Andrew Nagy schrieb:
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> I am pleased to announce the release of our Next-Gen library catalog browser, VuFind. It is now officially open source code under the GPL and hosted on Sourceforge. We have been working on the application for quite some time now, almost a year, and for the past few months have been working with some local schools to test the application and begin to build some install scripts.
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All very nice and appealing, thanks for all the effort.
Only - where are the browsing lists of LCSH, authors' names and titles?
Thomas Mann recently made it very clear that no good catalog should
be without the option of browsing. (What VuFind calls "browsing" is
something else: it is related to result sets, not the complete
listings of names and subject headings.)
Here's T.M.'s paper:
"The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and
Scholarship in Research Libraries"
http://guild2910.org/Peloponnesian%20War%20June%2013%202007.pdf
I understand that VuFind relies on the real catalogs it accesses via
"drivers". So, if a target catalog doesn't have browse lists,
VuFind cannot provide them? Or does it do its own indexing?
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Jul 20 2007 - 03:57:36 EDT