Catalogs
Library Cataloging

Catalogs


Here are some freely available programs that could act as a library catalog.




- Relying On Web Services
Recently we have had two examples of trusted resources being off line for an extended time. A few weeks ago the GPO PURL server was down for several days. This meant that thousands of links in library catalogs around the globe were broken. Now the NASA...

- Talis Source
Talis Source looks interesting. A union catalog (catalogue) of UK libraries. They freely accept uploaded records, no need for membership. If you are reading this in the UK consider contributing to the effort. How long before they start a US or North American...

- Frbr
The WEB search interface of the ISIS FRBR Prototype Application is now on-line.A brief WEB page about the software, with some links, is available.They say that the server performance is very poor, but I found it just fine....

- Open Source Opac
This was posted on oss4libRomano writes: "JOpac2 is a open source project we started in 2002. The idea came out because we need a OPAC able to integrate different data sources without data transformation. For this, JOpac2 is written in Java and is build...

- Metadata
Another metadata scheme for the visual arts community is the Visual Resources Association, VRA Core Categories, now in version 3. "The VRA Core Categories, Version 3.0 consist of a single element set that can be applied as many times as necessary to create...



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