Janita Tacer Slana

Janita Tacer Slana

Institute of Information Science (IZUM)

Biography

Janita Tacer Slana has been employed at IZUM since 2007. After finishing her university education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, she worked on major international projects as well as performed and managed laboratory analytical work. In the first few years at IZUM, she was a part of the Service Management Department, where she worked on user training and later also conducted online courses. In the following period she predominantly worked on user support, including access to foreign services, and also worked on the redesign of the IZUM and COBISS websites. For many years, she actively worked on collecting, processing, and preparing statistical data for annual reports on the use of the COBISS software. In 2018, she joined the group for developing COBISS+ and mCOBISS applications, where she coordinated the workflow, planning, and testing of COBISS+ and mCOBISS upgrades and updates. At the same time, she was active in introducing agile methodologies into the work process. She was involved in the e-Torba project. In 2024 she took over the management of the COBISS3 Applications department, which is working on the development of COBISS Lib.  In addition to that, she actively participated in the COBISS Ela platform implementation project.

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