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I-Share OPAC Team Minutes
Conference Call 6 FEB 2007 Minutes from last meeting (11 JAN 2007), approved by acclamation. Spell checking: We will make list of 80% what features we want and 20% features/problems we don’t want. In any case, the spell checker is a highly desirable function to be added. Add language from the Public Services User Forum about desirability to add spell checker. As spelling errors are the number one reason for null returns in searches. Vocabulary sources: use Google or authority file. If we wrote our own we (CARLI) could design our own indexes (authority file). All libraries have a full set of LC authority files and can use these as a basis. Proposal deadline for submission to CARLI is to be a floating date, with the group reporting back to IOPAC at our next meeting. New Search Types: Make the second paragraph more insistent to get libraries to participate in usability tests. What kind of infrastructure can we implement for usability testing: Wiki? Distribution list? IOPAC’s job is to get ball rolling, IUG’s job will be to implement. Urge them (IUG) to think about an organized mechanism to facilitate usability testing to be developed and run. Stephen Wright will take that job to rephrase and insert into document. Hopefully be done by 8 FEB 2007 to be ready for IUG meeting on 9 FEB. Other business: Local database “New Books List”, look like WebVoyage but it is not, hopefully be more customizable. Incorporated links from SFX into WebVoyage. For demo see: http://develop.carli.illinois.edu/i-share_dev Each local database will have SFX button appear in local database at top of record. The plan is to model implementation on Texas A&M site, with SFX buttons only appearing on periodical records. Next Meeting: |
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