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Developers meet developers, people meet people

December 14, 2008January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterGeneral

Last month I was in the opportunity to participate in the first official Ex Libris “Developers meet developers” meeting in Jerusalem, November 12-13, 2008. The meeting was dedicated to the new Open Platform strategy that Ex Libris has adopted. I already mentioned this development in my post How open are open systems?. Together with one of the other attendees, Mark Dehmlow, of Notre Dame University Library, I wrote a short report on this meeting in […]

How open are open systems?

October 12, 2008January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary

In my post “LING – Library integration next generation” I mentioned Marshall Breedings presentation at TICER “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation”.Besides “Moving toward new generation of library automation” one of his other two topics was “A Mandate for Openness”, about Open Source, Open Systems, Open Content.Marshall Breeding distinguishes five types of Open Systems, three of which in my view are the most important: Closed Systems: black boxes, only accessible via the user interfaces […]