James ~ I've installed and configured Koha a half a dozen times now and I keep running into this pazpar2 thing. Never been able to quite figure out what it is or does. The demo you linked to was illuminating. I'll have to give it another look. Thanks! Chad On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:58 AM, James Weinheimer < weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/9/2013 10:37 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote: > <snip> > >> We use Koha [ community version ] and are considering a discovery service >> layer. Any fans of VUfind or Bibliocommons [ other software? ] wish to >> share their experiences here. >> > </snip> > > There is the open source option pazpar2 which provides federated searching > of z39.50, SRU and uses Apache Solr. There is also a Drupal module that > provides additional functionality so that through Drupal you can work with > Koha and pazpar2. > > I haven't been able to get it to work, but there is supposed to be a way > to set it up with Koha. See: http://wiki.koha-community.** > org/wiki/Record_Indexing_and_**Retrieval_Options_for_Koha#** > Pazpar2_and_Metaproxy_**Metasearch_Aspect_of_**Configuration<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Record_Indexing_and_Retrieval_Options_for_Koha#Pazpar2_and_Metaproxy_Metasearch_Aspect_of_Configuration> > > To see a demo of pazpar2, go to http://mk2.indexdata.com/ > > -- > James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com First Thus > http://catalogingmatters.**blogspot.com/<http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/>First Thus Facebook Page > https://www.facebook.com/**FirstThus <https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus>Cooperative Cataloging Rules > http://sites.google.com/site/**opencatalogingrules/<http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/>Cataloging Matters Podcasts > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/**cataloging-matters-podcasts.**html<http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html> > -- Chad Roseburg Automation Dept. North Central Regional LibraryReceived on Fri Oct 11 2013 - 15:13:26 EDT