Hi Eric,

How much work is it for you to write and document a minimal application 
around your toolbox that would actually work well out of the box, teach 
others how to use MyLibrary as a toolbox, and get people excited?

Alternatively, do you have users of MyLibrary 3.0 as a toolbox who are 
willing to share their stuff and testify to the utility of MyLibrary?

-Raymond

Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> One of the biggest problems we have been having with MyLibrary 3.0 is
> getting across to people that MyLibrary is more like a toolbox and
> not a turnkey system. It is a set of Perl modules used to create
> digital library collections and services. It is not a program.
>
> One one hand, by turning the system into purely object-oriented Perl
> modules we have been able to exploit all sorts of cool things with
> MyLibrary: SRU interfaces, OAI interfaces, importing and exporting in
> various formats (MARC, RSS, email, RDF, etc.). At the same time
> people seem to be expecting a turn-key application. A similar
> discussion seems to be happening on one of the DSpace lists.
>
> Given the low numbers of people in Library Land who can write (Perl)
> scripts, this could be a serious impediment to adoption.
>
> In your opinions, what might be some resolutions or work-arounds to
> this problem?
>
> -- 
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>


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