Talis Aspire product update and roadmap (Keji Adedeji, Product Manager, Talis Aspire) This session will include a review of recent progress with continuous improvement and existing roadmap themes. It will also provide an update on the Ideas forum, discuss upcoming roadmap themes, and feedback some of the areas of investigation and analysis Talis have been pursuing for potential future developments.

1. Teaching and Learning, Connected
Tuesday, 25 June 13

2. Talis Aspire User Group
Product Update 2013
25/06/2013
Nottingham Trent University
Keji Adedeji, Product Manager
#talisaspire
Tuesday, 25 June 13

3. Talis Aspire Product Update
Review
Tuesday, 25 June 13

4. Talis Aspire Reading Lists - Feb TAUG
Tuesday, 25 June 13

5. Tuesday, 25 June 13

6. 2013 so far...
• Database Migration
–Phase 4 ✓
–Phase 5
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic delights
(In progress)
(ongoing)
(in progress)
Tuesday, 25 June 13

7. Database migration
• Phase 4
–Original plan: List Viewing & Publishing, Hierarchy
–Also delivered
• User Profiles, Roles & Permissions
• Front end functionality
–Result
• performance improvements
• approximately 60 product improvements
• introduction of Preview tenancy
• Phase 5
–setup and configuration elements being migrated
Tuesday, 25 June 13

8. Continuous Improvement
• Responded to some feedback from Phase 4 release
• Invite list publisher to draft lists
• Improved display of draft lists in search results
• Manual setting of “online resource”
• Book Metadata refresh
Tuesday, 25 June 13

9. Talis Aspire Digitised Content - Roadmap Feb TAUG
Tuesday, 25 June 13

10. – bulk rollover
• Continuous Improvement
• Rollover
– single rollover
2013 so far...
• Import
✓
✓
✓
– Academic communications
(ongoing)
Tuesday, 25 June 13

11. Talis Aspire Product Update
2013: Ideas Forum
Tuesday, 25 June 13

12. Ideas Forum - Status
• Ideas Archive
–18 closed since last TAUG
– 39 Planned
– 4 Scheduled
– 1 Started
– 1 under investigation
• Ideas Forum 2013
– 1 closed since last TAUG
– 13 Under Review
– 4 Planned
Tuesday, 25 June 13

13. Talis Aspire Product Update
Roadmap: Reading Lists
Tuesday, 25 June 13

14. Talis Aspire Reading Lists - Roadmap
Tuesday, 25 June 13

15. Talis Aspire Reading Lists - Roadmap
Tuesday, 25 June 13

16. Academic Delights
• List Edit
– revised approach
• improvements to this area is going to need a complete refresh and some time
• Identified from the results of research, the most beneficial functionality that will
improve academic experience, can be delivered sooner, and built upon
– Original ideas: a review
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20. Academic Delights
• Quick Add
–alternative to using the bookmarklet
Tuesday, 25 June 13

21. Academic Delights
• Quick Add
– alternative to using the bookmarklet
–quickly get a resource into Aspire
–fits best in “My Bookmarks”
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22. Academic Delights
• List Health/Dashboard 2.0
–can see at a glance the health of resources and list
–best context outside of list editing is in Dashboard
Tuesday, 25 June 13

23. • Quick add and Dashboard 2.0 demo
• BETA ready
– additional spaces for BETA sites
– Please get in touch if interested
Academic Delights
Tuesday, 25 June 13

24. Talis Aspire Product Update
Roadmap: Digitised Content
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Tuesday, 25 June 13

25. Talis Aspire Digitised Content - Roadmap
Tuesday, 25 June 13

26. In other news
• Monthly product hour
– detail of recent functionality
– update on what’s in progress & upcoming
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Tuesday, 25 June 13

27. In other news
• Polish week
– initial focus on Bookmarking recognisers
– will repeat again at the end of the summer
– Also engaging with discovery and other solutions
providers to investigate integration opportunities
and better bookmarking capabilities
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Tuesday, 25 June 13

28. In other news
• Investigations
– Research & surveys e.g.
acquisitions & reviews survey
– Prototypes & UX testing
– BETA programs & feedback
– Get involved!
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29. Product Takeaways
• More new features coming up
• Get involved - requirements & scoping exercises, product
surveys, BETA programs
• Stay up to date
– Join us for the monthly Product Hour
– Subscribe to the Aspire News & Updates forum
– “In-Progress” board - what’s coming up at a glance
• More Ideas please
Tuesday, 25 June 13

30. Questions?
Tuesday, 25 June 13

31. Teaching and Learning, Connected
Tuesday, 25 June 13