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E4Libraries WorkshopData Data Everywhere
Ian MansonUK Sales ManagerAugust 2006
Ian Manson Sales Manager
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INFOR Library Solutions Division
A familiar name with over 30 years experience in library automation
• 10th Largest Software Company in the World• Multiple software products• Application and market based solutions• Over 70,000 Customers• Over $2.1 Billion per annum revenue
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Data Integration
Getting stuff in and out, fitting it into the right holes
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We all use standards.
• Marc• EDI • SIP2• ISO ILL• NCIP• Z39.50
Sometimes we all use the same ones.
Problem, what problem.
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I just have an extra bit of information that needs to be added to ….
Standards evolve, but often they get extended to meet a local need.
And we work withSupplier X System YLibrary Z Council System A,B and C
And everyone enters the race at a different point.
You know that standard, well…..
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Hitting a moving target
This year we shall mostly be using Edifact, Marc21 and
not worrying about our financial system too much.
But next year we’ll need you to talk to a brand new
Microsaporaclesoft financial system, but we don’t know
much about it yet and then…..
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Linguistic dexterity
Once upon a time computers were very scared of too much data. They liked the simple things in life and had a hard time understanding things quickly and it cost a lot to
remember much.
Now they are all-powerful, control the universe, juggle planets at the speed of light and eat galaxies of
information for breakfast.
Think teleordering to Web 2.0 Technology
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Speaking in tongues
Data used to be obtuse in it’s encoding and mostly designed to be compressible for transportation
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More room to talk and add meaning
If you include contextual information in the data it becomes far more flexible ( for a computer anyway).
XML ( EXtensible Mark up Language)
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Service Oriented Architecture
Moving away from a monolithic application architectureto
Data when you need it.Delivery in real time.Flexibility in workflow.
Reducing proprietary interfaces.Re-use
Retaining value of information
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From Traditional Architecture…to SOA
Traditional Application
A Black Box
SOA Application
Process
Business Services
Business Services
Business Services
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Decoupling the end-to-end business process
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Sub-process #1
End-to-end process
Event-driven SOA design principles
1. Self-contained and autonomous sub-processes
2. Sub-process workflow leverages business services
3. Events drive end-to-end processes11
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SOAP is not a dirty word
Data integration using SOAP and/or XML can support a more flexible way of working.
Examples active include :- Smart card services, reading lists with VLE’s, user information updates, budget information,
RFID tag data, bibliographic record retrieval etc
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Enhancing the customer experience XML in action
Inserts data on the fly when the record is presented.
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Nirvana
• All the suppliers support the current standards• All the systems use the same standards• All the libraries work the same way• All the councils expect the same information
• Tick the box marked E4Libraries and problem solved.
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But don’t forget
ONIX – Where does this fit in.
RDA – Hands up if you’ve heard of FRBR, then another if you have RDA on your radar
Acts of Gates / Web 3.0 / Everything is a platform/ Google/ The End of the book is nigh
The steer from MLA
And not forgetting that whatever we do today, tomorrow will see the dawn of the next technology.