1. Endeca Search, Information
Access and Guided Navigation
A presentation to WRLC Libraries
January 17, 2007
Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS

2. Functionality
 Keyword searching
 Relevance ranking
 Boolean
 Wild card
 Subject access
 Known items searching
 Faceted classification

3. Extensibility
 Taxonomy Tree
 New Releases
 Models of relevance Title vs abstract
 Thesaurus-Create Rules
 MARC adapters
 Report Generator-Usage serach terms or
browse paths

4. Interoperability
 Skins lay over OPAC
 Exposes exploration and discovery
 Data driven application
 Can provide segmented results
 OPAC and Metalib

5. North Carolina State University
 NCSU Libraries
– Andrew Pace
 http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/
 Browse New Books
 Narrow Search LCSH
 Narrow Search
– Subject
– Genre
– Format
– Era
– Language
– Author

6. Other Examples
 Harvard Business Online
 http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/home/index.jhtml?_requestid=113229
– Most Popular vs.Publication date
 Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?z=y

– Book Browser
 Endeca Demo
– http://endeca.com/demo.html