Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12, 2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce catalog search solution
Some Navigation Statistics (March 2006)
Arranged from top to bottom in the same order as they are on the page. Availability has fewest hits, but that’s just b/c there’s only one option to select! It comes out as the third most popular dimension values. LC classification is followed closely by Subject Topic, the next 2 on the page. Interesting to see that Author, the last option presented, is being used more than Subject: Genre, the option presented second (often above the fold) in the left-hand navigation bar. Library is also more popular than format so far. We plan to use data like this to think about how to order the dimensions in the future. For instance, should Subject: Genre be moved farther down b/c it is less popular? The other dimension available is used to allow users to browse new books. Although it is the least used dimension (and so doesn’t show up here), it is the 4th most popular single dimension value. This is a pretty impressive number, considering the option has been a bit buried under our Browse tab.