Progress is being made on the establishment of the Analytics Group. An invitation to participate was sent to the mailing lists on 4th February. Twenty three expressions of interest have been made so far. As the working body will consist of 12 members ,I am in the process of making the selections. To help with […]
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Founded in 2013 as a result of discussions at the 2012 Zurich conference, the goal of the SFX KnowledgeBase Advisory Board (KBAB) was to promote first class quality of the data stored in the SFX Knowledge Base by reviewing the quality assurance policies and processes together with Ex Libris. The SFX KBAB has been active […]
The Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been working a fair amount behind the scenes since IGeLU 2015 in Budapest. Throughout the past year, much of our work been in collaboration with the Interoperability SIWG and the nascent Analytics SIWG. Our 3 groups organized the first in a series of “Show and Tell” […]
Such a great event! It is hard to believe but the wonderful conference in Budapest is over! Many colleagues from the Working groups and the Steering committee and especially our colleagues from the host institutions in Budapest were working hard for months to make the conference as successful as it was – with 430 attendees […]
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We are very happy to announce that the 11th IGeLU conference in September 2016 will be hosted by BIBSYS and the University Library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. BIBSYS BIBSYS is the name of a Norwegian Library Systems Consortium as well as the organization administering the consortium. BIBSYS started out as […]
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The first ever IGeLU “Developers Day”, co-organized by the Interoperability and Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Groups was a resounding success. Far exceeding the organizers initial expectations, the meeting drew over 90 attendees for a packed day of presentations, lightning talks, and energized discussions. Special thanks go to Guy Ben-Porat and Ohad Shaked for […]
Primo SaaS Primo/Metalib PWG will accompany Ex Libris road map for the future development of Primo SaaS features. Aside from this PWG will deliver in collaboration with Eluna PWG and Interoperability (IO)/ Linked Open Data (LOD) SIWGs a report about development tools needed within SaaS within the next three months. Primo software ballot The ballot […]
An Ex Libris initative After intensive discussions with the Steering Committee about the aim of the initiative, Ex Libris has announced a new platform for all customers to post ideas for enhancements and extensions to their products. This platform also offers a voting mechanism to facilitate customers to support good ideas. The platform is based […]
A recurring theme at IGeLU 2015 was the state of Ex LIbris Analytics tools and an assessment of emerging customer needs in these areas. In the General Q&A alone, there were 6 questions related to analytics, with more questions appearing in the Alma and Primo product QA sessions. This is evidence of a great deal […]
Goodbye We had to say goodbye to two important IGeLU Steering Committee members in Budapest; Jirka Kende, our chair, had to step down because he had served for three consecutive terms of three years each. Peter Klien, chair of the conference programme planning group stepped down after serving for two consecutive terms of two years […]
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