Le projet OLE a débuté il y a un an. Le rapport final a été rendu public fin juillet (en version draft, soumise à commentaires).

"The goal of the Open Library Environment Project (OLE Project) was to design a next-generation library system that breaks away from print-based workflows, reflects the changing nature of ibrary materials and new approaches to scholarly work, integrates well with other enterprise systems and can be easily modified to suit the needs of different institutions. The project planners went beyond designing for incremental improvement of current Integrated Library Systems (ILS’s). They also viewed the role of library business technology systems to bemore than purchasing and providing access to collected materials. The project planners chose to define a system that supports libraries as a central player in the research process. [...]"

"OLE is both more and less than a traditional ILS. OLE goes beyond an ILS through its ability to utilize other systems and deliver valuable new services. At the same time, OLE allows institutions to avoid redundancy of data, and reduce purchase and integration of add-on components to their current ILS in order to carry out library business. Finally, OLE places the library’s business in context within the fabric of the institution and the research process, rather than keeping it a separate, siloed operation. [...]"

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