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The Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group seeks input from DLF Forum attendees on asset action development. Please attend a Birds of a Feather session, Tuesday April 29th, 2:30-3:30 in Greenway F-H, second floor. A description of the session, Asset Actions Next Steps, follows. Background information is available on from the Working Group wiki at: http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/DLFAquifer/Asset+Action+Project Review of the following four documents will provide a good overview of the issues: Asset Actions: Deep Sharing of Repository Content via Actionable URLs Asset Action Generation Using the Thumbgrabber... Asset Action Use Cases _____________________ Asset Actions Next Steps: Atom/OAI-ORE and Zotero The DLF Aquifer project is extending its asset action framework to work with Atom/OAI-ORE syndication. As libraries move more and more to externally hosted content like American Social History Online we are seeing the emergence of the Digital Library as a Service (DLaaS): a service where content resides outside of its native library system to achieve greater usability and visibility. In order for libraries and researchers to take advantage of this type of content we need to develop web agents to create greater usability. To this end the Aquifer project has offered Asset Actions as a model for this type of usable content. An asset action package is an XML-defined set of actionable URIs for a digital resource that delivers named, typed actions for that resource. Packages are made up of action groups, which are sets of actions, with an optional set of parameters that are specific to the group. Every asset action package contains at least a "default" action group that provides a basic high-level set of actions. Recent work in implementation of the framework has focused on Zotero integration to take advantage of Asset Actions via Atom/OAI-ORE. This discussion session will focus on the recent work in this area from the Aquifer Technology and Architecture Working Group.