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In the afternoon we broke up into 8 groups and brainstormed blue sky elements. Some of the key ideas that came out of the discussion were:

• Decide what OLE is about – being an inventory system or adiscovery on teh web system
• Powerful, automatable staff clients
• Web localization – be a point of need service center, federated discovery
• Distributed data model, self-documenting version control
• Universal workflow ticketing module, dynamically configurable
• Complex reporting, data manipulation, audit trail, rollback
• License tracking and interpretation needs
• ERMS in the ILS – format agnosticism with sophisticated functionality
• Built-in OpenURL resolver
• Need to better track relationships between entities (multiple hierarchies, complex business relationships)
• The ILS as linked data
• Should a new ILS have descriptive data in it?
• Mesh with interoperable industry data standards
• What impact do international users have on system design (Unicode)
• Universal proxy control –
• A re-examination of the core functionality that should be included in the next gen system and what should not be included.
• A service management system that extends beyond the immediate functional needs of the ils