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[Pascal Calarco <pcalarco@xxxxxx>]

 On 08/19/2010 09:59 AM, Bodfish,John wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:rcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) or Karen A. Coombs, Product 
> Manager for the OCLC Developer Network (_coombsk@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto: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
This is great news, John, thanks!

At the Charlotte XC meeting, we briefly talked about also refactoring 
some of the software OCLC has for SIP2 <--> NCIP interoperability and 
fold this into the XC NCIP toolkit as well.  The Aleph ILS, for example, 
uses SIP2 for its checkout and renewal functionality instead of NCIP.  
Right now the Aleph NCIP drivers that we have developed for XC here at 
Notre Dame are incomplete because some of this functionality isn't able 
to be included.  Could you tell us whether this SIP2 component will also 
be included in the above?  Many thanks!

  Best regards,

  - pascal

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Pascal Calarco
Head, Library Information Systems
University of Notre Dame /
Michiana Academic Library Consortium
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629
http://www.library.nd.edu/
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