[Koha-devel] Fwd: DLF ILS-DI Developers' Workshop Aug 7 Berkeley CA

[Galen Charlton]

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 at 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 at 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 -

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Galen Charlton
Koha Application Developer
LibLime
galen.charlton at liblime.com
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