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Agenda slide

10.00 - 10.30 Arrival and coffee.

10.30 - 10.45 Swansea University – Introduction & Welcome

10.45 – 11.45 PTFS - Overview Open Source / Ken Chad - Open Source and The

New Networked Information Economy

11.45 - 12.30 Swansea University / SWWHEP - VuFind and Resource discovery

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.45 PTFS Open Source demo

14.45 - 15.00 Swansea University – Open RFID in Libraries Specification (ORILS)

15.00 - 15.30 Q&A's & Tea

15.30 Close.

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The Open RFID In Libraries Specification (ORILS)

•What is it?

•Why do it?

•What can I do with it? •http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?

Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/

0721020604.html

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What is it?

•A full specification for RFID

procurement in Libraries

•Community developed

•Community supported

•Based on Librarians own

experiences

•Regularly updated

•Free to download /use /

amend / copy

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Why Do It?

•Increasing popularity of RFID

technology

•..yet lacking the equivalent of UKCS

•.. re-inventing the wheel!

•Divided community = weak

development direction

•Interoperability – ISO 28560

approaches!

•RFID 2.0 / LMS integration issues

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/square_bike_wheel.jpg

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What Can I Do With It?

• Procurement / Scoping

• Use ‘as is’

•.. or modify to suit

•..to encourage new

developments

• Join the community –

advice / discussion

• Other useful

documentation

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ORILS

http://groups.google.com/group/ORILS/web

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Thank You

Mark Hughes,

Head of Collections,

Library & Information Services,

Swansea University

Tel: 01792 295026

m.j.hughes@swansea.ac.uk

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