Talis Group

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Talis Group Ltd.
Type Private
Founded 1969
Headquarters Solihull, England
Key people Dave Errington, CEO

Justin Leavesley, CSO
Ian Davis, CTO
Charles Flint, Non-Executive Chairman

Dr Peter Knight, Non-Executive Director
Industry Computer software
Employees ~90 world-wide (Mar 2008)
Website www.talis.com
For other uses, see Talis (disambiguation).

Talis Group Ltd. is a software company based in Solihull near Birmingham, England that develops a Semantic Web application platform and a suite of applications for the education, research and library sectors. In 2005 Talis was voted one of the top ICT Employers in the United Kingdom. [1]

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[edit] History

In 1969 a number of libraries founded a small co-operative project, based in Birmingham to provide services that would help the libraries become more efficient. The project was known as the Birmingham Libraries Cooperative Mechanisation Project, or BLCMP. At this time the concept of automation was so new that the term mechanisation was often used in its place.

BLCMP built a co-operative catalogue of bibliographic data at the start of its work, a database that now contains many millions of records. BLCMP moved into using microfiche and later IBM mainframes with dedicated terminals at libraries in the mid-seventies and was one of the first library automation vendors to provide a GUI on top of Microsoft Windows to provide a better interface for end-users. The Integrated Library System was first called Talis. Talis became the name of the company during re-structuring[2] and the ILS became known as Alto. In 1995 Talis was the first library systems vendor to produce a web enabled public access catalogue.

Much of Talis' work now focusses on the transition of information to the web, specifically the Semantic Web and Talis have lead much of the debate about how Web 2.0 attitudes affect traditional libraries [3]

[edit] See also

  • Web 3.0 & Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
  • Semantic Web
  • Stubley, P. (1988). BLCMP: a guide for librarians and systems managers. Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower. ISBN 9780566055126
  • Birmingham, Buckle, D., & BLCMP. (1974). Birmingham libraries co-operative mechanisation project: research and development programme, January 1969 to March 1975 : a background paper.
  • Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project, & Buckle, D. G. R. (1976). Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project final report. Birmingham: BLCMP.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Computing Careers. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
  2. ^ "BLCMP To Become Talis Information Ltd." (1999). Library Systems 19 (1): 4. ISSN 0277-0288. OCLC 94137446. 
  3. ^ Miller, Paul (October 2005). "Web 2.0: Building the New Library". Ariadne (19). 

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