Bernhard,
Just to understand what you are looking for in terms of Browse. The NLA implementation of VuFind has what I would regard as a Browse function - you can Browse the following:
Names at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Names?browse=names&from=
Subjects at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Subjects?browse=subjects&from=
Callnumbers at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Subjects?browse=subjects&from=
Series at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Series?browse=series&from=
All these options are available in the user interface at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Home ('Browse' is an option in the horizontal menu under the main 'catalogue' banner)
This page also offers Title and Uniform Title browsing, but these seem not to work in the same way at the moment (I've sent feedback about this)
Is this browsing as you mean it? If not, what would you require additionally?
(also you question the scalability - what scale are you thinking of? I'd guess that NLA is reasonably large - but I can't easily find a figure for the number of bib records - but obviously it may not be as large as other national libraries or consortium collections)
Owen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
> Sent: 12 March 2009 06:42
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project)
>
> Kent Fitch wrote:
> >
> > The National Library of Australia's implementation of VuFind added
> > browse (and I believe offered its patch back to the VuFind project);
> > see for example
> >
> >
> http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Subjects?browse=subjects&from=straw+
> man
> >
> > It is an error to assert that SOLR/Lucene is "ill suited" to the
> > purpose of supporting index browse because it supports it very
> > efficiently.
> >
> That's good news, and it doesn't look too bad.
> Was it made part of the standard then? If no, why not?
> Where can I read about SOLR's browse support functions?
>
> Is there also name, title, and keyword browsing? I mean, true browsing,
> up and down, a sorted list of titles, names, or keywords. For subject
> headings, it looks almost right, but I don't see the same for
> the other aspects.
>
> B.Eversberg
Received on Thu Mar 12 2009 - 10:27:26 EDT