![]() ![]() ![]() Systems librarian Aimee Fifarek commented "I appreciate Encore Synergy because it is very easy to ignore if the user isn't specifically looking for articles. Scottsdale Public Library expects to place Encore Synergy into production in early May 2010. Innovative has engaged a number of libraries as partners to test Encore Synergy and become early adopters, including Scottsdale Public Library and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Innovative expects this initial list of supported providers to expand. Other partnerships developed to date encompass products from Gale, LexisNexis Academic, JSTOR, ARTstor, Encyclopedia Britannica, Elsevier, PubMed, ProQuest, and Wilson. An early partnership was forged with EBSCO to take advantage of its EBSCO host Integration Toolkit to incorporate results from the EBSCO host-based resources. Rather than loading catalog records into a non-local ‘melting pot' index optimized for articles, we chose to integrate article discovery into Encore, our next-generation discovery product."Įncore Synergy relies on content providers to support the web services responses. "Innovative is integrating article content dynamically into the Library discovery experience, using web services in order to give us maximum control over how all aspects of discovery are experienced by the user. Innovative's vice president of its Encore Division John McCollough stated the reasoning behind the design of Encore Synergy. Encore Synergy presents a request package formulated to specify results optimized for a faceted interface, allowing it to present qualifiers for scholarly materials, full-text availability, or other content characteristics. Web services by definition involve requests and responses encoded in XML. The web services used provide an optimized content stream with resource providers that dynamically populate the interface with article-level results. Innovative describes the technology behind Encore Synergy as based on web services interoperability with content providers. It uses its own ranking technology for content indexed directly in Encore and relies on the relevancy assigned by each resource provider. For most topics, a sample of news stories appears on the initial search page that when clicked leads to the complete results from the specialized Google News search.Įncore Synergy does not interfile articles with results from the library's local collection, but aims to guide users to each category of content through an intuitive workflow. ![]() Innovative describes this search model as similar to the way that Google deals with news articles. A linked label for the article block mentions the total number of articles associated with the query and links the user to the full article results. With Encore Synergy, a block of three or four citations selected from the libraries' article resources appear strategically positioned near the top of the results list. When the user enters a query into Encore's distinctive single search box, it delivers a result list ranked by relevancy according to Innovative's proprietary Right Results algorithm. Traditional federated search has problems with performance and scalability.Įncore Synergy follows a search model that blends articles with the results from the local collection on the initial page of results and that guides users to more complete representations of the library's collection of articles as they navigate through results. ![]() They may also lack the needed currency required, especially for databases of news content and other frequently updated resources. The mass indexes rely on the cooperation of all the providers of electronic content, some of which have competitive issues that preclude participation. Innovative sees systemic flaws with these two approaches. The search model implemented by Encore Synergy avoids both the massive pre-constructed indexes of content harvested from content providers and federated search technology. This new enhanced version of Encore uses dynamic web services interoperability with content providers to layer access to articles into search results. Biology Digest/Physical Sciences Digestįollowing the January 2010 announcement by Innovative Interfaces ( that its Encore discovery platform would be enhanced to include new article integration capabilities ( ), the company has launched Encore Synergy.The Information Advisor's Guide to Internet Research.Library Leaders Digital Strategy Summit. ![]()
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