- From: Mark Needleman - DRA <mneedlem@dra.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:45:17 -0600 (CST)
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Sandy Westall of Innovative Interfaces has just sent a correction as to the location of the NCIP Implementers meeting at ALA Midwinter. As noted in the revised announcement below, it will be held at the Renaissance Washington Hotel, Meeting Room 4 same time and date: Monday, Jan 15, 2-4 pm Barbara ______________________ Barbara Shuh Library Network Specialist National Library of Canada Phone: (819) 994-6969 Fax: (819) 994-6835 E-mail: barbara.shuh@nlc-bnc.ca ALA SESSION FOR VENDORS AND CONSORTIA INTERESTED IN TESTING THE DRAFT NISO CIRCULATION INTERCHANGE PROTOCOL Library systems vendors and other potential implementers of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol Standard (NCIP) interested in testing the draft standard, are invited to attend a working meeting at ALA Midwinter on Monday, January 15, 2001 from 2-4pm (NOT in the Innovative Interfaces Suite in the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC., but ) in the Renaissance Washington Hotel, Meeting Room 4. The purpose of the meeting is to introduce vendors and implementers to the standard and prepare for trial implementations to take place in 2001 to ensure that the protocol meets the needs of the information community. Participants in the January 15 meeting will receive copies of the draft standard and the cross-application profile. Committee members will give a walkthrough of the standard, and address practical implementation questions including encoding and transport, and answer questions. This working meeting will also provide a forum for vendors to meet to discuss possible collaborations for interoperability testing of the protocol. NISO strongly urges vendors and organizations involved in direct consortial borrowing, self-service circulation and interlibrary loan to consider coming forward to test parts of the protocol. "The final success of any standard depends on widespread, rigorous testing at an interim stage," noted Pat Stevens, chair of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (CIP) Committee.. "Early implementers will have an opportunity to shape the final version of the standard and will help NISO and the information marketplace in bringing this much-needed protocol to completion and adoption." The protocol facilitates the interchange of circulation information between different circulation applications, and between circulation and interlibrary loan applications. Pat Stevens points out that "this new protocol will enable libraries running different integrated library systems to interoperate and share their circulation information. Using the protocol, library users will be able to borrow across library systems and enjoy seamless interlibrary loan, and potentially access a wider array of resources." The draft standard for trial use will be submitted to NISO in mid-December 2000 and will be available on the NISO website at: http://www.niso.org To register for the meeting contact Pat Stevens (emailstevens@oclc.org) Pat Stevens Director, Product Planning and Strategy OCLC email: pat_stevens@oclc.org phone: (301) 774-1241 (MD) (800) 848-5878 (OH) fax: 614) 718-7115 --- You are currently subscribed to naildd-protocol-l as: [mneedlem@dra.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-naildd-protocol-l-6862D@lyris.pigasus.com You can search the list archives, change your email address, temporarily go on vacation, etc., on the web at http://lyris.pigasus.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=naildd-protocol-l
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