OLE Project Design Phase Final Report
There is an announcement on the OLE Project site that links to the final report as submitted to the Mellon Foundation. This version of the report has minor ...
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A Thread of Comments on the OLE Project Draft Report
Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, posted a pair of messages on his corporate blog that it is worth calling attention to regarding the OLE Pro...
Open Library Environment Final Report Draft Released
Over the weekend, the folks at Duke University coordinating the development of the OLE Project Design Final Report released a draft for public comment. Weig...
Two ways to learn about the OLE Project at ALA
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. There will be two programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago where aspects of the Open Library Environ...
At the Intersection of the OCLC Records Use Policy and the WorldCat Local Cloud-based Library Management Service
Last Friday, Andrew Pace (Executive Director of Networked Library Services for OCLC) was interviewed by Richard Wallis of Talis on OCLC's recent announcement...
Open Library Environment Project Picks Up the Pace
Participants in the design phase of the OLE Project met in Lawrence, Kansas, earlier this month for a week-long work session. Coming out of the session are ...
OLE Project Webcast, Workshops Scheduled
Coming out of the face-to-face meeting in Rutgers earlier this month, the OLE Project has posted a number of announcements for upcoming events. The first is...
OCLC WorldCat Hackathon – New York City – November 7-8
This is interesting news -- Don Hamparian, Manager WorldCat Grid Portfolio at OCLC, formally announced the WorldCat Hackathon to the WorldCat Developer Netwo...
A Note to ILS Vendors: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
In the course of putting together the JISC/SCONUL Library Management Systems Study, the authors interviewed the four major vendors of integrated library sys...
Adding Educause Connect’s “Service Oriented Architecture” Term to Planet LibrarySOA
Richard Akerman's recent post highlighting SOA resources at Educause reminded me about the aggregation point on Educause Connect for SOA resources. I'm ass...
Eric Schnell’s Introduction to Library SOA
Back in June, Eric Schnell posted a five part introduction to applying Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts to library applications. Along with his ...
Introducing “Planet Library SOA”
I am pleased to announce the formation of Planet Library SOA -- an aggregation of blog postings and resources related to the application of the Service-Orien...
Combining Service Oriented Architecture with a Single Business Approach
This month I've come across one great article and one great report on Service Oriented Architectures. The first came from Sally Rogers at Ohio State Univers...
Looking Forward to Version 2.2 of FEDORA
Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2....
“Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries” — A Presentation
There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
“Applying the SOA Model to Libraries” talk coming up at the U-Windsor “Future of the Integrated Library System” symposium
It is my honor and pleasure to be asked to speak at a one-day symposium called "The Future of the Integrated Library System" hosted by the University of Wind...
DLF’s Upcoming Workshop on Developing a Services Framework for Digital Libraries
I know I said I would only be taking "a day's break" from posting about applying the Service Oriented Architecture pattern to library services but, well, rea...
Taking a Day’s Break from SOA
No Service Oriented Architecture posting today, but here is a glimpse of the topic of the next one -- the title is: "Web Services: A means to a Service Orie...
The Dis-integration of the ILS into a SOA Environment
This is part three of a continuing series on the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern to library systems. In the first part...
Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first po...
Defining “Service Oriented Architecture” by Analogy
This post is the first in a series over the next few days that in total will attempt to lay the groundwork for a discussion of applying the Service Oriented ...
Why FEDORA? Answers to the FEDORA Users Interview Survey
The Fedora Outreach and Communications team is conducting a survey of the high-level sense of passion and commitment inherent in the Fedora community. I've ...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...
Access Management and Provisioning Technology
Building on the shoulders of others -- isn't that how that quote goes? There has been a stack of printouts on my desk for a while now for various access man...
Minutes of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group meeting of 18-Jun-2006
Please note -- this is a copy of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group minutes from the FEDORA Wiki. It is being posted here in order to get it into the blogos...
“Is the Writing On The Wall?” — Take 2
Walt Crawford chided me — rightly so — for yesterday's Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System? post. My choice of language...
Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System?
While in UNC-CH for JCDL I've had occasion to rant with/at some people about the state of the integrated library system marketplace — including, of cou...