Open Source Systems Interest Group
Meeting Report
Annual Conference 2006 - New Orleans
Chair: John Rutherford
Minutes by: John Rutherford
Attendence:
John Rutherford. Wayne State University (Incoming chair of the SIG)
Gwendolyn Reece. American University
Chris Strauber. Wofford College (Incoming co-chair of the SIG)
Mike Robinson. University of Alaska
Miro Lolaric
Tim Donohue. University of Illinois
Jan Waterhouse. University of Kansas
Jennifer Bowen. University of Rochestor
Gabriel Farrell
Rachel Cheng. Eastern Michigan University
Agenda:
1. Lita Open Source IG Co-chair.
Chris Strauber from Wofford College agreed to become the co-chair for the interest group.
2. Discussed/Reviewed presentation proposals for the ALA 1997 Conference in Washington, DC.
The following presentations were proposed to the program planning committee:
Building The Next Generation Public Library Web Site with Drupal
John Blyberg. Ann Arbor District Library:
In 2005, Ann Arbor District Library unveiled it's "3.0" website. It's use of blogs, interactive commenting, and other "Web 2.0" functionality has earned it considerable national attention. The software behind the site is an open-source project called Drupal. John Blyberg will discuss AADL's decision to use Drupal and their experience with it's implementation. He will also show how Drupal can be both a powerful CMS and agile development tool. He will address the benefits of adopting open-source projects like Drupal and illustrate how it has impacted AADL's development program and facilitated a rapid "to-market" update model. John will also highlight some of AADL's online services that are built on top of Drupal's extensive API.
Mike Robinson from the University of Alaska said that he may be able to present on use of Drupal also as part of this session.
Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment
Joseph Hardin. University of Michigan:
The Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) is an experiment in open source infrastructure for the academy. Sakai supports faculty, students and staff in the main pursuits of the academic life: teaching, research and service. As the research and learning support activities of the library morph with the evolution of the web, increased integration of library capabilities with online support systems for teaching, learning and research are required. These offer opportunities for the library and Sakai communities to work together, and the Sakaibrary Project is one example of this. This talk will survey current work and future directions from a Sakai perspective on such integration efforts.
Automating Metadata Creation with Open Source Software
Patrick Yott. Brown University:
As digital libraries create more complex objects with an eye toward flexibility of use and long term retention and preservation, the production of non-descriptive metadata, such as technical, preservation and administrative metadata becomes more important. For many, the available schema are complex and represent significant challenges to implementation. During this session, we'll investigate using various open-source software solutions to automate many of these complex encoding challenges.
PINES: the Evergreen Open-ILS Program
Georgia’s PINES Program has embarked on an ambitious project to design and implement an open source integrated library system for the use of its 252 public libraries. The Evergreen software development project is creating much interest in the library community. PINES libraries plan to begin using the software in late 2006. PINES staff will discuss various aspects of the Evergreen project.
The group discussed possible extensions of the session to include other projects in the area of open source ILS systems. Jennifer Bowen from the University of Rochestor described a Mellon foundation grant they had received for open source ILS development and agreed to co-present with the PINES project for this session.
Simplifying complex projects using dotproject for project management (Pre-Conference)
Dotproject is a powerful Open Source Project Management Tool. This pre-conference is intended as a training session. An expert in Project Management will teach the basics of how to analyze and organize a major and complicated project, like a full website redesign. The workshop will then cover how to use Dotproject in managing the project. Additionally, the attendees will be given all of the necessary technical information to enable the installation of Dotproject.
3. Discussion of Open Source projects. Call for Developers.
Gwendolyn Reece announced that the Reserves Direct open source project at Emory University was interested in developers for a digital rights management system for Reserves Direct.
Future Activities:
Over the next 6 months we hope to collaborate on the presentations and proposals for the 2007 conference in Washington, DC. We hope to also setup web presence for the Open Source IG using the new content management system.
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