Tipasa Testers Charge

Introduction

The Tipasa Testers are charged with coordinating and testing integration between Alma and Tipasa. This team will communicate with vendors OCLC (Tiapsa) and Ex Libris (Alma) to facilitate testing, requirements, use cases, etc as needed to achieve a successful integration between Alma and Tipasa. The testers will work to ensure that the Alma/Tipasa integration has minimal to no negative impact on interlibrary loan and resource sharing services to UC library patrons.

Charges & core responsibilities

• coordinate and test OCLC’s fulfillment of gaps in Alma/Tipasa integration

• identify any additional gaps or use cases

• communicate and coordinate with OCLC as needed

• communicate and coordinate with Ex Libris as needed

• escalate cases or issues as appropriate

The Tipasa Testers will periodically report on testing progress to the Resource Sharing OST. The Tipasa Testers will present a final report to RS OST once all gaps have been successfully addressed or by October 2023, whichever event occurs first.

Reporting line

The Tipasa Testers are charged by are report to Resource Sharing OST. The RS OST is available for consultation to Tipasa Testers regarding any decisions of the Alma/Tipasa integrations.

Roster & expertise needed

In order to conduct testing, a Tipasa sandbox environment is necessary. The testers group should include knowledge of, or willingness to become familiar with, UC ILL workflow(s), configuration of Alma resource sharing module, and configuration of Tipasa.

• @Kristen Van Vliet , UC Berkeley

• @Jason Newborn , UC Davis

• @Linda Michelle Weinberger , UC Irvine

• @Amador, Alicia , UC Los Angeles 

• @Sabrina Simmons , UC Riverside 

• @Scott Hathaway , UC Santa Barbara

• @Alison Ray (CDL) , California Digital Library

• @Lai Arakawa , UC Irvine

• Mary Hardy, UC Berkeley

• Ellen Dario (NRLF), UC Berkeley