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["Bodfish,John" <bodfishj@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm very happy to share the following announcement with the NCIP Implementation 
Group:
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Early this spring, a community of library developers interested in 
interoperability between discovery interfaces and integrated library systems 
formed a working group to build on the work of the DLF ILS-DI Task force.  
After several months of collaboration between this developer community and OCLC 
team members, we are excited to announce our plans to contribute an 
implementation of version 2.0 of the NCIP standard, derived from the OCLC 
Web-scale Management Services codebase, to the eXtensible Catalog's open-source 
NCIP Toolkit.  This contribution will advance the library community's efforts 
to simplify interoperability options for any library or software provider that 
wishes to include item availability and other information from the integrated 
library system in its discovery interface display.

With the contribution of this open-source code, OCLC will help to extend the 
great work of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) development group with support for 
NCIP 2.0.  The first contribution, expected this month, will support the NCIP 
Lookup Item service, which was determined to be the highest priority for the 
ILS-DI Task Force.  Support for this message enables libraries to retrieve item 
status from their ILS in real time, making it possible for third-party 
discovery interfaces such as the eXtensible Catalog, VuFind and WorldCat Local 
to incorporate this in their displays to patrons.   Following this initial 
release, OCLC will work in conjunction with the Task Force members to establish 
a project plan to expand both the number of supported NCIP 2.0 services and ILS 
connection components.

The software will be licensed under the MIT License, which allows for 
commercial reuse.
To learn more about this contribution, please contact Randall Cook of the 
eXtensible Catalog project (rcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) or Karen A. Coombs, 
Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network (coombsk@xxxxxxxx).
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If you're not familiar with the eXtensible Catalog's NCIP toolkit, you can 
learn more about it at the eXtensible Catalog organization's web site: 
http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/.

John Bodfish