Summon and LibGuides in Drupal

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D R A F TSummon & LibGuides in Drupal

Ken Varnumvarnum@umich.edu | @varnum

Web Systems ManagerUniversity of Michigan Library

http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

Albert Bertrambertrama@umich.eduLead Web Developer

University of Michigan Libraryhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/users/bertrama

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D R A F TOverview

• Two features of MLibrary web site:– Summon– LibGuides

• Credit where credit is due– All development work I’m talking about done by

Albert Bertram in Library Web Systems– Lots of library staff worked on interfaces, design,

and project

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SUMMON IN DRUPAL

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D R A F TSummon in Drupal

• MLibrary signed up with Summon in July 2010• Launched our interface 9/27/2010• Like Summon’s hosted tool, anyone can search

through our interface• UM authentication needed for full text• Full text links are OpenURLs

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D R A F TWhy?

• Loved Summon, but wanted to keep our users “here” until full-text

• Integrate article discovery into site• Provide other services around article

discovery• Opportunity to learn about our user’s needs

and behaviors

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D R A F TWhat It Does

• Replicates most functionality of Summon’s hosted site

• Facets• Citations• One-click links to full text (where available)• 360 Link is resolver• Each citation has a permalink for

bookmarking/sharing

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D R A F TSample Search

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D R A F TSearch Results

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D R A F TItem Display

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D R A F TFull Text

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D R A F TAbout the Module

• Developed by Albert Bertram at UM Library• Development time about 10 weeks• Module submitted to Drupal in December

2010 – working through the review process• Requires Summon API key to run

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LIBGUIDES IN DRUPAL

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D R A F TAbout our Site Search

• We use Solr (Apache Solr modules)– Apache Solr framework– Apache Solr search

• Rely on LibGuides’ XML export option• Get a weekly dump of all our guides• Add to Solr index• Include in site search and site browse results

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D R A F TData Flows

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D R A F TWhat is Searched

• Search includes guide title and description, but not full text (our choice)

• Presented as title and description on site

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D R A F THow Guides Appear in Search

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D R A F THow Browse Works

• Guides are tagged (in LibGuides) with taxonomy

• Presented as title and description on site• Generally (by policy) there are only 1-2 guides

per browse category– more at highest level of taxonomy– fewer at lower levels

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D R A F THow Guides Appear in Browse

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D R A F TThank You

Ken VarnumWeb Systems Manager

University of Michigan Library

varnum@umich.edu@varnum

http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum