FOLIO: How Many Grapes Went into the Wine?
An opinion on operational enclosure, ecosystem enclosure, and the reciprocal obligations needed to sustain open-source library software.
Exploratory engineering notebook
Labs @ K-Int.com
A place to document small increments, open questions, and practical experiments as K-Int's founder reconnects with the original desire to innovate in an agile way.
Latest increments
Recent posts
Short notes from active experiments, written as milestones land across the wider K-Int workspace.
What is ORS-Appliance?
How ORS-Appliance gives libraries a practical, interoperable path into OpenRS and wider resource-sharing networks.
OpenRS check-in: pickup-aware pull slips and a completed return
A fresh local evidence run adds printable pickup routing and closes the returnable-print lifecycle at the supplier and DCB.
Search paths
Topic routes
Stable entry points for readers searching around FOLIO ERM, Licenses, Agreements, Stripes modules, and Okapi alternatives.
Working principles
How the lab writes
Record the increment
Capture what changed, why it mattered, and what was learned before the context fades.
Keep production separate
Make the distinction between company delivery and exploratory learning explicit.
Integrate streams
Let related projects contribute their own progress while the repo keeps the narrative joined up.