The last session this morning is a Q and A with Ex Libris. I’m not blogging most of it, as I wouldn’t want Ex L to feel inhibited in their discussion, and most of it isn’t terribly interesting to the world at large.

However, one question has come up, that was also raised in the integration session this morning, which is about providing persistent deep links into Ex Libris products.

For example, this might be to deep link to a ‘search’ in the library catalogue, or to deep link to a specific resource within MetaLib.

This cannot be just for Ex Libris products – when we link to a library catalogues web interface to do a search, each vendor has a different link syntax. Perhaps some implementation of SRU?

Standardisation would make work such as the work we have done with Moodle and deep linking into our library systems easier to share, and transferable over different product versions and suppliers.

The last session this morning is a Q and A with Ex Libris. I’m not blogging most of it, as I wouldn’t want Ex L to feel inhibited in their discussion, and most of it isn’t terribly interesting to the world at large.

However, one question has come up, that was also raised in the integration session this morning, which is about providing persistent deep links into Ex Libris products.

For example, this might be to deep link to a ‘search’ in the library catalogue, or to deep link to a specific resource within MetaLib.

This cannot be just for Ex Libris products – when we link to a library catalogues web interface to do a search, each vendor has a different link syntax. Perhaps some implementation of SRU?

Standardisation would make work such as the work we have done with Moodle and deep linking into our library systems easier to share, and transferable over different product versions and suppliers.