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.
Web OPAC Enhancements
- Library Thing for Libraries
- Homepage
- http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/
- Demo site
- http://blais.claremont.edu/
Web OPAC Wrappers
- SOPAC
Web OPAC Replacements
- AquaBrowser
- Homepage
- http://www.medialab.nl/
- Demo site
- http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/
- Encore
- Primo
- 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
- Scriblio
- Homepage
- http://about.scriblio.net/
- Demo site
- http://library.plymouth.edu/
- SOPAC2
- 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
I can’t remember, was there a reason you didn’t include LibraryFind?
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).
NISO “reorganized” their website so see http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/discovery08/ for the event homepage.
Thank you, Jodi. I updated the link in the original post.
Hi, K.G. Schneider was referring to LibraryFind, not LibraryThing http://libraryfind.org/
Cheers
Chris
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.)
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/
Thank you, Josh! I updated the list.
Just a minor correction. SOPAC2 is not an opac wrapper. It should be considered an opac replacement.
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.
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/
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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