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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • 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 assuming significant number of those interested in applying SOA to library systems are at an institution of higher education or in some related organization, so I'm adding the …

     Posted on  November 12, 2007
     and last updated November 12, 2007
  • 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 comparison of the predominant ILS architecture with Henry Ford's application of assembly line manufacturing this is a great non-techie introduction to SOA form a library application perspective. I …

     Posted on  October 17, 2007
     and last updated October 17, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • 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-Oriented Architecture (SOA) software paradigm to library systems. You can follow the topic by reading the aggregation website, but the best way to follow along is …

     Posted on  June 19, 2007
     and last updated June 19, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • 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 University in the form of an article from CIO magazine last year:


    Koch, Christopher. 2006. The Truth About SOA. CIO Magazine, June 15. http://www …

     Posted on  March 30, 2007
     and last updated March 30, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • 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, the SOA concept was compared to a transportation network and the basic foundation for defining SOA was set down. The second part described what …

     Posted on  September 20, 2006
     and last updated September 21, 2006
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • 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 post in this series focused on defining "Service Oriented Architecture" using the analogy of a transportation network. This post goes into some detail about what …

     Posted on  September 19, 2006
     and last updated September 20, 2006
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • 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 Architecture (or SOA) software design pattern to systems and solutions in the library space. It starts with comparing the SOA …

     Posted on  September 18, 2006
     and last updated September 19, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • 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 blogosphere at the right places. Please make comments on the FEDORA Wiki "talk" page rather than on this posting.

    FEDORA Workflow …

     Posted on  June 20, 2006
     and last updated June 21, 2006
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • 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 course, how we got into the spot we're in and how we might get out of it (and those people were kind enough to engage …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 14, 2006
     ·  6 minutes reading time