2024-10-23 Discovery Committee Meeting

October 23, 2024

Participants

  • Ken Herold, Los Angeles (Chair)

  • Julie Shen, Pomona

  • Hannah Lee, Dominguez Hills

  • Kristi Chavez, Bakersfield

  • Lauren Magnuson, San Marcos (Vice-Chair)

  • Can Li, San Francisco

  • David Walker, Chancellor’s Office

Discussion Topics

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New Business/Steering Committee Update/STIM Update

@Kenneth (Ken) Herold (Unlicensed)

  • View’s Configuration API (Ken for Can)

  • LD Task Force items (Kristi)

  • Primo FRBR keys to include BIBFRAME Work and Expression URI’s (Ken)

  • update of the old DITF spreadsheet of CSU Alma settings (Ken)

  • NERS is now CERV, Aha! Enhancements Portal and Election Buddy

  • Steering Committe (Ken)

  • STIM - organizing, but coming AI and Surveys (David)

 

Discovery Testing Update

@Hannah Lee (Unlicensed)

  • bulk export of all search results - download - feature testing

  • display local fields, retain history, HTML coding 2

 

Known/New Issues

 

  • Primo Analytics change in November 2023. Timeout behavior change (Stacey van Groll). Regarding the "Open URL" field in the Link Resolver Usage subject area. Development has found and fixed the problem. You should see the fix in your environment with the December 2024 release (Leslie Moore)

  • What’s New in Primo Q4 2024 - What’s New with Primo - October 2024 (youtube.com)

 

2024/2025 Priorities

 

  • Start conversation with Data Issues Task Force

  • Norm Rules Task Force - subject rules 4.1 in work; upcoming facets request

  • AI

    • Alethea (Leganto homework coach) - CO funding pilot at 3 CSUs, including AI

    • Primo Research Assistant - Documentation

      • NOV 2024 - search history, change order of menu links, switch to GPT-4o mini, more

  • VETT

    • New Interface Exploration

    • Move to Angular from AngularJS

      • Next Discovery Experience (Primo NDE)

        • First look in November, 2024

        • May, 2025 will not include consortia functionality

        • CSU launch may not be until 2026

      • What custom features are necessary to bring over? Future Open Forum?

  • Create a bridge between this committee and Ex Libris Primo?

  • Linked Data Task Force - sharing and tracking

  • Customizations, variations, and modifications

    • Christina’s spreadsheet was useful this can be built upon

    • Useful to see what each campus is doing

    • Christina’s report on trends is useful

  • Continue discussion of Mobile Experience systemwide

    • Would be useful to look at the cross campus usage data for OneSearch

  • Accessibility testing

 

Action Items

@Kenneth (Ken) Herold (Unlicensed)

Invite guests to future meetings (Ken)