2013 coral meetup

Coral Meetup

Attendees

• Steve Oberg - Wheaton College +
• Yongming Wang - College of New Jersey Library +
• Brian McBride - University Utah (pilot)
• Alan Witkowski - University Utah (pilot)
• Megan Finch - Oakland University of Michigan
• Robin Schaaf - Notre Dame +
• Bill Dueber - University of Michigan (pilot)
• Lauren Ajamie - Notre Dame +
• Jeremy Friesen - Notre Dame +

(+ - using CORAL)

Updates

• Jaron Kennel (jkennel@nd.edu) and Robin Schaff have stepped back from the project
• Remington Steed (rjs7@calvin.edu) from Calvin College has been doing some recent development
• Eric Hartman from Texas A&M has been very helpful

https://github.com/ndlibersa/CORAL-Main. This is considered the canonical source; Please put your Issues/TODO here.

Notre Dame

• About 3500 entries; ebooks are on the horizon
• Licensing data is used for negotiation; See what the typical agreements are like.
• Use document management part of License (upload PDF and archive it)

College of New Jersey Library

• Two instances installed
• Not using workflow, as there is only one person doing the work of Coral. Appreciate the alerts.
• About 100 entries for databases for vendors

Wheaton College

• Populating data is a challenge
• Scripts as they are, in Github, are intended for initial data loads; But if you want to overlay this becomes more challenging.
• Many nods to this "Straightening out the mess for data going into CORAL is labor intensive"
• Suggested to start with installing the usage-statistics module of CORAL
• About 1900 entries
• Wants to use CORAL to track all access paths (i.e. SFX, Discovery layer, 360 Link, etc.), not just local catalog (e.g. see Cataloging tab in Resources module)
• Tremendous amount of work to extract licensing expression/text

University Utah

• Question - what is the community's commitment to CORAL? Robin is confident in the community. * Texas A&M have put a lot of support behind this.
• Texas A&M is working on a documentation module; For troubleshooting easy proxy.
• ER&L will have a meetup and NASIG "should" have a meetup.

University of Michigan

• Pilot project would load 10000 records or so

Comments

• Where does the code need love: Sushi usage (if it is implemented would be fabulous)
• Most people said that CORAL is significantly better than any vendor supplied ERM.
• ERMs are conceptually very simple, or at least the needs that we really want are simple.
• International characters are supported.
• Customization is very flexible. But be careful of data migration, spend some time planning your categories
• Licensing Terms look up feature usage and extension
• Bringing open source to the institution can be challenging