Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone.

Please conduct your own user research for your own audience.

Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search
results.

Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling
bibliographies or reading lists and they honestly just want a really long
page of titles and authors of what we have.

-Sean

On 9/20/12 11:03 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Every one of this suggestions has one major flaw, IMO. The primary
> result of a search is a big set of bibliographic records -- more than
> the user can possible look through. In some of them there are facets
> available, but in no case is there any useful analysis of set in a
> visualization that would allow the user to get a picture of what she has
> retrieved. I'm thinking timelines, a la' WorldCat Identities or the Open
> Library subject pages [1]. Also, none of them tell the user more about
> the person or subject or work that they have retrieved. (At least, in
> the views that I have seen.) I really think that lists of manifestations
> just aren't good enough when searches bring up hundreds of results.
> 
> kc
> [1] some examples:
> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/halley%27s_comet
> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/place:istanbul_%28turkey%29
> and see others at: http://openlibrary.org/subjects
> or look for your favorites
> 
> 
> On 9/20/12 6:03 AM, Hamilton, Gill wrote:
>> My current fav is Digital NZ
>> http://www.digitalnz.org/
>> 
>> Gill
>> ----------------------------------
>> Gill Hamilton
>> Digital Access Manager
>> National Library of Scotland
>> Edinburgh, Scotland
>> [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Tania Fersenheim
>> Sent: 19 September 2012 20:00
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers
>> 
>> Got a favorite discovery interface?  Send me the URL
>> 
>> I am doing some quick & dirty investigation into libraries that have
>> successfully and elegantly integrated discovery of various resources,
>> e.g.:
>> 
>>   - library catalog
>>   - federated indexing service such as  Serials Solutions or Primo
>> Central, or a federated search system like Metalib
>>   - ejournals
>>   - ebooks
>>   - libguides
>>   - library web site
>>   - worldcat local
>>   - that kind o' stuff
>> 
>> I am looking for sites that are both nice to look at and seem easy to
>> use.  I will assume that if you're touting your own site it is
>> technologically sophisticated.  :-D  Got any faves?
>> 
>> Tania
>>