[Koha] Koha, ILL & FulfILLment™

[Lori Ayre]

My preference is to put energy behind one product that will work for
both Koha and Evergreen and as I understand it, FulfILLment is
designed to work with not only those two products but others as well.
I wish we had direct contact with some of the key players or better
yet had a developer with ties to Koha involved in the development
project.

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.

Lori Ayre

2010/4/23 Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no>:
> Hi!
>
> A while back there was some talk about adding ILL-functionality to
> Koha, resulting in this wiki page:
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:inter_library_loan
>
> Then Equinox announced the FulfILLment™ project:
> http://fulfillment-ill.org/
> "FulfILLment will join the basic process of the scalable Evergreen
> library software with "connectors" to other integrated library systems
> creating a virtual union catalog for library systems or networks
> implementing FulfILLment."
>
> So my question is this: Do you think this project makes it unnecessary
> do develop ILL-functionality tightly integrated into Koha?
>
> I can't help notice that the (brief) descriptions on the website seems
> to indicate that FulfILLment™ will only be useful among libraries that
> use FulfILLment™, there is no indication of talking to the world at
> large, using some of the protocols mentioned on our wiki page. This
> may be the result of FulfILLment™ being a sponsored project and the
> spec from the customer not saying anything about talking to the wider
> world. And since this is free software it will of course be possible
> to implement desired functionality once the source is out in the open.
>
> My second question: is this worth waiting for or is there enough
> ILL-momentum in Koha to implement the functionality without waiting
> for FulfILLment™?
>
> Regards,
> Magnus Enger
> (a.k.a. magnus on IRC)
> libriotech.no
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