2024-11-27 Discovery Committee Meeting

Owned by Kenneth (Ken) Herold (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 27, 2024
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November 27, 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 (Can) - not working, but Search API has pnx records

  • LD Task Force items (Kristi)

  • Steering Committee (Ken)

    • our last Open Forum was March 2023

  • New Libraries Wiki - (David) - Dec 16th Confluence static; January SharePoint

    • to-do list for Discovery

  • STIM (COLD committee) - (David) - Just met, more on AI next year

 

Discovery Testing Update

@Hannah Lee (Unlicensed)

  • November Update - feature testing, Research Assistant

  • next meeting - Jan 7th

 

Known/New Issues

 

 

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 (AI homework coach) - CO funding pilot at 3 CSUs, separate from Leganto

    • 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; open forums in Spring 2025 (Ken)

AI recommendations for evaluation and consideration (Ken, Lauren, Can)

Report a bug webform not in use - removed (Ken)

NEXT MEETING: January 22, 2025