On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Galen Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On May 7, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Geoff Sams wrote: >> I am curious if anyone has created a one stop searching function that works >> with Evergreen. The idea being to search for one topic and get results from >> Evergreen’s catalog as well as from any databases that the library might >> have access to and any other resources as configured. If anyone has done >> this or would be willing to help point me in the right direction I would >> love to hear from you. > > I don't know of anybody who has built this into Evergreen, but there are > several Evergreen libraries that use libre and proprietary discovery > solutions such as VuFind, Summon or EDS that sit on top of Evergreen and > (potentially) other databases. >
In the long-long ago (before any of the turn-key solutions existed, and while OpenSearch was still being specified), I built an all-client side prototype using OpenSearch that would broadcast searches to a bunch of sources and present either a side-by-side view (a la Amazon's A9) or an attempted integrated view. It's still in the Evergreen repo at http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/src/extras/opensearchportal.html;h=44ce1adde129a0158783ee008d4520918f4102a0;hb=HEAD but it won't work out of the box any more. It needs an open proxy (since removed from Evergreen for obvious reasons) to get around the same-domain requirement of browsers. But the point is that, in addition of the above, it is not too hard to build your own. A blog post about it is available at http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=29 . -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
