Today's Action: Take the Interoperability Survey!

The survey closes on Jan. 15, 2026. Thanks for your participation!

Survey links:

Interoperability Solutions Feedback Process

There are many ways to provide feedback on interoperability solutions to be considered in the Lyrasis CST Interoperability project.

Each Lyrasis CST will receive development support for at least one interoperability solution. The solution may be an integration between two applications or another enhancement that improves the interoperability of the technology.

To select a solution for each community to pursue, the Interoperability project team will:

  1. Generate ideas
  2. Generate conversation about ideas
  3. Generate solutions
  4. Make a proposal and facilitate a decision with community leadership

Generating Ideas (Oct - Dec 2025)

There are 4 ways to generate and submit ideas:

  1. Attend a workshop in November or December 2025

  2. Fill out the survey by Jan. 15, 2026:

  3. Submit an Idea via GitHub Issues by Jan. 15, 2026

  4. Email jessica.farrell-ctr@lyrasis.org by Jan. 15, 2026

Some ideas were also generated from past community conversations which were documented on websites or listservs.

Generating Conversation and Solutions (Dec 2025 - Jan 2026)

Generated ideas are posted to GitHub Issues and an email list. The ideas are refined into discrete solutions.

Proposal and Decision

The CST Interoperability consultant will review feedback generated from these sources and make a proposal to each community's leadership. The target date for finalizing this decision is Feb. 9, 2026.

Designing Integrations Together

Feb-May 2026

Once solutions are identified in the first phase of the project, we will draft descriptions and user behavior scenarios using a Behavior-Driven Design (BDD) process. There are two ways to participate in defining user behavior.