Kuali OLE

The General Session on Tuesday morning at Kuali Days 2011. 851 in attendance!

   Today in the Pre-Conference session “Using Kuali Infrastructure and Tools,” Farooq Sadiq, (Kuali Foundation Information Technologist), Shem Patterson (Kuali Support Specialist), and Travis Schneeberger (Kuali Rice Developer) discussed and ... [More] demonstrated tools and services used by the Kuali community: Kuali Information System (KIS), Skype, Google Docs, Adobe Connect, and of particular interest Jira, Confluence, and Fisheye with Crucible.  With Fisheye, software that tracks the history of the development of software, we can get a graphical representation of how busy the Kuali OLE development team has been and how much work has been done relative to other Kuali projects!    Of course this is not apples to apples, but it can lend some perspective for those of us who are excited about the project and want to know more.    Later I met with Travis Schneeberger. He shared a fascinating web site with me. Ohloh.net is a free, public directory of open source software projects. With it we can look the development history of other open source projects. Again, comparing different products simply by the number of lines of code or number of commits is not a reliable test of quality, but it can shed some light on how much work has been done already on our project. Soon we hope to have Kuali OLE added to Ohloh.net. David NoeRollins College [Less]

Most people know that Kuali OLE uses a community source development model, but why? What are some of the benefits and differences, compared to traditional, closed-source products? ●      The product better meets the needs of users because it is ... [More] developed by those very same users. The product is driven by the functional needs of the users and the line between user and developer is short and clear, with no third party to potentially distort needs or solutions. ●      Development and infrastructure is in the hands of the users, so new needs can be addressed rapidly and the product can evolve in a more dynamic, organic way.  ●      Community source allows for contributions from both large universities and small colleges - this structure allows ideas and perspectives to be heard and included when they might otherwise not be. ●      Community source allows for a high degree of collaboration among partners - the listening, introspection, objectivity and thoughtful communication required facilitates a more effective process and, ultimately, a better product. ●      While the development of Kuali OLE is based on a community source model, in which efforts rely more explicitly on defined roles, responsibilities, and funded commitments by community members than some open source development models, the licensing is open source, meaning that anyone (partner institution or not) can use the software free of any licensing fees. [Less]

Kuali OLE Draft Roadmap (p. 1) Kuali OLE Draft Roadmap (p. 2) Kuali OLE Draft Roadmap (p. 3) Welcome to the Kuali OLE blog! With this new blog from the Kuali Open Library Environment project and its partner libraries, we hope to engage with the ... [More] library and higher education communities.    We will share progress on the software and also talk about our community source approach to software developments.    Upcoming posts will include news and announcements, background information, progress reports, technical updates and reports from the partner libraries.   Please feel free to comment and become part of the dialog.  As an introduction of things to come, we would like to share the Kuali OLE draft roadmap.  This roadmap sketches out the expected features in releases projected for the next year—version 0.3 in November; version 0.6 in March 2012; and version 1.0 in July 2012.    [Less]

Our partners make it happen.

A community of partners will deliver an enterprise-ready, community source software package to manage and provide access not only to items in their collections but also to licensed and local digital content. Kuali OLE (pronounced oh-LAY, for Open ... [More] Library Environment) features a governance model in which the entire library community can collaborate to own the resulting intellectual property. Overview ·         Built, owned, governed by the academic and research library community ·         Supports the wide range of resources and formats of scholarly information ·         Interoperates & integrates with other enterprise and network-based systems ·         Supports federation across projects, partners, consortia, and institutions ·         Provides workflow design & management capabilities ·         Provides information management capabilities to non-library efforts  Project Funding The Kuali OLE Project is made possible by generous contributions of the Kuali OLE Founding Partners. A $2.38 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announced in January 2010, supports the initial two-year development cycle of the Kuali OLE Project (2010-2012). Kuali OLE also intends to attract a thriving marketplace of independent vendors to deliver services and support to its active community. [Less]