Discovery Layer Task Force (UML)

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. XC will provide easy access to all resources (both digital and physical collections) across a variety of databases, metadata schemas and standards, and will enable library content to be revealed through other services that libraries may already be using, such as content management systems and learning management systems. XC will also make library collections more web-accessible by revealing them through web search engines.

Asks - Might we see a consortium some time soon that offers a shared ILS or union catalog with both a shared discovery tool and a full-featured API that libraries could choose to use in conjunction with their own locally developed discovery tool? Or might we see a consortium that produces only an API to their system?

report from a committee similar to our task force

This is from 2007

In 2007-2008, the Digital Library Federation convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. This page gives access to the group's recommendation, related materials, and information on followup activities.

Functional Descriptions for preparing RFP, RFI, etc. This might help to get the RFI going.

Here is the site that I mentioned at today's meeting. Also, the latest news release hereis that AquaBrowser has been chosen by Harvard as its search and discover platform.

I really like the add-to-Delicious-bookmarks feature.