If you were unable to attend one of our recent Prism 3 update webinars, then catch up on latest developments by watching the recording below or by downloading the video.
[podcast format=”video”]http://talis-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/prism_webinar_230511.mp4[/podcast]
We have produced a white paper outlining our vision for Prism. We’d be really interested to hear your feedback on this, and welcome you to post any comments or questions below.
Abstract of the white paper:
“A lot has been written over the last five years about what a “next generation Discovery Interface” should look like. Whilst this is an interesting debate, we believe it’s asking the wrong question. We shouldn’t start from the vague perspective of how a current discovery interface should be improved, but instead focus on the needs of the people and institutions that use the discovery interface.
This is the philosophy we’ve taken during the inception and development of Prism. Wherever possible we’ve looked at empirical data that shows a unique need, looked at emerging market trends and investigated the type of information and data being managed by institutions. Throughout all of this, we’ve built a solid foundation on which to deliver a compelling next generation discovery interface.
Now that this solid foundation has been built, we have been crystallising our plans and ideas for the next phase of Prism’s life cycle.”
The beta tests of the new Marcgrab for Prism 3 are going well and it won’t be long before we start a roll-out programme for all Prism 3 customers. Marcgrab is a re-write of Marcgrabber and has been developed to make it easier for us to make amendments now and in the future. It will also enable searches for recently added items in Prism 3 and also multi-volume parent/child record processing. Crucially, it will also enable the Semantic Data Model.
We ran a webinar to introduce Marcgrab on Monday 9th May. We talked about what Marcgrab is, why it has been re-written, the prerequisites required for installation, the benefits that it will bring to your system, an overview of the process, the steps involved in the implementation and how you can request it to be installed. You can watch the video here.
[podcast format=”video”]http://talis-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/marcgrab_webinar.mp4[/podcast]
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.
If you were unable to attend one of our recent Prism 3 update webinars, then catch up on latest developments by watching the recording below or by downloading the video.
The agenda for this webinar was:
[podcast format=”video”]http://talis-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/prism_webinar_180411.mp4[/podcast]
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.
If you were unable to attend one of our recent Prism 3 update webinars, then catch up on latest developments by watching the recording below or by downloading the video.
The agenda for this webinar was:
[podcast format=”video”]http://talis-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/prism_webinar_210311.mp4[/podcast]
We have updated the Talis Prism 3 Roadmap to reflect further plans for development. As usual, the Roadmap will be a reference point in the next Talis Prism 3 Development Update Webinar, which is scheduled for Monday 21st March 2011 at 12:30 for Public Libraries and 14:00 for Academic Libraries. Please follow the link for details on how to register.
We’re pleased to announce that the recent preview release of Talis Prism 3 has now been deployed to the live service. For full details on what has changed in this release please visit the preview release notice here: //blogs.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/prism/2011/02/11/prism-3-release-preview-11-february-2011/.
If you have questions on this, or any other issue, please feel free to email phil.john@talis.com, contact your account manager, or leave a comment on the blog.
Following the recent release to preview of the latest version of Talis Prism 3, we’re now beginning the beta test with five customers for those features that require an upgrade to the Local Data services (LDS) software.
The LDS runs in your local environment and handles dynamic interactions between Prism 3 and your local database, such as fetching availability information and managing renewals and reservations.
The main new features that require the LDS upgrade are Loan History, which will display under an additional tab in the re-designed My Account ar
ea that you have in the Prism 3 release preview, and the display of an ‘In Transit’ status in the availability area on the Item Detail page. The LDS software has also undergone major revision ‘under the bonnet’, providing the foundation for more efficient further development.
The beta test is expected to take several weeks. After initial testing by library staff using the library’s sandbox Prism 3 tenancy, the new LDS will be applied to the live local environment making the new features live for the beta libraries’ users, for a period of close monitoring.
We’re developing the LDS so that it can be updated automatically, making it much easier to deliver improvements in future. We’re including appropriate tools to allow you to remain in control, but crucially it eliminates time-consuming manual intervention. The beta test will encompass this auto-update aspect, so that the general release roll-out will be the last time manual intervention will be needed.
The version of Prism 3 that is currently available for preview works with both the old and new versions of LDS, detecting them automatically. We’ll leave it on preview for a little longer for you to check, but we’ll put it live soon to give your users those benefits that don’t depend on the new LDS.
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