Talis Base 2.0: Building on the Legacy of Cooperation

Tails Base has been a flagship service for Talis for many years. As a truly cooperative catalogue record service, it has provided the cataloguing community with a shared, quality resource for over thirty years.

The premise has always been simple. Individual libraries contribute their records to enable reuse, thereby lowering the cost for all by avoiding duplication of effort. For a little cost, all members of the Talis community have reaped big rewards.

Talis sees this ethos of collaboration as key to the future of library services. Thus, when we embarked on a substantial technology refresh of the Talis Base service, our ideas remained focussed on this type of cooperative endeavour.

Talis Base 2.0 is the result. It represents a significant upgrade to the service for Talis customers.

In addition, Talis Base 2.0 now makes even more datasets available than before and preexisting datasets are now available in MARC21.

Most excitingly, though, Talis has created an entirely new architecture underpinning Talis Base 2.0, which is ensuring that the value of this service can be realised for a much wider audience. A shared platform, which supports Talis Base 2.0, enables more content to be sourced from more content providers and redistributed to more libraries.

This white paper introduces Talis Base 2.0.

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