MyAthens Future Directions

Sarah Quintin – Software Engineer

sarah.quintin@eduserv.org.uk

MyAthens Enhancements

• New panels and additional panel functionality

• Enhanced panel choice configuration

• Additional resources

• Customisation

– Branding

– Style

Collaboration with Staffordshire

• Demonstration of new functionality produced in collaboration with Paul Johnson, the Subject and Learning Support Librarian from Staffordshire University

Customised Search Panels

• Easily build and configure custom search panels within the Admin Area

– Search engines (Google, Yahoo etc..)S

– Metalib

– Organisation's website (e.g. Staffs website)O

Web Content Panel

• Custom build panels with your choice of content.

– Use the WYSIWYG editor for simple content (text, lists, images)

– Or the HTML editor for more complex content (forms etc…)

Del.icio.us panel

• What is Del.icio.us?

– Social bookmaking service

– Users can store, share and discover web bookmarks.

– Users can tag bookmarks

• How is it relevant to MyAthens?

– Administrators and their users can bookmark non-Athens resources and use the existing Del.icio.us panel to display them in MyAthens

Del.icio.us panel

• So, what's new?

– Users can now filter their own bookmarks by tag

– Simply supply their (or their Organisation's) Del.icio.us username and choose the relevant tag from the drop-down list

Adding Additional Resources

• New functionality to allow administrators to add and allocate additional non-Athens protected resources

• These will then be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens

Adding Additional Resources cont…

• Additional feeds added via the admin interface.– URL– Title– Description

Adding Additional Resources cont…

• New resources can be allocated to permission sets

– Modify permission set page updated to display Athens resources and additional resources side-by-side

• New resources will be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens

Restricting users' panels

• New functionality in the Administrator's Interface

– Restrict panels available from MyAthens panel chooser

– Define which panels are shown to users on first login

MyAthens Branding

• Addition of organisations' logos to MyAthens

• Administrators can upload an image via the Panel Options page in the Admin area

Different styles

• Users can change the appearance of MyAthens via View->Page Style menu in their browser

Over to you…

• Any questions, comments or suggestions?