[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web site strategic goals and user stories

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Thanks, Kevin!  The Web Team has taken note!

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Kevin Kierans <kevink at tnrdlib.bc.ca> wrote:

> I propose the following personas.  (Please help me flesh them out.)
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> Peter Power Patron
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> Peter is an avid library user, and codes as a hobby.
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> He has written browser "gadgets."  He is currently
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> interested in mobile apps and would like create some
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> for the OPAC and release them into the wild.  His
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> latest app was single use mobile app that allowed him
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> to type in an ISBN into his smart phone while in a
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> bookstore. (He's working on taking a picture of the
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> barcode on the cover instead of typing in the ISBN) His
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> app would query the Worldcat xISBN service
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> (http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp)
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> for a  list of "related" ISBN's and then query his local
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> library to see if it had any of the books.  He is
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> curious about how easy apps such as this would be to
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> write for EG.  And where the documentation needed can
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> be found.  His impression, knowing that EG is Open
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> Source, is that this should be easier than with other
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> ILS's.
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> Edna Extender
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> Edna’s library has been using Evergreen as it comes “out of the box.”
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> Edna’s library colleagues, who work mostly in large academic libraries,
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> have all been talking about "discovery layers" such as
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> Blacklight and VuFind.
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> (
> http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di/web/ils-interop-discussion-home?pli=1
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> She lurks on the code4lib web site and email list.
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> (e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg02954.html)
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> She has recently read the following article:
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> “The Integrated Library System’s APIs, an Open-source
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> Web 2.0 Catalog, and University Computing Live Happily
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> Ever After” by Birong Ho.
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> (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4165)
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> Edna is curious about EG's capabilities in this area.
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> --
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> Kevin Kierans
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