extensible catalog - morning session - tilburg
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eXtensible Catalog (morning session) Integrated Search Towards Catalogue 2.0July 31, 2009Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTRANSCRIPT
eXtensible CatalogDavid Lindahl
University of Rochester
eXtensible Catalog Project
• Set of open-source software tools • Facilitate resource discovery and metadata
management• XC version 1.0 scheduled for January, 2010– Early versions available now
eXtensible Catalog Project
• Project funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and partner institutions
• Project hosted at University of Rochester• More information at eXtensibleCatalog.org• eXtensible Catalog Organization coming soon!
XC Software
• User Interface: – Faceted, FRBRized, customizable search interface– Web application framework for libraries
• Metadata Tools: – Automated metadata processing: Enable libraries
to aggregate metadata and run services on it• Connectivity: – Harvest and synchronize metadata with OAI-PMH– Circulation and authentication with NCIP
ILS RepositoryILS RepositorySources
XC Software Overview
XC Metadata Services Toolkit
AggregationNormalization
FRBRizationAuthority Control
Metadata management
software
XC Drupal Toolkit
XC LMS Toolkit
Web application platforms
OAI-PMH OAI-PMH
Web ContentManagement
System
Next-GenerationCatalog Software
OAI Harvester OAI Harvester
NCIP
XC NCIP Toolkit
ConnectivitySoftware
XC OAI Toolkit
XC OAI Toolkit
Sources ILS RepositoryILS RepositoryNCIP
XC OAI Toolkit
XC OAI Toolkit
XC Software Overview
XC Metadata Services Toolkit
AggregationNormalization
FRBRizationAuthority Control
XC Drupal Toolkit
XC LMS Toolkit
ConnectivitySoftware
XC NCIP Toolkit
Metadata management
software
Web application platforms
Web ContentManagement
System
Next-GenerationCatalog Software
OAI Harvester OAI Harvester
OAI-PMH OAI-PMH
XC Software – User InterfacesXC Drupal
ToolkitXC LMS Toolkit
Web application platforms
Search Features• Out-of-the-box search interface• Faceted-browsing of results• Include traditional, digital, and website resources• FRBRization – group related resources by “work”• Easy and robust search customization
XC Software – User InterfacesXC Drupal
ToolkitXC LMS Toolkit
Web application platforms
Platform for your library website• Integrate discovery with library website• Capture and display user generated metadata• Free add-on features (e.g. tagging, blogs)• Build custom applications• Share code with other libraries
Drupal CMS is Extensible• Theme Engine• Content Types• Modules– Download from a library of thousands– Build your own modules from scratch or extend
existing modules with hooks• XC Drupal Toolkit– Defines library specific content types, modules and
hooks– Delivers out-of-the-box search and a rich platform for
extensibility (with the difficult work already done)
XC Drupal Toolkit ComponentsXC Metadata
Services ToolkitDrupal Content Management System
Aggregation
NormalizationFRBRization
Authority Control
Custom
XC expression
XC work
XC manifestation
XC holding
XC item
Webpage
Story
CustomBook
Story
GarlandMinelli
CoreCCK
Devel
Metadata from various sources, in multiple schemas and varying levels of quality
XC Core
XC OAI Harvester
XC Metadata
XC Schema
XC SOLR
XC Search
XC OAI Provider
Hosted user- generated metadata
SOLR
XC Software – User InterfacesXC Drupal
ToolkitXC LMS Toolkit
Web application platforms
Learning Management Features• User interface for librarians and instructors to:– Associate a resource with a course or range of courses– Migrate associations
• Display library resources within an LMS• Blackboard plug-ins included• Other LMS support through web services
