FRBR and facets provide flexible, work-centric access to items in library collections

McGrath, Kelley; Kules, Bill; Fitzpatrick, Chris

doi:10.1145/1998076.1998085

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“…While there has been work done aimed at improving this, primarily in adapting LCSH for a facet‐based search (Dean, 2003; McGrath, 2007), the lack of coordination between LCSH and users' expectations for being able to logically narrow their search results with facets remains an issue. McGrath, Kules, and Fitzpatrick (2011) and others continue work on this, believing a faceted display will benefit libraries and their patrons; they are currently evaluating using a modification of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records integrated with facets to pose these questions to the searcher and allow them to search without having prior knowledge of the collection.…”

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A tale of two interfaces: How facets affect the library catalog search

Ramdeen

Hemminger

2011

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand

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In the summer of 2008 all University of North Carolina libraries switched from a traditional library catalog interface supporting text-based searching (TextOnly) to a text and facet-based interface (TextFacet) to improve users' search experiences. This study seeks to understand the differences between these two interfaces and how they affect the search experience of the novice user. In this study, 40 participants were asked to search for resources using both interfaces. Their search times and accuracy were measured across three types of search tasks (known, partially known, and exploratory ). After completing the searches, they were asked a series of questions about their experiences. The data were analyzed in order to identify strengths and weaknesses in both search interfaces. Thirty-six out of 40 participants preferred the TextFacet interface to the TextOnly interface. Using three dependent variables-time, accuracy, and rating-the two interfaces were compared and interactions were tested with the three task types. Search times for the TextFacet were shorter and participants preferred the TextFacet search interface over the TextOnly search interface. Performances across the three task types were different in terms of search time. The partially known and exploratory task types showed similar distributions for rating and accuracy. These distributions were distinctly different from the known task type. The results of this study may assist libraries in developing improved library catalog search interfaces that utilize facets as well as text searching.

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A tale of two interfaces: How facets affect the library catalog search

Ramdeen

Hemminger

2011

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand

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“…McGrath et al [16] present a multi-faceted search interface to improve the searcher access to library collections of movies and programs. For the same use case, Wilson and Schraefel present a directional column-faceted browser that provides information about relationships within an digital library [24].…”

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“…Faceted search can be seen as interactively explorating data according to different dimensions [7,16]. This process may be iterative, which is called drilling down along one or more dimensions.…”

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Semantically faceted navigation with topic pies

Deuschel

Greppmeier²,

Humm³

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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Faceted search allows navigating through large collections along different dimensions in order to find relevant objects efficiently. Traditional faceted search systems often suffer from a lack of usability; furthermore facets are often static and independent from the search result set. In this paper, we present a dynamic semantic topical faceting approach. It uses a pie menu called topic pie that allows visualisation of facets and user interaction. Depending on the search query, the topic pie presents a set of topics and major topics which help the user to drill down the search result set to relevant objects efficiently as well as to browse exploratively through the collection. The underlying algorithm optimises the conflicting goals relevance and diversity while avoiding information overload. It reveals a good performance on large data sets. As our use-case, we chose literature research in scientific libraries. An evaluation shows major advantages of our approach compared to state-of-the-art faceted search techniques in nowadays library portals.

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FRBR and facets provide flexible, work-centric access to items in library collections

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A tale of two interfaces: How facets affect the library catalog search

A tale of two interfaces: How facets affect the library catalog search

Semantically faceted navigation with topic pies

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