On 03/22/2013 01:09 PM, Elfstrand, Stephen F wrote: > Here's some ideas for discussion. > -Improve the image and reputation of Evergreen with better QA and > packaging of complete releases with comprehensive upgrade scripts and > documentation (see my Latest openILS posting)
Nothing is stopping anyone from participating in these efforts. Feel free to join in and help. We're mostly a community of volunteers doing these things. If Evergreen is lacking in these areas, it is because there is not enough volunteer time to do all of these things in a timely manner. > -NCIP will save ILL staff 30-40% of their time interacting with their > regional resource sharing gateway, it's being tested and beginning to be > used, but let's include it in the Evergreen releases! Actually, we're working on that, and if you'd like to see it happen sooner rather than later, you can put some resources toward it. > > -OLE & Koha are there ways to cooperate with them? Can the library > community really support 3 different Open Source library systems? The international library community can probably support more than three, and there already are more than three, though most are fairly small projects. We do cooperate with Koha. Many of the developers hang out online with the Koha crowd to see what they are doing. There has been some cross pollination of ideas and code. Notably, a Koha developer is looking at importing Evergreen's query parser into Koha. > > -Develop an OPAC that can be used as a common interface to Web Scale > Discovery Systems (PRIMO EDS, Summon) using the APIs > > -Can we create virtual Union catalogs with other Evergreens using API? > > -Add a Patron load API which is - critical for Academic libraries > > -Course Reserves, E-Reserves access control - critical for Academic > libraries > > -RDA Issues The answer for each of the above is the same. Offer up a plan and resources, either personnel or money, to get the work done. Nothing is stopping those who are considering Evergreen from contributing before they adopt Evergreen in production. In fact, MassLNC was formed before any of the three consortia had officially chosen Evergreen, and put money toward Evergreen development before the first consortium was live on Evergreen. > > -How will Evergreen compete with or evolve into a next gen > (cloud-based?) system like Intota, ALMA and OLE, Sierra, OCLC etc.? Whenever a service has the word "Cloud" in the title, I tell people to replace it with "for Dummies." The cloud is just the mainframe all over again. With the added benefit of you giving all your data away to someone else. If you're comfortable with Google or Amazon or whomever having possession of and control of your data, by all means go for it. > > -Serials & Acq & the OLE Open KnowledgeBase how can we incorporate ERM > and OpenURL functionality INTO the Evergreen of the future for > format-independent selection, acquisition, licensing and access control. > > -Ability to accept OpenURL ILL or borrowing requests > > -Linked data models of the future > > -Authorities - after we get the string matching version working > correctly let’s look at using linked data for this. > > -Resource delivery outside my Evergreen instance & ILL - Where is > FulfILLment and how should it integrate with Evergreen?' > > I've never understood why it is a "separate" project. If > it is open source why isn't it being discussed in the Evergreen user > community? > > ISO ILL Again, plans and resources are needed. None of this is happening without direction and commitment from the whole community. If you want to see something happen, then you are going to have to make it happen. That is the way this works. There is no larger organization looking out for anyone's interests here. It is the closes thing to a free market that you're ever going to see. You will need to look out for your own interests. You will need to do more than just advocate for a feature or whatever. You will need to provide resources to see that your goals are reached, or your goals will not be reached unless they happen to coincide with the goals of someone who is actually doing the work. In case it needs to be said, the above are my own opinions and not necessarily those of my employer. However, my employer has 35 heads and as near as I can tell, it has about as many different opinions on every topic. > > > > Comments appreciated > > > > > > Stephen F. Elfstrand > > Member Evergreen Oversight Board > > PALS Executive Director > > > > ML3022 > > Mn. St. Univ. - Mankato > > Mankato MN 56001 > > 507.389.2000 > > http://www.mnpals.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
