Key Goals 2013-2016

Joint IGeLU/ELUNA Interoperability SIWG


The following have been adopted as the key interoperability goals by the group. We will be collaborating with Ex Libris closely on all of these points.

  • Encourage and support Ex Libris to consume their own APIs.

  • Establishment of a more robust regression testing framework.

  • Establish “open platform using open standards” as an integral design principle.

  • Education of broader community and enhancement of technical documentation.

  • Liaison with other open source projects directly relevant to Ex Libris products.

  • Enable more open and collaborative front-end development.

  • Encourage consistency in development practices between various Ex Libris products.

  • Prevent loss of functionality with new releases of products.

  • Encourage consistent logging of events between two products.

  • Production of API documentation that can be shared with other vendors.

More specifically, for the first two years, the group will focus on:

  • Encourage and support Ex Libris to consume their own APIs.

  • Establish “open platform using open standards” as an integral design principle.

  • Education of broader community and enhancement of technical documentation.

  • Enable more open and collaborative front-end development.

The group will also focus on:

  • Engagement with the user community to highlight the importance of this group’s role and interoperability issues that currently exist in the products.

  • Periodic NERS enhancement and voting cycles for interoperability needs.

  • Clarification of the roadmap of API development for various products.