[Apologies for duplication.]
LITA NGCIG Meeting at ALA Midwinter Denver: Interoperability of Next
Generation Catalogs and Users
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Sunday,
January 25, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Colorado Convention Center Room 110
We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent
next generation catalog endeavors.
Beth Jefferson (Founder of Bibliocommons) will share real world examples
and implications of "Transforming online library catalogs from
searchable inventory systems into engaging social discovery
environments".
John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Libraries and chair of
the Digital Library Federation's ILS-DI Task Group will "Outline the DLF
ILS-DI recommendations, describe some of the activities inspired by or
related to the recommendations, and discuss what fruit they can bear".
The demand for new ways for users to discover relevant library resources
has grown tremendously in the past few years. Application development
and deployment has been limited, however, by the need to interoperate
with any of a variety of integrated library systems. In 2008, a Digital
Library Federation task group published a set of recommendations for
standard functions that could be used by discovery applications to
obtain metadata and other services from any ILS. They included a basic
level of ILS-application interoperability that was endorsed by most ILS
vendors, as well as more advanced levels that may allow even richer
interactions in the future.
A brief IG business meeting will follow the discussion.
See you in Denver.
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Sharon Shafer
sshafer_at_library.ucla.edu
Received on Tue Jan 20 2009 - 19:38:51 EST