wordpress in primo (ex libris search engine)

ENRICHING PRIMO RECORDS WITH WORDPRESS

Karsten Kryger Hansen

Aalborg University Library

Case

Show relevant information to the user just in time, just in case.

”If we know something about a record, let’s tell it”.

Incident information

Hints on using a given ressource (e.g. Westlaw)

Mobile access options (mobile vouchers)

….

Incident list

#1#2#3#4#5…

Primo

SFX

Vendor?Publisher?Platform?

COMMUNICATE TO THE USER IN THE CONTEXT WHERE THEY FIND THE RECORDS

WordPressblog

Database list

Custom database

list

Search field

Primo

SFX

Intranet

Why WordPress?

Free CMS’ish

Feature rich

Plug-in based

Custom PHP script

WordPress RSS=>

JSON(P)

Task:Reorder the elementsJoin post accoding to

custom fields

WordPress

Blog posts

Custom fields:url

system numberpci prefix (TN_)

CategoryTags

RSS JSON(P)

Caching etc. to improve(if needed)

http://blog.aub.aau.dk/operation/tag/safari-tech-books/?cat=138

Future

Personalised hiding of e.g. announcements

”Any incidents that I have not seen?”

Handling of dedup records.

New display options

Based on category

Severity in custom field

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Future

Formalised / standard way to enrich records with information

Shared ”knowledge base” (WordPress) for e.g.Primo Central related ”issues”.

The power of the community.

WordPress

Custom PHP script

Parse Icinga2 JSON for current incidents.

Maintain state database

Create blog post based on template

Icinga2

Monitoring state ofPrimo, remote access

configuration etc.

JSON XML-RPC