Marshall,
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:58:29AM -0600, Breeding, Marshall wrote:
> If you are running other discovery interfaces, I'm interested in those
> as well. Here is a draft of a page that provides quick access to the
> libraries that I know about that have implemented some of the major
> products:
at the Central library of the University of Cologne, Germany, I'm
developing the central discovery interface for the whole university
(around 48000 students).
Our service is called KUG (Koelner UniversitaetsGesamtkatalog) and
uses the open source software OpenBib, a project I started in 1997.
KUG consists of 166 separate databases/search indexes with around 7.1
million titles.
Right now it offers many features of a NGC like:
- Tagging
- Tag clouds in many ways, eg to give insight into the catalogues
structure
- Mashups with BibSonomy, Google Books/Maps, Wikipedia (Persons and
ISBN just as links, but also specific links to Wikipedia articles that
mention the ISBN of the current book.)
- Similar titles with ThingISBN
- RSS for last 50 titles (all, for a subject, a person, a classification)
- Drilldowns/faceted search with the open source Xapian search engine
- LiveSearch/Spelling suggestions configurable by the user
- Catalogue enrichment (table of contents, ISBN10/13, eBooks and alot
more)
- Data analysis resulting in recommendations, popularity values, top 20
- Literature Lists that can be classified
- Classification based browsing (Titles, electronically available
journals, databases, literature lists)
- Similar persons/subjects
- Automatic mirroring of tagged titles to BibSonomy
- Integration with the circulation component of several participating
libraries
- Permanent Links for titles and literature lists
- while being quite germany-centric (due to the local data formats), it provides even an englisch
localization ;-)
- unAPI support (eg. for zotero) with BibTeX and OAI_dc
Currently we're offering our users a public beta test of the next
version of our catalogue to be released in a few weeks.
http://kug.ub.uni-koeln.de/portal/lastverteilung?view=kugng
The current productive version is available here:
http://kug.ub.uni-koeln.de/
Its highly custumizable with a templating system. Each template can be
dynamically selected based on several conditions, so apart from our
main library catalogue we use it for several specific portals (all
german) like:
http://umschlagsammlung.ub.uni-koeln.de/
http://richterbibliothek.ub.uni-koeln.de/
http://einbandsammlung.ub.uni-koeln.de/
http://portraitsammlung.ub.uni-koeln.de/
to name but a few.
The OpenBib home page is available from
http:://www.openbib.org/
with a wiki
http://wiki.openbib.org/
and a blog
http://blog.openbib.org/
The project page with a CVS-repository is hosted on BerliOS, a german
service like SourceForge:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/openbib
As I mentioned its quite germany-centric - and currently we're the
only user of this software, but on the other hand it might be
interesting for a wider audience - especially as the whole softwaere -
with our current installation ;-) - is available via public CVS.
Regards,
Oliver
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