On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Jakob Voss <jakob.v...@gbv.de> wrote:
> What are your major complaints with NCIP? >> > > 2. NCIP is rarely implemented in total, so you never know what you get > 2(a) Each implementation is usually of a different subset :-/ One existing protocol that might be serviceable is LDAP. It's an obvious choice for the person information, including the authentication parts, and may already be the primary repository for this information in the existing ILS (so no risky auth bridging). It would be possible to use custom back-end LDAP code to handle circulation functions (it's even possible to do this in javscript via ldapjs). However this would lose the benefits of being able to use an existing LDAP infrastructure, so a pure circulation API would still be cleaner. Simon