Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the general release of version 2.0 of the Company's Primo discovery and delivery solution. The result of close collaboration with the Primo customer community, version 2.0 offers enhanced searching capabilities, including the ability to search in very large collections; improved usability and accessibility of the user interface; and easier system configuration and customisation.
A range of European and Asian interface languages have been added to enhance the user experience for the growing number of Primo customers in Europe and Asia. Version 2.0 provides improved exact-title searching; additional linguistic algorithms and dictionaries; optimised ranking of grouped (FRBRized) records; the identification of frequently misspelled words; enhancements to the "did you mean" mechanism, which "learns" search phrases based on past user queries; and the presentation of results ordered by popularity. In addition, a choice of user interface layouts is also available. The addition of services such as the sending of item information to users by cell-phone text messages complements the discovery process and seeks to enhance user experience.
In adherence to the Ex Libris open platform strategy, Primo now includes an application programming interface (API) for 50 services. This API facilitates the customisation of Primo and enables customers to develop code extensions that can be shared with other members of the Primo community. A new component, Deep Search, enables Primo to leverage the search engines of other repositories and to display results retrieved from these repositories along with local results. Furthermore, the results obtained through the Deep Search component are ranked by relevance and displayed using faceted categorisation.
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