Talis would like to invite you to attend a webinar on Wednesday 2^nd September to further discuss the Cross-Searching Multiple Catalogues requirement, and how we can look to move this forward as it currently isn’t addressed within the programme of work outline on the Talis Prism 3 Roadmap.

This webinar has been designed to understand the Cross-Searching Multiple Catalogues  requirements, and you should look to register if you have used the  Z39.50 search in Talis Prism 2. To register for this session on Wednesday 2^nd September at 1pm, please email Alison Kershaw stating that you would like to attend, we will then send you details on how to register. Please do pass this invite to colleagues who you feel may be interested in attending.

Following the Talis Prism 3 development Update Webinars held earlier this month, we have published the August Talis Prism 3 Roadmap.

As discussed on the webinar, the roadmap details the themes that we are looking to focus development effort on during a specified period over the next 12 months.

If you were unable to attend a webinar and would like a more detailed explanation around the roadmap, or have any questions, then please contact Alison.Kershaw@Talis.com.

This roadmap gives a broad indication of the development plans for TalisPrism. It shows the main themes on which development work will focus in periods of three months. Features are released when they are ready, with the emphasis on little and often.

We’re working hard to deliver as much value as possible under each theme, but software development time-scales are notoriously hard to predict so we cannot reliably be more specific about features and release dates until close to a release. One reason for this is that the themes cannot be exclusive – we’ll also work on other issues as the need arises. We’ll update the roadmap as the product and our plans evolve.

April 2009 – June 2009

• Administration interface for library system administrators to manage aspects such as styling, data display and languages
• Facilities to create, upload and share extensions that embed or link to external services and content
• Option to use the institution’s hostname in the Prism URL, such as library.myuni.ac.uk or library.authority.gov.uk, making it look more integrated into the institution and bringing technical benefits

July 2009 – September 2009

• Provide more flexibility for indexing and display
• Improve search, including enhanced relevance ranking, facet options, advanced search options, related searches
• Increase data upload efficiency and performance whilst supporting more libraries

October 2009 – December 2009

• Discovery features, such as browsing authors and subjects, taking advantage of semantic data
• Provide a Linked Data API to allow catalogue data to integrate with other services, using the Semantic Web Linked Data approach

January 2010 – March 2010

• Make integration with the library system more efficient and open, allowing improved availability information and borrower services

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