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South West Wales Higher Education PartnershipPartneriaeth Addysg Uwch De Orllewin Cymru

Resource Discoverywith

Open Source Software

Paul JohnsonActing Project Manager, Virtual Academic Library

Integrating VuFind into the Virtual Academic Library Discovery Portal


Agenda

• SWWHEP & the Virtual Academic Library• Requirements• Options & Decision• Installation• Enhancements• Other implementations• Support


Virtual Academic Library: Background

• WAG: Reaching Higher / Reconfiguration & Collaboration Fund

• SWWHEP : “an innovative partnership to integrate and enhance a range of services to students and staff”


Virtual Academic Library: the concept

• Shared resources:

• 1.1 million books and journals

• 30,000 journal subscriptions

• 2,000 study spaces

• 720 student PCs in library buildings

•Shared access:

•Reciprocal borrowing

•RFID

•E-access

•Document delivery

•Longer opening hours


Existing Resource DiscoverySwansea University

• ExLibris Voyager OPAC

• SFX Link Resolver

• Database directory


Existing Resource DiscoverySwansea Metropolitan University

• Talis Prism OPAC

• Serials Solutions Link Resolver

• Subject pages, including eBook and eJournal lists


Existing Resource Discovery Trinity University College

• SirsiDynix Horizon Information Portal

• Resource pages

• No link resolver


Resource Discovery Essential Requirements

• Common catalogue for print material, including availability and delivery options.

• E-resource access (federated

search)


Resource Discovery Wish list

• Search limits

• Faceted search

• Tag clouds

• Book jackets

• Browsing

• Tagging

• Comments

• Biographies

• Reviews


Harvest or Federate?

• Considered Federated Search, but …– Slower and clunkier– Less control over data– A good solution where data cannot be

aggregated, but not ideal for a single union catalog


Resource Discovery The Contenders

• ExLibris Primo

• Innovative Encore and InnReach

• Talis Prism 3

• AquaBrowser

• Endeca

• BiblioCommons

• VuFind


Resource Discovery The Choice : VuFind

Why?

• Attractive, modern interface

• Included many of the “wishlist” features

• Open Source … can be changed and developed to suit requirements

• Cost!

• Total control over implementation


VuFind Features


VuFind : Installation

Operating Systems:

• Solaris

• Linux

• Windows

Prerequisites:

• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later

• PHP 5.2.0 or later

• MySQL 4.1 or later

• Java J2SE JDK 1.4 or later


VuFind Installation


VuFind : Customization

• Templates and CSS files

• Config files cover:

• Local Server

• Authentication

• External content (Bookjackets, Reviews, Authors)

• Web search

• Drivers for LMS connections

• Indexing preferences


Special developments

The Virtual Academic Library will be adding enhancements to:

• Merge bibliographic data from three LMSs

• Connect to three LMSs for availability information

• Handle multi classification schemes

• Incorporate federated search into the interface (using Metalib Xserver)

Enhancements will be offered back to the community


Future developments

Production Release: 1.1• OAI Importer • Record view page based on Format • Federated Search • Authority Index

Future Development• Suggested Resources and Searches • Circulation Stats for Popularity, etc. • Grouping of similiar items by edition - FRBR • Microsoft Research Pane SOAP Service


Support

• Virtual Academic Library is not purchasing external support

• None yet available!

• VuFind is a small product compared to a full LMS

• VuFind mailing lists are an excellent source for advice and discussion

• Documentation leaves something to be desired


Other implementations


Other implementations

• CARLI Consortium (I-Share) - Beta - http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf/

• Georgia Tech (Beta only) - http://finder.library.gatech.edu/vufind/

• London School of Economics – https://beta.catalogue.lse.ac.uk/

http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf/

http://finder.library.gatech.edu/vufind/


Further information

VuFind Home: http://www.vufind.org/


Thank you!

Paul JohnsonActing Project Manager, Virtual Academic Library

[email protected]

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