Category: Innovative Interfaces

  • IUG Trip report

    So here is my IUG trip report. I only had to cut out my notes from one session since it is reserved for those having gone through a special set of III training. Here’s the link: iug_2006_publicnotes.doc –tr

  • Federated Search limitations

    Today we got to see first hand the fragility associated with the current state of federated search technology. As a beta site for Innovative, we have been testing their 2006 general release software prior to general distribution and an update last night caused ports to fail, resources to be limited and screwed up the keyword…

  • Extra, extra…LibraryFind kicks MetaFind’s, um, bottom

    Actually, that’s probably a bit overstating it and its still fairly early, but with MetaFind over the past year, our average search stats on a good day was about 70 searches.  Since Friday (include the weekend) with no publicity and a soft launch — we’ve had 798 cached results and ~1200 searches.  I’m hoping that…

  • IUG — new stuff in 2006

    Given that I sometimes give III a bit of a hard time (which I think is part of our job as users) — I thought I would note some of the very cool things that are out in the 2006 general release: RightResults(tm): III’s new relevance ranking algorthem.  I’d talked about this earlier — but…

  • III WebPAC Pro 2006 and more

    I just finished sitting through a session on the current upgrade to the WebOpac.  They are actually looking to do some pretty cool stuff in the realms of adding community tagging, rss feeds (though it is additional for fee product if you want to publish data from your catalog) and faceted searches.  Its really be…

  • IUG Reception

    I enjoy the IUG reception — its a great time to get to chat with some of the folks from III and chat with friends.  Last night’s reception was really good — partly because I got to have a good conversation with Ted Fons — one of the many III product managers.  I like Ted,…

  • IUG 2006, Denver, CO

    Its about that time again for the IUG’s annual usergroup meeting.  This year, the annual meeting is at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Co and will last for a few days.  I got in yesterday and the weather was definitely gorgeous.  It was 87ish yesterday and almost 90 today.  A little hot for my tastes…