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[Sharon Foster]

That would be helpful, too.

Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Librarians bring order out of chaos.
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/






On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brian Gray<mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you real driving force is to "gets their juices going" so it leads to
> discussion and maybe development, would it not be better to show a more
> established and existing product from another organization rather than one
> that has minimal value up front?
>
> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
> bcg8 at case.edu
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's the beauty of something like Greenstone. It doesn't require a
>> big investment to get a prototype going. It's not a matter of weeks or
>> months, it's more like hours and days.
>>
>> I completely agree with you that the administrative details are what's
>> going to take the most time to resolve, but having something like this
>> to show people gets their juices going, and they can more readily see
>> things like, "Oh, no I don't want it organized like *that.*"  I like
>> to call it the "bring me a rock" principle.
>>
>> "Bring me a rock."
>> ...
>> "No, not that rock. Bring me another rock."
>>
>> Repeat.
>>
>> Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
>> Librarians bring order out of chaos.
>> http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Dowling<tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > On 07/24/2009 11:39 AM, Suelzer, Elizabeth wrote:
>> >> ...I
>> >> think I'm going to focus on Greenstone for now since I can download
>> >> this
>> >> onto my computer and start working with it right away; I'm supposed to
>> >> get a prototype going in the next few weeks.
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't think you can make "for now" decisions here.  Once you pick a
>> > platform,
>> > sheer inertia is going to keep you on it for quite a while.  If you
>> > avoid a
>> > well known, well respected platform used by many similar programs, just
>> > because
>> > IT needed another week or two to install it, it's a decision you could
>> > be
>> > kicking yourself about for years.
>> >
>> > Let me strongly recommend that you *not* make this strategic decision
>> > based on
>> > what you can prototype within such an unrealistic timeline.  In my
>> > experience,
>> > getting a successful ETD program rolling requires a lot of time and
>> > effort
>> > getting buy-in from faculty and students, and then lots of time
>> > establishing
>> > workflow and policies.  In other words, months of meetings and
>> > one-on-one
>> > discussions (even if you just have a couple hundred theses to put up).
>> >  Use
>> > that time to establish your actual needs - now and in the foreseeable
>> > future -
>> > and determine what platform best meets those needs.  If you need to show
>> > people
>> > "Here's what it might look like," mock up some dummy HTML pages.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thomas Dowling
>> > tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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