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titleIN PROGRESSDECIDED

Scope

IMPLEMENTATION

Description

Each campus must determine the boosting factors for: Institution Boosting, Articles (Resource Type), and Book Chapters (Resource Type) that give them a minimally adequate representation of these formats in the search results.

This decision outlines the methodology the campuses will use to determine the factors appropriate for their collection.

Decision

Campuses should identify a minimum Institution Boosting factor and then increase Resource Type boosting factors for Articles and Book Chapters as needed to resemble an “out of the box” mixture of resource types in search results.

Owning group

Discovery FG Josephine Tan and Jess Waggoner, co-chairs

Approver

PPC

Stakeholders

R = Discovery FG
A = PPC
C =
I = Local Implementation Teams

Decision-making process

  • Gather data on how boosting factors impact search results

  • Discovery FG will agree upon a process for assessing boosting factors

Priority

Mandatory before Go-live

Due date

TBD

Recommendations

Discovery FG recommends each campus use the following methodology to determine the minimum viability of their boosting factors:

  • Identify 10 search terms for which you would expect to have adequate collection coverage (ie. there should not be a need for a satisficing undergraduate student to surface consortial materials)

    • Note: Transaction Search query logs from the current campus ILS is a recommended source of search terms

  • To determine Institution Boosting factor:

    • Slowly increase the Institution Boosting factor until [exclude? have no more than 1?] consortial materials in the first 10 results

  • To determine Article and Book Chapter boosting factors for Already-Alma campuses:

    • Review the first 10 results for the identified search terms in your current production Primo site with CDI (ie. append &searchCDI=true)

    • Adjust Article and Book Chapter boosting factors in your SILS Test environment until the results are similar to your Prod environment

  • To determine Article and Book Chapter boosting factors for new to Alma campuses:

    • Review the first 10 results for the identified search terms in the UC Davis production Primo site with CDI (ie. append &searchCDI=true)

    • Adjust Article and Book Chapter boosting factors in your SILS Test environment until the results are similar to the UC Davis production environment

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Expected Completion Date

Notes

Status

Gather data to test methodology

April 6, 2021

UCSC test case

Complete

Approved by PPC

Complete