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vufindkeven
implementing a re-skinned VuFind interface for the Universities library catalogue
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have spoken with Kevin on the phone.
Hello David, Jason here, just to let you know that I have submitted the Core Resources Form (Tuesday 11th, 7pm). Some of the details (names of users we are roping in for our acceptance testing, and a proper URL for a picture of the team), will follow shortly.
You should by now, also have had the signed Grant Letter returned to you. This was sent back to Laura Smyth.
Best wishes
Hello David, Just a note to let you know that I have submitted the Project Plan in the form of 7 blog postings as requested at: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/vufindkeven/about/
The first phase commences with the launch of the beta VuFind? service on Monday (24th May). You'll soon be able to check it out at http://catalogue.pilot.kent.ac.uk/
All the best, Jason
From JL: re launch of vuFind at Kent: The feedback we have had so far have been very positive. I think the usability testing phase will be very interesting - VuFind? handles things very differently to WebVoyage? (e.g. floating the most popular entries to the top of term lists, and use of faceted searching rather than true sequential index browsing), which means folks will take a different route to find what they want.
I'm glad that we're on schedule so far, and hope it stays that way.
Hello David,
KEVEN has been going really well. The reskinning phase has been showing good results - currently only viewable on our development machine, although hopefully available for public consumption in a month or so when the transition to a beta service is handeledd by our operations team.
We are just beginning to make progress with the content enhancements tasks. Implementing "Buy Online", Google Books preview, a mobile snapshot view, and improving the contextual information about navigating to a book on the shelf all seem to be possible, although we are running out of developer time on the project. Adding TOCs presents other difficulties though. We have scoped these tasks and prioritised them, so can at least report on how they might be implemented, and pick them up later if they cannot be resolved before the official end of the JISC project.
I can see that the project end date is 31st October 2010. My employers want to draw me off by then at the latest as I am overcommited.
I am aware that a final project report/post are due, and would like to start drafting that this week. Also, the final budget for sign off. Can you confimr for me please, do I submit the final post as a formal written report to you, or as a blog post on the project blog (and if the latter, do you wish to see it in draft format first)?
I wanted to ask what guidance was available on preparing this (aside from that at http://code.google.com/p/jisclms/wiki/ProjectDocumentationInstructions).
In other words, are there completed examples from other projects that I could look at for inspiration please? This is my first (only?) JISC project, and as I am not a "techie" I would like to have an idea of how to present it.
I am assuming that the final report/post will need to be formally submitted by the project end date of 31st October, is this right?
Kind regards, Jason