Products
Encore Discovery
We go to the library to find, not to search. Easy to implement, easier to use, Encore Discovery marshals all manner of search technologies, including faceted search results, Did You Mean…?, Popular Choices, Recently Added suggestions, and RightResult™ relevance ranking. You can also invite your users to participate with Web 2.0 features such as the Tag Cloud and ratings & reviews.
Encore casts a wide net, integrating results from federated-search tools such as Research Pro, special digital collections harvested from the web, e-journals, and consortia holdings. Did we mention Encore is completely ILS-independent?
In short, Encore is the most effective discovery solution available today. With its comprehensive and intuitive user interface, it endows library users with the broad perspective and avenues to success that are the hallmarks of a successful reference interview.
Read more tagged: Discovery
Encore Harvesting Services
Special collections are an invaluable part of any library’s holdings. But how to ensure that users can find your digital collections when they are spread out among separate databases? With Encore Harvesting Services, you can integrate OAI-compliant metadata from all your specialized databases or make them available through an external service provider such as OAIster. In fact, any OAI-PMH data provider can be harvested, including CONTENTdm®, Digital Commons™, Tamino™, Fedora™, DSpace™, Bepress Legal Repository, Innovative’s Symposia, and Innovative’s Content Pro digital library solution.
Here’s how it works: You identify resources to be harvested such as an institutional repository or image database. The Harvester utility brings the metadata to the Encore server and periodically updates the metadata as your collection grows or changes. When users search Encore, they will find local, digital-collection metadata in the heart of the catalog results-set, along with books and other traditional media. Integration with Encore also means that users can apply Encore’s features—facets and Tag Cloud, even patron-engagement features like tagging and ratings—to make finding and interacting with your collections fast and simple. As with “all things Encore,” Encore Harvesting Services are backed by a dedicated service team that makes it easy to implement and maintain.
Read more tagged: Harvesting Services
Encore Query API
The Encore Query API offers search and retrieval access to the Encore database. It provides locally developed library applications with flexible, web services access to data from a wide range of record types. The Encore Query API reflects the vision that guided Encore’s original launch: to offer libraries sleek end-user discovery capabilities, while, at the same time, liberating and leveraging library data in new ways.
Read more tagged: Query API
EncoreReporter
Emeryville, CA—Innovative Interfaces announced today the development of Encore Reporter™, an exciting new product that provides complete next-generation reporting on the data libraries need most. Encore Reporter provides dynamic and visually elegant reports on key performance indicators, operational statistics, patron and material usage analysis, print and e-resource usage, collection development, and more.
Read more tagged: Encore Reporter
CONTENTdm®; is a registered trademark of OCLC, Inc. DSpace™ is a trademark of MIT. Digital Commons™ is a trademark of the Berkeley Electronic Press. Fedora™ is a trademark of Fedora Commons. Tamino™ is a trademark of Software AG, Inc.