Category Archives: OLE Project

OLE & CUFTS

By mitcheet | Published: April 8, 2009

Erik, Chris, Lauren C. (sorry Lauren) , Mary Beth, Carol, Susan, and Tim atended an OLE sponsored webinar about CUFTS. CUFTS is a series of open source applicaitons including an OpenURL resolver, a database management application, an ERMS, and an open source knowledge base.
Part of the conversation centered around developing community support for the knowledge [...]

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Blue sky topics from OLE discussion

By mitcheet | Published: December 16, 2008

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
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Brainstorming list of business processes from OLE workshop

By mitcheet | Published: December 16, 2008

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 [...]

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OLE Project webcast

By mitcheet | Published: October 1, 2008

This afternoon, a group of Carptenter, PCL, and ZSR library staff gathered together to watch the first OLE Project webcast. The webcast discussed their scope, goals, and accomplishments to date. The project is still in its early stages but intends to design a new ILS based on SOA principles. Interestingly, they are already looking towards [...]

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