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Kuali OLE

Kuali OLE. Reflections on our first year of collaborative software development. Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University Molly Tamarkin, Duke University Mike Winkler, University of Pennsylvania. outline. What is Kuali O pen L ibrary E nvironment? Year one deliverables

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Kuali OLE

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  1. Kuali OLE Reflections on our first year of collaborative software development Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University Molly Tamarkin, Duke University Mike Winkler, University of Pennsylvania

  2. outline • What is Kuali Open Library Environment? • Year one deliverables • Lessons from our first year • Year two roadmap and deliverables • A look at our architecture • First code release, project strategies, joining us

  3. Kuali ole is part of the Kuali foundation • Open source software by higher education, for higher education • Community source development approach • Examples are Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus, Kuali Mobility, Kuali Ready • See kuali.org

  4. How The foundation works • Software: • No licensing fees • Non-proprietary code • Sustainability through partner contributions • Commercial partners provide market for services and support • Community approach: • Golden rule: those who bring the gold make the rules • Partners tender resources to a project and direct development • Each project has its own governance • Collaboration among like-minded institutions

  5. Kuali OLE founding partners

  6. OLE goals & principles • Community-source library management system • Next-gen technology environment • Re-examine library business operations • Break away from print-based workflows • Reflect the changing nature of library materials and new approaches to scholarly work • Integrate with enterprise-level systems

  7. Year 1 deliverablesJuly 2010—June 2011 • Develop and Execute Software Development Contract • HTC Global Services-Detroit, MI started with 4 staff – now 16+ - will move toward 22 in next quarter • Hire and Engage Kuali OLE Core Team • 7 member team based at Indiana University; just hired 2 more Business Analysts • Create Governance Structure • Formed Project Board, Functional Council, Technical Council

  8. Year 1 deliverablesJuly 2010—June 2011 • Formed teams led by FC members • Deliver, Select & Acquire, Describe & Manage, Workflows, Data Model, Communications, and User Stories • Created agile framework and timeline • Developed User Story Process • Demo’ed prototype Kuali OLE 0.2 at Spring 2011 CNI meeting

  9. QuestionsKuali foundation Kuali OLE goals year one deliverables

  10. Lessons from year one • There is no “set it and forget it” • Governance structure • Team management • Meeting management • Project communications • Product does not trump process • Without adjusting process and governance, you will not improve product capacity

  11. lessons from year one • Extensive reliance on “volunteer” input requires that we make careful use of volunteer time • Meetings need clear rationales for existence • Outcomes need to be clear • Failures to meet objectives should lead to process adjustment • Listen to staff concerns • Agendas need to be community-driven • Decide; act; assess; adjust; repeat

  12. Governance changes • Created process to rotate leadership of functional council • Created vice-chair role • Created role of board liaison • Disbanded technical council and shifted membership to specific spec areas

  13. Process changes • From FC-led themed teams • Deliver, Select & Acquire, Describe & Manage, Workflows, Data Model, Communications, and User Stories • To FC-led Tiger Teams • Teams comprised of core team rep, FC rep, and TC rep. • Designed to address spec writing bottleneck • Active Tiger teams are: Scope & Roadmap; Select & Acquire; Describe; Deliver; Manage Entity Relationship; Systems Integration • Still have Communications and User Stories teams • Created more face-to-face workshops designed for focused spec writing efforts

  14. Roadmap Basics includes Maps to Jira Tasks • Where we’re going • How we’ll get there • Functional priorities • “straight line process” • Infrastructure to build • Minimal deliverables • Areas to research

  15. Roadmaps: past & Present Year one 7/10-6/11 Year two 7/11-6/12 Kuali Rice™ for workflow Support multiple descriptive metadata formats Complete Select & Acquire, Deliver, Describe, and begin creating implementation tools Code release in November and April • Winnowing user stories to 2000 • Architectural development • Adapting KFS for Select & Acquire • Adopt Apache Jackrabbit ™ for metadata

  16. Future roadmap • Full release mid-year two in December 2012 • Last half of year two will be tweaking, documentation, and implementation plans • Year three will focus on: • Implementation • Documentation • Migration • Commercial partnerships

  17. Questionslessons learnedgovernance & process changes Roadmaps

  18. Interpreting our goals architecturally • Kuali OLE is a service-oriented toolbox for enterprise library management • Financial management & budgeting that can interoperate with the ERP • Workflow & rules engine to manage business process • ETL tools & data integration pathways to ease integration of data into OLE • Standard interfaces to OLE data & functions to enable easy and robust integration • Service bus and service registry to document & manage the OLE API

  19. Kuali ole architecture • Transactional System based upon Kuali Financials • Core system driven by Java-based Kuali Rice • Database agnostic (developed on Oracle) • Bibliographic data accessed using SOLR/Lucene indexing • Jackrabbit • Development environment on Amazon EC Cloud

  20. Tiered data storage Semantic Relationships (Collections, tagging, FRBR) Relational Data (Fund, status, administrative) Descriptive Data (MARCXML, EAD, VRA, ERMI, etc) Relational Repository Document Index Document Repository Semantic Repository Key Data Store Kuali OLE Kuali Rice Document Broker Semantic Broker SQL Broker Metrics 3rd Parties Messaging & Queues (Kuali Enterprise Service Bus) Services Repository Kuali Identity Mgmt (KIM) Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW) Kuali Enterprise Notification (KEN) Kuali Financial System (KFS) 3rd Party Interfaces

  21. Release 0.3 • Cloud instance and downloadable code • Provides flexible document store • Provides faced searching for internal management (public interface-neutral) • Supports basic material selection and acquisition • http://kuali.org/test-drives

  22. Kuali OLE in Sum • Innovative Technologies • Document store • Flexible workflows • More than building software: deep project collaboration • Members have direct representation and influence • We are open and transparent • Transforming research libraries • Ownership of workflow lets us focus our staff • Permits strategic integration with new partners – i.e. discovery

  23. Wait, there’s more • Workflow over module-based system • Layered functionality ready for localization • Breaks down our metadata silos • Combines them under integrated, flexible management • Strength through community • Open for review • Shared risk and mitigating risk through partnership • Diversity of views, experience, needs

  24. Engaging with us Joining the partnership Follow us @kualiole on twitter Blog: http://kualiole.tumblr.com Project site: http://kuali.org/OLE • Let’s talk (Robert at rhmcdona@indiana.edu) • Not too late to join year three development • Interested in consortial and cloud approaches

  25. Questionsarchitecturereleases & technologiespartnerships

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