betabib om bibliotek, annat och det vi gör …

Programmet för Computers in Libraries 2009 finns nu ute. Det skall bli intressant att presentera på denna konferens som brukar dra till sig mycket folk. Dock inte så många svenskar, det är synd.

Jag skall i alla fall prata om webbtjänster och hur man kan använda dem för att integrera och expandera funktionalitet på webbsidor och i bibliotekskataloger. Presentationen är tillsammans med Paul Wallace och Marshall Breeding i spåret Next-gen catalogs. Vilket jag finner lite ironiskt eftersom vår OPAC till sin arkitektur inte är så next-gen. Min plan är att vara ganska konkret och förhoppningsvis inspirera några till att börja utnyttja sina lokala system idag istället för att vänta tills imorgon.

Jag hoppas vi ses där

Cooperative Systems Trump Integrated Systems
Paul Wallace, Library Systems Manager, Fifth Circuit Library System, U.S. Court of Appeals
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University
Daniel Forsman, Systems Librarian, Jönköping University Library

With the evolution of the library away from strictly holdings toward the inclusion of digital archives, knowledge management, and shrinking staff budgets, it no longer makes much sense to put all of one’s eggs in a single basket. Traditional vendor ILSs have excelled in some areas and been noticeably weak in others. No single solution should be expected to handle all of the information in a library’s domain. Wallace discusses focusing on open architecture, where the data from disparate sources is accessible via a common gateway, and functional modularity allows development of excellent input/maintenance interfaces and more focused search results. Breeding shares the vision of an open library project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Duke University. The project involves a careful analysis of business process workflows leading to the development of a set of requirements for an automation environment, based on the service oriented architecture, for modern libraries. Though the current project focuses on the development of a conceptual framework and functional requirements, it works toward the opportunity for a follow-on effort to build a system with involvement and support from a community of interested organizations and individuals. Forsman discusses and illustrates with practical examples several services available for libraries to expand OPAC functionality and enhance web pages by utilizing a web service architecture.

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