Freeing the DataImplementing the Next-Gen Catalogue:

Taking it From Talk to Action!

John Blyberg

1/30/2008

Traditional ILS

Library PatronsBusiness Logic

Business Logic

SIPSIP2

and sometimesNCIP

3rd-partyvendors

Traditional ILS

Other Libraries

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Tools & Assets

Circulation Search Transactional Reporting

SIP/SIP2 Z39.50 Scraping Scraping

NCIPScreen

ScrapingExpect Expect

ExportReverse Proxy

File-parsing

Limited API

OPAC ‘mods’

Embedded AJAX

Reverse Proxy

Single sign-on?

SOPAC

LibraryThing for Libraries

CMSs

Faceted Search

F.T. Index (Lucene, Sphinx)

Example: SOPACwww.aadl.org

Single sign-on

Search Patron Info TransactionsSocial

Elements

DrupalReverse proxy

Catalog wrapper

Catalog wrapper

Drupal

Catalog wrapper

XMLOPACLimited

DB accessExternal

DB

Example: SOPACwww.aadl.org

Catalog wrapper

Drupal WebPACcURLPHP GET/POST

Result manipulation

Single sign-on?

A future model?

Mainstream devices

SDKs

Custom clientsSocial networks

‘2.0’ findability

Automated reporting

CRM

Mobile reference

Flexible purchasing

Web 2.0 integration

ILS

Is SOA the answer?IL

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Drupal iGoogleSOPACFlash etc..

Modular connection

REST & Software instantiation

Core functionality

Contributed functionality

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