This release fixes a problem where Hotlink URLs as displayed in Talis Prism Availability did not work when they contained an ampersand.
Customers with Prism 3 have been able to preview this change against their own catalogues, and the release now makes it live for all of them.
Today we are pleased to release to the live service the Welsh translation work and other changes described in an earlier post.
The live customers have been able to preview the new release, as usual, with a fully functioning view of their own catalogue and data but using this new version of the software. Both the preview and the live release become available to all Prism 3 customers for no effort on their part – a benefit of the Software as a Service model of Prism 3.
We’d love to hear what you think of Prism 3, either in comments to this blog post or in the Prism forum.
The main focus of this release is a full Welsh translation. Building on earlier foundation work for handling translations and in collaboration with some customers, Talis Prism can now be configured to offer users the option to view it in English or Welsh and to easily switch between them. Additionally, we have provided a language entry point so that the user can choose their language preference on a preliminary page before entering Talis Prism.
More detailed logging of timings in Talis Prism has been included to help us target the most productive areas for performance improvements
Finally, we have included fixes to bugs with the ‘Print’ option and the ‘Availability’ link under ‘Get this item’ on the Item Detail page.
Customers with Prism 3 are now able to preview the new release, as usual, with a fully functioning view of their own catalogue and data but using this new version of the software.
Release to the live service is scheduled for Tuesday 23rd June.
This release fixes a problem inadvertently introduced last week where the Electronic Location and Access field (MARC field 856), which should display in the Details area of the Item Detail page, was no longer displaying.
The fix is immediately active for all customers.
Today we’re pleased to announce the release to the live service of some core developments that are required to provide the foundation for planned functionality as outlined in our Prism Roadmap. In addition, this release fixes some issues affecting links in the ‘Find more by…’ area of the Item details page.
The live customers have been able to preview the new release, as usual, with a fully functioning view of their own catalogue and data but using this new version of the software. Both the preview and the live release become available to all Prism 3 customers for no effort on their part – a benefit of the Software as a Service model of Prism 3.
We’d love to hear what you think of Prism 3, either in comments to this blog post or in the Prism forum.
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
July 2009 – September 2009
October 2009 – December 2009
January 2010 – March 2010
The value of our Software as a Service approach was proved again when an issue was found during the release preview that was made available to Prism 3 customers last week. As well as showing the value of the release process it demonstrates its flexibility, allowing adjustments, and the approach of continual improvement at no deployment cost to customers .
Today’s release for preview fixes the issue and includes further foundation work to make the management of interface languages much easier and more effective.
Release to the live service is now scheduled for Wednesday 13th May.
This release contains core developments required as a foundation for planned functionality over the next few releases, and it fixes some issues affecting links under the ‘Find more by…’ area of the Item details page. This release does not introduce any new functionality.
Customers with Prism 3 are now able to preview the new release, as usual, with a fully functioning view of their own catalogue and data but using this new version of the software.
Release to the live service is scheduled for Tuesday 5th May.
Those of you have attended recent Prism Events will be aware that the designed for extensibility architecture of Prism enables the integration of optional external services in to the Prism interface to create an even better experience for those that use it. Those benefits are not exclusive to the users of the Prism itself. For instance we have been demonstrating how services such as Google Analytics can give you valuable information and feedback to the library about the use of their tenancy.
We recently started a trial with the London Borough of Southwark and The University of Bolton tenancies to assess how Google Analytics can be introduced to Prism. The trial has only been running running for a short time, but already some interesting information is starting to be produced.
For instance, you wouldn’t have expected to find that a London public library catalogue would be of interest to people as far away as France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Brazil, and the Philippines. Slightly more expected is the fact that students in Bolton are still interested in the library at midnight on a Monday evening.
One of the objectives of the trial is to identify any impacts upon the performance of the user interface by introducing calls to external services such as Google Analytics. Care was taken to ensure that the calls are made to the service only once the page had been fully loaded in the users’ browser. It is still early in the trial, but it already clear, by the total lack of comments from library staff and users, that there is no noticeable impact from a user point of view.
It is planned for the trial to last a few months, so that we can assess the information and it’s use and work through issues such as the best way to manage Google account logins and the way they are associated tenancies.
The Feedback feature in Prism is highly valuable both to us and to the library. Users can and do tell us what they like and what they would like to see in Prism, as well as reporting problems. Their perspective is always refreshing and instructive and continually reminds us that we should be wary about thinking we know what they want.
So when we found a fault a few days ago in the latest release that was preventing the sending of user feedback emails in many cases, we gave it priority and the fix was released this morning. Software as a Service means that all customers get the benefit of the release immediately.
Now that it’s working properly again, we’re looking forward to the continuation of the reality feed.
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