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VuFind

VuFind. Digital Libraries à la Carte International Ticer School 2009 Tilburg University 31 July, 2009. Benoit PAUWELS Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels. Agenda. Overview of functionality Technical overview VuFind @ ULB. VuFind. VuFind is a library resource portal

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VuFind

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  1. VuFind Digital Libraries à la Carte International Ticer School 2009 Tilburg University 31 July, 2009 Benoit PAUWELSUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels

  2. Agenda • Overview of functionality • Technical overview • VuFind @ ULB

  3. VuFind • VuFind is a library resource portal • designed and developed by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library • open source; web based • project leader: Andrew Nagy • In the first place conceived as a new OPAC experience • Export/Import MARC records from ILS into VuFind • ILS specific drivers for holding information and availability • VuFind can be used as a portal solution for all library resources • librarycatalog, article databases, digital library, institutionalrepository & bibliography, and other library collections and resources • http://www.vufind.org

  4. Customizable interface: localization and branding • Uses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript

  5. ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status • Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix , Koha, Evergreen

  6. Faceted search experience

  7. “More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions)

  8. Save resource to organized lists

  9. Browse

  10. Internationalization

  11. Social bookmarks

  12. Zotero compatible (COINS)

  13. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches) Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)

  14. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)

  15. RSS feed per search query

  16. CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis

  17. Export record to Endnote, Refworks

  18. Social features: tagging, comments

  19. Enrichment: • book covers: Amazon, Syndetic, Google Books • book item reviews: Amazon, Syndetic

  20. Technical overview • Linux, Solaris, Windows • Uses Apache SOLR, an open source search engine based on Lucene • Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later • PHP 5.1.0 or later, Smarty templates • XSL, Javascript, CSS, YUI • MySQL 4.1 or later • Java J2SE JDK 1.5 or later • GNU Aspell Library (optional spell checker)

  21. Technical overview • Export MARC records from ILS • Use VuFind import facilty • Store each record in a separate file • Index in Lucene through SOLR web service • Delivered SOLR schema.xml for MARC records • Searching • VuFind communicates with Lucene through SOLR web service • Returns unique identifier for records • Data of records fetched from filesystem (XSL)

  22. VuFind @ ULB • Keep VuFind functionality • Don’t keep: • MARC based • Filesystem • Import utility; rather OAI harvest

  23. Metadata OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata Harvester JDBC Samburu Lucene Lucene doc Indexer SOLR VuFind

  24. Metadata exchange format Compound Object DIDL / MODS (*) Metadata OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata DIDL/MODS XML record stored as-is in MySQL field Harvester didl2solr.xsl transform DIDL/MODS XML record intoLucene document, according to specificschema.xml SOLR config file <originalRecord> containscompleteDIDL/MODS record JDBC Samburu Lucene Lucene doc Indexer SOLR solr2brief.xsl solr2full.xsl transform <originalRecord> fieldinto HTML VuFind (*) http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/ WP5 Technical guidelines.pdf/

  25. VuFind @ ULB • DI-fusion • Institutional library resources: IR, etheses repo, digithèque, [ catalog, iconothèque] • BICTel • Regional e-theses repository • Unicat • Belgian national virtual catalog

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