Library Cataloging
News from the eXtensible Catalog project.
- New Book About User Research For Extensible Catalog
A book from the eXtensible Catalog Organization, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog. We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog, based on user...
- Preliminary Report On User Research For Extensible Catalog
The eXtensible Catalog project takes a look at what "they" want.The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software...
- Extensible Catalog Oai Toolkit Repository
Another tool from the the eXtensible Catalog folkseXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to the public for download. This project page, hosted by Google Code, is home to all the up-to-date information about the OAI Toolkit, it's...
- Marc Module For Drupal 5
Drupal, an open-source CMS, now has a MARC module.This module provides a way to map data in the MARC record to Drupal content types and import sets of MARC records. The module currently supports mapping to the default node fields, taxonomy fields and...
- Fish4info Released
Yet another open-source OPAC replacement has been released, Fish4Info.Fish4Info is not an OPAC. Why not? OPACs connect users with MARC records when what they really want are resources. Fish4Info is focused on users, and provides a more positive finding...
Library Cataloging
eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit
News from the eXtensible Catalog project.
I happily announce, that after several months of development the eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit 1.3 is just released.
The eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit is the front end of eXtensible Catalog (XC) built on Drupal content management system. It contains a set of 25 Drupal modules, a custom theme, and installation profile, and a customized Apache Solr search engine. XC is a discovery interface built on FRBR and RDA-like metadata structure.
The release has a primary focus on data integrity, namely being able to successfully process record updates on a schedule basis. This includes new additions, updates and deletions of records. This release includes some Solr integrity fixes submitted by Kyushu University. The installation process for release 1.3 has also been reworked to include an implementation option using Drush that makes the installation substantially easier. If you have drush, the whole installation is only 4 steps.
We also created a custom Solr package which is pre-configured to the needs of the Drupal Toolkit.
You can find the installation instructions and release notes here:
http://drupal.org/project/xc_installation.
I hope you will find it useful. Now we are working hard on creating the first stable release of the Drupal 7 version. Any comments, suggestion and feedback are more than useful. You can find all the project's issue tracker here:
http://extensiblecatalog.lib.rochester.edu:8080/browse/DRUPAL.
The eXtensible Catalog project's website is available at http://eXtensibleCatalog.org
- New Book About User Research For Extensible Catalog
A book from the eXtensible Catalog Organization, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog. We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog, based on user...
- Preliminary Report On User Research For Extensible Catalog
The eXtensible Catalog project takes a look at what "they" want.The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software...
- Extensible Catalog Oai Toolkit Repository
Another tool from the the eXtensible Catalog folkseXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to the public for download. This project page, hosted by Google Code, is home to all the up-to-date information about the OAI Toolkit, it's...
- Marc Module For Drupal 5
Drupal, an open-source CMS, now has a MARC module.This module provides a way to map data in the MARC record to Drupal content types and import sets of MARC records. The module currently supports mapping to the default node fields, taxonomy fields and...
- Fish4info Released
Yet another open-source OPAC replacement has been released, Fish4Info.Fish4Info is not an OPAC. Why not? OPACs connect users with MARC records when what they really want are resources. Fish4Info is focused on users, and provides a more positive finding...