[Insightl] Anyone upgrade to version 6?

[Elisa Lanzi]

We have started the process of installing Luna 6.0 but there are several
major management issues to consider (esp. if you have a heavy investment
in Insight the way Smith does).

- Personal collections will not be supported in LUNA. One option is to
migrate personal collections to institutional collections. But, users
will not be able to add to them once you do. Or faculty can rebuild
their personal collections in Flickr, but they must be "public," not
"private."  

- Presentations will not migrate to LUNA, but groups will. Faculty have
to rebuild presentations if they want to go with LUNA. One option is to
have users with many legacy presentations stay with the Insight JVa
client. But we are hesitant to support JVA and LUNA for different
faculty and different courses. 

- Moving groups from Insight to LUNA requires a freeze on group-making.
It's August and the scheduling could be tight. We're moving our groups
this week to a test server to see how long it takes and what they will
look like in LUNA.

As you can see, if you are starting from scratch with Insight and LUNA
things will go a lot more quickly. Those institutions with legacy
activity will need to develop strategies for bringing faculty along.

Thanks,
Elisa
  
>>> Ling Wang <lwang at uic.edu> 7/29/2008 12:54 PM >>>
Please reply to the list, I would like to hear.

Many thanks!

Ling

Herman, Deborah A. (Library) wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I would appreciate hearing from those of you who have installed 
> Insight version 6. We’re thinking of upgrading in August but are a

> little leery of doing so without querying our colleagues in other 
> institutions first. I’m a little nervous that David Rumsey’s site
(we 
> subscribe to AMICA) has yet to upgrade. Any thoughts?
>
> Best, Debbie
>
> Debbie Herman, MLS, MA
> Digital Resources Librarian
> Elihu Burritt Library, Central CT State University
>
> 1615 Stanley St.
> New Britain, CT 06050
> tel: 860.832.2084
> email: hermand at ccsu.edu <mailto:hermand at ccsu.edu>
>
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