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The OLE Project: Reconceptualizing Technology for Modern Library Workflow—An SOA Approach

Session Details

Wednesday, May 06, 2009
1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Florida/Illinois Rooms

Session Type: Systems and Services

Speaker(s)

  • Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University
  • Beth Forrest Warner, Officer for Grants, Research Support, and Library Assessment (Libraries), University of Kansas
  • Michael Winkler, Director, Information Technology and Digital Development, University of Pennsylvania
  • Session convener: Christopher Dalrymple, Principal Technical Consultant, Louisiana State University

Abstract

The OLE Project, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is designing an Open Library Environment (OLE), a reconceptualized alternative to the current model of vendor-driven, largely self-contained, integrated library systems. The goal of this multinational group of academic, research, and national libraries is to produce a design document for a service oriented architecture (SOA)-compliant system positioned as a component of an institutional enterprise architecture. A secondary goal is to inform community-source library system development efforts regarding the tools and techniques of business process modeling and SOA architectures.

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