November 2017 CC-PLUS Update

Posted on December 1, 2017November 21, 2019 by Gretchen Gueguen

A presentation at the Charleston Conference about Jisc and CC-PLUS was very well attended, and discussions were held with ConsortiaManager about possible future integration. There is CC-PLUS representation on the committee to develop requirements for the COUNTER 5 tool for consortium report functionality.

CC-PLUS Advisory Board members held a meeting on November 30, 2017. The group decided to submit a preliminary proposal for a Project Grant to extend this project through the IMLS National Leadership Grant program in 2018. The meeting included a live demo of the CC-PLUS prototype. Testing of importing and exporting institutions, providers, and credentials has been successful. No usage data has been pulled into the system yet. The roles of Admin, Manager, and User were discussed. The Manager is envisioned as an institutional power-user with some administrative privileges related to the person’s home institution, although the functional tasks of this level of user are to be determined.

October 2017 CC-PLUS Update

Posted on November 2, 2017November 21, 2019 by Gretchen Gueguen

CC–PLUS Advisory Board members held meetings on September 28 and November 2, 2017. Recent efforts have focused on the development of use cases, such as CC–PLUS as a consortial statistics portal, institutional statistics portal, and SUSHI harvester, as well as the tasks that would be associated with these use cases. Scott Ross has developed draft wireframes for the administrative side of the software based on these use cases. Sample pages include login, user administration, institutional administration, provider administration, report listings, alert settings, and more. The system is being developed to support multiple consortia simultaneously.

August 2017 – CC-PLUS Update

Posted on August 15, 2017November 21, 2019 by Gretchen Gueguen

CC-PLUS Advisory Board members held a meeting on August 24, 2017. During this meeting, the Board reviewed a preliminary diagram of the software components and a draft communication plan. Surveys and webinars are planned to gather feedback from ICOLC as the project progresses. The Board also reviewed a recommendation by Scott Ross that PALCI contract with Hostwinds for a server with backup and security services for hosting the proof of concept software. Exciting news learned at this meeting was that the project will be able to use code developed by Scott Ross for another library. This code focuses on the ingest and validation of data, and is complementary to the presentation layer code provided by Jisc. Use Cases/Personas will be prepared for the next meeting.

July 2017: CC-PLUS Update

Posted on July 31, 2017November 21, 2019 by Gretchen Gueguen

CC-PLUS Advisory Board members attended a webinar on July 19^th provided by Jisc about the Consortial Reporting functionality of JUSP. The Board was impressed by the system and its user interface, and the group is excited to see it translated into a more generic consortial environment.

An initial set of code for JUSP was received by PALCI on July 21^st. As the bulk of the code is a presentation layer and sample database tables, much of the development work will need to focus on harvesting, ingesting, and cleaning data.

The kickoff meeting for the project took place on July 26^th. During this meeting, the Board discussed the JUSP webinar, project plan, and project schedule, as well as implications for COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5.

Questions? Contact Jill Morris (jill@palci.org).