Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos
Hi Kelley - I conducted that usability test on Scherzo and wrote that report so I can answer your questions! I think a work-focused approach can work for users, but we had to scale back on what we assumed users would understand on the search results page. After this test of the system, we changed the search results interface to identify within the works list how many scores and recordings contained that work, so the works list looked more like a facet. The works list then wasn't just a list of titles, but was tied more directly to the recordings/scores result list (which is directly below the works list on the search results page). I do think that some of the testing results we saw reflected how users are used to searching for music in traditional catalogs. While the work is a key concept for musicians, they may have gotten used to the fact that searching for or scanning a results list for a work title often isn't easy (or even possible) in a library catalog so either the title of the album or a person's name is the real key to finding stuff. I think that also might have been part of what threw people off seeing the works listed in the search results. They didn't believe they were seeing titles of songs - they thought they were seeing titles of albums or something that was some sort of physical item. They weren't really sure what it was and so they just skipped that list of things. So adding the info that, for example, a work title is found on 5 recordings/scores really helped to identify the works list as such. Music is kind of unique within FRBR since several works can be involved in a single manifestation (recording or score) and a single work can have many different expressions (different performances by different people of the same work). Other types of resources like books and movies don't often line up with the FRBR model the same way. I can't say for sure whether or not the interface we arrived at after this testing ( http://vfrbr.info/scherzo/) could be used for other work-based resources with a works list serving as a facet to narrow down results, but it seems to be a good use of the FRBR model. Here's an example of a search that I think brings out the strength of what this type of works list can do. Searching in Scherzo for something like symphony no. 5 as Keyword results in several works with that same (or similar) title and lots of recordings and scores that contain expressions of all of the different symphony no. 5 works. The facet nature of showing how many recordings/scores contain that work can help to distinguish which work is the symphony no. 5 you actually want and helps identify that works list as a list of symphony no. 5 works by different composers. I hope this is helpful - it was an interesting project to test these FRBRized search concepts and it would be great to see further experiments with this idea, specifically with non-music resources to see if it can be applied or not. Let me know if you have any more questions about what we did with the Scherzo interface and best of luck on your project! Julie Hardesty Metadata Analyst Metadata Resources Systems Library Technologies Indiana University On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Kelley McGrath kell...@uoregon.edu wrote: Thanks, Jon. I have seen the Variations work and also talked to Jenn Riley about it. It has definitely influenced me, although we are going in a slightly different direction and moving images have some different needs from music. One thing about Variations that struck me is this paragraph from the usability testing report ( http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/vfrbr/projectDoc/usability/usabilityTest/ScherzoUTestReport.pdf ): There was an assumption among the development team that works would be a window for organizing and narrowing results in a way that users searching for scores and recordings would find useful. One of the main ideas behind FRBR is that the work, or the intellectual entity that is produced by people and is packaged in many forms, is the core information – Scherzo’s interface reflected that organization. 4 (See Appendix E, Fig. 14 for Scherzo’s search results page.) But the participants tended to latch on to a person’s name and search for that name in a particular role. The reasons for this are not completely clear and further discussion follows, but it is worth bearing this finding in mind. Additionally, from the search results page, work results were clicked only 14 times in comparison to items in recordings scores , which were clicked 65 times. Regardless of how the FRBRized data is organized on the back end, the interface needs to reflect the way users want to search, and that might not mean with search results organized by work. Does this mean that a work-focused approach is not actually what users want or need? Does it mean that the work-centered approach needs to be implemented differently in the user interface? Are these results somehow
[CODE4LIB] Solr Metadata Schemas Survey: Invitation to Participate
