You can use the Infiniti AI Engine to automatically understand or interpret the intent of a student's OPAC search. This significantly reduces the work needed to ensure books are more discoverable, and delivers more success for students when they search. The AI Metadata Editor makes training of the AI Metadata Search Assistant easy, while ensuring libraries and catalogers are in full control of the MARC21 catalogue data.


Note: The Infiniti AI Engine has two components - AI Metadata Editor and AI Search Assistant.


Train Your Metadata Editor

  1. Go to: Menu > Authorities > Subject > Subjects
  2. Locate the subject heading you would like to train.
  3. - open the AI Metadata Editor.
  4. Metadata Terms - click to type a term. Note: A term can be one word, multiple words, or a phrase per row.
  5. Select an existing term from the list that matches as you type, or choose your new term from the top of the list. Note: If the only term in the list is the term you typed, then it is treated as a new term.
  6. See Also Records - click to choose a subject from the subject authority file. Note: Only subjects in your authority file will be listed.
  7. - add your new term for the displayed subject.
  8. Return to Step 4 above to add more terms as required.
  9. - to save your terms for this subject

The AI Metadata Search Assistant will successfully search your catalogue 90% of the time to:
  • interpret search intent
  • find all resources in your catalogue when searching
  • broadly search across all book metadata
  • correctly search using misspelt words
  • correctly use colloquial terms
  • search your catalogue using non-English words and phrases


The AI Metadata Editor can be used to train any subject heading in your subject authority file with words, phrases, colloquial terms, and many non-English languages. Once trained for a specific subject heading the AI Search Assistant will automatically apply this training to every book currently in your catalogue and any new books added to your catalogue.


Note: When searching your catalogue, the AI Metadata Search Assistant is quite tolerant of misspelling but should you discover a misspelling that the Assistant can't correct, you can use the AI Metadata Editor to train AI Metadata Search Assistant using that misspelling as a new term for the relevant subject.