________________________
We will send you the details after the conference, so …
Please participate in the survey!! Yufind Home: http://yufind.library.yale.edu
Yufind updates: http://labs.library.yale.edu/yufind
Comments, feedback, future collaboration, etc., contact us!
Tang Li: [email protected]
Keiko Suzuki: [email protected]
Thank you very much!!