SMUG Consortia Working Group
Here is the development issue list we made in our SMUG consortia working group meeting in London. Our next task is to put flesh on the bones, in other words, to describe what those titles on our list mean.
Please pick one or two topics from the list and write short descriptions. Please let us others know what issue(s) you have selected.
Please send the descriptions/comments to Ari Rouvari, who will pull the list and comments together. Selected issues have been marked with bold.
- Improved documentation for the consortia (ML/SFX) (Kristin)
- Remove copy protection from PDF documents
- A list of consortia-specific items
- Change history of the documentation
- UTIL commands work only with MetaLib username (Hana)
- Security between different ML institutions (Hana)
- Document possible and accepted solutions
- Production and development server (Susan Liepa, AARLIN)
- MetaLib 3.13 is better, but SFX doesn't support it natively
- SFX Directory permissions (shared server)
- SFX parsers / data exchange
- Mechanism for copying everything related to a target or service
- Collection description specification (Ere & Ari)
- Information Retrieval Service Description Specification (Ere & Ari)
- Selective automatic IRD update (Ere & Ari)
- Selective copying of presentation data between IRDs (Ere & Ari)
- Institution-specific settings (ML) (Beate)
- Default language, number of target DBs
- Communication with vendors (Jiri Pavlik & Kristin)
- Statistics (also consortial stats from SFX)
- MetaLib user management
- MetaLib admin rights granularity
- SFX: more flexibility in handling the portfolios of sub targets, for example, activating all the portfolios of Highwire Press (Jiri Pavlik & Kristin)
- Change log for SFX Admin Center
- Export feature in SFX getting the holdings of the participating institutes/groups sharing an instance