At the Summer ALA conference in Washington, the LITA Open Source
interest group is sponsoring a
presentation from Jennifer Bowen of the XC project and Brad LeJeunesse
and others from the
Georgia Pines Open-Source ILS project if you are interested in more
information on this project and
will be at ALA.
John Rutherford
LITA Open Source Interest Group.
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> A week or so I had the opportunity to sit down with a number of very
> smart people and discuss the eXtensible Catalogue at the University
> of Rochester, and I have documented my experiences in a travel log.
> From the text:
>
> People's expectations regarding the access to data & information
> have dramatically changed with the advent of the Internet. At the
> same time library software -- specifically, library catalog
> software -- has not kept pace with people's expectations.... XC
> is not intended to be built solely by the folks at Rochester.
> Instead they propose developing relationships with partners.
> There are five different types of partnerships:
>
> * Advisory - Institutions who provide
> high-level guidance
>
> * Component - Institutions who write
> ingest and export functions against
> the Platform
>
> * Deployment - Institution who install
> the software for testing
>
> * Implementation - Institutions who write
> software for the Platform
>
> * User Research - Institutions who do
> basic research on patrons and their use
> of library and related technologies,
> along with user research linked to
> product development
>
> Yes, building something like XC is a lot of work, but the time
> spent on such projects is not wasted. Not only will the end
> product be something that will solve immediate problems, but it
> will have a number of side benefits as well.
>
> http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/travel/xc-2007/
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Wed Feb 21 2007 - 09:44:15 EST