[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

[Kathy Lussier]

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
klussier at masslnc.org
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