Presented as part of the session "Planning for Future OLE Implementations" at Kuali Days 2015. Includes Penn's implementation timeline and progress as of Nov. 2015.

1. Implementing OLE at Penn
Beth Picknally Camden
Goldstein Director of Information Processing

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Van Pelt Library
University of Pennsylvania

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Penn’s History with OLE
 OLE Planning project
 Kuali OLE Founding Partner
 Standard roles on teams
 Special involvement:
 S&A BA
 Deliver Lead SME

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Pre-Implementation
 OLE Assessment 2014
 Review of 1.5 & 2.0 specs
 Decision to delay to 3.0
 Must-Have Lists

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Penn’s Implementation Teams
 Penn OLE Coordination Team
 Penn OLE Functional Team
 Penn OLE Technical Team

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Penn’s Implementation Tools
 Confluence
 Penn Box
 Jira

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Timeline
Jul/Sep 15
• Servers
• Data load
• Data structures
Oct/Dec 15
• Testing
• Roles/Rules
• Public
interface
testing
Jan/Mar 16
• Training
• Documentation
• Interactions
with local
systems
Apr/Jun 16
• More training
• Production
Data Load
• Begin live
transactions
GO LIVE
July 1

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HTC engagement
 Initial deployment of OLE 1.6
 Environment setup
 Loading of key data entities - Bib, holding, item, vendor, patron …
 Provide operational and logistical consulting

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Server Setup
 Development environment: Setup 1, separate application (OLE) and database (MySQL) servers.
 Test environment: Setup 2, a single server for both application (OLE) and database (MySQL).
Server
Identifier
CPU Memory Storage
A 2 core(4 threads) Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz 32GB RAM Compellent
SAN (200 GB)
B 4 core(8 threads) Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz 24GB RAM Compellent
SAN (200 GB)
C 2 core(4 threads) Intel Xeon E5-4617 @ 2.90GHz 32GB RAM Compellent
SAN (200 GB)

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Data loading
 OLE API
 Documentation
 ETL tools investigation
 Kettle selected

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Data loading – current status
 All bibs. from Voyager production: 5,650,071
 All holdings records, from Voyager production: 7,232,589
 For e-resources, the holdings records have been converted to OLE e-holdings records.
 All item records, from Voyager production: 5,193,115
 Locations, item statuses and item types, from Voyager production

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What’s next
 Technical
 Upgrades to new releases
 1.62.0 (testing now)
 2.03.0
 Assessment of features
 Training
 Target for Go-Live: July 1, 2016

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Questions?
E-mail: bethpc@upenn.edu
Twitter: @librarianbeth