{"id":1290,"date":"2011-09-20T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2011-09-20T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:31:31","slug":"more-open-source-library-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/09\/more-open-source-library-system\/","title":{"rendered":"More Open Source Library systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PTFS Europe is considering extending the range of software it supports &#8211; a brief run down in this session, starting with Mark Gavillet covering a range of products:<\/p>\n<p><strong>VuFind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vufind.org<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;resource discovery system&#8217;. Can act as an &#8216;opac replacement&#8217; &#8211; nice functionality like faceted search etc.<\/p>\n<p>VuFind can also do data harvesting from variety of other systems &#8211; consumes external data sources, can harvest via OAI-PMH (so can bring in data from institutional repositories, e-thesis collections). Can bring in content enhancements &#8211; such as information from Google Books and Amazon, Journal table of contents via the JournalTOCs service.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of VuFind &#8211; as much just to play with to both understand the potential of this type of product, and also to examine your data as the faceted search gives a way of exploring your data &#8211; can be great at spotting data issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CUFTS and GODOT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These two products are in the electronic resource management space. Between the two products offer a Knowledgebase, ERM, Journal A-Z lists, OpenURL resolver, Print holdings, ILL etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledgebase is maintained by the CUFTS team &#8211; then regular automated updates to your local install. Offers MARC export for your LMS.<\/p>\n<p>Journal A-Z list &#8211; both alphabetical list, and also by subject. Has web service to embed content into other environment<\/p>\n<p>OpenURL linking<\/p>\n<p>ILL requests &#8211; holdings checked locally and against remote catalogues if required<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so familiar with these two products, but my experience suggests that the key question is &#8216;how good in the knowledgebase?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading Lists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PTFS Reading list system &#8211; so new it doesn&#8217;t have a name yet [I&#8217;m not quite sure how far this is developed and exactly which features already exist, and how many on the wishlist]<\/p>\n<p>Reading List systems &#8216;not rocket science&#8217;. Needs to be simple to use and simple to manage.<\/p>\n<p>Various types of material that you need to be able to add. RSS feed for each list.<\/p>\n<p>Book covers in list &#8211; via Google Books etc.<\/p>\n<p>Integrated into local catalogue (demo integrated with Koha) &#8211; and drags copy\/availability information through.<\/p>\n<p>Uses link resolver for electronic journal articles. Can link to e-books as well &#8211; either hard-coded links or via other mechanisms. An of course you can link to any web resources.<\/p>\n<p>On the Admin side &#8211; uses LDAP for authentication. When adding items can do this via keyword search on local catalogue, or from other catalogue resources &#8211; e.g. the British Library. Will support connectors to other systems so it can connect to wide variety of systems.<\/p>\n<p>For each course can specify number of students on the course, and also have different levels of requirement for materials (e.g. essential, background etc.) &#8211; can then report on what resources will be needed for the course, and how many copies etc.<\/p>\n<p>Can calculate how much it would cost to order additional copies etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interoperability with<\/li>\n<li>Google\/Amazon\/Syndetics etc.<\/li>\n<li>Local and external catalogue systems<\/li>\n<li>local catalogue holdings<\/li>\n<li>link resolver<\/li>\n<li>external bookseller systems for pricing information<\/li>\n<li>Local acquisitions\/EDI ordering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Q &amp; A<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Q: Is Reading List s\/w in house built and will it be open source<\/div>\n<div>A: Yes, in house. No decision on open source<\/div>\n<div>Q: How does the knowledgebase update work, who is updating it<\/div>\n<div>A: Can request updates daily. Can join the team making updates. All information in the knowledgebase &#8216;open&#8217; for reuse (didn&#8217;t go into how this is licensed).<\/div>\n<div><strong>ILL<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Finally ILL &#8211; this one covered by Jonathan Field.<\/div>\n<div>First question &#8211; is there still a requirement for ILL? Numbers of requests to BL have dramatically reduced. Most articles available electronically in real-time etc.<\/div>\n<div>What will the BL do with its ILL service? ISOILL died a death, ARTTel very dated and maybe replaced<\/div>\n<div>Many LMS&#8217;s do not have an in-built ILL module &#8211; attraction to differentiate Koha by adding this. But there are alternative dedicated systems &#8211; e.g. Ariel, Illiad<\/div>\n<div>Also in the works elsewhere &#8211; fullfILLment (http:\/\/fulfillment-ill.org)<\/div>\n<div>Consortial ILL software<\/div>\n<div>Developed by Equinox Software (who authored Evergreen ILS) in conjunction with OHIONET<\/div>\n<div>Aim to be live by end of 2011<\/div>\n<div>Very much aimed at consortia, with hierarchy of supply. Perhaps this would be interesting if there was more regional\/consortial sharing in the UK in the future.<\/div>\n<div>However, no concrete plans at the moment for PTFS Europe, although would obviously move forward if someone were to sponsor the KOHA development.<\/div>\n<div>Some comments from audience. If RLUK members withdraw from some of the big deals, then could trigger increase of requests &#8211; perhaps especially library-to-library requests.<\/div>\n<div>[personal view is that it makes more sense to integrate this into the acquisitions function, but no one mentioned this]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTFS Europe is considering extending the range of software it supports &#8211; a brief run down in this session, starting with Mark Gavillet covering a range of products: VuFind http:\/\/vufind.org A &#8216;resource discovery system&#8217;. 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