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By Richard M. Davis 　http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/10/21/primo-new-version-coming-soon/

The PRIMO Steering Committee met last week to discuss next steps towards the launch of the final version.

There will be quite a few changes from the current beta version. Many of these are the result of Professor Katharine Ellis’s extensive advocacy and consultation, among both the musical research community, who will be the system’s users, and among the repositories community, at events like the JISC Rights workshop, and the Repository Fringe in Edinburgh. Others have been made possible as a result of the experience we’ve gained on other Eprints projects, like Linnean Online, Their Past Your Future and SNEEP.

As you can see from the screenshot, we’ve freshened up the overall look, and Rory has had considerable success with the embedded Flash player, which is going to make both video and audio content in PRIMO far more usable and accessible than the present, download-oriented system.

There are more changes and enhancements and a snag list as long as your arm, but we’re confident that when PRIMO gets its full and final launch in January, it will be a major improvement. There is also exciting new content currently being reviewed by the Committee, that will showcase the potential value of PRIMO to its community, and, we hope, encourage other musical researchers to contribute their own research-in-practice.