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The Libraries IT department is developing a hybrid approach, one that mixes local development with vended content to allow OSU Libraries to create their own discovery experience. It will be working with a vendor to provide discovery to our vended content via an API (Application Programming Interface), but for local content (all content controlled by the Libraries), developing local indexing and a custom Platform. (Read this overview of Library as Platform, if you like.) Our hope is to utilize a process of frequent refinement throughout summer 2017, so that we can arrive at a tool that will simplify discovery for all users, but primarily lower barriers for our undergraduate populations. We would like to begin deprecating WorldCat Local by sometime in 2018.
Concurrent Work Streams
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