Discovery Guy Grannum 25 November 2011

Discovery Guy Grannum 25 November 2011

What is Discovery?

Why a new system? c11 million records c200K records c9 million records “Local” records 3 TNA records

What have we done? – Beta on Labs April 2011 4

. simple search of the ‘Catalogue’ 5

taxonomy 6

browse 7

advance search options 8

search 9

details view 10

. and an API 11

Discovery is still being developed Staff feedback User feedback No big bang! User testing Testing and trialling E-mail 12

What’s next? new collection search 13

simple view 14

DocumentsOnline data added 15

user tagging 16

registration and sign-in 17

suggest a correction 18

What’s planned? Spring 2012 Order documents in reading rooms Develop a new Image Viewer Replace Catalogue interface Replace DocumentsOnline interface 19

Thank you Any questions? 20