Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements

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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!]

The text was modified to update a link from dltj.org/article/web-opac-schemes/ to http:///dltj.org/article/web-opac-schemes/ on December 30th, 2010.

The text was modified to update a link from http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/next-generation-library-catalogs.html to http://www.alatechsource.org/ltr/next-generation-library-catalogs on January 20th, 2011.

The text was modified to remove a link to https://publications.techsource.ala.org/bookstore/displayItem.pl?itemID=2604 on January 20th, 2011.

The text was modified to remove a link to http://ukty-mt.iii.com/iii/encore/app on January 20th, 2011.

The text was modified to update a link from http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html to http://web.archive.org/web/20080328163000/http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html on January 20th, 2011.

The text was modified to update a link from http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu/ to http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/blacklight.html on January 28th, 2011.

The text was modified to remove a link to http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/ on November 13th, 2012.

The text was modified to remove a link to http://www.htc.com/us/product.aspx?id=11106 on November 13th, 2012.