Hi, Marc.
At the University of Virginia we're moving forward with Blacklight
[1], which is a discovery interface for both our Sirsi/Dynix Symphony
OPAC and our Fedora digital repository, as well as for a few other
previously siloed collections like digitized Roman coins from our art
museum [2]. I can't really say we've analyzed the requirements and
then staffed accordingly; I've never seen a library with that luxury.
We've reallocated existing staff for the most part, but we've also
been able to justify the creation of one additional full-time
position. Currently we have, for a very ambitious digitization
workflow, an institutional repository implementation, and our
Blacklight implementation:
1 project manager / systems architect
1 FTE dedicated to Blacklight
1 FTE dedicated to solrmarc [3] (this is the solr indexing engine used
by both Blacklight and VuFind) and marc4j [4]
2 FTEs dedicated to repository implementation and digitization workflow
.5 FTE for writing documentation and open source community support
.5 FTE (outsourced) for graphic design and general front-end work
We've had to do a lot of staff re-training, but I consider this a
healthy process and so do the staff, who for the most part are quite
happy to get paid to pick up new and in-demand skills.
Once this system is in production I certainly don't anticipate
requiring this level of staffing to run its core functionality.
Instead, I expect we'll re-allocate some of these staff to expand the
system to include more collections, expand our repository services to
include features like self-ingest for end-users, expand the kinds of
data we can handle to deal meaningfully with geospatial and
statistical data in our repository, harvesting more linked data to
augment our metadata ... we have a very long wish list. :)
If anyone is interested in learning more about Blacklight or the UVA
implementation of it, please contact me or write to the Blacklight
mailing list.
Cheers,
Bess
Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Chief Architect for the Online Library Environment
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
bess_at_virginia.edu
(434) 243-2305
[1] Open source project available at http://blacklightopac.org and UVA
implementation visible at http://blacklightdev.lib.virginia.edu
[2] http://blacklightdev.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?source_facet=U.Va.+Art+Museum
[3] http://code.google.com/p/solrmarc/
[4] http://marc4j.tigris.org/
On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Marc Truitt wrote:
> A query to those large (say, 1,000,000 or more bibs) sites that have
> implemented (or are considering implementation of) a 'next-gen'
> discovery tool -- whether a commercial product such as Endeca or Primo
> on the one hand or an open source one such as VuFind on the other.
> Have
> you analyzed the staffing requirements for implementation and ongoing
> maintenance of these products? If so, can you offer details as to
> number of FTE required, and their particular skill sets? Are you
> adding
> staff in order to offer these new interfaces, or moving forward with
> the
> staff you already have?
>
> thanks,
>
> - mt
>
> Chris Bourg wrote:
>> Stanford has put up a prototype instance of VuFind, which we
>> branded as
>> Searchworks
>> Try it here <http://searchworks.stanford.edu>.
>> Learn about it here <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/sulair/web/searchworks
>> >.
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>
>
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