OLE Release Documentation - for Milestone 0.3

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Last updated: Jun 04, 2012
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0.3 Release Documentation

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Introduction

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Development of the OLE application began in 2010, and the design phase is scheduled to continue through 2012, with ongoing development and releases thereafter. The OLE Roadmap and Implementation Schedule has more information about the release plans and is updated as needed to reflect changes as they occur.

OLE 0.3 is the demonstration release of the software. OLE 0.3 is a milestone release, intended to showcase progress on system design and technology infrastructure to support future document and library formats, but with a focus on selection and acquisitions for now. It is not intended to be a complete, functional system yet.

Please refer to the documentation below for more information.

For more about the drivers manual and a link to the demo, see OLE 0.3 User Documentation.

Roadmap Release Narrative

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OLE 0.3 Narrative Overview

The 0.3 Narrative Overview contains release documentation from Kuali Days 2011. It includes:

  1. Overview of user stories/ translations of KFS
  2. Acquisition processes through OLE
  3. OLE's Document Store for bibliographic records
  4. e-Documents for workflow searches
  5. KFS Translation goals

OLE Document Store

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The OLE technical architecture includes a Document Store (Docstore) for the management of library resource descriptions – including bibliographic and localized item descriptions (for OLE 0.3) and other document types in future releases. Docstore technology allows for the storage of multiple formats for both standardized, structured content, e.g., MARCXML and Dublin Core, and unstructured content, e.g., tables of content, licenses in Word or PDF. In the future, the addition of new document types will only require re-configuration of the Docstore rather than the restructuring of a relational database structure.

The Docstore links documents (both within and across document types) according to pre-defined business rules, and Solr/Lucene allows for indexing and retrieval across multiple document types/formats. Docstore also provides for version control, and OLE 0.3 allows users to either edit documents with a proof-of-concept editor or checkout documents for editing. Future releases will support document check-in as well as a full range of audit controls.

In OLE 0.3, the Docstore is prepopulated with bibliographic data in MARC and Dublin Core formats and a few Item descriptions in a legacy system format.
As part of the acquisitions lifecycle, bibliographic and localized resource descriptions are either ingested from selections made on vendor web sites and linked to financial eDocs or are created from scratch using an editor that is available via financial eDoc data entry screens.

For more information found on the wiki, see:

OLE and Kuali

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OLE and KFS; Rice

OLE makes use of existing Kuali software products to support certain functionality, particularly involving permissions, roles and workflows. See the link above for information about:

  1. OLE and KFS
  2. OLE and Rice
    1. KIM
    2. KEW

OLE Project Development

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OLE Project Development - Retire

The developers of OLE store and maintain their documentation through the Project Development page.

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