Summit Catalog Committee-Steering Team

 

November 6, 2006

 

Teleconference

Members attending via phone:

            Lewis and Clark: Mark Dahl

            Oregon Health & Science University: Janet Crum

            Oregon State University: Michael Boock

            Reed College: Marcia Bianchi

            Southern Oregon University: Kate Cleland-Sipfle

            University of Washington: Joe Kiegel

            Consortium staff: Nancy Nathanson

 

 

1.      Welcome and introductions

Welcome and introductions.

      

2.      Working group nominations

  The Steering Team reviewed the results of the recent survey for nominations to the SCC Working Groups for 2006/2007.  They looked for a solid mix of interests and expertise from the nominations to be on each working group.

 

The Data Harvesting Working Group (explore Summit’s potential as a source of data for the purpose of developing improved services and informing decisions made by member libraries and the consortium) will have the following members:

Corey Murata, University of Washington

Claudia Weston, Portland State University

Julie Miller, Eastern Washington University

Mike Spalti, Willamette University

Mark Dahl, Lewis & Clark College

Mark Kibbey, University of Washington

1 member from Summit Borrowing Committee

1 member from Summit Collection Development and Management Committee

 

The Short Term Changes to Summit Search Interface Working Group (evaluate current Summit usability and respond by implementing changes to the Summit interface that are possible within the INN-Reach product and WebPac Pro) will have the following members:

Bill Kelm, Willamette University

Carla Pealer, Oregon Health & Science University

Gary Markham, Portland State University

Kirstin Hierholzer, University of Oregon

Kate Rubick, Lewis & Clark College

Kate Cleland-Sipfle, Southern Oregon University

Marilyn Von Seggern, Washington State University

 

The Duplicate (Records) Reduction Working Group (develop technical, policy, and workflow recommendations to prevent and eliminate duplicate bibliographic records) will have the following members:

Friday Valentine, Oregon Health & Science University

Diana Brooking, University of Washington

Tom Larsen, Portland State University

Carol Drost, Willamette University

Daniel CannCasciato, Central Washington University

Michael Boock, Oregon State University

Marcia Bianchi, Reed College

 

The Next Generation Summit Search Interface Working Group ( explore and evaluate various options for providing “next generation” catalog functionality, which could include such features as relevance based searching, faceted browsing, enriched records…) will have the following members:

Janet Crum, Oregon Health & Science University

Joe Kiegel, University of Washington

Michaela Brenner, Portland State University

Diane Sotak, University of Portland

Lori Robare, University of Oregon

Terry Reese, Oregon State University

Laura Zeigen, Oregon Health & Science University

Sara Brownmiller, University of Oregon

 

The resource sharing program manager will be available as a consultant to all four working groups.  In particular, Nancy has done considerable work in support of reducing duplicates in Summit and would be expected to work closely with the DR group.

 

Mark Dahl will send an email to the SCC list with the final list of working group members.  The Steering Team members will convene their respective groups with an introductory email.  It was suggested that a request for a leader of the working group be made at the time of the first contact or the working group may want to meet first over the phone to appoint a leader.  The working groups from last year used online tools to share documents and worked remotely more of the time.  There is no money for travel.  Nancy Nathanson has already put up webpages for each working group.  

 

3.      Timeline for each working group – any group may ask for a two week extension if circumstances mean that they won’t be finished with their work by their due date.

 

Data Harvesting Working Group –Their charge is to do research and then write a report for SCC making recommendations based on the research by March 1, 2007 

 

Short-term Changes Working Group – Their charge is both research and implementation.  The research should be completed by March 1, 2007.  Implementation will proceed after that.  The Steering Team will need to review their recommendations before they go out to the greater community.  The Group should send their recommendations to the Steering Team  in early February.  February 1 – February 15 will be the review period.  The Steering Team will make comments immediately so that the report can go out to the whole SCC for additional comments and revisions.

 

Duplicate Reduction Working Group – This group will make its recommendations by February 1, 2007 and after review by SCC, implement them.  They should take the ideas already presented after the summer meeting and decided how to implement them.  This is a usability problem needing urgent action.   

 

Next Generation Working Group – Their charge is to do research and submit a report with various options to SCC by March 1, 2007.  They must be careful not  to cast too narrowly.  One way to view the project is as an “environmental scan” for what is the ideal catalog for Summit?  What do we need to get there?   What degree of separation from the III display will there be?  Their work shouldn’t be confused with the shared ILS initiative, but at the same time, they will not rule out solutions that require going beyond the INN-Reach  platform.  The end result will be recommendations and options, not a plan of action.

 

4.      Liaison reports – no comments or responses to any queries.

 

5.      Next SCC meeting – After all of the reports have been submitted and background information can be sent out.  Probably in late March or early April.

 

6.      Proposal for link resolver router

 

Janet drafted the following enhancement request for the Steering Team’s comments and suggestions.

 

The Orbis Cascade Alliance Catalog Committee proposes that INN-Reach be enhanced as follows:

 

1. The INN-Reach catalog should function as an openURL origin, generating openURL links as defined in the NISO openURL standard.

 

2. Users of the INN-Reach catalog, upon clicking a button or link to access link resolver functionality, should be routed to their local institution's link resolver.  If the user were prompted to authenticate, the user could be routed automatically to the resolver of their home institution. But it may be preferable to instead offer the user a menu of participating institutions that have link resolvers.  This method would allow users to choose the link resolver they wished to use, which might not be the one associated with their home library.  It would also eliminate the need for the user to authenticate before accessing link resolver functionality.  Finally, this method would provide a graceful way to handle institutions that don't have link resolvers.  Those institutions simply wouldn't be listed on the menu.

 

Some of the comments were as follows:  It was suggested that it would be good to only have to select a link resolver once during a session.  It could be stored in a cookie for that session.  It would also be nice to have IP recognition integrated in the product, as long as it could be easily overridden.

 

Next meeting:  We will have another phone meeting the 1st week in December.

     

Minutes: Marcia Bianchi