Library Cataloging
Another bit of news that is sure to be widespread is the SOPAC by John Blyberg. Based on Drupal, he has released it as open-source. Works on III catalogs. "So what is the SOPAC? It's basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items."
OPAC
- Opac 2.0
Chalon, Patrice X. and Di Pretoro, Emmanuel and Kohn, Laurence (2008) OPAC 2.0: Opportunities, development and analysis. In Proceedings 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki (Finland).Web 2.0 has raised new expectations from...
- 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...
- Opac Replaced By Fish
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With...
- The Opac And Oai
The winner of the OCLC software contest is Dazhi (David) Jiao of Bloomington Indiana for his OPAC.CAT-OAI integrates OAI harvesting and metadat searching to OPAC search engines and expands users' discoveries in a OPAC search results to related web-accesible...
Library Cataloging
Social OPAC
Another bit of news that is sure to be widespread is the SOPAC by John Blyberg. Based on Drupal, he has released it as open-source. Works on III catalogs. "So what is the SOPAC? It's basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items."
OPAC
- Opac 2.0
Chalon, Patrice X. and Di Pretoro, Emmanuel and Kohn, Laurence (2008) OPAC 2.0: Opportunities, development and analysis. In Proceedings 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki (Finland).Web 2.0 has raised new expectations from...
- 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...
- Opac Replaced By Fish
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With...
- The Opac And Oai
The winner of the OCLC software contest is Dazhi (David) Jiao of Bloomington Indiana for his OPAC.CAT-OAI integrates OAI harvesting and metadat searching to OPAC search engines and expands users' discoveries in a OPAC search results to related web-accesible...