LTAG Meeting at CDL 9/19/2008

· New Chair: Declan Fleming, San Diego, 2 year term, reports to SOPAG

o Lynne will notify SOPAG, transfer web site updating to Declan

· Year-end report for SOPAG at October SOPAG meeting: Lynne will deliver this year

o Review charge: change reference to CDL Technologies

o Review current goals and objectives

§ SOPAG looking at the possibility of doing digital library projects systemwide (goal #2)

§ CDL does some digital library projects but not all

§ Campuses can collaborate on projects

§ Share information on projects each campus is working on

§ Proposed new goal: inventory of digital library projects

§ Rewrite goal #2

o Summary of accomplishments for last year

§ Request for IPs for VDX

· Good response: 80% by deadline, 100% by two days after deadline

· Will result in reduction of firewall rules: better performance and security

· John may ask for Library IP ranges for additional firewall rules

· Another upgrade for VDX in 6-9 months

§ Influence decisions and outcomes

· Google Analytics

· Collaboration Tools (don’t use Vignette, use Confluence)

· System Monitoring software (Nagios)

· VMWare

· MAID

o Lynne will write up and send out for comments next week: due to SOPAG on 9/30, meeting on 10/16

· Berkeley and Santa Cruz stream videos in the Library

· Irvine (http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/policies/food.html), Merced, Riverside, and Santa Barbara allow food in the Library. This does lead to janitorial issues

· UCCSC Report-Declan

o Declan is on Internet2 committee for Shibboleth in Libraries

o Developed presentation for UCCSC: Different Approaches to Remote Access to Electronic Library Resources

o Well-attended, lots of questions, good feedback, no heckling

o Shibboleth brown bag afterward

o Declan will post presentation

· Discussion of remote access and proxy software used on campuses

· UCSD working with III to put Shibboleth in front of Innopac

· Berkeley discussing need for local catalog in light of WorldCat Local

· Berkeley will pull plug on Gladis on 5/20/09

· CMS

o UCSC implementing new Drupal site on 1/1/09

o UCSF implementing new Drupal site on 1/1/09

o Riverside Library uses home-grown CMS; Riverside campus uses OmniUpdate

o Berkeley had Stellent; selected Drupal for upgrade; working on three web sites in Drupal. Created home-grown content management system. Will continue to have mixed environment. Berkeley also hosts faculty web sites.

o Santa Barbara selected Plone over Drupal because Drupal is hard to upgrade (note: this situation may improve with purchasable support for Drupal). Implementation has not occurred.

o San Diego moved to the Vignette platform. Blink was on an old version of Vignette. Migrated to single portal, single Vignette in December 2008. Bringing in Cascade for campus web site and Blink.

o At Irvine, six campus units (Libraries included) joined forces in a consortium to investigate a CMS solution. Have gotten hardware and training. Using Hannon Hill Cascade Currently writingtemplates. Public web sites ready next summer. Then will do intranet. Sharing resources worked well. Templates can be shared.

o UCLA using Red Dot. Moved Library sites into RedDot. Design is old, so may redesign. Campus has Vignette.

o Merced looked at CMS’ two years ago, including Drupal. Last year decided to hire company which recommended Joomla because it is more user-friendly than Drupal. Running on Hostmonster ISP.

· Image Management Systems

o Art Store from CDL

o Berkeley has home-grown system

o UCSC and UCSD using Content DM

o Extensis Portfolio

· Berkeley had problems with LOCKSS system. It stopped working and it was hard to get it going again because it doesn’t run on modern hardware.

· Research Intelligence. Jerry Sheehan at Cal IT2 (ri.calit2.net). Way to capture and share faculty expertise. Goes through papers and create tag clouds, then compare to grants.gov. Vivo at Cornell (vivo.cornell.edu). Harvesting data from PubMed and faculty pages.

· David Walker from Davis talking about UC Trust and the use of Shibboleth for library resources.

o Should language about Shibboleth be included in contracts with vendors of Library services going forward?

§ YES!!!

o UC Trust Team is meeting at Irvine on 10/23 from 9-3, at UCI University Club, Room C. It is helpful for service providers to attend.

§ Possible agenda item is electronic resource contract language changes

o www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/uctrust

o UCTrust Workgroup wiki (including agendas and meeting notes): https://spaces.ais.ucla.edu/display/uctrustwg/Home

o San Diego and UCLA are moving toward using Shibboleth for identity management.

o Shibboleth can be used for both authentication and authorization. Shibboleth passes select information about the user to the application. The application makes the authorization decision based on these attributes.