----- "Owen Stephens" <o.stephens_at_IMPERIAL.AC.UK> wrote:
> OK - so Community/Open source is one thing I could invest in (there
> are limitations here, because the library doesn't have a 'coding' team at
> the moment, although it does have a very competent 'IT' team who
> support existing systems and I'm sure could turn their hand to coding if
> that's where we decide to go).
Well ... there are plenty of companies these days that you can hire
to do the actual coding ...
http://indexdata.com
http://liblime.com
http://care-affiliates.com
http://esilibrary.com
are just four such companies.
> However, selfishly, I was hoping that there might be some more
> immediate, practical, things I/my institution could do? I realise
> there isn't a silver-bullet to achieve an NGC, but perhaps others could
> share things that they have done that they believe have moved them in this
> direction?
You're implying here that open source doesn't have immediate rewards
and isn't practical? :-) I'd posit that the open-source OPACs out
there are the closest thing on the market resembling a NGC.
Cheers,
--
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Received on Fri Sep 14 2007 - 06:20:22 EDT