What libraries can do! Although libraries want the content they subscribe to be available for users in their preferred discovery services, some vendors unfortunately still don’t allow general discovery services to index this licensed content. To facilitate our users using rich (meta)data to discover the content we subscribe for them, IGeLU suggests always to include a clause in the content agreements with […]
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After very elaborate discussions and considerations the joint IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has published Linked Open Data and Ex Libris Products: Visions, Use Cases, Requirements – An open draft on the EL Commons Wiki (only available for Ex Libris customers and staff, log in with your EL Commons account). The document […]
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The IGeLU Linked Open Data SIWG is expanding to become a joint IGeLU-ELUNA Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group (LOD SIWG). At the ELUNA 2013 annual conference May 1, a session on Linked Data and ELUNA organized by Laura Akerman and Daniel Lovins included presentations about the IGeLU LOD SIWG by Corey Harper, and […]
We advise all customers, willing to share their experiences and needs about Hosted and Cloud Services, to join the combined IGeLU/ELUNA discussion and mailing list on this topic. To join, simply go to the ELUNA webpages for mailing lists, read the information and go to the listserver link. Your request to join will be moderated […]
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The preparations for the next IGeLU conference are well on the way. During its meeting in Berlin in March the Steering Committee visited the conference venue at the Free University Berlin and was impressed by the newly renovated Henry Ford Building, the centre of the university with its auditorium maximum with capacity of well over […]
Since the IGeLU 2012 conference in Zurich the Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been very busy behind the scenes. Now is the time to come out in the open! What have we been up to? Our main activities were a direct outcome of the Zurich meeting with Ex Libris: revising the initial […]
This Spring we have been working on enhancing both the technology that supports the NERS system as well as the teams that provide support for the system. Active collaborative development on the system is under way and as our programmers become more familiar with the code structure, we should be ready soon to take user […]
The Rosetta User Group (RUG) was initiated on July 18, 2012, in Hanover, Germany. A significant part of the current Rosetta customers met to decide on how to organize their cooperation at present, taking into account that Rosetta is still a new product specifically designed to support organisations that have a mandate to ensure the […]
The Alma Product Working Group members have been active in several areas, including program planning, web presence and documentation, and in soliciting participation from the wider Alma community. Our program chairs are diligently working to provide us with engaging programs at both ELUNA and IGeLU. We will have product updates and open product working group […]
OvP Additional Functionality Ballot In response to inquiries from both the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Product Work Group and the ELUNA Primo Product Working Group (PWG) concerning necessary improvements to the OPAC via Primo (OvP) functionality in Primo, Ex Libris management recognized the need for a one-time special enhancements voting process to identify the areas of concern […]
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