Marshall Breeding at VALA2010

Marshall covered a lot of ground. Some of the bits that stood out for me were:

• The Abby video that introduced VALA2010 could have replaced his presentation
• Web 2.0 is old hat, it should be part of the core of our apps not an add on
• We can't be device nazis - and discriminate against users with various devices (iPhones, iPads et al)
• Kuali OLE, Ex Libris URM, WorldCat cloud LMS are the revolutionaries in LMS's (as opposed to the evolutionaries
• Do you want to go open source if it's just replicating the functionality you have in your current system?
• APIs as an alternative to opening up proprietary systems
• Open Source tend to have more limited APIs than the proprietary ones
• Most library web sites are a list of links to disparate resources (as I say all the time but sometimes I wonder if anyone listens)
• Marshall's ideal looks a little like Summon...
• Deep indexing (particularly of book materials - Hathi Trust
• Mobile is coming, but have a unified approach there too
• Cloud computing is inevitable and efficient
• Economic restraint is not an excuse for slowing tech innovation, it's a reason to accelerate it
• Outlook for next five years
  
• most still using evolved systems
• more next gen LMS
• Resource discovery matures
• Mobile mainstreaming
  
• Transition from local to cloud

In response to a question from the floor said that the problem for Linked Data is the business case for IP owners to make content Linked Data (by definition freely accessible)