Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements

Posted on Friday, March 28th, 2008, at 2:30 pm, and filed under Meeting. Note: Hypertext links in the printed form of this document are marked with a superscript "L" plus a number. The number corresponds to the list of web addresses at the bottom of the document.

Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008.

Update 20080404T1124 : Carolyn McCallum at Wake Forest University posted a great summary of day two of the NISO discovery layer forum, including an overview of my talk. Thanks, Carolyn!

Foundational Pieces

The presentation started as an extension of a DLTJ blog post. I also mentioned Marshal Breeding’s Library Technology Report published in July/August of 2007 and available from the ALA store.

Tour of Systems

For each of the 10 systems that were toured in the course of the presentation there is a link to the home page of the product/project and a link to a demo or canonical live example. ~~If there is interest in seeing the 2-minute screencasts that go along with each product/project, let me know in the comments or via a private note and I’ll see what I can do.~~ There is a mix of a screencast and the recorded audio of the presentation in another DLTJ posting.

Web OPAC Enhancements

Library Thing for Libraries

Homepage: http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
Demo site: http://blais.claremont.edu/

Web OPAC Wrappers

SOPAC

Homepage: http://www.blyberg.net/2007/01/21/aadlorg-goes-social/
Demo site: http://www.aadl.org/catalog/

Web OPAC Replacements

AquaBrowser

Homepage: http://www.medialab.nl/
Demo site: http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/

Encore

Homepage: http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html
Demo site: http://ukty-mt.iii.com/iii/encore/app

Primo

Homepage: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview
Demo site: http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=TWINCITIES&reset_config=true

WorldCat Local

Homepage: http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/
Demo site: http://osu.worldcat.org/

Blacklight

Homepage: http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/
Demo site: http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu/

fac-back-opac

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/
Demo site: http://library.paulsmiths.edu/catalog

Scriblio

Homepage: http://about.scriblio.net/
Demo site: http://library.plymouth.edu/

SOPAC2

Homepage: http://www.blyberg.net/2008/08/16/sopac-20-what-to-expect/
Demo site: http://www.darienlibrary.org/

VuFind

Homepage: http://vufind.org/
Demo site: http://vufind.org/demo/

On the Horizon…

BiblioCommons

Homepage: http://bibliocommons.com/
Demo site: http://www.opl.on.ca/

Extensible Catalog (XC)

Homepage: http://extensiblecatalog.info

Presentation Mechanics

Several people have asked about how the presentation was put together and executed. Everything was done on a Mac using Keynote. The screencasts were recorded with IShowU with the assistance of Mousepose to highlight the mouse cursor and clicks. The presentation was controlled from an HTC Mogul over Bluetooth using the Salling Clicker software.

[Updated 20080329T1925 : Added links.]

[Updated 20080424T1151 : Updated link to the NISO page for the event. Thanks Jodi!]

[Update 20080911T1143 : Added SOPAC2 and Bibliocommons (thanks Josh!) plus XC as well as a link to the screencast/audio mashup of the session.]

[Updated 20090526T1603 : Added link to Oakville Public Library as an example of Bibliocommons. Thanks, Chris!]

(This post was updated on 26-May-2009.)

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12 Comments

K.G. Schneider | April 2, 2008 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

I can’t remember, was there a reason you didn’t include LibraryFind?
the Jester | April 2, 2008 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

As they say in the Prego sauce commercials, “It’s In There!” The first heading for Web OPAC Enhancements with Library Thing for Libraries (and a link to the demo site at Claremont).
Jodi Schneider | April 24, 2008 at 10:46 am | Permalink

NISO “reorganized” their website so see http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/discovery08/ for the event homepage.
the Jester | April 24, 2008 at 11:53 am | Permalink

Thank you, Jodi. I updated the link in the original post.
Chris Keene | May 12, 2008 at 6:19 am | Permalink

Hi, K.G. Schneider was referring to LibraryFind, not LibraryThing http://libraryfind.org/

Cheers
Chris
the Jester | May 12, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink

Ah! Yes, I missed that, Chris. Thanks for pointing that out.

LibraryFind is best classified as a metasearch engine. The boundaries I put on the original exploration was expansion and adaptations of the OPAC interface, so metasearch engines were outside that scope. This is, admittedly, somewhat of a semantic distinction because the search results look similar to what one gets from the OPAC wrappers and replacement tools. But that distinction was needed so as not to get into exploring a wider universe.

(My apologies for missing it the first time, Karen.)
Josh Stompro | September 11, 2008 at 10:12 am | Permalink

I am aware of 2 new projects that may have a place in this list.

SOPAC 2.0 – http://www.blyberg.net/2008/08/16/sopac-20-what-to-expect/

bibliocommons – http://bibliocommons.com/
the Jester | September 11, 2008 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

Thank you, Josh! I updated the list.
John | September 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

Just a minor correction. SOPAC2 is not an opac wrapper. It should be considered an opac replacement.
the Jester | September 12, 2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink

Ah, I had not realized the architecture of SOPAC had changed to include an off-load and reindex of ILS bibliographic data. That definitely puts in the arena of an OPAC replacement. Thanks for the correction, John.
Chris Keene | May 26, 2009 at 6:21 am | Permalink

While this blog post is over a year old, it is interesting to note that as far am I’m aware (no expert!) this list is still up to date. Perhaps the never ending wave of new library search/discovery web app annoucements has slowed for a while!

One thing to add, an example for bibliocommons
http://www.opl.on.ca/
the Jester | May 26, 2009 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

Chris — I would agree that the posting has held up over the test of time. The announcement of new options has slowed somewhat. Arguably, the definition has expanded to include things like the Serials Solutions Summon and Ebsco Discovery Service products. But on the whole, not bad.

Thanks for the link to the Biblocommons example; I’ll add that to the post.

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