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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.