In the afternoon we broke up into 8 groups and brainstormed blue sky elements. Some of the key ideas that came out of the discussion were:
Decide what OLE is about – being an inventory system or adiscovery on teh web system
Powerful, automatable staff clients
Web localization – be a point of need service center, federated discovery
Distributed [...]
One portion of the workshop today included a categorization of course library processes and related sub-processes. The following processes were gathered from some small group work & grouped and categorized during the morning session. The key areas were:
Acquire/license
select, identify for acquisition, import data, manage funds, order, track, interoperate with external systems, interact with external purchasing [...]
Mary Beth, Lauren, and I are at a two day workshop at Duke on the OLE project and business process modeling. More info on the experience of that workshop is coming but during the first break, we took a guided tour of the Link, Duke’s recently remodeled teaching and learning center. We saw a lot [...]