[Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - project organisation

[nicolas at koha-fr.org]

Eyler, Patrick wrote:

>Tim O'Reilly talked a lot about web services, platforms, and social software in his keynote, and there were some ideas that seemed to make sense for the Koha world (especially in light of discussions on oss4lib about modularizing the ILS).
>
>   Web Services for users/clients:
> reviews/ranking  (this is a nice bit of participatory social software too)
> search
> patron info
> reserves
> reading club (or similar) tools
>
>   Web Services to make use of (from other sources):
> amazon reviews/ranking
> amazon buying circle info
> ibiblio
> cddb
> imdb
>
I certainly feel, as a librarian, that Web Services are the way forward 
for ILSs. For users, as you pointed out, but also for librarians. It 
might allow us to go beyond Z3950 to implement SRW/SRU (see 
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/morgan/). It might also allow us to 
have a system more easily integrated in an environment which looks 
seamless to the user: for example, when he logs in the College web site, 
he gets informations about new books at the library waiting for him, 
even though he is not logged in Koha, nor even on the library web site. 
I think it might allow us all sort of things actually.
Nicolas