2011 10-05-virtual user group

Virtual User Group DiscussionPresented by

Troy LinkerPublisher, ALA Digital Reference

American Library Association

Online Discussion

Welcome to our first virtual user group meeting.

Our goal is for this to be an interactive bidirectional discussion vs. a unidirectional presentation.

Your participation is vital to achieving this goal.

Many Ways to Participate

• Chat / IM• Q&A• Participant audio

during the meeting

Ask for the Mic

• The best way to speak during the session is through head phones combined with a microphone attached to your computer.

• Click the button labeled "Ask for Mic“ found at the bottom of the Participants box. A number indicating your place in line appears. When it is your turn the moderator will turn on your mic and let you know you have the floor.

Session Agenda

• Virtual User Group Overview• Recent Enhancements• Current Development Issues• Potential Development Issues• Open Development Discussion

Virtual User Group

The U.S. Test process has been invaluable to us. We did beta testing and other testing, but it wasn’t until users actually tried to use RDA Toolkit in their everyday work that some really useful comments emerged.

Virtual User Group

The U.S. Test helped us to see that we need a virtual forum to get feedback from everyday users that will help us to set our priorities, to communicate our development plans out to RDA Toolkit users, and to demo recent changes.

Virtual User Group

• Format –webinar format but with smaller groups and more bidirectional communication.

• Audience – National Libraries and power users in many countries. Open meeting, everyone is invited.

• Agenda – demo recent release(s), describe plans for next release(s), and brainstorm ideas for future releases.

Virtual User Group

• Frequency – to be determined; please answer the post-webinar poll question about frequency.

• Time zone – offered in rotating time zones so users outside the U.S. also have a chance to participate live (considering three rotating times zones: 9:30 AM CST, 3:30 PM CST, and 8:00 PM CST)

Session Agenda


Recent Enhancements

• RDA Index• Table of Contents• MARC Linking Service• RDA Instruction Linking• RDA Toolkit Blog

RDA Index

• Book-style index added to RDA Toolkit• Included in search to supplement full-text

search by including additional terms not in RDA

• Printable PDF for offline use• Free to everyone

Recent Enhancements


Table of Contents

• Book-style RDA TOC added to RDA Toolkit• Each entry is hyperlinked to RDA• Printable PDF for offline use• Not included in search• Free to everyone

Recent Enhancements


MARC Linking Service

• Create links based on specific MARC information to the relevant instruction(s) in RDA: Element Set.

• Links are based on MARC-to-RDA Mappings of RDA Toolkit.

• Link URLs contain only MARC information so they will not need updating if MARC Mappings change in RDA Toolkit.

MARC Variables

Users can link to relevant instruction(s) in RDA: Element Set based on:• Record Type – either Authority or a

Bibliographic record• MARC Field - (e.g., “100”)• Indicator - (e.g., “1st” or “2nd”)• Subfield – (e.g., $c)

MARC Based URL

The syntax to create a link to the relevant RDA instructions for MARC Bibliographic 100 1# $C

http://access.rdatoolkit.org/?encode=marc&rec=Bib&tag=100&indpos=1st&ind=1&subfld=c

Recent Enhancements


Direct Links to RDA Instructions

In addition to the MARC links there may be times when users want to simply link to an RDA instruction.

To create these links use the following syntax:

Direct Links to RDA Instructions

1. Begin with the root URL of http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

2. Add the RDA number e.g., for RDA 3.1.4, add the 3.1.4 to the root URL http://access.rdatoolkit.org/3.1.4

3. Finally, add “.html” to the end http://access.rdatoolkit.org/3.1.4.html

http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

http://access.rdatoolkit.org/3.1.4

http://access.rdatoolkit.org/3.1.4

Recent Enhancements


Session Agenda


Current Development Issues

• Improve Table of Contents Layout• Improve Chapter Load Times• Arrange Search by RDA Instruction Number



Loading Full Chapters

• Loading of entire chapters was requested by users during focus groups; they wanted more context in an online environment.

• Users didn’t like the way AACR2 displayed online in small sections, e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.

• Unfortunately the size and complexity of many of the full chapters caused slow loading speeds.

Paging Chapters

• We are testing a solution that breaks each chapter into chapter pages, at the X.X level but not every X.X level.

• Each chapter will be broken into manageable “pages” or sections based on the size of the particular chapter page.

• For example Chapter 1 is broken into two pages 1.1 – 1.6 on page one and 1.7 – 1.11 on page two.



Session Agenda


Development Blog

To increase communication with users we will publish RDA Toolkit specific blog posts to communicate development plans and ideas, to provide a mechanism for user feedback before development work begins.

Development Blog

• The blog URL www.rdatoolkit.org/development

• A Development menu link is available from the RDA Toolkit home page.

• Stay informed by monitoring the Development blog RSS feed

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/development

Development Categories

• Graphical User Interface• Search • User Preferences• Site Content• Workflows / Mappings - User shared content• Bookmarks• RDA Mappings• Site Performance

Development Priorities

• High Priority• Medium Priority• Low Priority

Development Types

• New Function• Improve Function• Bug/Fix

Session Agenda


Open Development Discussion

With the time we have left we will open the discussion up to your thoughts about RDA Toolkit development

Thank You!

We hope you have found this virtual user group meeting useful. At the end of the meeting you will be directed to a short online survey.

We appreciate any feedback you can give us!

For more information please visit us onlinewww.rdatoolkit.org .

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/

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2011 10-05-virtual user group