David Beychok, VP, Discovery Delivery Business Unit, Ex Libris
[live-blog IGeLU Conference 2013, Berlin - please forgive typos etc.]
What all discovery services have in common is that they have a better understanding of the various systems. There is a vote of confidence towards Primo, with many new large consortium joining us recently. Primo is the frontend for Alma, which doesn't have an OPAC. So there is a strong integration to bring you these solutions. We use big data tools, those include hadoop and cassandra, which increases speed of indexing and availability. Good tools for massive data processing and storing.
The Primo implementation process includes stages 1,2 and 3, i.e. Primo is set up in an automated process, with default settings and then customisations can be added. It is done smoothly and fairly quickly. Open Access is important to the researchers and Primo makes discoverability of OA repositories or hybrid journals' content easier. Primo has a functionality for institutions to register their repository in the Primo central index.
We continue sfx development and releases. We also continue to support regular service packs for MetaLib, for fast search, integrated with Primo. Primo has a usage data service and this helps for ranking articles. We have a pilot project for branding and are looking for interested parties.
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