I am interested in tracking the OLE Project

We have an open source OPAC that we’ve developed at NUS. I’d be interested in how the OPAC portion of the OLE develops.

I’m interested in tracking the project.

If the project will, per the document, undertake a “total rethinking of library management systems,” I’m specifically interested in the role you forecast for scholarly collaboration and open-source tagging: what role it might play in data/information modeling and information architecture, as adopters plan to reconcile emerging tags with legacy controlled vocabularies and metadata standards.

Will a scope document be made available?

I’m interested too!

We would like to participate in this project as actively as possible.
I just wanted to point out that we in NON-academic libraries are also extremely interested in alternatives to traditional ILS.
Keep the discussion and design as open as possible.

I second Oleg’s comment.

I’m on a similar Task Force sponsored by the State Library of Ohio and we would really love to be able to compare notes or at the very least follow your discussions and progress.

I am interested to take active participation in OLE project. I hope you will be taking look at existing Open Source ILS.

The OLE Project is indeed seeking to chart new avenues and this is welcome.

A new version of our open source ILS, NewGenLib (http://www.newgenlib.com) is on the drawing boards and we would like very much to be part of the OLE project and see how the next version can be based on SOA principles and other paradigms. Jai Haravu

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LibLime will track this project with interest. I echo Oleg and Eric in encouraging OLE to have an open discussion that includes all types of libraries.

I am also interested in active participation in OLE project. Let see how far we will be successful in this project vis-a-vis the other Open source Library software available now.

Please I will feel highly obliged if anyhow i can be a contributor of project.

I work with a variety of public, school, and academic libraries. I think all could benefit from this project. I will contribute anyway I can. I’m delighted University of Kansas is involved - I am a grad and live just a few blocks away.

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i want to know the latest abt the project and its upcoming events.

Am interested too.Am in a school library and i hope we can be accomodated in the discussions, design etc.Keep the project as open as possible.

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Hi,
The OLE project looks very exciting. I have one introductory question for the webcast. Have you given any consideration to working with current open source systems to meet your needs of the project. If not, what issues prompted you to decide to start from scratch with a new system rather than combining your efforts with developers working on systems like Koha or Evergreen.
Thanks,
Rodney

Hi Rodney.

We have indeed given consideration to working with current open source systems and are not excluding any product that works within a design framework. Our outcome, or deliverable, will be a design framework. If that spawns building from scratch, that will be a different phase.

Our initial efforts are to clearly articulate needs of an open source framework that meets the evolving business and process needs of a modern research library. These needs go beyond what print-resource-based ILS products currently manage.

As with other available products, we are very interested in understanding and developing the necessary community characteristics that yield adoption of enterprise software in research libraries and their parent institutions.

This approach will emphasize functionality that is not currently available. And while moving forward is our goal, we understand there are legacy needs that must also be addressed. Nonetheless we seek innovations in an ILS toolset, not all of those innovations are available in current open source projects. In other words, we believe there is work to be done and we believe the OLE Project significantly addresses a need.

I’d be delighted if you choose to join us.

If there is anything that NISO can do to support the ongoing work of this project, or alternatively, if there are any outcomes that the project team feels are appropriate for promotion in the community as best practices or standards, we would welcome the partnership.

I will be following your work closely and mentioning it in our community whenever appropriate.

Good luck with your work.

Thanks Todd. We appreciate NISO’s expression of support. I believe one of our community members is working right now on an article for a NISO publication. That helps too!

In the next several days I hope we will have some more published guidelines about how others can join and participate in a more official capacity, although those parameters may not address NISO’s more specific expression of support. But, again, I appreciate you input here and we look forward to working with you.