[Evergreen-catalogers] Tiny Cat

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

And no, I'm not talking about kittens -- though maybe I should be on a
Friday.

A long-running discussion among the developers has been putting together
a set of test records for Evergreen, which would be used for automated
software testing and possibly for community demonstration databases.
What I'd like to bring up is the possibility of Evergreen catalogers
getting together and creating a small, cohesive data set of
bibliographic and authority records.  By "cohesive" I mean a set of
records that are selected to appear as if they come from a tiny, but
real library, albeit one that collects in every format and perhaps
includes an unusual number of "problem children" like Stephen King's
11/22/63.

Why build Tiny Cat?  Having a stable, shared data set would make it
easier to experiment with tweaking default indexing and display rules
without having to always make reference to existing Evergreen catalogs
that also have to support local cataloging practice.  It would also be a
fixed point of comparison for cataloging and OPAC functionality as new
versions of Evergreen get released

Would this be of interest to the members of this list?

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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