1. Official Media Partner

2. The Evolution of Reading List
Integrations
Richard Tattersall
Technical Consultant

3. Day-to-day Integrations

4. How we already integrate…

5. User Permissions

6. “Invites by hand can be time consuming, and a barrier
to academics. Perhaps we can do something better…”

7. Welcome to Devolved Constraints
• Take control of user permissions
• Dynamically add and remove permissions
• Remove the barrier for academics

8. How do we set up Devolved Constraints?
• Attributes sent during login
• Each has an identifier for the permission
• That’s it!

9. The available roles
• Node Editor
• List Creator
• List Publisher
• Library Acquisitions
• Role Admin
• Admin

10. Devolved Entitlements

11. “We need to be able to scope the user’s Digitised
Content permissions according to the modules they
are enrolled with…”

12. The Benefits of Devolved Entitlements
• Tales Aspire Digitised Content
• Enables or limits a user’s Print/Download options
• Talis Aspire Reading Lists
• Pre-populates My Lists view
• Flag lists as enrolled in My Lists view

13. How do we achieve this
• Pass module codes to Reading Lists at login
• Similar to Devolved Constraints

14. Virtual Learning Environments

15. “We want our reading lists to appear in our chosen
VLE”

16. What is LTI?
• Standard by IMS Global Learning Consortium
• Allows learning tools to interoperate
• VLEs can link to and embed Reading Lists

17. Prerequisites
• That all of you authentication
systems are HTTPS
• That your authentication sets
P3P headers
• That your existing learning
system integration can make
HTTPS requests

18. Current APIs

19. “We want to integrate more of our reading list data
directly into the systems we use…”

20. The APIs
• Item Linking API
• Linked Data API
• List Linking API
• Bookmarklet API

21. Item Linking API
• “Which lists have this resource?”
• LCN/ISBN/DOI
• List of Lists
• Example usage include catalogues

22. Linked Data API
• Semantic Data
• .json to end of lists / items / resources
• RDF is rich in context

23. List Linking API
• “Which lists exist for my Module?”
• Returns RDF data

24. Bookmarklet API
• Auto-populate the bookmark editor
• Sometimes used within catalogue

25. New APIs

26. “How can we take our integrations with Reading Lists
to the next level?”

27. In with the new
• JSON API
• Secured to your tenancy
• No more “Follow your nose”
• Already in use internally

28. And Lastly…

29. Anything else?
• We would like to hear from you

30. Questions?

31. Official Media Partners