Library Platform News - Launched
At Talis we have been talking about the Talis Platform for sometime now.
We launched Talis Cenote, an on-line demonstration of what is possible when building light-weight applications atop of powerful Platform Services. We published API documentation in the Talis Developer Network. I demonstrated how easy it is to use the Platform APIs at Code4lib 2007. Rob Styles underlined this by showing how to build a Union Catalogue in 20 minutes. We released the Cenote source code so that you could see for yourself how easy it was to build.
Now the Talis Library Platform is establishing itself as the Platform to underpin library applications, and a community of users and developers is forming around its use. Over the coming months there will many announcements and events for which the odd blog post will not do justice.
To bring these together to share with you, along with other items of interest, we have launched a monthly newsletter - The Talis Library Platform News. The first issue has just been published. Register to be notified of each month’s issue here, then go on to read the first issue.
Some of the regular and one-off features in the first issue of this online newsletter include:
- Featured Developer
Ross Singer, Application Developer at Georgia Tech University Library, relates his experiences of being one of the first to work with the Talis Platform APIs. - Building a Union - A coffee time exercise?
Can constructing a user interface to search the aggregated union of several library’s catalogues really be that simple? - Yes it can - Richard Wallis explains how. - Talis Source - Openness and Sharing in action
An established service, Talis Source is demonstrating the massive benefits of building on a community of libraries and the open sharing of data. - What is the Talis Platform?
An overview of the new technology environment underpinning the ecosystem that is at the core of the Talis Library Network. Ian Davis; Talis CTO explains the semantic technologies driving the Talis Platform.
Other regulars include Podcast of the Month, and Worth Watching - reviews of Video and Podcasting highlights from Talis.
So register and read the first issue - all suggestions for future articles will be gratefully received.
