Updated version of the presentation given in the "Pimp your OPAC" session at COSI 2009 Conference

1. A Hipper HIP
Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk

2. Preamble
• Presentation available at:
– www.slideshare.net/daveyp/
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3. Contents
• Spellchecker
• xISBN
• Google Book Search
• ticTOCs
• …and more?

4. Spell checker
• All OPAC keyword searches were
monitored over a six month period
• Approx 23% of searches gave zero
results
– 74 people entered “renew” as a keyword(!)
• Users expect suggestions and prompts,
not “dead end” pages

5. Spell checker

6. Implementing a spellchecker
• GNU Aspell
– http://aspell.net/
– http://aspell.net/win32/
– http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Aspell/
• Yahoo Web Services – Spelling Suggestion
– http://tinyurl.com/yahooss

7. Implementing a spellchecker
bethovn

8. Other editions

9. Other editions
• Uses web services provided by OCLC and
LibraryThing to locate other editions and
related works within local holdings
– www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/
– www.librarything.com/api

10. Other editions

11. Email alerts

12. RSS feeds

13. RSS feeds

14. RSS feeds

15. Getting XML from HIP

16. Getting XML from HIP
• Add the following to the end of the web
page URL:
&GetXML=true

17. Getting XML from HIP

18. Google Book Search

19. ticTOCs

20. ticTOCs

21. Virtual shelf browser

22. Item usage