On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Michele Newberry wrote:
> We've just revealed to all of our libraries the prototype of our new
> Endeca-based union catalog so I thought I'd share the information with
> this group too. You can play with it at http://catalog.fcla.edu
Very nice!!!!
> A great deal of thanks goes to NCSU for sharing the configuration
> files
> that they developed for their Endeca-based catalog so that we
> could get
> a jump start on our project.
Any chance those configuration files could be shared more publicly?
While Endeca won't like what I'd use them for, libraries as a whole
may if the configuration information would be helpful in adapting
library metadata into another faceted browser. Oh, say, Solr Flare.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare
Actually, come to think of it, Endeca may very well like the
competition, especially if the solution is open source and they could
leverage any value that may come from it.
> - we extracted the MARC records from all of our 11 individual Aleph
> catalogs and loaded them into a single database, deduping on OCLC
> number
> only. From this we create the file that loads into Endeca. As of now,
> we have 6,806,461 records in the database.
There was no other data cleanup involved other than deduping OCLC
numbers?
> - we tried to keep as much unique data as possible to widen the
> retrieval potential, e.g., notes and other fields (and we have more
> work
> to do with this part of the process).
Are there facet values not being shown? From what I hear of NCSU's
system, only the top 30 or so facets are shown, and the others are so
much lower in frequency as to be considered bad data. I'm curious if
this is a similar configuration in your implementation?
> - we added the capability of querying our Aleph catalogs in real-
> time to
> display location, holdings and circ status information rather than
> loading static data into the Endeca OPAC.
>
> - We added the NLM class range to the Narrow by Call Number... section
> and are working on SuDocs.
>
> Enjoy.
Michele - thank you for sharing. This is great stuff, and raises the
bar considerably.
Erik
Received on Wed Jan 17 2007 - 02:37:34 EST