ILS Discovery InterfacesIn 2007-2008, the DLF 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. The recommendationThe Task Group's official recommendation (version 1.0) was released in June 2008. You can download it in PDF or Microsoft Word format. Revised recommendation draftA draft of a revised recommendation, based on the consensus of an August meeting of ILS developers and vendors at Berkeley, was released for public comment October 30, 2008. You can download it in PDF or Microsoft Word format. Comments on the draft can be sent to "ockerblo" at "pobox.upenn.edu" until November 18. A summary of the significant changes and their rationale can be found here. SchemaVersion 1.0 of the XML schema used for some of the basic discovery interface replies can be found here. Revisions to this schema will use different URLs based on the version number. The proposed revisions for Revision 1.1 can be found found here.Example implementationsA proof-of-concept implementation of the recommendation's Level 1 ("Basic Discovery Interface") specifications is online. More information about it can be found here. We hope to add links to other implementations of the Level 1 recommendations, in development or in production, on actual ILS's. Other task group activityAdditional materials from the Task Group can be found at their wiki. The wiki is not permanent, but we plan to move materials of ongoing interest to this site shortly, including information from the Task Group's survey of library professionals.
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