shimenawa - Latest comments on ILS Basic Discovery http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:52:07 +0000 Jimmy Thomas [Visitor] c48842@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ Peter B,<br /> This accord looks fine in principle. After working with 3 different discovery platforms and almost a dozen different ILSs, TLC has a keen interest in the details of the proposed interoperability profile. Please send a copy of the current draft. Could you also send contact info for the working committee? Thanks.<br /> -Jimmy This accord looks fine in principle. After working with 3 different discovery platforms and almost a dozen different ILSs, TLC has a keen interest in the details of the proposed interoperability profile. Please send a copy of the current draft. Could you also send contact info for the working committee? Thanks.
-Jimmy]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c48842 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:28:45 +0000 Betsy Graham [Visitor] c47798@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ I'd like to point out that the last part of our reply was unfortunately omitted from this posting. "We look forward to hearing more on this proposal in the near future&#8221; -- and we do. My response to this post at brewing.iii.com http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c47798 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:18:42 +0000 pbrantley [Member] c47781@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ The ILS-DI is working on a specification, and updates will be provided at the end of the month at the DLF Forum in Minneapolis. <br /> <br /> Re: III, I can merely provide the following from Innovative's email response to me:<br /> <br /> <cite><br /> We generally agree with the comments expressed by our colleagues that there is a significant amount of work involved in fully describing the details of a meaningful interoperabilty mechanism between ILS and discovery. At the same time, we feel that expressing a position on the proposal without the benefit of fully understanding such details is premature.<br /> <br /> As a result, we respectfully abstain from commenting on the proposal at this time.<br /> </cite>
Re: III, I can merely provide the following from Innovative's email response to me:


We generally agree with the comments expressed by our colleagues that there is a significant amount of work involved in fully describing the details of a meaningful interoperabilty mechanism between ILS and discovery. At the same time, we feel that expressing a position on the proposal without the benefit of fully understanding such details is premature.

As a result, we respectfully abstain from commenting on the proposal at this time.
]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c47781 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:35:11 +0000 Jodi Schneider [Visitor] c47778@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ This is a good step forward. What's the timeframe? When is the ILS-BDI expected?<br /> <br /> Like Peter Murray, I'm curious about III's abstention.
Like Peter Murray, I'm curious about III's abstention.]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c47778 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:23:15 +0000 pbrantley [Member] c47776@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ Peter -<br /> <br /> Certainly we recognize how valuable that additional information is for various re-use functions. However, it was made optional to achieve the larger good of obtaining a baseline agreement. One complicating aspect is that supplemental information is not ubiquitously shared in common formats. <br /> <br /> The group will continue its work in concert with the community to extend our handling of records, and increase opportunities for services to connect with data stores and systems.
Certainly we recognize how valuable that additional information is for various re-use functions. However, it was made optional to achieve the larger good of obtaining a baseline agreement. One complicating aspect is that supplemental information is not ubiquitously shared in common formats.

The group will continue its work in concert with the community to extend our handling of records, and increase opportunities for services to connect with data stores and systems. ]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c47776 In response to: ILS Basic Discovery Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:49:24 +0000 Peter Murray [Visitor] c47775@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ In your posting of the proposal agreed to by the library vendors present (except Innovative -- why?), it says (emphasis added):<br /> <br /> <blockquote>Harvesting options <strong><em>could include either</em></strong> the core bibliographic records, <strong><em>or</em></strong> those records combined with supplementary information (such as holdings or summary circulation data).</blockquote><br /> <br /> Was there an attempt made to make the harvesting of all bibliographic and supplemental information (e.g., all non-patron-identifying-information) a requirement? Getting just the bibliographic records out through an OAI-PMH interface is a step forward, but it isn't a very large one compared to the supplemental information in the ILS that doesn't have a home in the MARC record format. The supplemental information is very important for functions like advanced reporting and indexing.
Harvesting options could include either the core bibliographic records, or those records combined with supplementary information (such as holdings or summary circulation data).


Was there an attempt made to make the harvesting of all bibliographic and supplemental information (e.g., all non-patron-identifying-information) a requirement? Getting just the bibliographic records out through an OAI-PMH interface is a step forward, but it isn't a very large one compared to the supplemental information in the ILS that doesn't have a home in the MARC record format. The supplemental information is very important for functions like advanced reporting and indexing.]]> http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery#c47775