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Open Source Library Portals

Open Source Library Portals. Ron Davies, Ian Hamilton Central Library, European Commission ron.davies@ec.europa.eu, ian.hamilton@ec.europa.eu. The opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the authors and do not express the opinion of the European Commission. OS/Portals Timeline.

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Open Source Library Portals

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  1. Open Source Library Portals Ron Davies, Ian Hamilton Central Library, European Commission ron.davies@ec.europa.eu, ian.hamilton@ec.europa.eu The opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the authors and do not express the opinion of the European Commission

  2. OS/Portals Timeline Portals ... ... ... ... OpenSiteSearch MuseGlobal dbWiz Webfeat MetaLib LibraryFind 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 LibraryFind jake oss4lib Koha Emilda dbWiz OpenSiteSearch Evergreen (PINES) Open Source

  3. Evaluating commercial software Functionality Cost Technology, Vendor 55 % 35 % 10 %

  4. Evaluating OS software Functionality Technology Community 55 % 20 % 25 %

  5. Common features • Three OS portals • OpenSite Search, dbWiz, LibraryFind • Common features • Create categories of different resources • Perform federated search using Z39.50 • Search (author, title, subject, keyword) • Merge and sort search results • Link to native search • No saved searches or SDI function

  6. OpenSiteSearch • Developed by OCLC • Released as open source in 2002 • Functionality • Build fixed or dynamic categories of resources • Sophisticated search facilities • De-duplication • Email results • Local holdings check • Local database creation including modification

  7. OpenSiteSearch • Technology • Java, Perl, Pears database • Variety of UNIX OSes, WinNT • Only supports Z39.50 as search protocol • Community • High quality development • No demo, documentation not updated • Little recent activity (meetings, discussion list)

  8. OpenSiteSearch

  9. dbWiz • Simon Fraser University and 9 partners • Part of reSearcher suite (GODOT, CUFTS) • Functionality • Supports Z39.50, SQL, SOAP, Web interfaces • Comes with collection of connectors • Dynamic selection of individual resources • Rank/weight each database separately • Hits retrieved configurable per resource

  10. dbWiz • Functionality (con’t) • Search history • Filter by date, full text, academic level • Simple relevance ranking • OpenURL linking with GODOT • No email of results

  11. dbWiz • Technology • UNIX (Red Hat Linux) • Perl, Perl Template Toolkit for configuration • YAZ for Z39.50, postgreSQL • Good documentation • Community • Used by 30+ institutions, 2 users in Europe • Demo site, trac wiki • Service for non-profit fee

  12. LibraryFind • Oregon State University, 2007 • Grant from State Library • Functionality • Harvested dbs as well as distributed search • Configuration rather than connector approach (Z39.50, OAI, Web services) • Users can’t select individual resources • Built-in OpenURL resolver • Relevance ranking, faceted search

  13. LibraryFind • Technology • Ruby on Rails • YAZ and Ruby/Zoom, MySQL for db • ferret for searching of harvested resources • Community • Oregon State University, interest from others • Limited documentation • Wiki, list, road map for development

  14. Making a choice • Is Open Source for you / your organisation? • Skills available in the necessary technologies? • Institutional support? • What kind of portal? • What kind of information resources? • What kind of search? Z39.50? OAI? SQL? Web services? HTML? • Locally-hosted, harvested resources? • Need to get it up quickly?

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