Library Cataloging
The Shifted Librarian has a post worth a look on problems and possibilities for the OPAC and XML.The commentary continues.
OPAC
XML
- 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...
- Opac Manifesto
Lipstick on a Pig by Roy Tennant is a call-to-arms for OPAC reform. Worth a read.I first heard the expression "You can put lipstick on a pig and call it Monique, but it is still a pig" at the 1992 state Democratic convention. Ann Richards used it to describe...
- Subject Searching
Subject searching in the OPAC of a special library: problems and issues by M.S. Sridhar in OCLC Systems & Services (2004) vol. 20, no. 4 pp.183-191This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and...
- Classification Web
This announcement from CDS:You may have noticed recently the addition of a link for "Library of Congress OPAC (read-only)" on the Class Web OPAC page. This link was included for ALA Midwinter on an experimental basis and it connected to mirror version...
Library Cataloging
XML and the OPAC
The Shifted Librarian has a post worth a look on problems and possibilities for the OPAC and XML.The commentary continues.
OPAC
XML
- 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...
- Opac Manifesto
Lipstick on a Pig by Roy Tennant is a call-to-arms for OPAC reform. Worth a read.I first heard the expression "You can put lipstick on a pig and call it Monique, but it is still a pig" at the 1992 state Democratic convention. Ann Richards used it to describe...
- Subject Searching
Subject searching in the OPAC of a special library: problems and issues by M.S. Sridhar in OCLC Systems & Services (2004) vol. 20, no. 4 pp.183-191This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and...
- Classification Web
This announcement from CDS:You may have noticed recently the addition of a link for "Library of Congress OPAC (read-only)" on the Class Web OPAC page. This link was included for ALA Midwinter on an experimental basis and it connected to mirror version...