We’re also looking to intergrate III with Luminis. We’re looking at using the mylibrary open source software to do so, but we’re in the early stages. Lehigh University is ahead of the curve on this and we’ve talked to and been inspired by them.

The theory is to set up mylibrary as a stand alone application to extract info from the catalog, then set up a tab in the portal which renders the mylibrary output. But, we’re not much past the theory stage here.

Tom
Media Services Librarian
Connelly Library
La Salle University

As a Pipeline/Luminis campus, you might also look at what’s going at Luminis Developer’s Network.
 

Sungard now has a generic connector framework for their Pipeline product that will allow single sign-on integration with resources that can’t be modified to do CPIP handshaking. I haven’t looked at it seriously yet, but there’s some discussion at LDN that might help.
 

In answer to what you may need to purchase, it depends on what service you want to offer. The most used feature of our integration at Plymouth is the proxied access to off-campus databases. We’re using the WAM proxy, but I’ve looked at EZProxy and it could be integrated using some of the same tricks.
 

One caution that I can offer is that the tricks I’m using to single sign-on into our Innovative products are not supported by any of our vendors. They’ve worked well for us, but that “unsupported” factor keeps me looking for better or better supported solutions.
 

III said a lot about their new single sign-on product at the 2005 IUG in San Fran, but I’m not clear on when it will be available. It also appears that it will require a second server — a second box.
 

Perhaps you can talk about what services you’d like to integrate?
 

We are thinking of integrating III (some features of MyMillenium) into our Sungard SCT’s luminis portal. I am wondering, anyone out there done or in the process of doing this. Is so, what is the best place to start? Do we need to purchase WAM to do this or are there other options to achieve the same (proxy servers, scripts.. etc)? Any knowledge and expertise you share is appreciated.

Vishwam
Web Developer
Wright State University Libraries