Library Systems & Interoperability: Breaking Down Silos -- A NISO Webinar on June 10 Cynthia Hodgson 27 May 2009 01:21 UTC
In today's information environment, libraries work with a slew of systems from different vendors to manage, develop, distribute, and track their resources, and to provide rich navigational and discovery tools to the end users. Data needs to be re-used in multiple places and continually synchronized. Records from one system must link seamlessly to records in another. Key to making this work effectively is interoperability. And standards are critical to successful, cost effective, and vendor-neutral interoperability. On June 11, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (eastern), NISO will be holding a webinar that provides a sampling of new work that is taking place to enable information about library resources to be shared between systems. Topics to be covered include: CORE: Exchanging Cost Information Between Library Systems -- Ted Koppel (AGent Verso (ILS) Product Manager, Auto-Graphics, Inc) and Ed Riding, (Technical Product Manager, SirsiDynix), co-chairs of the NISO CORE working group will explain how the CORE protocol (now in trial use) provides a solution to sharing financial information between an ILS and ERM or between a library's system and a vendor's. Discovery Systems and Interoperability -- Users today expect that the library will be able to provide them not only with a wealth of rich information about in-house resources, but a doorway to content that can be found in online databases, through institutional repositories, and beyond. Andrew K. Pace (Executive Director, Networked Library Services, OCLC) will discuss one project looking at how to address the issue of interoperability in this environment. DLF's ILS Discovery Interfaces Project -- In 2007-2008, the Digital Library Federation (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, and to create a technical proposal for how such integration should be accomplished. John Mark Ockerbloom (Digital Library Architect and Planner, University of Pennsylvania) will review the Task Group's official recommendation (revision 1.1) that was released in December 2008. Webinar fees are $79.00 for NISO and NASIG members in the U.S. and Canada and $99.00 for non-members. Separate rates exist for international access. A student discount is also available. Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. If you are unable to participate in person, registering will still provide you with access to the recorded version of the webinar to watch at your own convenience. (International registrants who are not participating live may register at the domestic rate.) For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/interop09 Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: chodgson@niso.org Phone: 301-654-2512