Seems a bit premature from what I've been hearing and reading elsewhere.
Tim McGeary
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Steven Harris wrote:
> Anybody else see this announcement? Interesting...
>
> --Steven Harris
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> The DLF, and major vendors and application developers in the library
> software marketplace, have announced a major agreement to develop
> standardized, interoperable interfaces for basic operations supporting
> search and retrieval of bibliographic items.
>
> Standardized interfaces that work across different ILSs make it easier for
> libraries to add new applications, both open-source and vendor- supplied,
> that advance their customers' needs. Libraries seek interfaces that allow
> ILS data to be aggregated for indexing and search, that allow real-time
> search and query of ILS data, that support customer information and borrower
> services, and that allow embedding and interaction between OPACs and search
> interfaces.
>
> The agreement has the support of the following vendors and
> developers:
>
> # Talis
> # Ex Libris
> # LibLime
> # BiblioCommons
> # SirsiDynix
> # Polaris Library Systems
> # VTLS
> # California Digital Library
> # OCLC
> # Serial Solutions / AquaBrowser
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> The initial announcement is here:
> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery
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> I want to credit the work of those most associated with this effort, the DLF
> ILS Discovery Interface task force:
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> * John Mark Ockerbloom, Univ. of Penn. (chair)
> * Terry Reese, Oregon State Univ.
> * Patricia Martin, California Digital Library
> * Emily Lynema, North Carolina State Univ.
> * Todd Grappone, Univ. of Southern California
> * Dave Kennedy, Univ. of Maryland
> * David Bucknum, Library of Congress
> * Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine
>
> assisted by the following individuals:
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> * Dale Flecker, Harvard Univ.
> * Terry Ryan, UCLA
> * Robert Wolven, Columbia Univ.
> * Martin Kurth
>
Received on Mon Apr 14 2008 - 14:04:16 EDT