Old Metalib project wiki (restricted to Task Force members)
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Metadata aggregator project wiki (restricted)
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Verde project wiki (viewable by MIT Libraries staff only)
Project SimpLR
Purpose: To build a simplified, integrated, search and discovery interface for accessing the MIT Libraries resources.
Name:
Project SimpLR: Simplified search & discovery of Library Resources
(pronounced, “simpler”)Description:
The Spring 2006 user needs report and the Library Survey resulted in a number of findings concerning problems that our users have with our current interfaces for search and discovery of library resources. The highest priority need from both projects was determined to be this:
Make discovery and search easier and more effective. In order to begin to achieve that goal, a two-part project is underway.
1) Update functional requirements for implementing Metalib + X-server in a targeted way,and
2) Develop high-level functional requirements and make recommendation for acquiring a Metadata Aggregator with faceted browsing and trusted network features.
(see Charter for details).
Project team
Nicole Hennig, project manager
hennig@mit.edu
A project team will be created, with members drawn from the User Interface Group, STS, and CAMS.
Project steering committee
MacKenzie Smith, Steve Gass, Marilyn McSweeney, Nina Davis-Millis, Nicole Hennig
Task force 1: Metalib/X-server project planning
- Maggie Bartley
- Darcy Duke
- Nicole Hennig
- Rich Wenger (until Nov. 16)
- Sands Fish replacing Rich Wenger as of Nov. 16
Task force 2: Metadata aggregator requirements
- Beth Brennan
- Ellen Duranceau
- Tracy Gabridge
- Nicole Hennig
- William Reilly