SFX KBAB The SFX Product Working Group met in Berlin during the IGeLU 2013 conference to discuss our goals for the year 2014. At IGeLU 2013, an SFX Knowledgebase Advisory Board (KBAB) was formed as a joint initiative of IGELU and ELUNA to advise and work with Ex Libris on issues relating to the quality […]
Voting for V. 23 Since the IGeLU conference in Berlin, the Aleph PWG is working on an enhancements voting cycle. For the first voting cycle, 115 enhancement requests were submitted and, as agreed by the IGeLU members in Zurich conference, we selected the 15 most voted to be evaluated and assigned complexity points by Ex […]
Ballot on enhancements The recent months since Berlin 2013 have seen the enhancements voted on for Voyager 9.1 (due late 2014). The top 12 have now been converted (via a number of webexes between ELUNA & IGeLU PWG members and Mike Dicus, Voyager Product Manager) into detailed statements which Voyager Development can work with. Development […]
Activities The LOD SIWG has been hosting discussions with Ex Libris about scenarios for using Linked Data with Ex Libris applications. On July 11, 2013, Lukas Koster presented on resolving harvested URIs into Primo PNX. On September 30, 2013 North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz) described their process and challenges encountered in publishing Aleph bibliographic […]
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Moving to Alma-D According to Ex Libris products roadmap, Digital resource management functionalities are being implemented in Alma. The DigiTool PWG follows with Ex Libris Product Managers the developments and tries to assure the existence of core functionalities. DigiTool continues to be supported by ExLibris and service packs are used to correct bugs. Alma-D Alma’s […]
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OVP ballot The Primo/MetaLib PWG is happy to announce the OPAC via Primo (OvP) NERS enhancement cycle for Primo and MetaLib+ has been successfully completed. This ballot has been conducted in addition to the ‘normal’ voting and had the goal to list the missing features in OvP. In summary, we had a total number of […]
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The Alma Product Working Group (PWG) continues to meet monthly. Most of the PWG member institutions are now live, which makes for even more rousing conversation. ALMA-L is an active list with over one thousand subscribers. Following is our PWG quarterly-ish IGeLU report. Alma Issues Alma PWG members monitored Alma-L for issues reported by five […]
Joint IGeLU/ELUNA Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) on Interoperability At the IGeLU 2013 conference, it was decided that there is a strategic and a real need for an interoperability SIWG to look into various interoperability (and related) issues along with making sure that interoperability play a key role in current and future Ex Libris products. […]
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The conference will take place at the The Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford, UK, from Monday, September 15th till Wednesday, September 17th followed by an Ex Libris Systems Seminar September Thursday 18th and Friday 19th The website with details for both events is up and running. Both Conference and Systems Seminar programme are ready and online. […]
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IGeLU 2013 in Berlin is over now – Oxford is waiting! You can see and download all presentations on our website. The Ex Libris product presentations are visible now for all Ex Libris customers under Ex Libris Documentation Center > Conference and Seminars > IGeLU > 2013 Conference. Your feedback is valuable for us to […]