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This is where you can find our official recommendation document. (Previously, this page had draft recommendations; hence the name of this page.)
The official recommendation of the group, released June 2008, is now available here. It will also be posted on the Digital Library Federation website, at diglib.org
You can download it in PDF or Microsoft Word formats.
This draft has been revised in response to the Berkeley Accord and comments and discussions in various forums. In this draft, we give detailed specifications of functions and bindings for the Berkeley Accord functions (known as the "Basic Discovery Interfaces" or "Level 1" interoperability profile), and also give recommendations (at somewhat less detail) for other functions representing higher levels of interoperability.
We encourage interested parties to build on, refine, and implement these recommendations.
If you'd like to see some of our older work in progress, sections of the recommendation we prepared are available on Wiki pages below. (But keep in mind that these are out of date compared to the document above.)
Sections:
- Introduction: The problem, and what we were charged to do
- How we're doing it
- Summary of survey results
- Functions and bindings:
- [Classes of functions] (based in part on earlier notes on Core vs. expanded functions)
- Data aggregation (notes here)
- Real-time search(notes here)
- Patron Functionality (notes for Delivery and Patron information)
- OPAC embed and escape (notes here)
Client AuthenticationClient AuthenticationClient authentication
- Conclusions, and follow-on recommendations
- Glossary
