Kuali OLE:The Bloomsbury LMSAndrew PreaterAssociate Director, Information Systems and Services

Senate House Libraries, University of London

EIUG Exchange of Experience, 19 September 2013

What we’re doingWhy we’re doing it

Kuali OLEole.kuali.org

OLE!

Library services platform

OLE!

A campus-wide, enterprise system

OLE!

By and for academic libraries

OLE!

Open Source* software

* - Educational Community License 2.0, a Free Software license compatible with GNU GPL 3.0: http://bit.ly/14oMvvu

Programming the Z80 photograph by Flickr user Bill Bradford, license CC-BYhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/44595055/

Problem:Early adopter arguments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diffusion_of_ideas.svg

Let’s be pragmatic…

Banknotes, money, cash, photograph by Flickr user Howard Lake, license CC-BY-SAhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/4550765098/

It exists…OLE 0.8 June 2013

OLE 1.0 October 2013

OLE 1.5 2014

What we are doing now…

Discovery work packageSpring & summer 2013

VuFind, an OSS optionsenatehou.se/vufind

Metadata optimization work packageSpring 2013 onwards

Analysis using VuFind

Language coding example

Within total 2.4M records, 6680 coded undetermined in 008

Implementation of OLE 1.0 sandboxGoal for October 2013

PDP-7 photographed by Wikipedia user Tore Sinding Bekkedal, license CC-SAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pdp7-oslo-2005.jpeg

Success factors

Technology & codingSeptember 2013 -

Staff workflow analysisSeptember 2013 -

“LMS appreciation”

Kuali Days UKOctober 29-30 at Senate House

bit.ly/kduk2013

andrew.preater@london.ac.uk

www.blms.ac.uk

ole.kuali.org

Questions