Ian Corns from Talis talks about the BLDSS integration with Talis Aspire Digitised Content

1. Talis Aspire Digitised Content
Ian Corns (Talis)
Samantha Tillett (British Library)
Talis Insight
16th April 2015
Developing workflow integrations with the British Library HESS Service

2. What is Talis Aspire Digitised Content
“Help universities and
libraries to provide
easy, efficient and
compliant digitisation
services”

3. www.bl.uk
Higher Education Scanning Service (HESS)
• What is HESS?
– Support reading lists/course packs with UKHE
– Works with the CLA licence
• How does the service work?
– Outsourced scanning for items held in your
collections
• All scanning
• Capacity management for busy times
• Fits in with workflows – e.g. TADC
– Copyright Fee Paid scanning for items not in
your collections
• Copyright compliant copy for use under CLA
licence

4. British Library Requesting
• Seamless
• Timely
• Comprehensive
• Pain-free adoption

5. www.bl.uk
Online and mobile
Document Supply

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A
P
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Search
Availability
Order
Supply
BLDSS
Integrated
Utilising local customer knowledge to create bespoke experiences

7. DEMONSTRATION

8. Beta Feedback
“…providing one place to go to
will make a significant difference…”
“…will further improve our workflows…”
“…it just sort of works…”

9. Beta Feedback
• Quiet time of year, so not much traffic
• Beta customers impressed
• Couple of bugs, mainly workflow exceptions
• 50% order after price check, mainly copy-fee & articles
• Decision end this month on full roll-out
• Next step for BL is High Quality Scan Service

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13. Closing Thoughts

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