Ex Libris Primo
Sofia
July 2013
Roman Piontek
Key-Account Manager
 Ex Libris Ltd., 2012 - Internal and Confidential
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What users want:
Primo
Print
Search
Electronic
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Digital
What users want:
A single, unified
discovery layer
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Access to all
resources,
regardless of type
or location
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Different Material Types
Striving for Better Experience
Useful
Users can accomplish their goals
Usable
Users can easily perform tasks
Desirable
Users enjoy their experience
Source: “Best Practices In User Experience(UX) Design” by Forrester Research
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/industryinsights/solution
s/pdfs/Forrester_Best_Prac_In_User_Exp.pdf
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Next generation catalog apps offer a
mix of features: faceted navigation,
keyword searching, relevancy-ranked
search results, “did you mean?” search
revisions, item recommendations,
RSS feeds, and mechanisms to collect
and display user feedback.
Marshall Breeding
Vanderbilt University
Primo in a nutshell (1)
“One stop Search”
Simple & Intuitive
“Find it & Get it”
Front-End Solution
Integration of
All Libraries and Sources
Full OPAC-Integration
incl. User Account
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Primo in a nutshell (2)
Data and Interface Control
(Web-Based “Back Office”)
Scalability
Expandability
Documented APIs / Web Services
Large Community
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The Basics
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What is Advanced Discovery ?
Relevant Results
Transformational
Library-Driven
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Broad Topic Searches
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Broad Topic Searches: Competition
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Known Item Searches
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Example 1: Primo
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Example 1: Competition
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Example 2: Primo
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Example 2: Competition
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Example 3: Primo
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Example 2: Competition
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ScholarRank™
Query
Match
Item’s Value
Score
User
Advanced
Basic
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Personalized Ranking
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Personalized Ranking - Example
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Additional Features
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Users can share
results into Facebook
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Search by date range
Users can add an
entire page’s results
to their e-shelf
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Additional saving
and sharing
options—EndNote
and Mendeley
Sign in at the
point of need
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Library-Driven
Library-Driven
Relevant Results
Transformational
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Primo Architecture
Front End
Indexing (Lucene)
Back
Office
Normalisation (PNX)
(Web Based)
Back-End Systems
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Library-Defined Ranking
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Library-Defined Ranking
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Consortial Usage
Institution 1
Institution 2
Administration
Institution 3
Patron Empowerment
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Patron Empowerment
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My Account
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Saved Queries
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Personal E-Shelf
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Transformational
Transformational
Relevant Results
Library-Driven
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript...
Primo Frontend(s)
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New Ways to Discover Information
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bX hot articles
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Multiple Data Sources - EAD
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Multiple Data Sources – Content Neutrality
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Integration with Different Systems
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Primo – Rosetta Live Sites
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Mobile Interface
Out-of-the-box
Platform-agnostic
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Map “Where to find?” the book
Search
New Arrivals
Search
Suggestion List
Search
Local Tabs
Search
Summary: Advanced Discovery
Relevant Results
Library-Driven
Transformational
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ILS
N
Primo Around the World
>1900
in 6 Years
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Primo In Action – New York University
Average Number of Sessions per Day
Primo In Action – New York University
Average Length of Session
Search response time (before and after Primo)
Search
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12
10
8
Before Primo
After Primo
6
4
2
0
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Position within the results set
Search
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14
12
10
Before Primo
8
After Primo
6
4
2
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Thank You!
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