Hello - Juliet Hardesty and Courtney Greene at Indiana University Libraries are investigating uses of Apache Solr indexing for discovery and access of large data sets. Specifically we are interested to learn about Solr indexing schema configurations and customizations as part of our work towards providing access to large data sets involving digitized special collections, library catalog records, library services, and electronic subscription databases, journals, and books. As part of this work, we are conducting a survey to gather information about the kinds of Solr schemas being used for indexing and how that comes across to end-users via facets or indexed search fields. If you have been contacted by us previously and have responded to the survey or questions, thank you for your participation. We would like to hear from those of you working with Solr indexes at your institutions or working to combine distinct data sets for single-index searching/browsing via Solr. In addition to the anonymous 6-question survey linked below, please consider responding directly to us regarding the following: 1) For projects involving non-MARC metadata, we are interested in gathering Solr metadata schema examples for sharing. Please respond with an example of your Solr web application’s schema. We will share the gathered schemas with all those who respond. 2) For projects relying on SolrMarc, we are interested in choices you have made in regard to data indexing and faceting; please respond with information about choices you have made in that regard (i.e., the index.properties file within SolrMarc). We will share the gathered information with all those who respond. 3) Do you have usage statistics or user studies about the use of your Solr index or its associated web interface? Please share any information regarding use of facets or indexed search fields or general feedback from users about the Solr web application. Details about this study are provided in the study information sheet included in the following bundled link. Please be sure you read and understand the Study Information Sheet before proceeding to the survey: Solr Metadata Schemas: A Query – http://bit.ly/iub-solr Thank you for taking the time to participate in our research. Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions. Best, Juliet Hardesty (jlhar...@iu.edu) Courtney Greene (crgre...@indiana.edu) Indiana University Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference Travel and the Super Bowl
Nick's is a good place to go, but if it's crowded, Buffa Louie's around the corner on Indiana Ave. (in the old Gable's/Book Nook restaurant) also has a lot of televisions. Another couple spots with good football TV watching are just north of the downtown square - Scotty's at 7th and Walnut St or Coaches at 7th and College Ave. Try Nick's or any of those places and more than likely there will be some room to sit and watch. It will be a mixed bag of Packers and Steelers fans and folks who are still mad the Colts aren't there, so it shouldn't matter where you go. I will be wearing my Cheesehead hat, but really only because I have one. Go Colts (next year)! Buffa Louie's 114 S. Indiana Ave. 812-333-3030 Scotty's Brewhouse 302 N. Walnut St 812-333-5151 Coaches Bar Grille 245 N. College Ave 812-339-3537 Julie On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Mads Villadsen m...@statsbiblioteket.dk wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 08:37 +0100, Michael B. Klein wrote: Hi everybody, Due to a complete lack of convenient flights from the Bay Area to the Cold Area, it looks like I'm going to be making my connection in Chicago on Sunday about the same time the Packers and Steelers are kicking off in Dallas. I'm scheduled to get into Indianapolis around 7:15. Then I'll rent a car and drive to Bloomington. Thanks to the bloat added by the extra commercials and extended halftime show, I *might* make it in time to catch some of the 4th quarter. Anyone else planning to watch the game, in whole or in part? Got any specifics on where? I'll be dragging a colleague along to watch it with me. Hopefully we'll be able to watch the game right from the kick off but it all depends on what shuttle bus we manage to catch from Indianapolis. I know absolutely nothing about the sports bars (or anything else for that matter) in Bloomington but Nick's English Hut seems like a nice enough place and it is located pretty close to the IMU Hotel. So is anyone else up for watching the game? Location details (if anyone knows a better place just say so): Nick's English Hut 423 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408 -- Mads Villadsen m...@statsbiblioteket.dk Statsbiblioteket It-udvikler
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Social Committee Call for Volunteers
Hello Code4lib! Indiana University and Bloomington are looking forward to seeing you all at Code4Lib 2011 in February! We have a wide variety of social activities available - it's what makes Bloomington such a fun place to be - so if you have ideas about what Code4Lib conference go-ers should do while in town or would like to participate as a group leader for outings (direction-giver/ring-leader/ life-of-the-party-er/general-enabler), get in on the conversation now by signing up on the Code4Lib planning wiki: Social Activities Committee http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011_committees_sign-up_page#Social_Activities_Committee We're reviewing ideas from feedback given at last year's conference and have a large list of eating/drinking establishments plus music, comedy, art, theatre, and movie options to offer so help us organize the heck out of your social calendar while you are here! Thanks! Julie Hardesty Digital Library Program Indiana University
