[Isis-users] ABCD version 2.0 - English announcement

spinaker spinaker at adinet.com.uy
Sat Mar 10 14:02:59 CET 2012


Abel

Please, send us by private mail

Name
your professional profile
Institution
cuntry
What would you like to do

nota: puedes enviarlo en español

Regards
Ernesto Spinak


El 10/03/2012 11:00, Abel R. Monteiro escribió:
> Dear  Egbert & Ernesto ,
>
> I'm interested to be  registered as volunteer to work on some of the 
> tasks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Abel Monteiro
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 10:27:43 -0200
> From: spinaker at adinet.com.uy
> To: isis-users at iccisis.org
> Subject: [Isis-users] ABCD version 2.0 - English announcement
>
> *Versión de este mensaje en español se envía por separado*
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear colleagues,
>
> The ABCD Suite v.1 was launched in December 2009, and as you know by 
> your participation in this list, tens of institutes have installed it 
> either partially or completely, as a public application or as an 
> internal development within the institution.
>
> During these 2 years several corrections and minor improvements on 
> ABCD have been published as 'patches', evaluation workshops have been 
> held, trainings have been organized in many countries, both in 
> presential format and online.
>
> Anyway, the technology keeps advancing as well as the needs, so we 
> understand that actualization of ABCD is necessary in a way that 
> maintains compatibility with the technology, responding to new needs 
> and adding new functions.
>
> We want to announce that we are about to launch an actualisation and 
> updating project for ABCD, aiming to publish a version 2.0 mid 2012. 
> We have already engaged about 10 professional experts of this list 
> along with financial input from four institutes for some specialized 
> programming assignments.
>
> But, since the project is large, we will again need the contribution 
> and co-operation of all of you. As we did in the year 2009, when more 
> than 80 persons from 21 countries have worked together very 
> successfull, now we are calling to combine forces for the version 2.0 
> of ABCD.
>
> Workplan
> ----------
> In this month March we will start registering volunteers who can spend 
> part of their time to work on different tasks. We describe the 
> elements needed under here.
> In a few days we will explain how to communicate and register for 
> these activities, which will be divided in groups with a co-ordinator 
> for each.
>
> Some of the tasks envisaged are :
>  - Test the different modules in either Windows or Linux
>  - Translation of messages for the new functions in several languages
>  - Update online help-pages (or write new ones) to cover the new 
> elements or work out examples
>  - Translate these pages from Spanish or English into all four 
> languages: Spanish, English, French, Portugese
>  - Review the manuals and update them
>  - We need tow or three programmers with experience in PHP, JavaScript 
> and CSS to review and debug the new features of ABCD
>  - We need one or two experts in Java
>
> We invite everybody who has installed ABCD, who is working with one or 
> more of its modules and have had problems, to send us suggestions and 
> reports on problems etc.
> Please don't send these to the list, we want to provide specific 
> channels for this information.
>
> Preliminary list of improvements for ABCD v2.0
> ----------------------------------------------
> - Compatibility with PHP 5.3 or higher
> - Change all calls to IsisScript by direct CISIS-calls
> - Complete the Central Loans module : reservations, online 
> user-interaction and debugging on problems reported (e.g. days/hour loans)
> - Finish the options of using the separate copies database or the 
> copies kept in the catalog
> - Thesaurus management module (new feature)
> - new OAI module (replacing the old one which had problems)
> - Digital Library feature (new feature)
> - Add a 'traffic-control' function for the Update Inverted File 
> function to avoid locks (new function)
> - Debugging other reported problems
> - Simplify MARC-worksheets and formats
> - Replace ABCD Site v.4.1 with version BVS Site 5.1.11
> - Finish reporting module
> - Add SDI function (new)
> - Update the help documentation and translations
> - Update SeCS-Web and finish documentation
> - Mirror sites and servers for download and distribution of ABCD
> - EmpWeb - finish some pending issues
> - etc, etc, etc
>
> - THIS LIST IS OPEN FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS !
>  Don't send them now, soon we will inform you about this in a more 
> organized way.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Time schedule
> -------------
>
> There will be a mid-term evaluation workshop for experts, end of May 
> in Antwerp
> (participation only by invitation, participants are expected to pay 
> their own expenses)
>
> Delivery of beta version in July 2012
> Delivery of version 2.0 end of August 2012
>
>
> Note:
> If an institute wishes to contribute with programming/coding time or 
> financial input, allow us to co-ordinate. Send an e-mail to our 
> personal addresses to Egbert de Smet and Ernesto Spinak.
> ---------------------------
> Regards,
> Egbert & Ernesto
>
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