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I had a preliminary meeting with Wendy and Arthur this morning about getting Bibliosight underway.  Our intention is to follow the Scrum methodology – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) – recommended by JISC for rapid innovation projects and conduct 5 development cycles over the 6 month period of the project.

Arthur and I are speaking with web-developer-Mike on Monday to get his preliminary perspectives on the technical implementation of the Web of Science API and it’s probably also necessary to have a technical discussion with Intrallect sooner rather than later – especially in view of recent discussions around potential research specific developments to intraLibrary – there are almost certainly synergies with some of the developments mooted around Symplectic:

• the ability for metadata ingested from external systems (e.g. Symplectic, or Web of Science) to be arranged in a way consistent with other records in intraLibrary
• additional metadata fields to include number of citations – continuously updated (done in Symplectic)
• Integrate with Symplectic Publications database to support bibliographic metadata transfer from Symplectic to intraLibrary / deposit of digital copy linked to metadata transfer

Such developments to intraLibrary are unlikely to be implemented during the timescale of the project, however, so we’ll need to consider how we can implement the API and derive useful functionality – with an eye to appropriate integration with intraLibrary in the future, perhaps.

JISC have also indicated that there are other projects doing similar things and would like us to work closely with them – Wendy is speaking with our programme manager in more detail next week.

In the spirit of openness, here is the successful Bibliosight bid in all its glory…