2023-05-19 Meeting notes

Attendees

  • Jess Waggoner, UC Santa Cruz

  • Jared Campbell, UC Davis;

  • Zoe Tucker, UC Los Angeles

  • Douglas Worsham, UC San Diego

  • Joe Ameen, UC Merced;

  • Gem Stone-Logan, California Digital Library;

  • Zach Silveira, UC San Francisco

  • Sean Claudio, UC Irvine 

  • Michael Craig, UC Santa Barbara

  • Jackie Gosselar, UC Berkeley

 

Not Present

  • Jessica Kruppa, UC Riverside, Chair 


Meeting Recording:

 

Item

Desired Outcome

Notes

Decisions / Discussion

Actions

Item

Desired Outcome

Notes

Decisions / Discussion

Actions

1

Sharing and Updates

Share any Discovery related information from other SILS groups

UCLA’s weird Primo VE issue:

  • Was a result of Ex Libris testing in production.

From Jackie:

  • Many, significant problems with Primo VE and screen readers. Will be meeting with web accessibility people to research more.

 

 

2

UX Subgroup updates

 

Small meeting:

  • Talked about Hathitrust collection

  • Examples of labels and general issues to discuss.

  • May 2023 release notes. Resource type filter bar can be turned on. UCLA is reviewing but doesn’t like it. However, it may be the new future of Primo VE.

 

 

3

UC SILS Community Slack

Determine if we want to add any additional channels.

UC SILS Community Slack

  • #alma-idea-exchange - Should we add one for primo?

  • Do we wand a general slack for discovery?

Gem will go ahead and make the slack channels and let UC SILS discovery know when it’s done.

 

4

Follow-up: Database Search

Need examples - Should we set aside a meet as a work session to look for examples?

 

 

Decision Page: Database Search

Collecting https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JBn7QAtqNV1A7IhBB1nqg5GnSCUqvp7GlfHKI5HMIa4/edit?usp=sharing

 

FYI: Multi-Part E-Collections

This feels like it’s not as high of priority right now as it’s not going to replace anyone’s A-Z list. Still likely data quality issues but we’ll plan to submit tickets as needed.

Change decision page to Stalled.

Document Database Search failures so we can start identifying the multiple issues affecting searches.
5

Follow-up: Hathi Trust

Need examples

Tracking page: Spreadsheet

Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BKs-XQ-OFJ2p0Q4hYf3MrnQeMeRpCNtA2bMpmY82VVs/edit#heading=h.pc8lv7b944k

 

Looks like the adding the worldwide collection may have resolved the ranking issues. Remaining campuses will test 5 each and we’ll review next time.

 

6

Thoughts from ELUNA

 

Not a lot of concrete examples of improvements to Primo VE. They’re talking about upgrading discovery in a few years to incorporate AI, new indexing, etc.

 

 

7

Any outstanding SLACK questions or other things that have come up?

 

May 1 - Jesse - Exclude from discovery Network test

  • See it in UCSF, UCM, UCB

  • UCLA and UCSC don’t see it. UCSC did explicitly setup the search profile to exclude it.

 

 

8

Review Workplan

Postponed

Work Plan

 

 

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Pre/Post meeting Discussion comments and thoughts

 

  • Review the possibility of leveraging Idea Exchange and enhancement points to get stuff we want developed… developed.

 

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