Library Systems & Interoperability Webinar: Updated Agenda - Still Time to Register Cynthia Hodgson 08 Jun 2009 22:19 UTC
There's still time to register for NISO's webinar on Library Systems and Interoperability: Breaking Down Silos, to be held Wednesday, June 10, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time). **Note especially the update on the presentation from Andrew Pace at OCLC who will be discussing OCLC's new cloud-based, web-scale management services and how interoperability is being addressed in this project. Take this opportunity to hear first-hand about the newly announced plans "to release Web-scale delivery and circulation, print and electronic acquisitions, and license management components to WorldCat Local." There will be opportunity to ask questions as well. 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. This webinar 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. Interoperability via Web-based Services -- Working with multiple libraries, providing networked services to improve the management of various services, is just one way to help address the issue of interoperability in this environment. Andrew Pace (OCLC) will discuss OCLC's new cloud-based, web-scale management services and how interoperability is being addressed in this project. (See http://www.oclc.org/productworks/webscale.htm) 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