NCIP Implementers Group Conference Call
Apr. 23, 2007
Attendees:
Voting Members
The facilities for this call were provided by NISO.
Wetzel announced that the ARL conference room is available for the June meeting following ALA. The group confirmed that the dates for that meeting will be June 27-28. Wetzel will send a note to the list asking for a tentative head count and some indication as to whether the meeting will be a full two days or only one and one half.
Zemon reported that she has obtained an editable version of the profile so that defect corrects may be made in the actual document.
Koppel agreed to draft a proposal for an implementer’s agreement regarding assignment of agency ids. This is a follow up to a discussion from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon agreed to publish (possibly as part of the edited draft mentioned above) a proposal introduced by Kevin Stewart at the March 2007 meeting regarding the proper use of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Walsh reported that version 1.01 of the DTD and the schema have been posted to the NCIP website.
Wanner agreed to draft a proposal for a streamlined application template. This is a follow up to a discussion from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon indicated that, while the action items list from the March 2007 meeting focused almost exclusively on changes relative to balloting version 2.0, there may be other tasks that are important and need attention as well.
O’Brien suggested a need to reduce the impact of any “breaking” changes introduced as part of 2.0. He volunteered to investigate methods for transforming 1.x messages into a form that looks more like 2.0. Bodfish asked if this would be some kind of program to automate the process, and O’Brien indicated a preference towards XSL. O’Brien emphasized that all compatibility issues might not be solvable with this approach. Bodfish suggested that the process should provide an error if presented with a situation it cannot handle. Zemon noted that such an effort might lessen the negative feedback from a new version that is not backwards compatible, and Jackson indicated that it would help identify the potential problem areas.
Walsh and Jensen each reported that no progress had been made on their respective action items from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon asked for any additional discussion items, and none were put forward.
Walsh asked whether a May call would be necessary. Koppel and O’Brien indicated a preference for having a call. Wetzel volunteered NISO to again host the call using the same access information as was used for this one. The group agreed to schedule the call for May 21, 2007, at 1 pm Eastern / 12 pm Central / 11 am Mountain / and 10 am Pacific.
Voting Members
- Auto-Graphics – Mary Jackson
- EnvisionWare – Rob Walsh (Maintenance Agency)
- ExLibris – Ted Koppel, Mike Dicus
- Innovative Interfaces – Lynne Branche Brown
- OCLC – Tony O’Brien
o OCLC-Pica – John Bodfish
- Overdrive – Russ Fuller
- Polaris Library Systems – Candy Zemon (Chair)
- SirsiDynix – Gail Wanner, Brent Jensen
- NISO – Karen Wetzel
The facilities for this call were provided by NISO.
Wetzel announced that the ARL conference room is available for the June meeting following ALA. The group confirmed that the dates for that meeting will be June 27-28. Wetzel will send a note to the list asking for a tentative head count and some indication as to whether the meeting will be a full two days or only one and one half.
Zemon reported that she has obtained an editable version of the profile so that defect corrects may be made in the actual document.
Koppel agreed to draft a proposal for an implementer’s agreement regarding assignment of agency ids. This is a follow up to a discussion from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon agreed to publish (possibly as part of the edited draft mentioned above) a proposal introduced by Kevin Stewart at the March 2007 meeting regarding the proper use of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Walsh reported that version 1.01 of the DTD and the schema have been posted to the NCIP website.
Wanner agreed to draft a proposal for a streamlined application template. This is a follow up to a discussion from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon indicated that, while the action items list from the March 2007 meeting focused almost exclusively on changes relative to balloting version 2.0, there may be other tasks that are important and need attention as well.
O’Brien suggested a need to reduce the impact of any “breaking” changes introduced as part of 2.0. He volunteered to investigate methods for transforming 1.x messages into a form that looks more like 2.0. Bodfish asked if this would be some kind of program to automate the process, and O’Brien indicated a preference towards XSL. O’Brien emphasized that all compatibility issues might not be solvable with this approach. Bodfish suggested that the process should provide an error if presented with a situation it cannot handle. Zemon noted that such an effort might lessen the negative feedback from a new version that is not backwards compatible, and Jackson indicated that it would help identify the potential problem areas.
Walsh and Jensen each reported that no progress had been made on their respective action items from the March 2007 meeting.
Zemon asked for any additional discussion items, and none were put forward.
Walsh asked whether a May call would be necessary. Koppel and O’Brien indicated a preference for having a call. Wetzel volunteered NISO to again host the call using the same access information as was used for this one. The group agreed to schedule the call for May 21, 2007, at 1 pm Eastern / 12 pm Central / 11 am Mountain / and 10 am Pacific.
