Thanks much, Mike!
Best,
- pascal
Mike Rylander wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Pascal Vincent Calarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi folks --
Hopefully this hasn't been asked a lot before on the list; I scanned the
threads in the archive and didn't see anything obvious, so here goes.
We have a small, four-library consortium that is looking for a separate
resource discovery environment to supplement our existing Aleph 18.01
ILS. We aren't looking for a replacement ILS at this point. Other
solutions we are evaluating include VUFind, Primo, Endeca, Encore,
Koha. What is not obvious from looking at the Evergreen information
that is available is whether it is easy to strip off the indexing engine
and the web interface, and feed Evergreen a variety of MARC, DC, and
other data.
It's not really feasible to use Evergreen as a pure discovery layer.
The search infrastructure isn't built to be a standalone system, and
batch import/update of records and holdings is not something we've
optimized for, since the goal is an entire ILS. I'll go out on a limb
here and say that the same is true of Koha, as it's designed to be a
full ILS.
Has anyone tried this, how hard is it, and any other information you
might suggest is most welcome.
My suggestion would be to look closely at VUFind, Blacklight and even
FacBackOPAC ( http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/ -- built by our
very own Dan Scott).
Hope that helps!
--miker
Many thanks in advance!
- pascal
