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A draft of the final report on the OLE Project is now available for community feedback.
Click here to download the full report. Please share your comments at the bottom of this page.
Highlights of the report
With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment project (OLE Project) convened a multi-national group of libraries to analyze library business processes and to define a next-generation library technology platform. The resulting OLE platform is predicated on Service Oriented Architecture and a community-source model of development and governance.
The response from the library community during this project exceeded all expectations. Workshops quickly filled with participants from libraries large and small, near and far. Webcasts drew interest from around the world; project members began recording and posting the recordings for those who could not attend “live” in the middle of the night. Throughout all of these activities, individuals with deep respect and concern for libraries wrestled with difficult issues and diverse points of view.
Over 300 libraries, educational institutions, professional organizations and business participated in some phase of the project. Using input from those participants, the project planners produced an OLE design framework that embeds libraries directly in the key processes of scholarship generation, knowledge management, teaching and learning by utilizing existing enterprise systems where appropriate and by delivering new services built on connections between the library’s business systems and other technology systems.
The OLE Project met all of its objectives and was completed on time and within budget. Project members are now in discussions with potential investing partners who will develop and deploy this new library technology platform. Although this is an especially difficult time for libraries to launch new projects and commit funding for them, project planners continue to hear from the library community that it is more critical than ever to create the technology infrastructure that can help libraries serve as a primary nexus of scholarly information management.
The OLE Project completed its official goals, but beyond that, it launched a world-wide conversation about the desired future of libraries and what is needed to move libraries toward that future.
The full report describes:
Project Goals
Project Strategy
Assumptions That Frame the Design of OLE
Project Scope:
- Vision
- Characteristics of the OLE Framework
- Functional Scope
- Technology Approach
- Governance
Next steps
Summary assessment
Postscript
Appendix A: Project Activities, Timeline and Participants:
- Summary of Activities
- Organizations participating in OLE Project activities
- OLE Project timeline
Appendix B: Reference Model
Discussion
18 comments for “Draft of Final OLE Project Report”
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One little typo on page 3, paragraph 3 (final paragraph of the scenario), sentence 2:
“Thanks to OLE, each arrives will full bibliographic metadata attached (…)”
“will” should likely be “with”.
Also, the table of contents for Appendix B has incorrect page numbers – “Reference Model” is on page 22 (not 13), etc.
There is a page break on page 95 that likely shouldn’t be there. The definition of “Receive resource” should immediately follow the definition of “Process” on the same page.
Just a quick browse through, of course, but I had my heart set on something that showed the interaction between the individual processes. For example, how interaction with a supplier could result in modifications to metadata. My feeling is that the actions are nearly as discrete as they are shown here.
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Minor correction, page 13, there was no workshop in Florida.
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Two representatives from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign participated in the December 11, 2008: Regional Design Workshop – University of Chicago, Chicago, IL but I don’t believe UIUC is listed among the organizations participating in OLE Project activities.
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