[OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG connector to any open source opac overlay?

[Joe Atzberger]

I don't know about how those specific projects expect to consume
availability info.  Are they the same mechanism (or similar ones)?  With
other platforms, like OCLC federated search, for example, the catalog search
is z39 and the item availability comes from SIP2.  Evergreen's z3950 and
SIP2 implementations would accommodate that kind of interaction, and it has
the advantage of being standards-based.

I would speculate (blindly) that these projects' connectors are something
different, and probably want some custom-templated XML or something.  My
cursory googling came up empty.

This kind of question would be very helpful to have documented in either a
wiki or at https://launchpad.net/evergreen as a "blueprint" or as
enhancement "bugs".  That way we can collaborate with developers on those
projects who likely are not members of this list.

--Joe

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca> wrote:

>  Hi, we're still/again looking at implementing one of the open source opac
> overlay products.
>
> We're most interested in the two Drupal-based projects, Multifacet
> (formerly SolrPac) and XC, although we are keeping Blacklight and VuFinder
> in the list as well just in case.
>
> The biggest stumbling block for all of these is the connector to EG to
> retrieve live circ data.
>
>  Does anyone know of a successful instance of such a connector being
> available for any of those projects?
>
>  We had heard last summer that VuFinder had one, but we tried it and it
> wasn't really functional.
>
> Supposedly someone is working on one for XC, but I have no idea what their
> development timeline is, and we really want to bring this up live before
> next fall semester.
>
>  Thanks for any advice, pointers, etc. you can give!
>
> ---
> Melissa Belvadi
> Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian
> University of Prince Edward Island
> mbelvadi at upei.ca
> 902-566-0581
>
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