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Starlight: Sprint 2 (February 25-March 8, 2019, 2019)

What was the goal of Sprint 2? Get the Starlight code deployed to our local staging servers, set up support single sign on with Shibboleth, continuing work on uploading and displaying PDFs as exhibit objects, and improving the test suite. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Milestone

What is a Sprint Review?

Sprint Review Featured

What is a Sprint Review?

If you are unfamiliar with Agile or Scrum, a sprint review is an informal meeting held on the last day of a sprint to review and share what the team has accomplished during the sprint. Typically (not always) this meeting will include some kind of demo. This meeting is an

Starlight: Sprint 1 (February 11-21, 2019)

What was the goal of sprint 1? Setting up team environment. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Milestone 1 is to have an initial instance of the Spotlight platform in production for both campuses. Accomplishments of Sprint 1: Collaboration tools - Really more of a Project Surfliner-wide

Lark: Sprint 1 (February 11-21, 2019)

What is the goal of sprint 1? The sprint’s focus was on establishing an initial direction and architecture for the project. As a push goal, we hoped to get to our first milestone -- an initial stand-alone platform where we can create, edit, and retrieve authority records. It was

Data Model - Focus Group Update

Data Model - Focus Group Update

We wanted to send out an update on the Project Surfliner data modeling focus group meeting we had on Monday, January 14th at UC Santa Barbara. The purpose of this meeting was to get Developers and Metadata folks on the same page about currently proposed metadata architecture (abstracting data model

Radically Transparent Communication

Radically Transparent Communication

We don't want folks to feel left out, so we have adopted a strategy of radically transparent communication. It starts with this blog which will provide updates from meetings, sprint-reports, new releases, and general thoughts from the team. Feel free to follow the blog and get an email update when

Project Surfliner Kick-off meeting

Project Surfliner Kick-off meeting

Overall the meeting was a success. We are still compiling our notes, and it will take some time to document our Spider Web exercise (so many post-it notes). By the Numbers: • We had 29 attendees • We had 22 UCSD Library attendees • We had 6 colleagues from UCSB join us • We

Project Surfliner - Our way forward

Project Surfliner - Our way forward

UCSD Library Information Technology Services (ITS) has been stalled from a development standpoint for the last year due to a few different factors. In particular, we have suffered from “analysis paralysis” in evaluating and selected a “solution bundle” from the Samvera Community. These solution bundles have names like Sufia, Curation