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.

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/

VuFind

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

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!]

(This post was updated on 24-Apr-2008.)

6 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.)

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