At this time the improvements in Evergreen are mostly driven by demand from
existing users with the ability to code or pay for the improvements they want.
And certainly that's good, but is it enough? Perhaps we need to think about a
strategic plan for Evergreen development to make it the best library system
available and attractive to potential users. Especially large public libraries,
and academic libraries both large and small.
Here's some ideas for discussion.
-Improve the image and reputation of Evergreen with better QA and packaging of
complete releases with comprehensive upgrade scripts and documentation (see my
Latest openILS posting)
-NCIP will save ILL staff 30-40% of their time interacting with their regional
resource sharing gateway, it's being tested and beginning to be used, but let's
include it in the Evergreen releases!
-OLE & Koha are there ways to cooperate with them? Can the library community
really support 3 different Open Source library systems?
-Develop an OPAC that can be used as a common interface to Web Scale Discovery
Systems (PRIMO EDS, Summon) using the APIs
-Can we create virtual Union catalogs with other Evergreens using API?
-Add a Patron load API which is - critical for Academic libraries
-Course Reserves, E-Reserves access control - critical for Academic libraries
-RDA Issues
-How will Evergreen compete with or evolve into a next gen (cloud-based?)
system like Intota, ALMA and OLE, Sierra, OCLC etc.?
-Serials & Acq & the OLE Open KnowledgeBase how can we incorporate ERM and
OpenURL functionality INTO the Evergreen of the future for format-independent
selection, acquisition, licensing and access control.
-Ability to accept OpenURL ILL or borrowing requests
-Linked data models of the future
-Authorities - after we get the string matching version working correctly
let's look at using linked data for this.
-Resource delivery outside my Evergreen instance & ILL - Where is FulfILLment
and how should it integrate with Evergreen?'
I've never understood why it is a "separate" project. If it is
open source why isn't it being discussed in the Evergreen user community?
ISO ILL
Comments appreciated
Stephen F. Elfstrand
Member Evergreen Oversight Board
PALS Executive Director
ML3022
Mn. St. Univ. - Mankato
Mankato MN 56001
507.389.2000
http://www.mnpals.org/
