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Forum for Interlending British Library, March 2006. Future of Union Catalogues The Talis Library Platform. Dave Errington Chief Executive Officer david.errington@talis.com. Mess. Open pixie dust. high cost, monolithic, closed. Talis Library Platform.
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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
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