Re: [IUG] NCIP

["David Kane" <dkane at wit dot ie>]

2008/9/12 Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>

>
> Long-winded Duncan pontification ahead.  Don't say you weren't warned.
>
> I find it kind of interesting that ... getting the same
> response from Innovative---"nobody has asked for it."  Can we assume
> that each library is asking a different person


Well, our request was formal.  I am sure it went through all the right
channels.


> Applications need to be developed, and an NCIP-based application that works
> with one
> resource sharing application won't necessarily work with the next,


It should.  That's the sine qua non of an open standard - the whole point of
it all.


>
> which means in order to "support NCIP" you probably need to create
> not just an application, but an environment that makes it easy to
> create custom applications for custom situations.


What do you mean by 'environment'?


>  Add to that the
> fact that putting a lot of development effort into something that
> will enable libraries to choose a competive resource sharing
> application may not make a lot of business sense, and it's not hard
> to understand III's reluctance to develop something that scores of
> libraries never asked for.
>

Yes, that's the real issue.


>
> That said, I think this is a watershed moment for Innovative, or at
> least for the company's perception in the marketplace.  At a recent
> PALCI get together an Innovative library director commented that he
> increasingly sees his library system as a node in the collective
> world of resource sharing, and that his library's ability to
> participate in the collective is becoming more important than the
> local collection and the particular ILS the library uses to manage
> it.


I agree with this point very much.  Libraries are brokerages for
information.  This is very much OCLC's perception and as far as I can see,
they are working towards being a 'glue' between libraries, in terms of
provision of information and service products.  I would see ILSs in this
context as being 'open nodes' that communicate transparently communicate
with one another using agreed standards.

David.

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