1. Product Update
Keji Adedeji
Talis Aspire User Group
2nd July 2014
DEVELOPMENT FOCUS

2. Keep updated

3. • Monthly product hours
• Status site
• Talis aspire news & updates forum
• Talis blog

4. How we work

5. • Growing team and fully in-house
• New tech lead and 2 new developers
• Streamlining development processes
• Incorporating UX design into the development
processes
• UX design
• UX prototyping
• UX feedback cycles

6. Development Focus

7. Reading Lists
Development focus

8. Security - HTTPs
• Why?
• We continue to reviewing the technology landscape and
make sure we take all reasonable steps to protect
ourselves and our customers.
• This extends beyond just our code, servers and databases
and extending this to secure browsing of our applications
• Benefits
• All data transferred to, and received from, the user will be
encrypted
• Less vulnerable to external access or attacks

9. Live reporting
• Reporting directly off the database
• Remove time and data lag
• No longer relying on data download process

10. Integration - List & section
Embedding
• Investigation into specific use cases of
embedding a list &/or sections into VLE/LMS
• LTI Standards
• allows a basic integration in most LMS/VLEs. (tested
for Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas)
• Pilots currently in progress

11. Reviews refresh
• UX & UI design complete
• UX feedback cycle completed
• Technical design - in progress

12. Reviews refresh
• Special thanks for input so far to:
• Bangor - Mieko Yamaguchi & Flora Lewis
• LSE - Michael Fake
• Roehampton - Dave Hulbert
• NTU - Helen Adey
• Brunel - Leslie Bolsover
• Derby - Jon White
• Hull - Denise Barnett & Richard Bayliss
• Kent - Maureen Cook & Kirsty Wallis
• Leicester - Joanne Dunham
• Falmouth - Christina Lake
• KCL - Maria O’Hara & Victoria Parkinson
• Liverpool - Carol Rhodes & Sarah Roughley

13. Digitised Content
Development focus

14. British Library integration
• In progress
• Submit order implementation

15. Reporting
• Usage statistics
• Ability to export
• Aggregate by course/module/organisational unit

17. Reporting
• Volumes & Distribution
• # requests
• distribution by course/module/organisational unit
• internal vs externally sourced

19. Reporting
• Business performance
• SLAs & KPIs
• delivery timescales

21. Minor themes

22. Continuous Improvement
• Quick Add & Dashboard 2.0 out of BETA
• List & item view UI improvements

24. Continuous improvement
• Enable TADC for New Zealand
• support NZ ruleset
• NZ pilot program

25. Rollover notification
• Missing element of rollover
• Notify academics about digitisations
• include pre-clearance status
• include usage
• allow renewal decision
• integrate into rollover process
• academic view of all digital content

26. Investigations
• Multiple Content Types
• Management and delivery of multiple content types

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