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DLF Fall Forum 2008: Providence, Rhode Island
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 -
1:00 p.m., Friday, November 14th, 2008
DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task
Group (ILS-DI)
Technical Recommendation
An API for effective interoperation between integrated library systems and external discovery applications
June 4, 2008
In 2007-2008, the DLF convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. This page gives access to the group's recommendation, related materials, and information on followup activities.
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
Abstract:
"There's something very different about moving images. They're expensive to process and difficult to expose to users. They require us to engage with both new and obsolete technologies. They pose mysterious and intimidating rights issues. And they're multiplying rapidly. Special collections and archives are filling up with film, video and digital media, and most born-digital video isn't even being collected. And when it comes to providing access, we're losing the battle.
How can 21st-century archives work productively with these materials without repeating past mistakes? Most importantly, what does the history of archival engagement with moving images teach us about the future of archival access and our relationships with our users?"
This was the presentation where he used the term "embryonic metadata" (though it doesn't appear in the slides).
1:00 p.m., Monday, November 5th, 2007 -
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia
1701 Locust Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-6179
The Levels of Adoption document is intended to supplement the Digital Library Federation / Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records, released in November 2006 under the auspices of the DLF Aquifer initiative. The Shareable MODS Guidelines represent a record-centric view of Aquifer's goals, whereas it is often helpful to set priorities for metadata creation with a user- and use-centric view. The newly-released Levels of Adoption document describes five general categories of user functionality that are likely to be supported by following specific recommendations from the Guidelines. It attempts to provide additional guidance to MODS implementers in the planning process by documenting what sorts of functionality is possible when certain elements of the Guidelines are
followed."
(ILS's) and discovery systems, and to create a technical proposal for accomplishing such integration.
We hope to engage the expertise and interest of the community beyond this working group, however. Towards this end, we have set up a Wiki for the project, much of which is open to public viewing and comment"
http://purl.org/dlf/rdm200705. Created by a DLF/OCLC working group, the guidelines are to be used when creating metadata for born digital or to be digitized materials that have been digitized according to standards and best practices with the intention of including the metadata in the Registry of Digital Masters. The Registry is available through OCLC
WorldCat. "