Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
>> Besides the OPAC then being not 100% up-to-date, what
>> disadvantages might make you reluctant to call it "next
>> generation"?
>
>
> I hate fads? :) Seriously, that the OPAC is 12 hours behind your ILS
> means probably very little. The main disadvantage I guess is that
> there is no vendor support for the OPAC. The good thing about this is
> of course that there is no vendor tie-in either. And given the
> user-interface to most OPACS today, I'd say it's a good thing to get
> away from them.
>
What about browsable indexes for names, titles, subjects, keywords, call
numbers? Even a merely "good enough" system should have these, but this
is about "next generation".
And related to that: Can the syndetic structure of authority control
data be used to, say, make D. D. Shostakovich findable no matter which
of his 27 spellings the user tosses in? [And beyond those, the name
index would have to come in handy, of course].
B. Eversberg
Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 07:09:36 EDT