Agenda for LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group at ALA Midwinter in Seattle

[Marshall Breeding]

LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group to meet at ALA Midwinter in
Seattle       

The LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group
<http://www.ala.org/lita/about/igs/industry/lit-igven>  will meet at the ALA
Midwinter Meeting in Seattle <http://connect.ala.org/node/197563> .

Date: Saturday January 26, 2013
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM Pacific Time
Place: Washington State Convention Center - TCC LL3

Agenda items:

*	Review of the Interest Group mission statement. The following draft
created by Marshall as a starting point will be revised and expanded:

The LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group seeks to bring together
interested individuals from libraries and from organizations that develop
technology products and services for libraries to facilitate collaboration.
The Interest Group will address timely technology topics and methodologies
with strategic interest for libraries and the community of vendors
developing technology products. The current environment, for example, where
the service oriented architecture prevails provides many opportunities to
extend functionality, exchange data and services among diverse applications,
and to create new services through the APIs exposed in these products. The
interest group aims to educate the library community regarding current
trends and technologies related to the potential benefits of working with
APIs and other technologies. The Interest Group invites participation by a
broad range of individuals and organizations that create technology products
and services for libraries and those in libraries make use of them.

*	Continued work on the development of a white paper that describes
how the current architectures today offer capabilities for extensibility and
interoperability through APIs and how library programmers and other third
parties can collaborate with system developers. This white paper aims to be
a key educational document for broader audience of systems librarians,
developers, and other interested individuals.
*	Finalization of program for the ALA Annual Conference:

Connecting Libraries and Vendor Platforms: Have we advanced from the Black
Box to Open Systems?

No technology product created for libraries can reasonably satisfy the needs
of all libraries "out of the box." Rather, products provide a basic core of
functionality designed to serve the general needs of libraries, with
configuration options to set operational and cosmetic details for individual
implementations. Many libraries, however, need to implement new
functionality not delivered with the base product. Libraries might be able
to press the developers of the products, developed under either proprietary
or open source licenses, to create enhancements to the core system to meet
these needs. A more sustainable model involves the use of application
programming interfaces (API)s that allow library programmers to write code
to extend the capabilities of the product, to enable interoperability with
other applications, or to extract and manipulate data. Most of the major
library management and discovery applications offer APIs that open up data
and functionality to libraries and to third party developers.

This session aims to reveal the extent to which libraries can expect to
extend products through exercising the APIs provided with their key
technology products. In a dynamic debate format, the moderator (Marshall
Breeding?) will explore this topic with the chief technology or strategy
officers of the major library vendors and with one or more library
technologists involved in projects that rely on APIs.

Participants

*	Moderator: Marshall Breeding (Co-Chair LITA Industry Vendor IG)
*	Andrew Pace or Robin Murray (OCLC)
*	Talin Bingham (SirsiDynix)
*	Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris)
*	Jane Burke or Andrew Nagy (Serials Solutions)
*	Bill Schickling (Polaris)
*	John McCullough (Innovative Interfaces)
*	Brad LaJeunesse (Equinox Software)

 


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