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[Ann West <>]

An upcoming discussion OLE, Open Library Environment, will occur on the US 
Trust Federations call on Wednesday Feb 16 at 4:00 pm ET. 

All are welcome and details are included below.

Best,
Ann

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From: "George Laskaris" 
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Cc: "Grace Agnew" 
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:22:54 PM
Subject: [USFeds] March 16th Federated IdM Call Reminder

As a reminder, our next US Federations call will take place on Wednesday 
February 16th at 4:00 PM ET and will feature Grace Agnew, Associate 
University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers University. 

Grace will be describing efforts underway on project OLE (Open Library 
Environment) which is a Mellon Foundation sponsored initiative now under the 
auspices of the Kuali Foundation. The OLE project is developing a 
community-source, enterprise level software that will replace current 
integrated library systems (ILS) as well as several ancillary systems 
necessary today to manage scholarly content. 

As a regional cloud application the project has the potential of replacing 
expensive proprietary systems of many libraries and Federated Identity 
management will be a central component of the system, enabling strong 
individualization of collections to be maintained and access to resources 
provided based on the identity and role of the user. The New Jersey’s 
implementation of OLE will leverage the identity management work of the 
individual institutions as well as NJTrust, New Jersey’s Identity management 
trust federation. 

Please join us to hear more about developments of the exciting initiative. 
The call in number is 1-877-944-2300, access code 99205#. We look forward to 
speaking with you then. 

Regards, 

-George Laskaris & Suresh Balakrishnan 

-- 
Ann West, Sr. Program Manager 
Internet2/InCommon/Michigan Tech 

 

 
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