Volume 19, No. 2, 2022

Relevancy Ranking Assessment Of A Discovery Tool


Satyabrata Sahoo , Dr. Pijushkanti Panigrahi

Abstract

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to assess relevancy ranking order provided against search term by a Discovery Tool (DT) and show relationship between the background of assessor and their assessment about the relevancy ranking order. Design/methodology/approach- The relevant literature is reviewed minutely and the methodology has been designed in an apposite way. The search result found against a term assessed anonymously by hiding DT name and actual ranking order provided by the DT. Data collected in Likert Scale. Collected data analyzed by using statistical tool named SPSS. Respondents are the subject expert of the term used. Findings- The relevance order provided by DT is mismatched with the calculated order found from the statistical analysis. On the other hand, it is found that there is a strong relationship between assessment and background of the assessor. Originality/ value- Although a considerable amount of research has been done on evaluation of relevancy ranking order of DT but not so much done on Vu Find. The process used is unique and maintain a new way to assess the relevancy ranking of a DT to make the work anonymous and reduce biasness where assessor is representing the user group and investigator not involve in assessment.


Pages: 3298-3309

Keywords: Discovery Tool (DT), Web-Scale Discovery (WSD), Relevancy Ranking (RR), Vu Find, Assessment of ranking order, Evaluation of ranking order, User Background, Relevancy Ranking Factors (RRF), OPAC, Next generation catalogue

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