I have a major improvement to the ebscoX and vygr2vfnd tools nearly ready to release. I've setup a littleware.swingbase module that makes it easy to setup simple Swing UI's with persistent properties, UI feedback, and a tools menu. I hope to release an update next week.
Adam and Jon are looking into Windows VM-licensing for the Tuskegee d-space project. We think it makes sense to deploy the d-space server to a virtual machine, but the Tuskegee library staff doesn't have Linux experience. Unfortunately it looks like Windows has a greedy VM-licensing model, so we might have to either deploy d-space directly onto Tuskegee's host Windows server, or just go ahead with an Ubuntu VM, and give the Tuskegee guys some basic training.
Finally, Aaron is considering whether the library ought to invest some time and effort into the Extensible Catalog project. I sent the following e-mail with my impressions.
Hi Aaron,
I watched the XC webcasts a while ago:
http://www.screencast.com/users/eXtensibleCatalog
I remember at the time I wasn't that impressed.
They have basically re-implemented
VuFind with a few more features like integrated OAI harvesting,
decoupling from MARC (what we did), etc.
*. PHP front-end - VuFind is PHP-Smarty based,
XC integrates with Drupal CMS
http://drupal.org/
*. XC integrates with the ILS via some NCIP thing -
VuFind has an ILS-plugin system
*. XC dumps all their data into the "Metadata Service Toolkit" -
which is a SOLR server - same as VuFind.
XC is yet another project that dumps metadata into SOLR and
slaps a PHP web UI in front of it.
I am very interested in having a conversation about plans for
ILS and discovery software, and strategic plans for the library
in general. My first impression is that XC is not a good place
to invest our time and effort.
Cheers,
Reuben
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