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Ian MansonUK Sales ManagerAugust 2006

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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


Pre EDI and Library Management Systems


Data Integration

Getting stuff in and out, fitting it into the right holes


We all use standards.

• Marc• EDI • SIP2• ISO ILL• NCIP• Z39.50

Sometimes we all use the same ones.

Problem, what problem.


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…..


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…..


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


Speaking in tongues

Data used to be obtuse in it’s encoding and mostly designed to be compressible for transportation


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)


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


From Traditional Architecture…to SOA

Traditional Application

A Black Box

SOA Application

Process

Business Services

Business Services

Business Services


Decoupling the end-to-end business process

Event


Decoupling the end-to-end business process

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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


Enhancing the customer experience XML in action

Inserts data on the fly when the record is presented.


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.


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.

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