Hi, The Digital Library Federation will be hosting a developers' workshop on 7 August 2008 to discuss ways to implement the proposed ILS-DI specification for exchanging ILS data with other other software such as OPAC replacements and discovery layers. I will be attending the meeting, representing LibLime. Thanks to work by Paul and others on the OAI-PMH interface, Koha is already well on its way to supporting level 1 of the ILS-DI recommendation. I will be writing an RFC to add complete support for level 1 (and possibly levels 2 and 3) of the recommendation to 3.2. If anybody else would like to attend the meeting, please contact Peter Brantley at pbrantley@diglib.org. More information about the meeting, including a link to the ILS-DI recommendation, is in the forwarded message below. Peter has told me that it will be possible to attend remotely via a conference call. I will also send a summary of the results of the meeting to koha-devel. Regards, Galen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Brantley <pbrantley@diglib.org> Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM Subject: DLF ILS-DI Developers' Workshop Aug 7 Berkeley CA Greetings - As you may know, the Digital Library Federation has released the technical recommendation of its ILS Discovery Interface (ILS-DI) Task Group. This document recommends basic, standard interfaces -- known as the Berkeley Accord -- for integrating the data and services of integrated library systems (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. The documentation is available at : http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ . The basic discovery interfaces permit libraries to deploy new discovery services to meet ever-growing user expectations in the Web 2.0 era, take full advantage of advanced ILS data management and services, and encourage a strong, innovative community and marketplace in next-generation library management and discovery applications. DLF is planning a developer's workshop for Thursday, August 7, at the Berkeley Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus, in which parties supporting the Basic Discovery Interfaces can learn more about the interfaces and how they should be implemented, meet with potential development partners, and begin the formation of a community building effective software services. Because of the nature of this meeting, we recommend that staff with a high degree of technical knowledge of your platform and bibliographic standards and protocols receive priority for attendance. The Berkeley Accord and the DLF ILS-DI recommendation are important first steps in building advanced, interoperable architectures for bibliographic discovery and use in the networked world. As soon as you have made the determination, please let me know who will be coming to this meeting. I also welcome additional recommendations for attendees who are not presently on this list. Additional logistical details will be forthcoming shortly, but please do not hesitate to write if you have questions. Thank you - -- __________________________________________________ peter brantley - executive director digital library federation | http://www.diglib.org [ university of california, berkeley [ 237 evans hall, mc 6000 [ berkeley, ca 94720-6000 __________________________________________________ cell: +1-510-599-5159 | office: +1-510-643-8665 -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel