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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 > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emily Lynema [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:22 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 [log in to unmask]