OLE

OLE presentation for Educase Enterprise

Proxy Server
OLE
The Open Library Environment
Background - What is the ILS?
The ILS is the primary software used by libraries to manage inventory, description, discovery & delivery of scholarly materials
A set of integrated, tightly coupled modules
Built around a single database that is self-contained but requires importing or inputting all relevant data
Innovated in the 1960’s – 80’s & designed around a print model of dissemination of scholarly information
Electronic content is managed at the journal title or collection level – like its print corollary – not at the level of utility – the citation
The prevailing model ...
But materials are increasingly electronic ...
Staff Interfaces
Public Catalog
OpenURL Resolver
Institutional Repository
Digital Assets
Learning Content
Courseware
Staff Interfaces
Image Catalog
So, the ILS helps libraries manage...
Only a part of the total workflow ...
... is physical books
... and users are increasingly  ... 
Incorporating electronic materials, scholarly institutional assets, & learning objects into library collections has required the deployment of:





Electronic Resources Management System
OpenURL Linking Systems
Proxy or VPN Systems
Advanced Discovery Systems
Digital Library Content Systems
Digital Preservation Systems
Learning Management Systems
... mobile & remote 
What's a library to do?
Wait a minute, don't libraries have lots of choices today?
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Why do libraries need OLE?
The vision of OLE ...



... is of a flexible, adaptable, and community-developed software framework that
Supports core business in academic & research libraries
Transforms library processes to power new services
Strives to reach enterprise level interoperability
The OLE framework, when deployed, is used to build a scalable, interoperable, library management system that fits within the modern academic & research enterprise infrastructure & enables resource re-use, re-allocation, & sustainability for the future.



The goal of the OLE project is to deliver nothing less than a full complement of services necessary to provide for information management for libraries, researchers, learners & institutions that aligns software, business process & workflows to support innovation & economy.




What distinguishes the OLE Project?
Built, owned, governed by the academic & research library community 
Supports the wide range of resources & formats of scholarly information
Developed using SOA, implemented with Web Services
Interoperate & integrate with other enterprise & network-based systems
Supports federation across projects, partnerships, consortia & institutions
Provides workflow design & management capabilities
Provide information management capabilities to non-library efforts
Why OLE Now?
Current ILS products are inadequate
Vendor consolidation constrains choices & limits innovation
Library systems need to interact, interoperate & integrate with other enterprise & network-based systems
Libraries need to control their own destinies in order to fulfill their institutional goals
The time is right – technologically, organizationally & economically
ERM System
LMS
Advanced Discovery System
OLE is Infrastructure!
The OLE Framework is an electronic system of related information management components that allow you to acquire, describe, and retrieve bibliographic information and digital objects to meet the needs of scholarship & research.
materials selection
acquisitions
cataloging
licensing
materials handling
web discovery & delivery
resource sharing
client management services
repository services
workflow management
So...
... let's build ...
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Thanks!

Questions?
E-Journal Access Rules
Electronic
Acquisitions
Electronic Journal Holdings