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1 February 2007
Union catalogues are cool again, and you can have one too
Posted by Paul Miller at February 1, 2007 06:37 PM
I recently reflected on current interest in the humble - and much maligned - union catalogue. To demonstrate some of the ways in which the Talis Platform can power current and future union catalogues of various types, why not set aside an hour in your calendar to join your peers in a Talis-hosted webinar on the topic?
Building Union Catalogues with the Talis Platform
Thursday 22 February, 1500GMT - 1600GMT [and other times]
The business model, attitude and technology behind the Talis Platform fundamentally shift the proposition around the construction, maintenance and use of union catalogue-type applications, from the formal groupings prevalent today through to a new breed of ad hoc unions capable of cheaply, rapidly and sustainably meeting the needs of non-traditional institutional groupings or even individuals.
- Freely shared - yet adequately protected - bibliographic or holdings data
- Freely exposed basic Directory information about a library and its capabilities
- Open, extensible and web-strength apis.
Put them together to push library information in front of users of Amazon and LibraryThing. Put them together to raise the profile of your holdings in Google Scholar. Put them together to build an 'application' such as Project Cenote in a matter of days. Put them together to power your existing union catalogue more scalably, affordably and extensibly than ever before. Put them together to build a union catalogue you've never been able to afford or justify before, or painlessly build several and meet the varied needs of your different audiences.
Join Talis' Ian Davis, Paul Miller, Rob Styles and Richard Wallis along with your peers for an exploration of that which is possible today, and an opportunity to discuss the possibilities.
To register for this free webinar, just email my colleague Richard Wallis here at Talis. All you need to participate is an hour in your diary, a computer capable of running the WebEx client, and a telephone with which to dial (free) in to the conversation. For the keen or the uncertain, see this guide [PDF] to the WebEx system as used by Talis.
I look forward to sharing some of our ideas with you on the call, and to hearing your views before, during, and after.
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