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This document captures the discussions from the March 2006 Forum on the future of union catalogues and the Talis Library Platform, as led by Chief Executive Officer Dave Errington. It discusses key topics such as high costs of monolithic systems, the open contributions model of Talis.Source, and the integration with various web services including XML and REST. With 41 million holdings harvested, Talis aims to support academic and public institutions in meeting the knowledge needs of students and citizens. Explore the ongoing development and collaborative efforts within the library ecosystem.
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Forum for InterlendingBritish Library, March 2006 Future of Union Catalogues The Talis Library Platform Dave ErringtonChief Executive Officer david.errington@talis.com
Openpixie dust high cost, monolithic, closed
Talis Library Platform ApplicationsTalis Source, Whisper, RLG, ILLOSS, Amazon, Google, Flickr, Facebook … Web ServicesREST, SOAP, WSDL, XML Structured storageCollections, Services, Holdings, Metrics
Talis SourceFREE to contributeFREE to discover£500 to interlend Available 19th May 2006
Platform investments • MARC, UKMARC, MARC21, LINKUK, XLS, CSV, NOTIFY • 41m holdings, 1m per week • Harvesting 150 per month • Endeavour, Genesis, Bibliomondo, GEAC, Sirsi, Dynix, Ex-Libris, DS, Talis • Total libraries - 400
Talis Strategy To provide software and services to academic and public institutions to assist in the quest to serve the needs of students and citizens in their desire for knowledge, learning, research and entertainment
So now what ? • Discuss - Talis Forums • Source, UnityWeb, VDX, ILLOSS, Worldcat • Develop – www.talis.com/tdn • Web Services, Documentation • Design – www.talis.com/platform • Project Whisper • Talis Research Day – 9th May • trd@talis.com • Read, listen, comment - www.talis.com • Papers, podcasts, blogs
Come and stand beside us, we can find a better way Rhymes and Reasons, John Denver