Service Frameworks

In 2005, DLF established a Services Framework Initiative. Its main purpose was to understand and communicate the business processes of libraries in the new world of digital information, and to relate them to emerging services. It was intended to provide the community with a roadmap and a common reference vocabulary around which to organize collective attention to library services in a changing networked environment.

A preliminary report was published in May 2005.

In 2006, Geneva Henry was named as a CLIR Distinguished Fellow to lead this effort forward. That same year, she coauthored an article with Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, titled “A Service Framework for Libraries,” that was published in D-Lib Magazine. She also gave a presentation, “DLF Services Framework Overview,” at the 2007 DigCCurr conference.

Related Resources

Curation Microservices

Developed by the California Digital Library, Microservices approached digital curation by devolving the curation function into a set of independent, but interoperable, services that embody curation values and strategies. The initial set of microservices could be grouped into four categories that provided incrementally increasing levels of preservation assurance and curation value. For more information and documentation, consult the UC3 Curation Wiki.

Kuali OLE

Kuali OLE (pronounced Oh-LAY) intends to deliver an enterprise-ready, community source software package for academic and research libraries and a governance model in which the entire library community can collaborate to own and govern the resulting intellectual property. OLE will enable this through the use of the Kuali RICE middleware and service bus, thus providing libraries a connection to a true services-oriented framework that has connections to applications for finance, student services, research administration, and other areas of information management for higher education. For more on Kuali OLE see http://ole.kuali.org. For more on Kuali Rice see http://rice.kuali.org.