Fwd: Introducing the OSSNLibraries Portal

[Roy Tennant]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Daniel Greenstein <dgreenstein at CLIR.ORG>
> Date: Wed Jan 30, 2002  06:46:27 AM US/Pacific
> To: DLFANNOUNCE-L at LISTSERV.CDINET.COM
> Subject: Introducing the OSSNLibraries Portal
> Reply-To: DLF Digital Library Announcements <DLFANNOUNCE-
> L at LISTSERV.CDINET.COM>
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
> I'd like to draw your attention to OSSNLibraries Portal at
> http://dewey.library.nd.edu/ossnlibraries/portal/
>
> The portal is "a prototype of an open source software (OSS) in libraries
> portal -- a combination directory/webliography of OSS projects and
> information resources designed for and useful in library settings.
>
> The Software section is a directory of OSS software browsable by a 
> number of
> characteristics. The Webliography lists themes pertaining to OSS in
> libraries and zero or more links to Internet resources elaborating on 
> the
> theme."
>
> The prototype envisages a portal that may develop as a community effort 
> with
> regard to projects and information that may be notified and reviewed by 
> its
> users.
>
>
>
> The idea for the portal arises from a meeting that the DLF hosted in 
> October
> 2001 to consider how to assess claims made for open-source software 
> (OSS)
> and, if appropriate, to identify steps to move OSS activity into the
> mainstream of digital library development. A report on the meeting is
> available from http://www.diglib.org/architectures/ossrep.htm 
> Implementation
> owes  great deal to Eric Lease Morgan and the Digital Access and 
> Information
> Architecture Department of the University Libraries of Notre Dame.
>
> The prototype portal provides a framework within which a community 
> activity
> may take place and be developed. Next steps are currently being 
> considered
> about which comments are very much welcomed.
>
> In addition, the prototype demonstrates one way that the DLF may serve 
> its
> members (and the broader community) through "technology watch" 
> initiatives,
> that is, initiatives that monitor activity in discrete areas of 
> interest to
> those developing digital libraries.
>
> I would also invite you to consider how we might extend this technology
> watch function to other areas of interest (in this respect, we are 
> looking
> both for the areas of interest we may cover as well as the mechanisms 
> we may
> use to cover them) and to contact me with any ideas they may have.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dan
>
> Daniel Greenstein
> Director, Digital Library Federation
> 1755 Massachusetts Ave, NW #500
> Washington DC 20036
> (202) 939-4762
>