David,

2 email lists that you can start with, although neither one of them is
truly a place to discuss implementation issues.

1. The ILS-DI discussion list on google. See 
http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di.

I created this group to foment discussion surrounding the technical 
recommendation being developed by DLF's ILS Discovery Interface Task 
Group (now published on the DLF site). We have not had a lot of 
technical discussion on this list in the past, but we certainly could.

2. The jangle-discuss discussion list on google. See 
http://groups.google.com/group/jangle-discuss

There's lots of technical discussion going on on this list. Jangle is 
really not an implementation of ILS-DI, but they are interested in using 
ILS-DI connectors to the local ILSs. It's an interesting conversation, 
regardless. Personally, I'd like to see Jangle *be* an implementation of 
ILS-DI, but I know Ross wants to have a little more freedom to develop a 
uniform interface.

-emily

Walker, David wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on converting a screen-scraping class, written in PHP, I have for looking-up bib and availability information in an Innovative systems to the new ILS-DI specification, and had a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a place (other than the workshop) to discuss issues or questions I might have?  A listserv perhaps?
> 
> 2. Is anyone else thinking about, or currently working on, an implementation for Innovative?
> 
> Since the company has not agreed to work with the library community on this, we're kind of on our own.  I've got a pretty good scraper that can accommodate most of the abstract functions in the spec.  But wanted to see if others did too, so we might combine efforts.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Dave
> 
> ==================
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Update: DLF ILS-DI Developers' Workshop Aug 7
> 
> Now that the DLF technical recommendation is officially published [1], DLF
> is trying to help maintain momentum and build a community of implementation
> around this project. Toward that end, an ILS-DI Developers' Workshop has
> been organized in August for folks to hash out questions and answers about
> implementing the first level of the recommendation, Basic Discovery
> Interfaces. While this meeting is invitation only to keep the size down,
> feel free to let me know if you are involved in this type of implementation
> and think you could contribute to this meeting.
> 
> Of course, a summary of the outcome of the meeting will be made available in
> its aftermath. It is even possible there may be some suggested revisions or
> clarifications to the recommendation as we actually begin to write code.
> 
> I've included the text of the original inviitation below for all to see. We
> hope to keep this topic of APIs and interoperability for our integrated
> library systems fresh on your mind, especially as some many of you are
> building these types of APIs literally as we speak....
> 
> -emily lynema
> 
> [1] http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Greetings -
> 
> As you may know, the Digital Library Federation has released
> the technical recommendation of its ILS Discovery Interface
> (ILS-DI) Task Group.  This document recommends basic, standard
> interfaces -- known as the Berkeley Accord -- for integrating
> the data and services of integrated library systems (ILS) with
> new applications supporting user discovery.  The documentation
> is available at : http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ .
> 
> The basic discovery interfaces permit libraries to deploy new
> discovery services to meet ever-growing user expectations in
> the Web 2.0 era, take full advantage of advanced ILS data
> management and services, and encourage a strong, innovative
> community and marketplace in next-generation library management
> and discovery applications.
> 
> DLF is planning a developer's workshop for Thursday, August 7,
> at the Berkeley Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus, in
> which parties supporting the Basic Discovery Interfaces can
> learn more about the interfaces and how they should be
> implemented, meet with potential development partners, and
> begin the formation of a community building effective software
> services.  Because of the nature of this meeting, we recommend
> that staff with a high degree of technical knowledge of your
> platform and bibliographic standards and protocols receive
> priority for attendance.
> 
> The Berkeley Accord and the DLF ILS-DI recommendation are
> important first steps in building advanced, interoperable
> architectures for bibliographic discovery and use in the
> networked world.

-- 
Emily Lynema
Systems Librarian for Digital Projects
Information Technology, NCSU Libraries
919-513-8031
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