Meeting Minutes for 11/07/2017

Discovery Committee Meeting
November 7th, 2017
Minutes

Priorities for Next Release
Review of the status from the previous and current months.

Priority

• Sideload Catch-up

  • R & D is caught up with regular sideloads

• Archive Cleanup

  • Ongoing – focus was project homepage improvements

• Red Book in the Archive

  • On hold
  • The performance enhancements and OverDrive Advantage integration took longer, so Red Book was put on hold.

• Search Bugs

  • On hold

• E-Content Improvements

  • OverDrive Advantage done
  • Hoopla in process
  • Prioritizing top three E-Content sources for account integration to check out items through Pika
  • R & D will be working on E-Content improvements before they work on search bugs

• Bento Box Homepage

  • This is a special separate homepage or a different style of homepage that is most prominent in academic libraries
  • Any library is welcome to use it
  • Starting this release
  • Go to the Villanova Library to see an example of a Bento Box.  Do a search to see how it displays content.

• Virtualize Marmot and Aspencat Production Servers (Mercury Server)

  • Starting this release
  • This is normal maintenance that will take a good amount of time
  • Provide good improvements for things like disaster recovery and backups

Other Completed Work:

• Extensive performance enhancements

  • Please use the test system for your unusual patrons and use the test system for them.  Test to make sure things will work for those patrons.
  • Let R & D know immediately if you see things that are not normal, so they have time to fix it.
  • The release is delayed until Wednesday, November 15, so you can use the test system to any issues that need to be addressed.

Conversation topic:

• Review first step mockup for eContent search integration

  • Jordan showed a mockup of how eContent would look in search results (example, OverDrive, Hoopla, RBdigitial).
  • Jordan requested volunteers to meet for a discussion about fleshing out the specification for eContent search integration.
  • R & D would like to separate out all the eContent sources so they each show up on their own line in the search.
  • The topic for discussion is the order of sources (for example, should they be alphabetical, should libraries be able to arrange them).

Next month conversation topic: Make a suggestion!

Pika Roadmap

Release Notes