hi all Is there someone out there who can enlighten me re whether or how OpenURL, a standard created specifically for the purpose of linking by this very community, plays into the Linking bit of this effort? Cheers Herbert Peter Brantley wrote: > The DLF, and major vendors and application developers in the library > software marketplace, have announced a major agreement to develop > standardized, interoperable interfaces for basic operations supporting > search and retrieval of bibliographic items. > > Standardized interfaces that work across different ILSs make it easier > for libraries to add new applications, both open-source and vendor- > supplied, that advance their customers' needs. Libraries seek interfaces > that allow ILS data to be aggregated for indexing and search, that allow > real-time search and query of ILS data, that support customer > information and borrower services, and that allow embedding and > interaction between OPACs and search interfaces. > > The agreement has the support of the following vendors and > developers: > > # Talis > # Ex Libris > # LibLime > # BiblioCommons > # SirsiDynix > # Polaris Library Systems > # VTLS > # California Digital Library > # OCLC > # Serial Solutions / AquaBrowser > > The initial announcement is here: > http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/04/04/ils_basic_discovery > > ------- > > I want to credit the work of those most associated with this effort, > the DLF ILS Discovery Interface task force: > > * John Mark Ockerbloom, Univ. of Penn. (chair) > * Terry Reese, Oregon State Univ. > * Patricia Martin, California Digital Library > * Emily Lynema, North Carolina State Univ. > * Todd Grappone, Univ. of Southern California > * Dave Kennedy, Univ. of Maryland > * David Bucknum, Library of Congress > * Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine > > assisted by the following individuals: > > * Dale Flecker, Harvard Univ. > * Terry Ryan, UCLA > * Robert Wolven, Columbia Univ. > * Martin Kurth, Cornell Univ. > > Thank you! > > -- Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ tel. +1 505 667 1267