There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor “Future of the ILS” symposium. The presentation is available from http://info.drc.ohiolink.edu/presentations/200611-uwindsor-soa/. An outline of the presentation is given below with links into the presentation slides. Amanda Etches-Johnson has also posted a great summary of the presentation on her blog, “Blog Without A Library.”
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- What Is Service Oriented Architecture?
- Why Should I Care?
- What Might a Library SOA Look Like?
- Ground Rules
- The Business Processes of a Traditional ILS
- Traditional and Non-traditional Services for Discovering Content
- Traditional and Non-traditional Services for Describing Content
- Non-traditional Uses of Traditional ILS Functions
- Non-Traditional Locations of Traditional and Non-Traditional ILS Functions
- Who Else Is Talking About This?
[20061116T1222 Added a link to Amanda Etches-Johnson's summary. Thanks, Amanda!]
(This post was updated on 16-Nov-2006.)
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[...] The University of Windsor’s Leddy Library (my employer) hosted a symposium today on the Future of the Integrated Library System. In case anyone runs across this who doesn’t know, an integrated library system (ILS) is basically a big ugly piece of software that libraries use to do everything from ordering and invoicing for new materials to searching for books to managing circulation, and so on. Art Rhyno started us off with some ruminations on the history of the ILS. I was once again reminded how lucky I am to work with a star like Art, who also organized the programme for the symposium and is an influential force behind a number of important library systems developments locally, nationally, internationally. Art was followed by Peter Murray of OHIOLink. Peter was gave a funny and compelling talk on Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries. [...]
[...] Peter Murray posted his great presentation from the forum while multi-tasking (all of the speakers’ presentations will be made available here) [...]
The Future of the ILS…
I’ve just returned from a symposium hosted by the great folks at the University of Windsor and the Leddy Library entitled The Future of the ILS. It was only a one day affair, but was jam packed with quality information, an informal atmosphere, and pop…
[...] Following up on Art’s ideas on the backend was Peter Murray’s talk on SOA in libraries. I’ve read on SOA but haven’t really kept up as I should. His main focus, that at least I picked up on, was the componentization of the ILS. Having discrete software that is specialized and have open protocols or paths for them to talk to each other. It fits well with the ideas Art has on using outside software and I also think such an architecture may be needed to allow rapid changes in workflow or collections, like the rise in ERM. There seems to be some work around NCIP and other ideas with some of the opensource ILS’s that may help support such an architecture in libraries. I won’t try to explain much else, browse pmurray’s blog if you want more info. There may be better or alternative models, i’m not sure. [...]
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