Following on from our post on the 8th May I thought it would be useful to give an update on the Platform Migration project.

We are now more than half way through the migration with 54 customers using the Capita Platform. We continue to be on schedule to migrate all of our customers across by the end of July.

If you are keen to be moved over the next month please let us know by raising a support case or emailing the team libraries-support@capita.co.uk and we will be in contact soon.

Benefits of the new platform have now been posted to the Prism Forum and can be accessed here

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact us at libraries-support@capita.co.uk.

Over the past few weeks we have been working with a number of Prism customers to move their Prism bibliographic data from the Talis Platform onto the Capita Platform.

After a successful beta program with four customers we have now started to move across our remaining customers and to date 19 customers are now live on the Capita Platform including all of our Assist Managed Service customers.

For those of you who are yet to be migrated we thought it would be useful to outline the process so that you are fully aware of what is involved.

The migration is of the data only to the new platform and is not directly linked to the domain name transition, further details of which can be found here.

The platform migration involves a re-grab of the data from your catalogue. To minimise impact to your live service, we have redefined the process in recent weeks so that we only stop the delta updates for a couple of hours whilst the re-grab is performed. Once complete the deltas will be switched back on and any backlog will be cleared automatically.

Once the data has been re-grabbed it will be converted and loaded into your Sandbox environment and made available to you for testing. Once the testing has been completed the live tenancy will be pointed at this new data and a catch up delta grab will take place to ensure this data is fully up to date. This usually takes no longer than one hour.

On the migration process Tracey Temple from Northumbria University commented:

“The migration was smooth and painless, searching is quicker, as well as the wonderfully improved facet results, building from the whole result set is a major improvement, and it is handy being able to see the facet counts.”

John Daniel from Leeds Library and Information Services added:

“The new platform does seem faster returning results and seems to handle returning larger numbers of results better than before….. We also really like the Facet counts showing against each individual facet from a result set. The migration itself was a very smooth process with no down time that we noticed.”

We are currently scheduling the migration over to the new Capita platform and are on track to have all customers fully migrated by the end of July. If you are keen to be moved over the next month please let us know by raising a support case or emailing the team libraries-support@capita.co.uk and we will be in contact soon.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact us at libraries-support@capita.co.uk.

To keep up to date with the latest Prism 3 Developments you can register for the free webinar on Monday 4th July 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries

Public libraries click here to register.

Academic libraries click here to register.

This webinar will focus again on discussing the latest Prism 3 developments referring to the Prism 3 Roadmap, while providing an opportunity for you to raise any specific questions that you may have.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Prism 3 news and developments on the Prism 3 website and blog.

To keep up to date with the latest Prism 3 Developments you can register for the free webinar on Monday 23rd May 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries

Public libraries click here to register.

Academic libraries click here to register.

This webinar will focus again on discussing the latest Prism 3 developments referring to the Prism 3 Roadmap, while providing an opportunity for you to raise any specific questions that you may have.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Prism 3 news and developments on the Prism 3 website and blog.

To keep up to date with the latest Talis Prism 3 Developments you can register for the free webinar on Monday 18th April 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries

Public libraries click here to register.

Academic libraries click here to register.

This webinar will focus again on discussing the latest Talis Prism 3 developments referring to the Talis Prism 3 Roadmap, while providing an opportunity for you to raise any specific questions that you may have.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Talis Prism 3 news and developments on the Talis Prism 3 website and blog.

To keep up to date with the latest Talis Prism 3 Developments you can register for the free webinar on Monday 21st March 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries

Public libraries click here to register.

Academic libraries click here to register.

This webinar will focus again on discussing the latest Talis Prism 3 developments referring to the Talis Prism 3 Roadmap, while providing an opportunity for you to raise any specific questions that you may have.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Talis Prism 3 news and developments on the Talis Prism 3 website and blog.

To keep up to date with the latest Talis Prism 3 Developments you can register for the free webinar on Monday 7th February 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries

Public libraries click here to register.

Academic libraries click here to register.

This webinar will focus again on discussing the latest Talis Prism 3 developments referring to the Talis Prism 3 Roadmap, while providing an opportunity for you to raise any specific questions that you may have.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Talis Prism 3 news and developments on the Talis Prism 3 website and blog.

For the last development update webinar of 2010 we are going to review the current functionality of Talis Prism 3 and look forward enthusiastically to the new features planned for the first half of 2011.

This free webinar will be of interest to all customers including those who have not yet started to implement Talis Prism 3.

It will be one webinar, rather than the usual academic/public split, and we will be making time for a lively question and answer session.

The webinar will be on Monday 13th December at 14:00 for one hour. Click here to register.

In the meantime keep up with the latest Talis Prism 3 news and developments on the Talis Prism 3 website and blog.

One of the most common areas that customers tell me they struggle with during the implementation of Talis Prism 3 is the design aspect. We have always provided a very basic design template so that each individual organisation can customise Prism 3 to their own design requirements. However this has proved challenging for some organisations who do not have the relevant in house CSS and Web Design skills to complete their design.

We have taken this feedback on board and are pleased to announce that a new default design skin is now available for those who would like this to then further build their design on. To view the default skin please visit http://prism.talis.com/trial .

If you would like this applied to your Prism 3 tenancy please contact Imraz.Mohammed@talis.com.

If you have any queries about this or any other aspect of Talis Prism 3, please contact your Account Manager or email Imraz.Mohammed@talis.com.

Keep up with the latest Talis Prism 3 news and developments on the Talis Prism 3 website and blog.

It’s been a few months since my last update and a lot has been happening within the Talis Prism 3 world during that time. We have seen several releases of Prism 3 as part of the work we are doing on the Semantic Data Model, as well as the launch of Talis Library Ideas and the rollout of the Admin Console for Prism 3. We also made available the option to customers to run Prism 3 on their own URL.

I have been busy working with many of our customers during the past three months helping them to launch Prism 3, which has resulted in a number of customers launching Prism 3 either in parallel to Prism 2 or as their sole new catalogue.

The recent launches of Prism 3 has resulted in over 30 customers who are now running Prism 3 as a live catalogue. These include Worcestershire Libraries (left) who have implemented the Google Translate service on their catalogue, East Renfrewshire Council who have used JUICE to add a Library Location extension on the item details page and University of Roehampton (below) who have launched at the start of the new term. Earlier this week we saw Cornwall Council launch their catalogue taking the total number of live instances of Prism 3 to 32.

We have also seen the University of Manchester and University of Sunderland launch Prism 3 with their own hostname.

With over 30 customers running Prism 3, we are now seeing some very interesting statistical information in Google Analytics. We have been able to aggregate this data in order to monitor areas such as performance and searching. For example in the past 7 days we have see over 330k visits to Prism 3 from 137 countries which resulted in over 1.2 million page views.

If you have any queries about this or any other aspect of Talis Prism 3, please contact your Account Manager or email Imraz.Mohammed@talis.com