Hi Jennifer,
Sounds like a great project! When you refer to Illiad, are you talking
about Aeon as well? It's another Atlas product that is basically an
adaptation of Illiad with better handling of SC/archival data and
workflows. That's what we use for Special Collections requests.
We've been wanting to interface with it better, but have hit roadblocks
in our attempts to improve the user experience because of a lack of API
and single sign-on in Atlas products. I haven't looked at them in a
while (though coincidentally was planning to next week), so I'd love to
know if there are now ways to do this, or if not, how your team is
planning on approaching it.
Shaun Ellis
User Interface Developer, Digital Initiatives
Princeton University Library
609.258.1698
On 3/6/15 5:02 PM, J Vine wrote:
Steelsen,
Maybe related but not quite what you're describing: we're developing a requests
application that will interface with a number of different systems, including
Illiad, Symphony, and LAS, for fulfilling the requests. Specifically, we are:
- adding a Scan & Deliver option for a subset of our materials, for qualified
users
- providing a single request process for off-campus materials, regardless of
where the material is located (currently the user must use vastly different
procedures depending on which offsite location the materials are stored at -
and a single archive may have materials in 2 or more different locations)
It's not a shopping cart model, and specifically doesn't solve the problem of
enforcing Special Collections request limits across multiple archives. (In
reality, for us, those limits are a little mushy, and all requests with limits
are mediated - that is, it's up to the division's public service manager to
decide whether an extra box will fit on the truck on Wednesday.)
But in case it's useful, here's the current UI design spec:
https://stanford.box.com/s/vqiy70jdh8jqmgg3s39e6ivk717rfln2
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Jennifer Vine
User Experience Designer
Digital Library Systems & Services
Stanford University Libraries
