IDS Search Dev Meeting – Important!

The IDS Search Development team is meeting in Syracuse to finalize some changes to the Dashboard tover the next two days. As a result, we will be turning off the Dashboard temporarily to upgrade some of the new Dashboard features. We do not expect the Dashboard to be down long.

We do not expect the public side of IDS Search to be impacted.

Stay tuned for another post detailing some of the exciting changes!

Development Meeting (2/17-2/18)

The IDS Search Development team met last Thursday and Friday to discuss comtinuing improvement to IDS Search, primarily focusing on questions received and back end improvements to the dashboard for scalability.

However, one of the most exciting topics (for me) were the findings of the most recent usability study.  One of our main concerns, in regards to the “out-of-the-box” design, is that any decisions are made on sound principals of design and backed up by testing.  The most recent usability study used a series of tasks and eye tracking to identify areas where IDS Search needed improvements.  In response, we’ve tweaked some design elements which will be undergoing a round of eye tracking to see if the changes addressed the issues the eye tracking team identified.

In addition, the team has been developing a strategy to get more information about IDS Search “out there.” This includes preparing and applying for posters and presentations over the next 6 months. As always, please feel free to post questions or requests to the IDSSearch-L list.  Currently, that is the best place for both, though we are hoping to have a more formal place for users to submit these types of requests.

Development Meeting

Over the past two days, the IDS Search team has been gathered in Syracuse, NY and working out of the Library Systems office of the Upstate Medical Library.  During these meetings, we discuss issues surrounding IDS Search and usually spend the evening and wee hours of the morning coding to make a better search.  We’re about to wrap up and we wanted to share a few items of interest. More after the jump.

Hello world!

This is the future home of the IDS Search Documentation and Developer’s blog. Right now, the IDS Search Team is meeting in Syracuse, at the Health Sciences Library of Upstate Medical University, to discuss the future of IDS Search.