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Work with the Discovery group and public staff to test out the CDI instance for a period of one month or so.

1. “In order to view CDI collections in your Primo production environment, simply add &searchCDI=true to the end of your Primo URL”

2. Resources of interest:

   1. What patrons will see…

   2. Match & Merge Story

   3. CDI Resource Types

3. Note of warning:

   1. The tech is different so there will be a change in search & ranking:

      1. “CDI will return a much larger number of results for most searches”

      2. More granular resource types

      3. Known CDI Issues and Gaps

   2. The doc ids will be changed but a process was identified to preserve the permalinks. Their testing shows they were able to preserve 92% of the permalinks.

4. Submit feedback here. The ULMS ERM group has worked on updating NZ collection to CDI Search :Yes. However, if full-text access is set up in the NZ, resources from those collections should be found within libraries Primo instance if they are sharing the collection. Instructions for checking discoverability of NZ managed collections can be found here.

5. Issues? Please submit a salesforce ticket and CC Jessica Hartwigsen. If folks ask cdi_info@exlibrisgroup.com and get an answer that you’d like to be placed on the wiki, please use the form or email one of the group members.

1. As a consortia, we will have to come to a consensus on the following:

   1. Go live date, decision mechanism:

   2. Survey?

   ERM & Discovery

   ?

   met and decided on a June 15 date.

   3. Search mechanism?

      1. ERM: Remain on Fully Flexible

      2. move to Easy Active

      3. Work with Ex Libris for individual campus choice?for now.

2. “The switch from Primo Central to going live with CDI is seamless and takes effect within one hour. During the switch, there is no downtime for your users.”

3. Follow these steps to go live with CDI

4. If full-text access is set up in the NZ, resources from those collections should be found within libraries Primo instance if they are sharing the collection. Instructions for checking discoverability of NZ managed collections can be found here.

5. Issues? Please submit a salesforce ticket and CC Jessica Hartwigsen. If folks ask cdi_info@exlibrisgroup.com and get an answer that you’d like to be placed on the wiki, please use the form or email one of the group members.