WEST Begins AGUA Development Phase 6
October marks the beginning of the sixth AGUA Development phase (Phase 6)! Every other year, when not conducting the biennial collections analysis, WEST undertakes systems development on AGUA, the WEST collection analysis and decision support tool. Planning began in early 2022, with project ideas solicited from WEST membership, the WEST Operations and Collections Council, the AGUA Development Team, and the WEST Project Team. The OCC has identified 11 projects to be developed during Phase 6, which is anticipated to run through September 2023. The Project Team will provide updates to members as new features become available in AGUA.
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Project Name |
Est Dev Effort |
Description and Priority Rationale |
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Enhancements to Proposed / Committed Journals reports |
Medium (1-2 weeks) |
A quick project to expose additional collections data to Archivers to support decision making. Builds momentum at the beginning of the dev phase. |
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Enhancements to Collection Comparison reports |
Large (2-4 weeks) |
Another relatively quick project to expose additional collections data to members to support local collection management decision making. |
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Backend enhancement – AGUA staff interface to add new institution |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Supports WEST’s ongoing recruitment efforts by streamlining the new member onboarding process. |
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AGUA-generated visualizations dashboard (research + selection) |
Medium (1-2 weeks) |
A scoped project to investigate different visualization software options, then connect the final selection to the AGUA database. |
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Enhance On Demand Collection Comparison (ODCC) reports |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Enhances the usefulness of the On Demand Collection Comparison tool by exposing more information about validation actions and expanding the number of optional input columns to support local decision making. |
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Request Holdings interface enhancements |
XXL (>8 weeks) |
Responds to Builder feedback and enhancement suggestions to improve the overall usability and value of the Request Holdings tool. This very large project requires a long runway to gather input from the Builders and finalize functional requirements with the Dev Team. |
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Backend enhancement – Migrate OCLC APIs |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Supports continuity of WEST operations as OCLC sunsets a key tool leveraged for collections analysis. Developing this late in the Phase provides flexibility in decision making by the Dev Team to respond to changes in OCLC’s own development schedule. |
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Add new On Demand comparison report – unarchived holdings of archived titles |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Supports local decision making in both deselection and archiving workflows by exposing additional data about the wider WEST collections. |
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Reports portal |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Reorganizes AGUA reports to streamline the AGUA Dashboard and support member discovery of new and historical versions of all reports in a single space. |
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Add metadata validation reports to AGUA |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Integrates metadata validation reports that are currently emailed to individuals into AGUA for broader access and action. |
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ODCC output scoping interface |
Extra Large (4-8 weeks) |
Creates ability to filter ODCC output reports using specific variables. |