RE: lib-ir: [Fwd: Scholars' Bank upgrade & re-design]

["Mark Watson" <mrwatson@uoregon.edu>]

Wow!  That's a huge improvement.   Thanks Corey.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu
[mailto:owner-lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Corey A Harper
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:49 AM
To: lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: lib-ir: [Fwd: Scholars' Bank upgrade & re-design]


I've just tweaked the configuration to default to "and" instead of "or". 
  I think this will make a tremendous difference for our patrons.

Try some of October's top searches in both Scholars' Bank & SB-Clone on 
irtest (http://irtest.uoregon.edu/sbclone/) to see the difference.

self-reliance author:
  SB: 18 results, SB-Clone: 1774
dissociative reactions:
  SB: 162 results, SB-Clone: 727
university of oregon index of economic indicators:
  SB: 240 results, SB-Clone: 2802

SB Clone is a snapshot of SB as of 2 weeks ago so the difference in 
content is not substantial, and would skew results the other direction 
anyway.

-Corey

Mary Grenci wrote:
> I think we should change the boolean operator to "and" asap.  The "or" 
> operator makes many searches almost useless.
> 
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> Corey A Harper wrote:
>> A few notes on the new release.  Of the new features listed on the 
>> release notes linked below, I think there are a few that are 
>> significant, although have not yet been implemented:
>>
>>> * Configurable boolean search operator  
>> We've had comments about this before.  The default boolean "or" is not 
>> how any other library search tools work.  We can now easily configure 
>> this to use "and" as the default instead.
>>
>>> * Browse by subject feature  
>> This is very useful, and has been turned on on Scholars' Bank.
>>
>>> * Content verification through periodic checksum checking  
>> I'll have to look into how this one works.
>>
>> We skipped over release 1.3.2, going directly from 1.3.1 to 1.4.  The 
>> only significant functionality added in 1.3.2 was the ability to 
>> Configure metadata fields shown on simple item display.  There wasn't 
>> a pressing need to work with that at the time, but I can see some uses 
>> for it at this point.
>>
>> Let Mary or I know if you have any questions or comments about the 
>> upgrade or new design.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Corey
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Scholars' Bank upgrade & re-design
>> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:08:46 -0700
>> From: Corey A Harper <charper@uoregon.edu>
>> To: Library Faculty <lib-faculty@lists.uoregon.edu>,  Library Staff 
>> <lib-staff@lists.uoregon.edu>
>>
>> I've updated the look of Scholars' Bank to more closely match the
>> Libraries' new Web Site.
>>
>> I've also upgraded the underlying software to the most current version
>> of DSpace, version 1.4.
>>
>> A list of new features available in version 1.4 can be found in the
>> release notes:
>> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=594714
>>
>> If you notice anything unusual, either with the design or functionality,
>> please report the problem to either Mary Grenci or myself.
>>
>> -Corey
> 

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Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
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