ONIX SOH<\/a> 1.0 (Onix Serial Online Holdings) – for initial and ongoing subscription maitenance<\/p>\nThis last one is something I need to investigate more – but presumably this will allow our suppliers to supply machine readable holdings information which SFX can consume, and use to update our local thresholds – this is potentially incredibly powerful, but I’m a bit wary about the accuracy of supplier data, as in the past it hasn’t always been that good (even though you’d really expect them to know)<\/p>\n
The figures for the KB are impressive with almost half a million object portfolios over about 1500 targets. We are also seeing growing numbers of e-book targets – 56 targets, and 360,000 objects.<\/p>\n
A real challenge here is how our users access e-books (see my earlier post relating to the possible need for a special interest group for this). If we loaded extensive e-book records into our catalogue, they would swamp our existing catalogue (e.g. EEBO roughly 100,000 records, our catalogue roughly 300,000 records).<\/p>\n
I think that probably we would expect our users to access services like EEBO direct, or via MetaLib. However, as Nick pointed out in a comment to a previous post, there is also a move towards buying individual titles – so more like a ‘print’ replacement – in this case, where else are they going to live except the library catalogue?<\/p>\n
SFX 4<\/h2>\n
SFX 4 is on its way (currently slated for Q3 2007), and some highlights include:<\/p>\n
Enhancements to the admin interface including task-based wizards which are intuitive and workflow oriented
\nFurther integration with Verde and sharing of KB data
\nBetter integration of print holdings (definitely very interested in this<\/em>
\nImprovement of end-user ‘menu’ linking experience
\nFurther international support
\nImproved management of statistics
\nTowards KBUpdate ‘on-demand’<\/p>\nSome disappointment here that the integration of print holdings isn’t already here. We saw a presentation (just mentioned again in fact) last year where a library had done it, but by going deep into the SFX code and changing it – which Ex Libris won’t support, and I don’t want to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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