Re: National Library of Australia

From: Chris Keene <C.J.Keene_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:44:21 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Charley Pennell wrote:
> I suspect that many, if not most of us, think of AquaBrowser as only the 
> word cloud portion of the interface, hence the worries about Flash.
> 
>    Charley

Fair point :)

Without wishing to sounds like a salesman, Aquabrowser does offer some 
nice features. However one of the problems is finding out what it does 
actually offer (even for customers!).

Unlike some traditional Library apps. It is not so much 'what it 
can/can't do',  more a greyness between the two (with varying degrees of 
associated costs, if at all).

Couple of examples:

Try doing a search on Aston University's version to see what I feel to 
be a nice integration with Metalib (via the Metalib not-quite-free X-server)
http://aquamarine.aston.ac.uk/ABLaston/

Try searching 'lord of the rings' to see an example of some frbr results:
http://zoeken.bibliotheek.be/
(a catalogue searching six largest libraries in Flanders according to: 
http://sn.im/isuiv)

(not saying any of this is unique to Aquabrowser, I know that many other 
ngc's do as well, but thought this may be of interest)

Regards
Chris
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Chris Keene                                     C.J.Keene_at_sussex.ac.uk
Technical Development Manager                   Tel (01273) 877950
University of Sussex Library
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/
Received on Tue May 26 2009 - 10:46:12 EDT