Project Outline Draft

Scope definition from pm glossary on Q:

Scope statement-Scope is the way that you describe the boundaries of the project. It defines what the project will deliver and what it will not deliver.

Here is an outline draft for discussion and revision to cover the issues that need to be researched. I think the blueprint for the 10 step planning process from Calhoun's Report pgs. 16-20 will be helpful for reference, also.

1. Define next-gen OPACs

• Concepts
• Technology
• User expectations
• Future trends
• Traditional versus federated searching

2. Analyze current OPAC

• User surveys
• Usability testing

3. What do UTA users want/expect?

4. Cataloging/Metadata issues

• Future trends
• FRBR
• RDA

5. Interoperability

6. Embedded OPACs/Seamless Library website

7. UTA campus CMS, content management system: how will OPAC work with CMS?

8. Web 2.0

• Social tagging
• Bookmarking
• More like this
• Spell checking
  
• Tag clouds
• Perpetual beta
  
• Cell phone access
• Resource discovery, new ways of searching

9. Plan for a next-gen OPAC that will be adaptable to future trends, or not obsolete by the time we finish the study