Hi all,
I'm sending out a reminder to fill out the Doodle poll at
http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr if you are interested in talking
about search in Evergreen. I'm going to set some dates tomorrow.
Kathy
On 02/19/2016 05:54 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
During the dev hack-a-way in November, we had a discussion regarding
Evergreen search. The discussion happened at the request of MassLNC
after we had some local discussions regarding what our overall goals
for Evergreen search are. We view search as one of the most important
pieces of the ILS, if not the most important. It's what allows our
users to find those resources we spend so much time cataloging so that
they can then place holds on them, check them out from the library, or
access them in some other way.
I left the hack-a-way with an action item to start a larger community
discussion where we could identify some high-level goals for what we
want Evergreen search to be and where we could define what we consider
to be important factors in search relevance.
I would like to start this discussion with some focus-group-like
discussions in IRC where community members could identify the features
they like about the current search and where they see room for
improvement. My hope is that these discussions can help us define what
we consider to be an ideal search system for Evergreen and allow the
dev community to explore options for making that ideal search system
happen.
I think the discussions will work best if they are not too large, so I
anticipate scheduling two or three or more depending on interest. If
you are interested in participating, please fill out the Doodle at
http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr. I'll try my best to schedule
these discussions so that anyone who shows interest through the Doodle
poll has a chance to participate.
I have also talked to Yamil Suarez about scheduling some "Intro to
IRC" sessions ahead of time so that people who are unfamiliar with IRC
have a chance to learn about it before the scheduled search discussions.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Kathy
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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
[email protected]
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
