Hi, On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Lori Ayre wrote:
Personally, I'm trying to find out a bit more about how to get more involved. I'm at the Equinox Conference now and am told by Bob Molyneaux that FulfILLment is due for pilot testing in Ohio in December 2011. He is my source for the above info as well.
The Evergreen Conference, surely. I know of no "Equinox Conference". :) FulfILLment will enable intercirculation between disparate ILSs, and we are keen to have both Evergreen and Koha be among the first ILSs for which FulfILLment connectors are written. We're working on getting more details ready to send out about our vision for it, but certainly I think FulfILLment is a good path to consider to enable resource sharing between Koha and any other ILSs for which a connector can be written. However, it wouldn't necessarily cover everything that a Koha ILL module would need to do, particularly for interacting with brokered ILL services such as those provided by OCLC or ARTEmail/ARTWeb. To answer the broad question: yes, I think FulfILLment could be a way of adding certain forms of ILL support to Koha. However, the details will matter: FulfILLment is still very much under development, i.e., it's not ready to unveil even in a crude form yet, and its primary use case of supporting direct intercirculation between ILSs may not initially cover everything wanted in a Koha ILL module. I'll pass along more details soon, and all of us interested in working on ILL can evaluate what parts it makes sense to implement in FulfILLment and what parts it makes sense to implement directly in Koha. Certainly, if anybody has working ILL code for Koha now or will have it soon, I don't want to forestall using that code in favor of software that, after all, doesn't exist yet. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Data Services Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/