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a group of first-class scholars of the period of the Republic of China gathered for buying, copying,
borrowing, selling, collecting, reading, proofreading, compiling, engraving and discussing ancient
books. The interaction among them about ancient books formed a good academic atmosphere for
the collection, collation, publication and utilization of ancient books, which became a part of the
academic ecology of the period of the Republic of China.

No.6

Yunhan and the smart library: adapting to the future with openness
LIU Wei & JI Ting 〇a*

The transformation to smart library needs open idea, sharing platform and advanced technology.
With the vision of “the future of libraries is open”, FOLIO has introduced advanced cloud-
native architectures that support iterative upgrading of application systems and flexible business
expansion. However, FOLIO faces challenges in adapting to China’s needs. On the one hand, it
is difficult to go beyond the existing systems in traditional service functions, and on the other
hand, many localized requirements for Chinese users are not available in the international FOLIO
community. There is a growing need for our own, open and interconnected next generation
library service platform and technical ecology. Under this background, “Yunhan” came into
being.
Based on the most advanced international open-source technology and cloud native architecture,
Yunhan adopts the independent and controllable product route, and is developed by the leading
academic research and technical force in the Chinese library field. Similar to the relationship
between Harmony OS and Android, Yunhan is the localization of FOLIO. Therefore, Yunhan
inherits FOLIO’s vision and its target tasks include not only building a new “next generation
library service platform” but also developing a set of application components that can meet the
functional needs of the library’s current operation and future development as well as constructing a
well-functioning and healthy community.
The strategy of “Yunhan” focuses on meeting the new requirements of Chinese libraries,
including various of personalized, extended and intelligent applications. Based on the analysis of
the Chinese smart library system architecture, this paper designed a middle platform architecture
with Yunhan as the smart library service platform, and more intelligent modules can be plugged in
according to this idea.
To succeed in the Chinese library market, Yunhan needs to solve many problems, such as
improving the acceptance of open-source software by Chinese users, promoting the formation of

*Correspondence should be addressed to JI Ting, Email: tji@libnet.sh.cn, ORCID:0000-0001-7257-006X.