In this Fall edition of the Client Communique we cover:

– Next Release Introduces Multi-Touch for LUNA
– Let Us Be Your Host
– OAI & Discovery
– Growing the LUNA Commons
– Development News

Multi-Touch Compatibility with v6.3.6

Coming Soon!

• Multi-touch support for LUNA on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
• Support for Shibboleth
• Tracking downloads using Google Analytics
• Improved Security

More details available at the User Forum. Upon release we’ll update the article with a complete feature and bug fix list.

Let Us Be Your Host

Not long ago most Insight clients had site licenses, which meant they managed upgrades, back-ups and maintained Insight themselves. But times have changed, and now we’re doing this work for them.

An ever increasing number of our clients are realizing that our hosting services save them both time and money, things that seems to be in short supply these days. Join the movement, and let us do the heavy lifting while you focus on building great collections.

As a hosted client you’ll always have the most current version of our toolset and you’ll save money on hardware, maintenance, and valuable support resources. It’s a win-win situation because when you succeed, we succeed.

View our Products and Services PDF, or our Hosting PDF for more details.

OAI and Web-scale Discovery Tools

Allowing your collections to appear in the LUNA Commons is one way to promote your content; another is to allow your collections to be harvested using OAI-PMH. If your institution is using a web-scale discovery service, OAI-PMH exposure is the best way to ensure your LUNA content is included.

It gets better: you can also ensure other institutions add your collections to their local discovery service by registering collections for OAI-PMH and sharing the base URL with them. We're collecting these OAI base URLs at our User Forum.

Growing the LUNA Commons

The LUNA Commons continues to grow and we’re always looking for new collections to add!

We publish new collections to the LUNA Commons on a quarterly basis. The next update will be in December, if you’re interested in contributing a collection please let us know. If you’re not ready yet we’ll be sure to remind you before our next update in March, 2012.

Learn more, including how to share and receive LUNA Commons collections, at the User Forum.

Development News

As we put the finishing touches on the interim v6.3.6 release, we've also been making great progress on v7.0! We've described some of the new features at past conferences and communiques, but in case you missed them we're excited to share them with you again:

• New media management features – centrally manage media outside a collection structure
• Web-based toolset – no more client software downloads
• Cataloging improvements – support for complex relational and hierarchical data, auto-complete, global search and replace, record merging, authorities, XML import/export, bulk record edit
• DAM features – automatic metadata extraction, image rotation, workflow

To refer to past Client Communiqués visit the Communiqué Archive.

Nancy Harm
Director of Business Development
Luna Imaging, Inc.
www.lunaimaging.com
917-521-1309
nancy@lunaimaging.com