Re: [Vufind-admins] NERCOMP presentation

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, Till -- I've incorporated them all into the presentation.  I'll send you a copy of the revised version off-list since it is now a bit too large to spam everybody with.  If anybody else wants to see it, please let me know and I'll send it over.

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Till Kinstler [mailto:kin...@gm...]
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:12 PM
> To: Demian Katz
> Cc: vuf...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Vufind-admins] NERCOMP presentation
> 
> Demian Katz schrieb:
> 
> > I promised I'd share my NERCOMP presentation notes when I got them
> > together, and I've just completed a first draft derived from the
> > standard presentation at vufind.org.  If you get a chance, please
> take a
> > look and let me know what you think.
> 
> I think it nicely summarizes the main aspects of VuFind. Maybe mention
> the "mobile interface" (and its smooth integration with the "immobile
> interface" (same URLs)) on the "Next Steps" page, that's something
> Vufind is quite a bit ahead even of commercial discovery layers.
> And on the "Web 2.0" page you may add tagging and commenting functions
> for users (if someone wants to open a controversy on that (in Germany
> you can still open controversies among library audiences by showing
> such
> features), you may point out the main advantage of open source: "if you
> don't want it, simply turn it off" :-).
> The slides are quite text heavy. Maybe you can illustrate the "Search
> Features" and "Web 2.0 Features" with screen shots instead of text?
> 
> Till