Opening the ILS for Discovery: The Digital Library Federation’s ILS-Discovery Interface recommendations

but specific description of service or behavior, not tied to any particular technology • Example: • “Return all bibliographic records, with their ids, added to or changed in the ILS since a specified date, in a specified format” • Specified: Inputs, outputs, side effects, guarantees, exceptional cases • We also request some general behaviors • E.g. “Output structured bibliographic data in a configurable pipeline for transforming to display” • Functional areas of interest: • Data aggregation (harvesting) • Real-time search and queries • Patron information and services • OPAC interaction