1 October 2010
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MERI
7.1. Angela W and Charlotte have made a start on a requirements document for the ERM systems to use at demos. This was passed around the team and extra points/questions added. Any more suggestions to be passed to Charlotte who will add them to the list 7.2. Angela also found a slide show on Verde and asked everyone to have a look at it and think about our requirements in relation to what Verde can do.
Notes from our meeting on 24th September SEP 30, 2010 04:36A.M. MERI Meeting Minutes Time/Date: 24/9/10 11.00am
8. Next Meeting 8.1. 1st October – this will be an extended meeting, 11.00-13.00
Notes and Actions ENCLAVE
Project meeting notes: 24 Sept 2010
1. ERM System demos 1.1. Charlotte will send meeting requests for the demos with the venue ‘TBC’ so that everyone knows when each one will be. 1.2. Jenny spoke to Colin Carter from Innovative at the LMS showcase and found it very useful to see an ERM in action.
SEP 29, 2010 09:18A.M. Notes of EnCLaVE project team meeting of 24 September 2010
2. Contacting current ERM users 2.1. Ongoing – Charlotte to chase up the people already contacted. Jenny to give Charlotte the contact details for Andy Bussey at Sheffield
1. Apologies
3. Our current processes 3.1. Charlotte spoke to Kath Kellet & Dan Leach about access for external borrowers and got some useful information from them. Meeting booked with Sue Slade for Thursday 30th to discuss access for members of partner colleges 3.2. Charlotte will bring flowcharts showing our current processes to the next meeting
• None • In attendance: Simon Bains (SB), Gill Hamilton (GH), Stephen Vickers (SV), Morag Watson (MW) • Noted DF has handed over programme mgt to Ben Flanders 2. Elevator pitch
4. Blog 4.1. Charlotte will add notes on her meetings/talks with various members of staff. 4.2. Meting minutes from last week are on the blog; Angela W has added a post on the benefits to the wider HE community
• Noted GH/SV comments on SB’s draft. • Action: GH to upload the document to the blog. [available] 3. Work Packages progress
5. JISC Project Manager 5.1. We have a meeting with Ben Showers on 7/10/10 at1pm
WP1
6. Electronic Resources Officer 6.1. Jo Willows has started her post and has been talking to members of the team about various aspects of her work. Charlotte has invited Jo to the meeting with Sue Slade on Thursday, and Jenny will invite her to the weekly meetings
• Noted GH has met with Boon Low (#aquabrowserux #jisclms project) • Draft report discussion • Noted some of the recommendations have already been implemented:
7. System Requirements
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Today’s Tabbloid PERSONAL NEWS FOR b.showers@jisc.ac.uk
1 October 2010
• Simple search box
• The project team has found some useful results from this which will force some decisions on how to implement, and a need for more investigation.
• Refine options (not the full functionality of AquaBrowser; there are some limitations)
• Noted that report on what it was like to configure might be helpful, as some of this work has been done by staff not involved in #enclavelms
• GH to identify which fields should be in results list and full display • GH to look at matching terminology with that in Aquabrowser.
• Noted that config info could be placed in WP2 output • Noted that we should be producing a toolkit, so we need to record configuration settings etc so other institutions could replicate.
• Spell-checking is in test • The wordcloud is being modified to avoid issues with uppercase being given more significance, and to include phrases and other indexes.
• Action: MW will follow up with Colin Watt, and will document putting some functionality back into test (e.g. Google Books). WP3
• Noted interest in the wordcloud code at the #jisclms programme meeting in Glasgow
WebCT/OPAC
• Action: GH will explain how the priority list was drawn up.
• Noted it’s proved difficult to prioritise this as the work has had to focus on WP2 before start of semester
• Noted that WP1 findings match the ongoing development work. • MW will turn on web services in the next couple of days. ACTION: MW will alert SV so he can test that it’s working correctly.
• Noted report needs to distinguish between work being done, and work we’d like to do post-project, e.g. Aberystwyth-style recommender service.
• Noted that there will now not be time to do testing with students in the time left to the project. However, this will be done, post project, as we have buy in from an academic the relevant School
• Wordcloud: Noted #aquabrowserux study found that users found it useful once it was explained to them. Action: WP1 report needs to clarify this.
• It was felt that it would be more realistic instead to look at wordcloud generation within WebCT, which was not originally in scope.
• WP1 needs to identify the difference between the wordclouds, and possibility of further research on this. • Mobile: noted need to be clear about what the survey tells us about use of services on mobile devices, and need to for further studies.
• Noted that we should look at LSE Voyager widgets. ACTION: SB to send SV details. WP4
• Action: GH will redraft to a close to final draft by 1 October. Noted that locations of config in Voyager to be reused by other Voyager users won’t be ready in that timescale.
Wordcloud • ACTIONS:
WP2 • MW will write up the work to date and post to the Blog. Voyager OPAC 7 development. • MW/GH will post a report on IGeLU and link to the presentation
• Noted this has been running in tandem with WP1 • Noted some functionality has gone live
4. Date of next meeting
• Some aspects aren’t as functional as Aquabrowswer, e.g table of contents isn’t searchable
12 October
• Google Books/Shelf browse have been investigated.
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