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== Wednesday, 9th September 2009 == | == Wednesday, 9th September 2009 == | ||
=== Reviewing & improving - our job is never done? === | === Reviewing & improving - our job is never done? === | ||
'''Easy OPAC enhancements - Matthew Phillips''' | |||
For most of his enhancements do we already also have solutions: | |||
* Link to fulltext from result list | |||
* Links back from expanded screens | |||
* RSS links to SDI | |||
* Social Bookmarks with AddThis (see El Commons: http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Aleph/AddThis+bookmarking+from+Aleph+full+record; it's a closer look worth, because he also commits the item's title) | |||
* Embedding search boxes (Aleph and Metalib search boxes on the library website) | |||
* Browser search plugins (like http://alephwiki.gwdg.de/index.php/WebOPACSearchPlugins) | |||
* EndNote download fix | |||
His complete presentation will be offered on the conference website. | |||
'''Every reader his book: recommendations in Aleph - Matthew Phillips''' | |||
They're analyzing the behave of users by looking at their SDIs and borrows. In the moment they're still testing, but he intends to put the results in El Commons. | |||
=== URM Development Partnerships: A Panel Discussion === | === URM Development Partnerships: A Panel Discussion === | ||
Revision as of 13:10, 15 September 2009
Monday, 7th September 2009[edit]
IGeLU Update[edit]
338 members in 38 countries; stable prices for membership
- new Primo Product Working Group (PWG)
- surveys about expectations on next generation products planned
- cross product activities
- new enhancement platform (NERS)
Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov[edit]
Ex Libris Product Update Summary, Oren Beit-Arie and Nancy Dushkin[edit]
The OPAC is dead - Long live the OPAC - workshop, Daniel Forsmann[edit]
The aim is to make yourself aware of what you want and what you need in order to judge which product fits best and to be able to make the right decision for a discovery tool.
In advance the participants had to answer the following questions (The scale in questions 1 - 14 is 1 - 10 where 1 is the worst and 10 is best.):
- How happy are you with your current OPAC?
- How important is it to enrich the OPAC with external content (for instance forwarding searches, table of contents, covers, Google Books, integration with union catalogs, databases, Library Thing)?
- How important are RSS feeds in the OPAC?
- How important is it to be able to search the OPAC from other sources like Facebook, iGoogle, Netvibes ... ?
- How important is tagging in the OPAC?
- How important are user generated reviews and comments in the OPAC?
- How important are librarian-generated reviews and comments in the OPAC?
- How important are clustering of search results in the OPAC?
- How important is it to be able to do federated searching in selected databases/digital archives/institutional repositories from the OPAC?
- How important is it to to embed the OPAC into the library website (graphics and navigation)?
- How important is it to integrate link resolvers (like SFX) into the OPAC?
- How important is your access to the OPAC server and configuration?
- How important is it to make the catalog data available for external indexing (OAI-PMH, permanent URL:s for Google indexing)
- How important are OPAC API:s?
- Mention five features in you current OPAC that you apreciate. Please motivate, but keep short.
- Mention five features you miss in you current OPAC. Please motivate, but keep short.
- List up to 10 OPAC that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short.
- List up to 10 library websites that you find inspiring or worth mentioning. Please motivate, but keep short.
The presentation summarizes the results: http://www.slideshare.net/halwete/the-opac-is-dead-long-live-the-opac
Some explanatory notes of Daniel:
- important to present your content in your local environment, e.g. library website
- important to be able to present your content within an interface where the user wants it (using APIs)
- making people aware of that we (the library) exist, by being present with e.g. search boxes in facebook, although it's perhaps not used
Tuesday, 8th September 2009[edit]
Aleph PWG Business Meeting[edit]
Report of Gerard Bennett
- collaborative testing of v20 in January 2009
- new version release policy with v20
- Major releases delivered on schedule, take-up in UK, US, Italy, Australia, South Africa
- Minor release v20.1: will include significant enhancements, delivered by ServicePacks mechanism
- The new policy enables to implement enhancement faster - at least that's the hope
- Timeline: V21 2011, V22 2013; no commitment for the time beyond from Ex Libris
- Communication with Ex Libris
- Monthly conference calls with product manager (Eluna/IGeLU and SC/APWG)
- Topics: version release, enhancements, testing, URM
- => Commitment that PWG could report more to the community about the content of this calls
- Collaboration with ELUNA
- Meetings
- Coordination of enhancements
- NERS system enables more collaboration; enhancements of ELUNA und IGeLU can be seen on one platform
- Focus group work in URM and e-Books management
Report of Marcus Zerbst
- Website
- in the moment not happening very much; are there wishes?
- Information can be protected for members only
- Intention to make it more interactive, e.g. blogs
- El Commons
- growing slowly
- Developer zone comparatively active
- => Encouragement to use the wiki and it's possiblities
The Aleph-PWG is looking for 2 new members.
IGeLU Activities - Common Knowledge Revisited[edit]
Customer wiki - Beate Rusch
Status quo:
- Ex Libris provides platform and technical support
- lots of readers, but only few contributers (mostly PWG-members or Ex Libris)
Planned improvements:
- increase performance
- relaunch (improving navigation)
- separation between Wiki and Code
Collaborative testing - Theo Engelman
Experiences:
- test environment was inadequate (slow server, old data, too many data, ...)
- 31 defects discovered (solved after 2 weeks)
- not very easy to judge the quality of the release
- also difficult to judge the quality of testing by Ex Libris
=> not really convincing that collaborative testing is a good thing, but the main conclusion was to repeat it in the future
Suggestions for Ex Libris:
- better server
- access to test scenarios before coming to Israel
- access to environment before coming to Israel
- fresh and less data
Suggestions for IGeLU/ELUNA:
- better preparation / searching earlier for testers (Theo had to test ILL2, although he's not familiar with ILL)
- providing with documents
URM and Strategy Update, Kathryn Harnish[edit]
Wednesday, 9th September 2009[edit]
Reviewing & improving - our job is never done?[edit]
Easy OPAC enhancements - Matthew Phillips
For most of his enhancements do we already also have solutions:
- Link to fulltext from result list
- Links back from expanded screens
- RSS links to SDI
- Social Bookmarks with AddThis (see El Commons: http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Aleph/AddThis+bookmarking+from+Aleph+full+record; it's a closer look worth, because he also commits the item's title)
- Embedding search boxes (Aleph and Metalib search boxes on the library website)
- Browser search plugins (like http://alephwiki.gwdg.de/index.php/WebOPACSearchPlugins)
- EndNote download fix
His complete presentation will be offered on the conference website.
Every reader his book: recommendations in Aleph - Matthew Phillips
They're analyzing the behave of users by looking at their SDIs and borrows. In the moment they're still testing, but he intends to put the results in El Commons.