2. Background of the study
Purpose of the study
What is WDS
Why WDS
Contents of WDS
Mechanism
Difference between Federated search and WDS
Major WDS service providers
Comparison
Finding
Implementation
3. Background:
The search engine like Google has drastically changed the way of
users in seeking information, where students do not necessarily
require quality information but rather a overview of a topic.
User needs single and simple search strategies. WDS is changing
the way users can search library resources by offering a one-stop
shop.
Brings added value to the presence of the libraries in an
organization.
Improvement over federated search
Purpose: To make people aware about the Concept
To study related issues of Discovery Services
To find out pros and corns of WDS.
4. Web scale discovery service is a single point of entry into a
library’s collections
Feature:
Unified platform to search all the resources including licensed,
open and local collections
Google like single search box
Single results list for all collections
Relevancy ranking across entire results
Connections to full text
Infrastructure, processing and indexing are maintained
remotely by the vendor
5. Increases exposure of the resources
Less Labour intensive
Time Saving
Single search strategy
Single interface to quality resources
Increases the usage statistics of the databases
Reduces Training sessions
6. Digital Collection
E Books
E Database (Open Access, Free or subscribed)
Locally developed contents(online catalogue, the
institutional repositories and its own full text
subscribed electronic content,
Content from locally developed and hosted database
7. Web-scale discovery: A preharvested central index featured with discovery layer
providing a single search across a library’s entire local, open access, and
subscription collections.
Central index:
Meta data index
a technology that hyperlinks to the full text of the content subscribed by the
libraries implementing these solutions.
One of the significant features discrete to web scale discovery content is its ability
to index the local collection of
Discovery layer: The user interfaces and search system for discovering,
displaying, and interacting with the content in library systems
Library Optimization:. The search interface provides multiple searching
strategies, allowing the user to refine on number of filters such as subjects covered,
peer reviewed content, full text and orients it to only library owned content. The
relevancy algorithm and ranking of results is weighed on factors such as,
keywords matching with subject and title of the content, peer review, currency and
surrogates of local print content.
10. Source: http://www.slideshare.net/nikeshn/web-
scale-discovery-vs-federated-search
Federated Search Discovery Service
Index No Index One unified index
Sources No limit, but it effect the
speed when more number of
connectors
Must have agreements
Information Currency Real-time return Depends on index update
Preparation Connector Development Index Development
Control Select sources Some Discovery services
provides publisher facets (
EBSCO discovery
11. Ebsco Discovery Service
ExLibris Primo Central Index
Serial Solution’s Summon service
OCLC’s WorldCat Local (WCL)
12. Ebsco has started the EDS sevice in 2008
Released publicly in 2010
13. Ex Libris Ltd. Has started Primo in 2005
Primo Central Index released officially in mid
2010
14. In 2004 Serial Solutions became a division of
Proquest
The Summon® WDS Service was initiated by
the Serial Solution in July, 2009
15. OCLC released initial version of World Cat Local in
November, 2007
OCLC brought out the discovery platform in 2009
16. Parameters EBSCO Discovery Proquest Summon ExLibris Primo OCLC WorldCat
General Features
Vendor Ebsco Serial Solution Exlibris OCLC
License Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary
Support Vendor Vendor Vendor Vendor
Physical Features
Search boxes Y Y Y Y
chat Y Y N Y
Social networking tools and sharing Y Y Y Y
Mobile Access Y Y Y Y
Usage statistics Y Y Y Y
RSS Y Y Y Y
Indexed Content
library catalog Y Y Y Y
e-books Y Y Y Y
e-journals Y Y Y Y
Publisher’s content Y Y Y Y
Open Access Resources Y Y Y Y
Institutional Repositories Y Y Y Y
Research reports Y Y Y Y
Printed resources Y Y Y Y
Search Features
Proximity search Y Y Y Y
Truncation Y Y Y Y
Key Word Search Y Y Y Y
Boolean search Y Y Y Y
Language Search Y Y Y Y
17. Some important materials may missed
out in the retrieval process.
Sometimes market competitors don’t
cooperate each others
Broken links
Implementing RDS requires high
investments
18. IIM-Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore, IIM- Ahmedabad, IIM-
Calcutta, IIM Indore, IIM Raipur
Viswabharati, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Indian Institute of Spice Research, Kerala, NIFTEM
(National Institute of Food Technology)
24. A discussion was posted in LIS
Links(http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/be
st-web-scale-discovery-
service#comments) asking the best WDS
Service. And accordingly many has
suggested to go for Ebsco Discovery
Service (EDS ).
25. Get Trial Access for various discovery services
Integration of Library catalogue and other local
databases
Activation of Subscribed databases into central index
Syncronization with open url knowledge base
Configuration and customization of the interface
Comparison of various discovery user interfaces
Getting feed back from the users
Implementation
Central index:
Web scale discovery services have a central index which compiles metadata from various publishers and content providers at the back end. Along with a discovery or search interface which retrieves results from this backend index and, a technology that hyperlinks to the full text of the content subscribed by the libraries implementing these solutions.
One of the significant features discrete to web scale discovery content is its ability to index the local collection of libraries such as the online catalogue, the institutional repositories and its own full text subscribed electronic content. These disparate objects are merged into a central index and provide real time information retrieved from multiple sources which include data from newspapers, book reviews, journals, magazines, e-books, databases, indexing and abstracting services and many more.
EDS contains information from as many as 70,000 publishers and other providers who make available hundreds of millions of records from hundreds of thousands of journals, magazines, books, and other content sources
Provide library users with a single solution for the
discovery and delivery of all local and remote
articles, books, open access collections, and digital content
It’s the service that is based on the creation of a single record optimized for discovery, bringing together rich metadata and full text from multiple sources to make an item more discoverable
Using WorldCat Discovery provides access to more than 2,000 collections, representing 285 of the world's top publishers, such as ProQuest, EBSCO *, Gale and Elsevier. Full text for more than 8+ million open-access content items from HathiTrust, OAIster and GoogleBooks are available, along with 15 million e-books from Overdrive, eBrary, MyiLibrary and others