New Catalog Features

The OPAC will be upgraded to the new III WebOPAC Pro Platform. Two new features will be available with Keyword Searching, Relevancy Ranking and Spell Check.

Relevancy Ranking -WebOPAC

“Right Results” is the term III uses for its Relevancy Ranking tool in Keyword Searching available with the new WebPAC Pro platform. “Right Results” is a default setting that we may not disable – all keyword searches result sets are returned sorted into the “Right Result” groups. “Right Results” will return up to five groups of results. Each group corresponds to a defined set of criteria.

Users will have the option to re-sort their results by title or date, using either of these sorts removes the relevancy ranking provided by “Right Result” and allows the user to view a result screen without relevancy ranking if preferred.

“Right Results” will return up to five groups of results. Each group corresponds to a defined set of criteria – which is not customizable. Since each group corresponds to a certain set of criteria – all groups may not be returned for all searches. The five groups are, in descending order:

  • Most Relevant Titles
  • Highly Relevant Titles
  • Very Relevant Titles
  • Relevant Titles
  • Other Relevant Titles

Here is an example of the display from our Training OPAC:

Information on Relevancy Ranking is available by clicking on the Relevancy bar graphic when viewing results or in the Help section under Results and Browse Screens.

Visit our Training OPAC to explore “Right Results”. We have limited titles here so you may get a reduced effect:

Visit the Westerville Public Library to explore “Right Results” in a live OPAC:

Below the groups are listed with their criteria and some examples from our Training OPAC. To illustrate the following criteria, search results from the Training OPAC for the search term “Vegetarian Cooking” and the search term “Telling Time” have been included.

Group 1

Label: Most Relevant Titles

Criteria: Search phrase contained in primary title.

Ex. 1 “Vegetariancooking for dummies”

Ex. 2 “Tellingtime with Big Mama Cat”

Group 2

Label: Highly Relevant Titles

Criteria: Search phrase appears in the sub-title or other title information.

Ex. 1 “Lord Krishna's cuisine: the art of Indian vegetariancooking”

Ex. 2 “Dictator clock : 5,000 years of tellingtime”

Group 3

Label: Very Relevant Titles

Criteria: The search phrase appears in the contents or other notes, series statements, subject headings or name headings.

Ex. 1“Cooking the Polish way”

Record includes the summary note: “Includes material on healthy, low-fat, vegetariancooking, and holidays and festivals.

Ex. 2 “About time : a first look at time and clocks.”

Record includes the summary note: “But it took many years of tinkering and inventing to perfect the art of tellingtime.”

Group 4

Label: Relevant Titles

Criteria: Search terms appear in the title, subtitle or other title information.

Ex. 1 “Everyday Greens : home cooking from Greens, the celebrated vegetarian restaurant ”

Ex. 2 “I'm telling you for the last time”

Group 5

Label: Other Relevant Titles

Criteria: Search terms appear in the contents or other notes, series statements, subject headings or name headings.

Ex. 1 “Miracles on your plate : foods that help you heal”

Includes search term in summary note: “Includes instruction on cooking delicious meatless meals.”

Includes search term in subject heading: “Vegetarian Cookery”

Ex. 2 “New zoo revue. Season 1”

Record includes contents note: “…Spring -- Time -- Disc 2: Side A: Good deeds -- Hate -- Laughter -- Courage -- Love -- Disc 2: Side B: Health -- Knowledge -- Promises -- Pride -- Sharing -- Disc 3: Side A: Winter -- Sounds -- Kindness -- Talking -- Loneliness -- Disc 3: Side B: Dreams -- Rules -- Growing up -- Imagination -- Vacation -- Disc 4: Side A: Confidence -- The sun -- Telling the truth – Greed…”

Spell Check –WebOPAC

The Spell Check product allows us to offer suggestions for corrected or alternate search terms in Keyword Searching.

When a user searches for a term not listed in the library catalog, the system search references the dictionaries used by the system and returns a suggested term that is a "best match" for the term the user entered. The system also offers a more link for the user to see the additional terms the system found in the dictionaries.

Clicking the suggested search term launches an advanced search for that term. If the suggested search term is not accurate, the user can click the more link to see more suggestions.

Example: User searches for “thomas trian”, and is offered a search suggestion:

If the user clicks the more link to see additional suggested search terms, Web OPAC displays a series of drop-down lists containing suggested terms for each word in the search term.

Example:

WebPAC Pro

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